While the options market is small, it serves as an indicator of longer-term views because its participants tend to look further into the future than those trading in the spot market.

期权市场规模虽小，却可作为反映较长期观点的指标，因为该市场的参与者往往比现货市场投资者看得更长远。

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First of all, a "meltdown" is not a precisely defined term, which makes it fairly useless as an indicator of what's going on.

首先需要说明的是，“熔化”并不是什么精确定义的专业术语，在用来衡量反应堆状况时，这个词显得相当无用。

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Note that a look-ahead at the indicator shows that the oversold indicator may flip to bullish in the near-term.

注意这个指标的前瞻显示卖空指标可能在近期看涨。

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Mortgage approvals are a good indicator of short term trends in the property market, and have risen this year in line with recovery in completed sales.

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It maintains the mechanical aspects of Sell in May, avoiding emotional input, but incorporates a simple and well-known short-term technical indicator, MACD, to identify whether the market is still in correction mode when the entry date arrives in the fall, and whether it is still in rally mode when the calendar exit date arrives in the spring.

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It should be noted that even if the December lows were broken, the long-term positive action of the on-balance volume (OBV) indicator would still keep my long-term trend analysis positive.

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