Just for a change, I’m writing this post about using the True Strength Index (TSI) indicator and the Negative Divergence SELL signal it generates. I’ll show you 20 stock charts that say SELL loud and clear on their daily charts using the TSI Negative Divergence SELL signal. And I’m going to pretend that I sold short each of these stock symbols at the close on Friday, document the closing price of each throughout this week in the chart below, and recap the results next weekend.

My particular definition of a negative divergence is as follows: the TSI indicator has previously made a high which it has not surpassed as of last Friday. And, price on Friday was higher than the day of the previous TSI high. In simpler terms, Friday’s price made a higher high while the TSI made a lower high.

The other part of my negative divergence definition is that the TSI can not have yielded a trend line break BUY signal between these two dates used for the negative divergence comparison. Another way of saying this is that the trend line break BUY signal trumps the negative divergence SELL signal.

For my 20 specimens I have selected a handful of ETFs, another handful of mining stocks and a third handful of randomly selected members of the S&P 500 index. They are presented here in alphabetical order.

Stocks go up and stocks go down. Using simple odds, about 10 of any 20 stocks would be higher a week later and the other 10 stocks lower. Considering that the market has been moving sharply and consistently higher, common sense suggests that maybe 15 stocks will be higher in a week and only 5 lower. 

My expectation, however, is that the majority of these ticker symbols will indeed be lower this week. And I think there is a fairly good chance that nearly ALL of them will be lower. 

It’s going to be fun to see how this turns out.

OK – here is the table I will update each day. If the closing price on any day is higher than last Friday’s close I will color it green. Alternatively, any day that a stock closes lower than last Friday’s closing price I will color that closing price in red.  My expectation is that most of the chart will be colored red. 

The charts of each ticker symbol follows below so you can examine the TSI negative divergence that caught my attention.

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