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<p>Market psychology tends to roll in waves… a wave of euphoria followed by a wave of pessimism, overconfidence followed by fear. As a result, markets advance (or decline) in a volatile manner as they bounce between “overbought” and “oversold” levels. Both investors and traders are easily swept along in these buying panics or selling panics, only to find themselves jumping in near a short-term peak or selling right at a short-term bottom.<br><br>An "overbought" market condition can be defined as <em>stock prices having climbed too far, too fast, with too much volume flowing into too few stocks. </em>In simple terms, the more overbought a market becomes, the higher the probability that it will level off to digest its recent rise, or even correct downward - giving back a portion of its gain. The opposite is true for an oversold market. <br><br>Our Pressure Factor was developed to measure the degree to which the market is overbought or oversold in the short term. Readings range between -100 and +100, with readings below -30 being defined as oversold and readings above +30 being defined as overbought. <br><br>Since markets can often reach an <em>extreme</em> overbought/oversold level, the Pressure Factor should be used as a trigger when it <em>exits</em> these regions. In other words... <strong>the time to purchase stocks is not when the Pressure Factor <em>enters</em> the oversold region, but rather after it bottoms and <em>exits </em>the oversold region. </strong>Conversely, the time to sell a stock is when the Pressure Factor <em>exits </em>the overbought region.</p>
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