RSI values of above 70 are considered to be overbought; traders consider points above the 70 level as market tops and good points for taking profits...
Currencies are great to trade , but can be very volatile as recent events such as the Swiss bank move have proven. Why not add stock Indexes? All the techniques you use on currencies work well - often better on stock Indexes...
Classic divergence is used as a possible sign for a trend reversal. Classic divergence is used when looking for an area where price could reverse and start going in the opposite direction...
EURUSD EUR/USD remains in consolidation mode below 1.1500 Declining volume during the recent rise suggests the advance is likely only corrective A lack of momentum in daily OBV also favors an eventual downside resolution A close above 1.1535 on above average volume will turn attention higher...
A slowdown in Canada Retail Sales may spur a larger advance in USD/CAD as the Bank of Canada (BoC) adopts a more cautious outlook for the region...
A contraction in U.K. Retail Sales may spur a near-term pullback in GBP/USD as it dampens the outlook for a stronger recovery in 2015...
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Why Active Management Fell Off a Cliff – Perhaps Permanently (TRB) but see If you want to make money on the markets you’ve got to tune out the noise (National Post) Apple Pay gets a big vote of confidence from the U.S...
When it comes to forex trading, that's a trading strategy that is bound to lose you money - unless your gut is highly trained and impervious to emotion...
Python for Finance: Analyze Big Financial Data by Yves Hilpisch The financial industry has adopted Python at a tremendous rate recently, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems...
Intraday Trading Intraday traders will usually hold positions intraday or even as long as overnight. In this instance, they will refer to 5 minute and 10-minute charts...
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question (Bloomberg) What Do Low Interest Rates Mean for Stock Market Returns? (A Wealth of Common Sense) Tech Leads the Way as Nasdaq Climbs (WSJ) 25 Ways to Get Smarter About Money Right Now (Time) Predicting the Next Wall Street Disaster (Newsweek...
Life in the Algorithm: The searches we make, the news we read, the dates we go on, the advertisements we see, the products we buy and the music we listen to. The stock market. The surveillance society. The police state, and the drones. All guided by a force we never see...
Why the Bond Bull Market Isn’t Over (Barron’s) Cry me a river that leads to Omaha (Michael Santoli) see also Protégé Partners: These factors ‘wreaked havoc’ in our bet against Buffett (Adam’s Angle) Investors Snap Up Online Financial Advisers: Startups Get Lofty Valuations From Venture-Capital Ba...
Humans in general grow up being taught by their environment of the importance of always being right. Those who are right are envied as the winners in society and those who are wrong are cast aside as losers...
I have tried everything . You name it Trend Following, Harmonics, Square Waves, Renko, Ichumoku, Fibonacci to name a few of my favourites. Nothing however works as well as the entry points my EA finds...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday that the number of people employed fell by 12,200 to 11.668 million in January, against market expectations of a fall of 5,000. This took the official unemployment rate to 6.4 per cent from 6...
Veteran trader Larry Pesavento explains a powerful tape reading technique in his 2000 book Opening Price Principle: Best Kept Secret on Wall Street. Through years of observation, he noticed how the first trade of the day often serves as support or resistance for the entire session...
Bollinger bands are very similar to moving averages. The bands are plotted at two standard deviations above or below the moving average. This is typically based off of the simple moving average, but an exponential moving average can be used to increase the sensitivity of the indicator...
The relative strength index or RSI is probably the most popular oscillator used by the FX trading community. It was developed by J. Welles Wilder Jr. to gage the strength or momentum of a currency pair...
