Joe Rabil

Joe Rabil


Joe is the President of Rabil Stock Research. He has provided technical research to some of the largest institutional money managers in the world for 30+ years. He is an expert in multiple time frame analysis and momentum characteristics of trends. Learn More 

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Crucial Things to Know When Buying Pullbacks

Crucial Things to Know When Buying Pullbacks

In today's environment, it can be difficult to determine if the market is going to turn or keep declining. On this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses the importance of having a self-regulating trading pattern, and shows how your plan can help...   READ MORE 

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Why the 18 Moving Average is So Important

Why the 18 Moving Average is So Important

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe explains why the 18 Moving Average is so important to him. He shows 4 time frames with a single moving average on the SPX and discusses how valuable they have been over the past few years. He...   READ MORE 

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Support and Resistance: Look for Pools of Money

Support and Resistance: Look for Pools of Money

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe gives a lesson on Support and Resistance. He explains the "Pools of Money" concept and how it can be useful in determining the best entry points as well as risk levels. He also discusses how...   READ MORE 

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Differences Between MACD and ADX Divergences

Differences Between MACD and ADX Divergences

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses the differences between MACD and ADX divergence, especially when ADX flashes a particular signal. He then discusses the XLK using the Fibonacci Retracement tool. Joe finishes up the show by analyzing the stock requests that came...   READ MORE 

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How to Use Stock Scans to Your Advantage

How to Use Stock Scans to Your Advantage

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses how he uses scans to help save time. He shows a specific scan in StockChartsACP and what he is trying to identify. He then talks about the limitations to scans and how to go about using...   READ MORE 

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How to Find Entry Setups Using MACD & ADX

How to Find Entry Setups Using MACD & ADX

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows the different entry setups that can be found using multiple time frames. MACD and ADX can help with both isolating the best opportunities and dramatically improving your timing. Joe discusses the 1-2-3 change in trend which...   READ MORE 

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Improve Timing on Your Fundamental Picks

Improve Timing on Your Fundamental Picks

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe uses his 30 years of experience to show how to use technicals to improve your timing on a stock you like fundamentally. He gives a strategy for how to buy good weakness. He also shows what to...   READ MORE 

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Avoid This Trap When Buying Weakness

Avoid This Trap When Buying Weakness

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe explains the difference between "Good" weakness and "Bad" weakness. This is a key for traders interested in buying pullbacks. He discusses what he uses to determine the tradeable trend and how to distinguish...   READ MORE 

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Counter Trend Trading Tactics

Counter Trend Trading Tactics

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows how he would go about taking a counter trend trade by using multiple time frame analysis. He starts with a weekly chart and works down to a 10-minute showing the fractal nature of the markets and...   READ MORE 

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Deterioration in the DJIA Stocks?

Deterioration in the DJIA Stocks?

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows the short-, intermediate- and long-term trends for all the components of the DJIA. This is a good process to use for a bottom-up evaluation of any market. He then analyzes the requests that came through, as...   READ MORE 

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Use ADX/DI to Improve Your Exits

Use ADX/DI to Improve Your Exits

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe explains how he uses the ADX/DI lines to help with aggressive exits. This tool works best when a stock has a nice trend in place and we are looking for an early exit rather than being...   READ MORE 

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Powerful MACD Signals You Can Use in Your Trading

Powerful MACD Signals You Can Use in Your Trading

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe uses his extensive 30 years of experience to explain his favorite signals in the MACD indicator. He covers Momentum Divergence, Pinches and Reverse Divergence, along with Zero Line Reversals and their typical sequence. He then analyzes all...   READ MORE 

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Find Key Levels By Using Fibonacci Retracements

Find Key Levels By Using Fibonacci Retracements

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses how he uses the Fibonacci Retracement tool to identify key levels to watch as a stock is pulling back. He shows how he finds confluence among different indicators to zero in on important areas of support....   READ MORE 

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The Similarities Between Golf and Trading

The Similarities Between Golf and Trading

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses some of the similarities between golf and trading, explaining how we can improve our trading techniques by learning from common pitfalls in golf. Ideas like Put it in the Fairway, One Shot at a Time, Evaluate...   READ MORE 

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The Power of Moving Averages

The Power of Moving Averages

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses a number of ways that Moving Averages can aid in determining support/resistance, trend, overbought/oversold and longevity of the trend. He then analyzes the stock requests that came through, including MSFT, NVDA and more. This...   READ MORE 

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Wyckoff, Accumulation/Distribution and ADX

Wyckoff, Accumulation/Distribution and ADX

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses Accumulation and Distribution as a part of the 4 phases of the market using the classic Wyckoff approach to the markets. In addition, he explains how the ADX/DI can be used in conjunction with these...   READ MORE 

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How to Avoid Bad Trades by Using Multiple Timeframe Analysis

How to Avoid Bad Trades by Using Multiple Timeframe Analysis

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows how he would use one more additional time frame in his multiple timeframe approach.  He explains how the 18MA on the Upper TF can be valuable at avoiding bad trades. He then analyzes the stock requests...   READ MORE 

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My Favorite ADX Screen

My Favorite ADX Screen

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses his favorite ADX screen. He explains the settings he uses and why and then shows a few examples of what the screen can find. He then analyzes the stock requests that came through in multiple timeframes,...   READ MORE 

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Learn the Key Details About MACD & ADX

Learn the Key Details About MACD & ADX

In this week's special edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses MACD and ADX in detail, defining how they are calculated and why there may be some lag in them when volatility increases. He spends time showing the specifics in the DI line calculation and how...   READ MORE 

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Strategies for Taking Profits

Strategies for Taking Profits

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe Rabil discusses how he takes profits. He recommends defining who you are as a trader/investor, then shows how to go about taking profits whether you are a short-term trader or a Trend player. Joe then goes...   READ MORE 

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How to Avoid Market Chop

How to Avoid Market Chop

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses ways to avoid being chopped up in a less than desirable market environment. He explains how he uses the Trend and Momentum of the stock in Multiple Time Frames to help reduce the number of trades...   READ MORE 

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The Most Important Indicators and Their Order of Influence

The Most Important Indicators and Their Order of Influence

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses the most important indicators that he uses in his analysis and their order of influence. Price, Price Structure, Moving Average Lines, Fibonacci Retracements, MACD, ADX and Relative Strength are all discussed briefly and when each carries...   READ MORE 

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Key Candlestick and Moving Average Setups

Key Candlestick and Moving Average Setups

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses key candlestick patterns that he uses in his analysis. He then takes these individual bars and explains their importance based on the relationship to the moving average lines. Joe also analyzes the stock requests from viewers...   READ MORE 

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You Want to Get Better at Trading?

You Want to Get Better at Trading?

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses his background in more detail and talks about the significant amount of intraday trading he has done over the years. He explains the reasons for that and the fractal nature of the markets. Then Joe analyzes...   READ MORE 

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How the ADX and DI Lines Work Together

How the ADX and DI Lines Work Together

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe Rabil explains the relationship between the 2 DI lines and the ADX line. He discusses how they show phases of expansion and contraction. He then analyzes all the viewer stock requests that came through this week, including...   READ MORE 

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Learn to Trade Around a Core Holding

Learn to Trade Around a Core Holding

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses how he would add and reduce to a long-term holding that you like and want to hold as long as the trend is positive. He shows how many of the institutional portfolio managers he has worked...   READ MORE 

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Learn to Improve Timing and Reduce Risk with Multiple Time Frames

Learn to Improve Timing and Reduce Risk with Multiple Time Frames

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe explains how he uses 2 time frames side-by-side to identify trades with low risk. He discusses the "opposing trend trigger", where it came from and how it can be used to improve timing and lower...   READ MORE 

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Find Profitable Setups with the ADX Indicator

Find Profitable Setups with the ADX Indicator

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe explains two different types of low ADX patterns to watch for. He also discusses a few screens for low ADX as well. He then analyzes the stock requests from viewers for the week, including AAL, LPX and...   READ MORE 

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Important Zero Line MACD Signals You Can Use to Improve Timing

Important Zero Line MACD Signals You Can Use to Improve Timing

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe explains several different MACD signals that can be used to improve timing during a pullback.  He discusses Zero Line Reversals, Zero Line/Reverse Divergence, Zero Line Overrun vs. Zero Line Breaks, Counter Trend Lines, Momentum Divergence and...   READ MORE 

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Reviewing the "Weight of the Evidence"

Reviewing the "Weight of the Evidence"

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe spends a few minutes reviewing his "weight of the evidence" by briefly going through all the indicators in his arsenal. He then spends the bulk of the show going through the stock requests that came...   READ MORE 

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How to Discover Trend Alignment Using a Single MA Line

How to Discover Trend Alignment Using a Single MA Line

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows how a simple moving average can help to define the trend in each time frame. He then explains how to take it a step further and find trend alignment in 3 timeframes. By doing so, we...   READ MORE 

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Want to Determine the Depth of a Pullback? Learn How ADX Can Help

Want to Determine the Depth of a Pullback? Learn How ADX Can Help

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows how he uses ADX slope to determine how deep of a pullback to expect in a trending stock or market. He explains how an extra moving average can be used to see this more clearly. Then,...   READ MORE 

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Multiple Timeframe Price Structure

Multiple Timeframe Price Structure

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses how to view Price Structure in multiple timeframes. He shows how each time frame provides its own insight into improving your stock selection and timing. He also explains how it can be used to confirm Moving...   READ MORE 

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Powerful Momentum Divergence

Powerful Momentum Divergence

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows how momentum divergence is often used to look for changes in trend. He describes how he would use this type of analysis. Then, he explains how to use momentum divergence in a powerful way to get...   READ MORE 

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Key Price Patterns

Key Price Patterns

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe explains how he combines the strategies discussed in recent shows on MACD and ADX with a specific price pattern. He gives the criteria for the price setup and a recent example. Afterwards, he goes through the viewer...   READ MORE 

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Combining ADX and MACD

Combining ADX and MACD

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe follows up his past lessons on ADX and MACD to show how he uses these two indicators together. He explains the difference in the calculations and their implications. Joe then shows which indicators he uses to answer...   READ MORE 

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Using MACD in Multiple Timeframes

Using MACD in Multiple Timeframes

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, gives a few examples of how he uses MACD in multiple time frame. He explains 2 MACD patterns from his book, the Zero Line Reversal Pattern and the Pinch. He then goes through and analyzes the stock requests...   READ MORE 

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Delving into StockChartsACP

Delving into StockChartsACP

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows his favorite aspects of StockChartsACP, explaining the convenience of getting at stock and market summary information through ACP. He also shows one of the scans he uses to find the pullback trade. Then, he goes through...   READ MORE 

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How to Handle Breakouts

How to Handle Breakouts

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe shows how he evaluates breakout patterns, using ADX/DI to help find the stocks that are developing with the best characteristics. In addition, he describes what tells us that we need to be more careful about buying...   READ MORE 

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Using ADX to Evaluate Trend Strength

Using ADX to Evaluate Trend Strength

In this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe Rabil explains some key points about ADX. He starts with some basics, then shows how ADX can be used to confirm trend strength and then evaluate the counter trend pullback. He then analyzes your stock picks, including...   READ MORE