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- Weekly Trading Lesson: Don't Change Time Frames To Stay In A Losing Trade - Too many times I hear about new traders opening a trade using the 5-minute chart (not my favorite approach) and when [...] 15-minute chart to justify staying in a little longer, hoping that the market will turn around. Then if the market...

- Weekly Trading Lesson: Bollinger Bands - One of the more popular technical indicators in use today is Bollinger Bands. Created by John Bollinger in the early [...] filter. Volatility can be of great value in an indicator for those times when the market is swinging wildly...

- What Is The Average Directional Index (ADX)? - You see that the EUR/USD was moving up strongly, so you bought this pair on the last pullback. But now after another ...

- RSI Indicator: The "Cornerstone" of Andrew Cardwell's Trading Model - "The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is such an indicator, offering the best of all worlds," said Cardwell, president of ...

- When is a Pattern not a Pattern? - The easy answer to the question is "when it's not a pattern". And that really is the real crux of the issue... Let me [...] the most simple patterns in technical analysis, the Double Top (Bottom). This is the hourly chart of Dollar-Swissie...

- Overbought and Oversold RSI Readings - When is an overbought RSI reading bullish and when is it bearish? One classic interpretation of momentum indicators is [...] used within a consolidating market although mere oversold or overbought readings should not be used to buy or sell...

- A Practical Guide to Technical Indicators: Part 1 Moving Averages - Over the past decades, attempts have been made by traders and researchers aiming to find a reliable method to predict [...] of different fundamental and technical analysis methods and many theories today that really work. For the first pace...

- How Profitable Are Candlestick Strategies in Currency Trading? - Some of the most popular trading strategies in forex markets involve the use of Japanese Candlestick charts. Given a [...] of reversal or continuations in price. Yet testing the profitability of such concepts is easier said than...

- How to Trade Both Trend and Range Markets by Single Strategy? - Seven years ago when I was about to finish a long time study on how to understand the real meanings of economic [...] everything did worked out well , I found myself a leading scientist of economics, someone who will be rich in...

- John Murphy's Key To Success: Simplicity - "My work has gotten better due to simplifying my approach," John J. Murphy, the veteran technical analyst, author and [...] attending the Technical Analysis Group (TAG) XVIII trading conference sponsored by Dow Jones Telerate in New Orleans.

- "Vibrating Prices" and the Trading Philosophies of W.D. Gann - William Delbert (W.D.) Gann is regarded as one of the pioneers of technical analysis and market behavior. He wrote [...] well-known "Gann angles" and "Gann Fans." Gann was born on a farm near Lufkin, Texas, in 1878. His rise to trading...

- Cycles - How Do They Work? - Regular readers of my reports will probably recognize that I use cycle analysis when trying to work out which direction [...] this direction is likely to reverse. So what do these look like and how do they work? The following chart shows the...

- "Triple Moving Averages" Explained - Those who have followed my work for some time know that I take a "toolbox" approach to analyzing and trading markets. [...] trading toolbox at my disposal, the better my chances for success in trading. One of my favorite "secondary" trading...

- The Importance of Basic Trading Tools - Like the Venerable Trend Line - In some of the educational stories I have written, I discussed my "primary" trading tools and my "secondary" trading [...] his or her "Trading Toolbox," the better the odds for trading success. In this educational feature, I want to focus...

- What Do They Mean by Overbought and Oversold? - Many times in trading we here the terms overbought and oversold. We hear an analyst state that the EUR/USD is [...] the USD/CAD is oversold and due for a bounce. But how does one determine what is overbought and what is oversold and...

- Fast Stochastics or Slow Stochastics? - New traders typically want to know the difference between Fast Stochastics and Slow Stochastics. They also want to know [...] 5,5,5 (for Slow Stochastics) as seen in most charting packages developed for FX are better or worse than the typical...

- Using a Moving Average with RSI: Another way to create a signal from RSI - Have you ever been frustrated with RSI? How many times does it fail to reach those overbought and oversold areas? When [...] Well, there is another technique, not very exact but can be useful. It is possible to draw a trend line on RSI.

- Trend lines - Aren't they things you draw on price charts? - Well, yes they are but that doesn't mean you can't use them in other areas also… Actually, trend lines on RSI can often [...] than signals from the price chart. Let's face it trends are trends wherever they are seen. If you consider the...

- What is MACD Divergence? - In my opinion, one of the strongest signals generated by technical indicators is MACD divergence on a daily chart. MACD ...

- Using Larry Williams' Percent Range Indicator in Your Trading - The Percent Range (%R) technical indicator was developed by well-known futures author and trader Larry Williams. This [...] %R always falls between a value of 100 and 0. There are two horizontal lines in the study that represent the 20% and...

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