How technicals could assist investors ride a bear market

After months of poor show, many investors at bourse want to sell positions. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Performance of the stock market over the past one year can only be best described as a bear-run, that is, month-after-month, many stock market participants want to sell their stocks relative to the number of participants who want to buy.

Indeed, the benchmark Nairobi Securities Exchange 20-share index, an index consisting of the 20 most capitalised, highly traded blue-chip companies, crossed below 2,500 points in mid-August, being the first time it did so in a decade.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.