The Dow Theory is largely derived from the writings of Charles Dow, co-founder of The Wall Street Journal.

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We now sit in the midst of the fourth secular bear market since Charles Dow developed his famous index of industrial stocks in 1896.

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Pattern Recognition: Spotting Comeback Stocks : In 1884 Charles Dow published the very first stock market average composed of closing prices of eleven stocks: nine railroad companies and two manufacturing firms.

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More than a century after Charles Dow came up with the idea of tracking the market--at that time it was essentially a bunch of railroad companies and manufacturing firms--the Dow has lost its fizz.

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Based on Charles Dow 's century-old method of using technical analysis of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Dow Transports to confirm bull or bear markets, Moroney has been a bull since early March.

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Now a majority of the Bancroft family, which has controlled Dow Jones since financial-journalism pioneer Clarence Barron bought out Charles Dow, Edward Jones and the other founders in 1902, has decided to sell its shares to News Corp.

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