Frequent traders are jumping into gold and other metals because they see it as a momentum play.
From a momentum perspective, the trick is knowing when to get off the train.
As it happens, their strategic focus produced a momentum of good fortune beyond their expectations.
Therefore, the MACD is essentially a momentum oscillator that is derived from multiple moving averages.
Legal sanctions, even when subjectively applied, can take on a momentum of their own.
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Flash forward 8 months and EXR is trading 36% higher and looking more like a momentum stock.
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"We just kept rolling after that a momentum-changer for sure, " Islanders defenseman Travis Hamonic said of the second-period fight.
But he went to the bench only after sinking a momentum-changing three-pointer to put the Heat up 97-94.
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Positive energy creates a momentum of its own that triggers desirable chain reactions.
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It will be a momentum killer that could take years to recover from.
That defeat generated a momentum that the state department bureaucracy failed to understand.
But as 28, 000 former Arthur Andersen employees can attest, these scandals tend to take on a momentum of their own.
Typically, this strong a momentum reversal favors higher yields over the next few three to six weeks, if not longer.
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"From a momentum standpoint, that was a big play for us, to go into halftime with a lead, " McCaffery said.
"Gold has been a momentum trade and people are getting bored with it, " says the head of a major hedge fund.
In the same way that descending channels usually resolve themselves to the upside, ascending channels usually lead to a momentum breakdown.
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You watch New Zealand, South Africa and South Africa, even France to a certain degree, and there's a momentum to their play.
"Accredo Health is a firm that's getting people out of hospitals while ensuring they get good care, " says Lutts, a momentum investor.
Once stocks become a momentum play, intrinsic value goes out the window.
So Iran's friendship with Russia has acquired a momentum of its own.
"It is a big motivation for us because we have created a momentum, and have won five of the last six, " admitted Wenger.
It's a momentum strategy, essentially: He buys shares of companies with strong price and profit growth and a record of positive earnings surprises.
That is one reason for believing that Italy's experiment with decentralisation could yet acquire a momentum that few but the Northern League would welcome.
It could be a momentum changer in terms of public perception if the expected slam-dunk for the defendant turns out to be anything but.
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Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) tried to break out last week and then came back in, which is not what you want to see as a momentum trader.
Comedy needs momentum, and native 3-D shooting is a momentum killer.
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Gurus bought into a momentum stock with some great value ratios.
If history repeats, investors should be booking profits on this strength, not piling on to what could be the end of a momentum run for stocks.
"There is nothing more important than getting young people involved, without the youth of today creating a momentum behind an event, nothing is taken forward, " he said.
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