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One important aspect of trading the markets is to understand how to feel it’s overall pulse. In the stock market, this is measured by measuring the movements of selected stocks across various sectors to let us know how the market is doing in general. A gentleman by the name of Dow came up with this concept and today we still use his Dow Index for the purpose of measuring the market’s pulse. There are also several others out there, but another popular index of mostly technical stocks is the NASDAQ.