• The Dow Theory is a technical framework that predicts that a market is in an uptrend if one of its moving averages rises above a previous important high, followed or followed by a similar rise in the other moving average.

  • The theory is based on the notion that the market discounts everything in a way that is consistent with the efficient markets hypothesis.
  • In such a paradigm, the various market indices should confirm each other in terms of price action and volume patterns until trends reverse.