Indices - Module 5
Index analysis foundations
What moves an index: earnings in aggregate, rates, and the handful of megacaps that dominate weightings. Technical structure on index charts. Single-stock analysis is the equities track's job; composition maths is module 8.
9 lessons, about 62 minutes
- 1What index analysis is actually for6 min
- 2Earnings in aggregate, and what the index is priced against7 min
- 3Rates, and what they do to an index7 min
- 4The megacap problem7 min
- 5Trend on a series nobody trades6 min
- 6Levels on a series where nothing traded7 min
- 7Moving averages, and what they compute6 min
- 8Breadth: what the index is not telling you8 min
- 9Building a read, and what it does not give you8 min