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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

  1. 1What index analysis is actually for6 min
  2. 2Earnings in aggregate, and what the index is priced against7 min
  3. 3Rates, and what they do to an index7 min
  4. 4The megacap problem7 min
  5. 5Trend on a series nobody trades6 min
  6. 6Levels on a series where nothing traded7 min
  7. 7Moving averages, and what they compute6 min
  8. 8Breadth: what the index is not telling you8 min
  9. 9Building a read, and what it does not give you8 min