Nobody cares about Microsoft at 10 times earnings, facing disappointing personal computer shipments this year, a leading indicator for desk top computing software.

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There's an LED indicator at the top that glows red or green depending on its connection status and a speaker on the back that beeps when you've made a driving faux pas.

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Of course, in very strong bull or bear markets, we must rely on technical indicators that can stay with strongly trending markets, as momentum indicators like the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator or Relative Strength Index (RSI) will top or bottom out well ahead of prices.

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The digital "eyebrow" display at the top of the instrument panel provides high visibility for the Eco indicator and speedometer, while the lower liquid crystal meter display houses the new percentage style state-of-charge meter, power meter, battery temperature gauge, multi-function display, remaining energy gauge, capacity level gauge and distance to empty display.

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Just this morning, my colleague Jenna Goudreau looked at how first names might be an indicator of success based on trends in the names of professionals at the top of the corporate ladder.

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Picking the top performing funds may seem intuitive but it turns out that not only is past performance a poor indicator of future performance, it may actually be an indicator of poor future performance.

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We scored the top three countries (5, 3, and 1 respectively) per term and added these into a simple indicator of innovation interest.

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The top chart shows the SPX, and marks prior instances when there was a buy or sell signal based on this indicator.

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