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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Ian Copsey |
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Have you ever seen RSI overbought and wonder whether it was the right time to sell? Let's face it, an overbought reading in a momentum oscillator can merely mean that price is strong and may even turn into an uptrend. Is it a valid overbought signal? Do you sell? Where do you sell? Where should you place your stop? |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Adam Rosen |
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Any technical analysis tool is designed to identify the price level, with the greater probability of representing a future market turning point. Any trend line or indicator used on its own may only produce a 50% rate of accuracy. However when multiple lines indicate a similar price level and trade theory, then our chances of being accurate may increase dramatically in our favor. |
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Trading Psychology Articles |
Written by Jim Wyckoff |
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No short-term trading system is perfect. However, having and using a system is critical for short-term trading success, say Howard Abell and Bob Koppel. "A successful short-term trading system must be profitable, consistent, and personal--conforming to the unique psychological and methodological needs of the individual," they said. |
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Trading Psychology Articles |
Written by Dr. Van K Tharp |
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What most people don't realize is that at any given time 4-5 people might go long a position and another 4-5 might go short or unload a position. Each of them can have different systems and different ideas, and all of them can make money. They might have different ideas about the market, but they trade it because they've figured out that it is a low risk idea. And a low risk idea is one that I define to be an idea with a positive expectancy, that's traded at a position-size level so as to survive the worst case contingency in the short run so as to realize the long-term expectancy. In addition, they all have common characteristics, some of which I'll discuss later in this week's tip. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Ian Copsey |
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A unique way to utilize the stochastic indicator. Here is a simple technique I devised some years ago and introduced to the institutional market. It takes one of the markets' favored indicators Stochastics and identifies a pattern that when used in conjunction with other analysis can provide great trades. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Ian Copsey |
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Not too many books will discuss the use of pivot levels, mostly the topic being covered as being calculated mathematically through the use of daily highs and lows. However, the is an alternative way of looking at pivot levels which, albeit subjective, can provide excellent trading opportunities. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Adam Rosen |
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The FX-market will normally oscillate between range bound and trending conditions a few times throughout the year. We may see the market spend a relatively low or high amount of time in either market condition, depending on the fundamental picture and economic climate of each currency within the pair. However it is safe to say that the FX-market has the tendency to remain in a range bound condition the majority of the time due to a number of reasons including the extremely high amount of volume that passes through the market every trading day. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Jim Wyckoff |
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Moving averages are one of the most commonly used technical tools. In a simple moving average, the mathematical median of the underlying price is calculated over an observation period. Prices (usually closing prices) over this period are added and then divided by the total number of time periods. Every day of the observation period is given the same weighting in simple moving averages. Some moving averages give greater weight to more recent prices in the observation period. These are called exponential or weighted moving averages. In this educational feature, I'll only discuss simple moving averages. |
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General Trading Articles |
Written by Dr. Van K Tharp |
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When you design an exit for your system, one of the key things that you need to consider is the purpose behind that exit. In the second edition of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, I identified four possible purposes that you might have for such exits. These include each of the following: |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Jim Wyckoff |
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First of all, these two oscillators--especially the RSI--tend to be over-used by many traders. As you just read above, some traders use these oscillators to generate buy and sell signals in markets -- and even as an overall trading system. However, I treat the RSI and Slow Stochastics as just a couple more trading tools in my trading toolbox. I use them in certain situations, but only as "secondary" tools. I tend to use most computer-generated technical indicators as secondary tools when I am analyzing a market or considering a trade. My "primary" trading tools include chart patterns, fundamental analysis and trend lines. |
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General Trading Articles |
Written by Dr. Van K Tharp |
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How can you your exits help you catch a strong trend? Well, in a random entry system the first thing to consider is that when you exit, you'll enter back into a trade again and lose another $100 for slippage and commissions. Thus, you want your initial exit to be large enough to make sure that you don't exit very often. At the same time, you don't want to enter into a trend in the wrong direction, which would cause you to pile up huge losses. Thus, to make the random entry system work, I needed an initial stop that was big enough to keep me in the market while it was just making random noise type movements or moving sideways. And one such exit is three times the 20 day volatility or average true range. |
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