Second Opinion

The MarketEdge Second Opinion is the fastest and easiest way to harness the power of technical analysis to guide you to better trading decisions.

The Second Opinion report is a technical research report that weighs the supply and demand characteristics of a stock or ETF. The report generates a daily Long, Neutral, or Avoid opinion on over 3500 stocks and ETFs. We provide a clear one or two sentence summary of the stock's technical condition in our Recommendation and a detailed explanation of what it all means in our easily readable Comment followed up with all the numbers so you can do your own analysis.

What is Technical Analysis?

Technical analysis is a form of analysis employed to evaluate investments and identify trading opportunities by analyzing statistical trends gathered from trading activity, such as price movement and volume. Unlike fundamental analysts, who attempt to evaluate a security's intrinsic value, technical analysts focus on patterns of price movements, trading signals, and various other analytical charting tools to evaluate a security's strength or weakness.

What is Second Opinion?

The purpose of Second Opinion is to give you access to meaningful information that assists you in making difficult Buy/Hold/Sell decisions. Second Opinion is a quantitative model designed to help you manage market risk. Whereas analyst reports are intended to manage fundamental risk by supplying information on fundamentals such as sales, earnings, and industry outlooks, quantitative or technical analysis measures market risk - how investors and traders are actually trading.

Second Opinion will enable you to take a position in stocks in the early stages of up moves and get out of stocks prior to a plunge.

Let's first take a look at the most important parts of the Second Opinion report. Afterwards, we'll look at what to prioritize when making your own Buy-Hold-Sell decisions, including the four warning signs that Second Opinion flashes to signify a trend reversal.

Our Most Important Indicators

Second Opinion
Our most important indicator

The Opinion presents key information. You will find the current opinion (Long, Neutral or Avoid) as well as the date and price when the opinion was originally formed. To further assist you, Neutral opinions provide you with direction and are listed as either Neutral from Long (a downgrade) or Neutral from Avoid (an upgrade). Finally, new additions to the Second Opinion universe carry a Long, Neutral or Avoid opinion but will not show a retroactive price and date. Price and date will be provided once the stock has its initial opinion change.

Recommendation
Our recommendation for how to trade that stock for the day

The Recommendation is designed to give you actionable guidance that day. Unlike other research, every Second Opinion has a date and price for the current opinion. Recommendation is the validity of that opinion today. For example, have you ever bought a stock from a firm's "Best Buy" list? Did you really know what the analyst thought about the stock the day you bought it? Was he still comfortable with the recommendation or was he concerned about the stock? If the model still likes the stock, the recommendation will be "Buy". If the model sees deterioration in the trading patterns, it may say "Hold" or "Consider closing the position".

Comments
Our plain English explanation for how we've come to our Second Opinion

The Comment translates the technical picture of the stock into action-based language, highlighting the technical condition of the stock. Comment is one of the most popular features of Second Opinion, and is best utilized in conjunction with the Recommendation.

So How Do You Use Second Opinion to Make Better Trades?

There are two key elements to Second Opinion. The first is the OPINION - our Long/Neutral/Avoid opinion - which we have already covered. The second is the SCORE. Together they produce the Recommendation which is the best way to manage your stock investments.

The Score reduces the level of market risk to a single number for interpretation purposes. Scores range from 0 to -4 for Longs, attempting to show levels of technical deterioration and guiding you to an exit point. Scores range form 0 to +4 for Avoids, attempting to show levels of improvement and guiding you to an entry point. The table below summarizes the Score System.
Score
Opinion Score Interpretation / Market Risk
Long 0 Stock is a buy. Market risk is low.
Long -1 Stock is a buy with minor deterioration. Market risk is low.
Long -2 Stock now experiencing technical deterioration. Market risk is moderate but increasing.
Long -3 Warning sign if you own the stock. Significant technical deterioration. A good point to begin evaluating your individual Buy-Hold-Sell strategies. Market risk is significantly increasing.
Long -4 Warning sign if you own the stock. Extreme technical deterioration. Market risk is high.

The Four Warning Signs

Our relationships with institutions and our experience over the years have provided some reliable, tested criteria in making Buy-Hold-Sell decisions with a high degree of confidence.

A "Long" that flashes one or more of the following four warning signs is in trouble. At this point, you should be monitoring the stock closely and considering defensive strategies:
Breaks the Sell Stop
Score drops to -3
Score drops to -4
the opinion gets downgraded to Neutral

These warning signs may appear in any sequence, but all must occur before an opinion gets downgraded to an "Avoid".

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Second Opinion Performance

Second Opinion Status

4200

Current Opinions
As of: 12/13/2024

81%

Long Accuracy
As of: 12/13/2024

77%

Avoid Accuracy
As of: 12/13/2024
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Market Recap - 12/13/2024

Index Close Day Change Day % Change YTD % Change
NASDAQ COMPOSITE 19926.72 23.88 0.12% 32.74%
DJ UTILITIES 1003.65 0.93 0.09% 13.84%
DJ TRANSPORT 16711.43 -131.34 -0.78% 5.11%
DJ INDUSTRIALS 43828.06 -86.06 -0.2% 16.29%
NYSE COMPOSITE 19729.37 -39.72 -0.2% 17.07%
S & P 100 INDEX 2958.64 4.79 0.16% 32.31%
RUSSELL 2000 2346.9 -14.18 -0.6% 15.78%
S&P 500 6051.09 -0.16 0% 26.86%
CBOE MKT VOLATILITY 13.81 -0.11 -0.79% 10.92%
AMEX COMPOSITE 4953.65 -76.5 -1.52% 7.82%
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MarketEdge is a unique suite of investment tools developed by Computrade Systems, Inc. The purpose of our service is to provide quality, independent research in a manner that is both easily understandable and immediately actionable for individual investors as well as professional money managers. MarketEdge features Second Opinion®, a comprehensive computer-generated technical evaluation of more than 3,400 stocks, along with fundamental research from Standard & Poor's. MarketEdge will generate daily investment ideas for every type of trading strategy thereby enabling one to trade and invest with a consistent, disciplined approach in all market environments.

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