Terms

Cabot Tides Market Timing Indicator

Nick Name
Cabot Tides
The Cabot Tides is a technical indicator that employs five different market indexes to help determine the overall intermediate-term direction of the stock market. It indicates that if at least three of the five indexes are advancing, the market is moving forward on an intermediate-term basis. Inversely, if three of the five are falling, the market timing signal indicates that the market is declining.

The indexes are:

  1. S&P 500
  2. NYSE Composite
  3. Nasdaq Composite
  4. S&P 600 Small Cap
  5. S&P 400 Mid Cap