Prices may be setting up for a pullback after rallying as expected having put in a Bullish Engulfing candle pattern. The emergence of negative RSI divergence below resistance at 10560, the 50% Fibonacci retracement, warns of ebbing upside momentum. A daily close below the 38...
When someone first begins to learn to trade, they’ll often delve right into technical analysis. After all, if you can read a chart and get trade ideas directly from past price information, there is no need to learn any of the ‘difficult’ stuff...
How to calculate leverage in trading account The concept of notional value How much leverage we can use Traders are drawn to the Forex for many reasons, including: being the largest market in the world, only having a few major currencies needing to be followed as opposed to 1000’s of companies, a...
The key to using CCI with camarilla pivots is to line an entry signal near support and resistance, along with an overbought or oversold reading of CCI. Timing entries is an important step to consider when developing a trading strategy...
Dojis Demonstrate Indecision From Traders Failure To Breach 103.00 Casts Doubt On Gains USDJPY may continue its consolidation with several successive Doji formations denoting indecision from traders. The pair remains in a congestion zone with sellers sitting nearby at 102.77/103...
The Morning Star Pattern is a bullish reversal pattern, usually occuring at the bottom of a downtrend. The pattern consists of three candlesticks: Large Bearish Candle (Day 1) Small Bullish or Bearish Candle (Day 2) Large Bullish Candle (Day 3) Morning Star Candlestick Chart Example...
Relative Strength Index (RSI) measures the strength of all upward movement against the strength of all downward movement in a specified time frame. For mathematical formula of RSI is as follow: RSI = 100 - [100/(1+RS)] RS = average of n day's up closes / average of n day's down closes 1...
Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) shows the difference of two moving averages - EMA12 and EMA26, and a 9-day EMA of the difference is plotted against it to trigger buy or sell signal...
Moving average is the average rate of a currency pair over a set period. For example, if you conduct a 20-day moving average (20 day MA), you simply add the close price of the past 20 days and divide it by 20. This is called a simple moving average (SMA...
The basis for all indicators The moving average is probably the most simple to use and understand of all the major technical indicators. It’s simply the past x periods divided by x. This has a smoothing effect, as near-term price movements are registered in scope of the period of activity (x...
Many novice forex traders start their careers by jumping into the markets head first and attempting to learn by trial and error. However, in many cases this is not the best thing to do...
The existence of a trend in any market depends on a series of relative highs and lows. Two consecutive relative highs, each above the previous relative high, and two relative lows above the previous low would be constitute a tentative up-trend. A third relative high would confirm the trend...
What are support and resistance? Support levels are prices where buyers have shown or are likely to show strength. Resistance levels are prices where sellers are likely to be strong. Support Support levels essentially give the market a 'floor', since they are areas where buyers tend to be strong...
Dark Cloud Cover Offered Warning Near Range-Top Harami Pattern May Find Limited Follow-Through The Australian Dollar may struggle to recover further ground despite the emergence of a Harami pattern on the daily, given sellers remain nearby at 0.9320...
For most new traders, the biggest challenge is getting a profitable strategy that works for the long term. Usually, trend-following systems are favored because they tend to have a very good risk-to-reward ratio...
I am a new trader and also new to MT4 so kindly direct me on how to start.All ideas and lessons are welcome...
Bollinger Bands indicator is used to identify and analyze trending markets. In a trending market this indicator clearly shows up or down direction. This indicator can be used to determine the direction of the forex trend...
MACD 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...
A Forex trader should wait for the price to turn in the opposite direction after touching one of the bands before considering that a reversal is happening. Even better one should see the price cross over the moving average...
