The Top Five Best and Worst Dow Stocks So Far in 2016

With the S&P 500 falling over 11% at the beginning of 2016, which big-name stocks in the Dow Jones have beat the market… and which have lagged it?

Let’s start with the relative strength leadership (if we can call it that) so far in the bearish start to 2016:

We’re just measuring simply the price performance so far in 2016.

At the moment, no stock is positive on this scale yet Wal-Mart (WMT) is the “best of a bad start.”

Wal-Mart shares have fallen less than 1% when the other “top five” stocks have declined 2% to 3.5% as shown.

Here’s the Relative Strength Chart of Wal-Mart as we begin 2016:

Wal-Mart remains in a downtrend but there may be signs of life and a bullish reversal if this picture continues.

Price reversed off a new 52-week low in November near $56.00 per share and price has crossed above falling daily moving averages.

Other stocks showing “Relative Strength” include McDonald’s (MCD), United Health (UNH), Verizon (VZ), and Proctor and Gamble (PG).

Here’s the chart of “Relative Weakness” and there are a few big names on the list:

Dupont (DD) has been the weakest Dow Jones stock so far in 2016, declining 20% to the market’s 11%.

Here’s the Relative Strength (Weakness) Chart on display:

Shares plunged from the $68.00 level to the $52.00 level as drawn.

Price “fell faster” than the market which also declined through 2016.

The green lines in the chart represent the Relative Strength or the relation of the stock to the S&P 500.

The four other weak stocks in 2016 include big financial companies Bank of America (BA), along with Goldman Sachs (GS) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM).

Cisco (CSCO) also makes the list as the #4 weakest stock so far.

With lists like this, they can give you inspiration to find strength and trade with strength – or find weakness and trade with it.

Sometimes simple scans like this highlight opportunities complex scans miss.

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  1. I think we can see that the market has been really bearish in 2016 so far, I won’t really say it is going to change all that soon, but maybe we might see the trend turning over next 6 months or so. I really love this blog for the fabulous updates which helps a lot. I am also joined under OctaFX where they got free facility to provide me with the daily market news and analysis service which is simply phenomenal and helps me big time.

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