On the VectorVest Express Homepage, within the VectorVest Market Dashboard, you will find the Color Guard Table. The Color Guard Table is also found in the Timing Section of the VectorVest Views. The Color Guard Table allows one to make an instant analysis of the stock market's trend and condition. In one glance, one can tell whether the market is in an uptrend or downtrend, and whether the trend is weakening or in transition.
The Color Guard Table reports the daily movements of the Price of the VectorVest Composite (VVC), the RT of the VectorVest Composite and the Buy Sell Ratio (BSR) in vivid color. Green means Up, red means Down, and yellow reflects weakness or a transition. These colors are assigned to each indicator depending upon whether it is going up or down. Although you don't need to remember the rules, here's how the colors are assigned:
Green Fields:
Color Guard VVC Price (CG-Price): A green field in the column labeled CG-Price means that the Price of the VVC has gone higher on both a daily and weekly basis and it has done so from a prior green or yellow condition.
Color Guard VVC Relative Timing (CG-RT): A green field in the column labeled CG-RT may be assigned for one of two reasons: The level of the Relative Timing indicator of the VVC has gone from below 1.00 to above 1.00, or it is above 1.00 and has gone up on both a daily and weekly basis.
Color Guard Buy Sell Ratio (CG-BSR): A green field in the column labeled CG-BSR may be assigned for one of two reasons: The level of the Buy/Sell Ratio of all the stocks in the VectorVest database has gone from below 1.00 to above 1.00, or it is above 1.00 and has gone higher on both a daily and weekly basis.
Red Fields:
Color Guard VVC Price (CG-Price): A red field in the column labeled CG-Price means that the Price of the VVC has gone lower on both a daily and weekly basis, and it has done so from a prior red or yellow condition.
Color Guard VVC Relative Timing (CG-RT): A red field in the column labeled CG-RT may be assigned for one of two reasons: The level of the Relative Timing indicator of the VVC has gone from above 1.00 to below 1.00, or it is below 1.00 and has gone down on both a daily and weekly basis.
Color Guard Buy Sell Ratio (CG-BSR): A red field in the column labeled CG-BSR may be assigned for one of two reasons: The level of the Buy/Sell Ratio of all the stocks in the VectorVest database has gone from above 1.00 to below 1.00, or it is below 1.00 and has gone lower on both a daily and weekly basis.
Yellow Fields:
Color Guard VVC Price (CG-Price): A yellow field in the column labeled CG-Price may be assigned in one of three ways: The Price of the VVC went up on both a daily and weekly basis from a prior red condition, it went down on both a daily and weekly basis from a prior green condition, or its weekly trend was not confirmed by its daily movement.
Color Guard VVC Relative Timing (CG-RT): A yellow field in the column labeled CG-RT may be assigned in one of three ways: The level of the Relative Timing indicator of the VVC has gone up on both a daily and weekly basis but is still below 1.00, it has gone down on both a daily and weekly basis but is still above 1.00, or its weekly trend was not confirmed by its daily movement.
Color Guard Buy Sell Ratio (CG-BSR): A yellow field in the column labeled CG-BSR may be assigned in one of three ways: The level of the Buy/Sell Ratio of all the stocks in our database has gone up on both a daily and weekly basis but is still below 1.00, it has gone down on both a daily and weekly basis but is still above 1.00, or its weekly trend was not confirmed by its daily movement.
It is not necessary to remember all of these rules. All you need to know is that green means Up, red means Down, and yellow means weakness or transition. It's that simple with the Color Guard.