Technical Indicators

Fibonacci Trading

Fibonacci ratios, when applied to trading stocks, correlate two trends; let's refer to them as primary and secondary.  The primary trend refers to a trending move in one direction while the secondary trend will refer to countertrend moves in the opposite direction.  The three most common fibonacci retracement lev

What is Swing Trading?

The typical textbook will define swing trading in terms of trade duration, somewhere between 1 day and a couple weeks.  We believe that the definition of swing trading is a time frame independent one.  Swing trading strategies revolve around a trader’s ability to recognize probable

Technical Analysis and the Credit Crisis of 2008

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The speaker discusses the technical tools that he uses to follow and trade the markets.  He first mentions that he uses candlestick charts, volume, and t

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This video is an example of a day traders activity in the forex market.  He uses a trading system which is made up of a custom technical indicator in the form of a histogram and a few moving averages as well.  He is looking for a crossover in his

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    Video of a day traders top 5 trading technical indicators.  These indicators are actively used to judge the market on a short time frame.  The trader uses the stochastics on the 5 minute chart of the S&P 500, 50 & 200 period

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    The speaker suggests a simple method for confirming buy or sell signals using three popular technical indicators:  the RSI, Slow Stochastics, and

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  • McClellan Oscillator Definition

    What is the Advance/Decline Index

    Fibonacci Arc Definition

    What is the Money Flow Index

    The Money Flow Index MFI is a momentum indicator which is used to measure the amount of money flowing into and out of a security.   The indicator is similar to the

    Commodity Selection Index (CSI) Definition

    The Commodity Selection Index (CSI) is a momentum indicator that uses the ADXR component of the Directional Movement indicator to select commodities suitable for short-term trading.  The CSI w

    Random Walk Index Definition

    The random walk index (RWI) is a technical indicator that attempts to determine if a stock's price movement is random or nature or a result of a statistically significant trend.  The random walk index attempts to determine when the market is in a strong

    Volume Rate of Change Definition

    The volume rate of change (ROC) is a technical indicator used to gauge the volatility in a security's volume.  The volume rate of change is a powerful indicator when estimating a security's ability to push through key

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  • Relative Volatility Index Definition

    The relative volatility index (RVI) was developed by Donald Dorsey, who truly understood that an indicator is not the holy grail of trading.  The RVI is identical to the relative strength index, except it measures the standard deviati

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