slow stochastic positive convergence, macd positive divergence or at least positive, spike in volume, trend analysis and an occasional candlestick for good measure =)

Quote from GCSICLRBC:
What you gotta do is this:
Plot your stock/future using a 100-tick chart, put on the 18 & 36 day exponential moving averages, BUT KEEP YOUR EYE ON VOLUME!
Look at your (slow) stochastic oscillator & if the RSI confirms overbought/oversold territory, confirm it with you fibonacci retracement level.
The markets naturally & automatically stop/reverse at 50% 38.2% and 61.8% EVERY TIME.
So if your fibonacci confirms, get Elliot Wave on the phone & see if he's buying selling.
If he is, FLIP A FREAKIN' COIN!
'Cause those are your odds with these idiotic indicators.
Quote from gqguy2003:
Another incredible example of how well the premium can predict where the market is heading is from 5/5/09 at 14:27 cst. The spoos were at 897.00. The SP Premium hit a huge low of -4.78, predicting the spoos would go lower than 897. Although the spoos rallied up to 904.50 at 18:27, by 21:13 they had tanked to 891.
At no time since then has the premium gone lower. On 5/8/09 at 14:35 the spoos were back to 898. I dare say that in the coming week of May 11, 2009 you will see the ES break below 897 once again.
Unrelated to the premium is another highly accurate leading indicator. While my timing could be off, as a matter of FACT you will see 894.25 in the days ahead. Why? GAPS! Gaps are leading indicators. If you were not tracking what happened on the last 25 tick bar prior to 2:01 AM cst on 5/6/09 you wouldn't know this. But something very predictive occurred, forecasting a return to 894.25.
And for other reasons, its gonna get much worse!
Quote from options4me:
Price action coupled with DMI.
Use price action as primary indicator, confirming with the DMI.
(DMI+ and DMI- lines cross along with the ADX line being below 25%, flat or rising upward as a trigger).

Quote from bellman:
Ahhh, but every tick bar represents a single point on the chart. You cannot measure tick bar length, unless you are measuring the spread at the time of the tick.