Click on my name for further discussion Let's face it nothing new has really been invented in trading in the last 30 years. Computers are faster and more intelligent , but most of the trading strategies and indicators used by them were invented a long time ago...

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Regular Divergence: Higher highs in price and lower highs in the oscillator which indicate a trend reversal from up to down. Lower lows in price and higher lows in the oscillator which indicate a trend reversal from down to up...

Relative Strength Index (RSI) is most popular indicator. RSI is an oscillator which is oscillating between 0 and 100. The RSI is indicates the strength of trend: values above 50 indicate a bullish trend values below 50 indicate bearish Forex trend. The RSI measures momentum of currency...

Trading currency in the Forex market centers around the basic concepts: buying and selling. Let's say you want to buy the AUDUSD currency pair. If the AUD goes up in value relative to the USD and then you sell it, you will have made a profit...

Inside bars are easily identified pricing patterns that can be found on virtually any chart. The pattern itself requires some simple technical analysis, which includes identifying a series of highs and lows on a daily chart...

The fractals are technical indicators, part of the Bill Williams’ indicators. Unlike any other indicators, this one is not a line or histogram bars; it is just a simple arrow on top of or below the bars of the price chart...

Developed by George C. Lane in the late 1950s, the Stochastic Oscillator is a momentum indicator that shows the location of the current close relative to the high/low range over a certain number of periods...

Oil futures can make great investments and are probably one of the most actively traded derivatives on the market. Some of the benefits of investing in oil futures include: Ability to make substantial profits. Oil futures can be extremely lucrative investments...

The 20 pips strategy is used for H1 and M15 timeframes. We use 100 SMA and 200 SMA indicators to determine the direction of the trend. H1 timeframe chart checks long term direction of the trend. Trades are opened only when the price is within 20 pips range of the 200 simple MA...

Many of the most popular indicators can be helpful when designing a trend strategy. And to take technical analysis a step further when designing a trend-trading approach, many traders will look to utilize multiple time frame analysis in order to get multiple looks at a trending market...

Stochastics gives its strongest sell signal when the two moving averages that comprise it have first been above 80 and then close below the 80 level. The strongest buying signal is given when the two moving averages have first been below 20 and then close above 20...

One of the great things about the forex market for individual traders and one of the reasons we are starting with the forex market as our first market specific course is the availability of real time demo accounts...

There are 4 main types of MA: Simple moving average Exponential moving average Smoothed moving average Linear weighted moving average...

Becoming Technical Analyst The first step in becoming a successful technical analyst is to learn how to read forex charts. Outlined below are some simple steps that every trader should take when first starting out with technical analysis...

Volatility measures how large the upswings and downswings are for a particular currency pair. When a currency’s price fluctuates wildly up and down it is said to have high volatility. Whereas a currency pair that does not fluctuate as much is said to have low volatility...

A quantitative trading system consists of four major components: Strategy Identification - Finding a strategy, exploiting an edge and deciding on trading frequency Strategy Backtesting - Obtaining data, analysing strategy performance and removing biases Execution System - Linking to a brokerage...

Developed by Adam White and published in August 1991 in Futures Magazine Used for determining whether a market is trending or congested, or about to change from one to the other Useful within a technical trading system to determine which indicators are best-calibrated to the current market...

There are 4 types of MA: Simple moving average Exponential moving average Smoothed moving average Linear weighted moving average...