Bollinger Bands ® Explained – The Best Trading Indicator
Bollinger Bands ® are among the most reliable and potent trading indicators traders can choose from. They can be used to read the trend strength, to time entries during range markets and to find...
View ArticleRSI – The Ultimate RSI Indicator Trading Guide
The Relative Strength Index, or RSI is among the most popular indicators used by traders. The RSI provides information about the strength of the price movements on your charts, hence the name. In this...
View ArticleHow To Use Moving Averages – Moving Average Trading 101
Moving averages are without a doubt the most popular trading tools. Moving averages are great if you know how to use them but most traders, however, make some fatal mistakes when it comes to trading...
View ArticleHow To Trade Breakouts – Things To Look For In A Successful Breakout
Everyone can catch great trades when the market is trending nicely and just shoot in one direction.But markets spend a lot of time ranging and many traders often lose all their money during choppy...
View ArticleThe MACD indicator – How To Use The MACD Correctly
The MACD is a popular momentum and trend-following indicator that is based on the information of moving averages and, thus, ideal to act as an additional momentum tool and momentum filter for your...
View Article8 Indicators, Tips And Tools To Read Trend Strength In Trading
Trading is all about being able to read market structure, sentiment and the balance between bulls and bears. Understanding if a trend is gaining or losing momentum is important if you are trying to...
View ArticleHow To Use The Donchian Channel For Breakout And Trend-Following Traders
The Donchian channel is a trend-following indicator which has been heavily used by the infamous Turtle traders. The Donchian channel measures the high and the low of a previously defined range –...
View Article5 Ways To Identify The Direction Of The Trend
Trading with the trend is trading with the flow.When the prevailing trend is up, why would you want to look for short entries when buying might result in much smoother trades?Many amateur traders, even...
View ArticleIndicators Work. But You Just Don’t Know How To Use Them
One of the greatest misunderstandings in retail trading is the (mis)interpretation and the (ab)use of indicators.Today we want to do away with the mystification and misunderstandings around indicators...
View ArticleKeltner Channel VS Bollinger Bands® – Which One Is Better?
Channels are popular trading indicators and for a reason. A trader who knows how to utilize channels the right way can add a great tool to find more confluence factors for his/her price analysis. In...
View ArticleThe Complete Ichimoku Trading Guide – How To Use The Ichimoku Indicator
The Ichimoku Cloud indicator is an all-in-one indicator that provides information about support/ resistance, trend direction and momentum all at the same time. The Ichimoku indicator is a potent...
View ArticleParabolic SAR indicator trading guide
The Parabolic SAR indicator is a price AND time based trend-following indicator. SAR stands for “stop and reverse”. The Parabolic SAR is one of the more complex trading indicators when it comes to the...
View ArticleGetting started with indicator trading
The debate about whether indicators or pure price action is more effective is probably as old as trading itself.The one and only answer, though, should be: BOTH!As you will see, there is virtually no...
View ArticleTrading Overbought and Oversold
The Overbought and Oversold myth of using those concepts to trade reversals is probably one of the most widely misunderstood things in trading. Well, it is not just misunderstood but it is plain and...
View ArticleHow To Combine The Best Indicators And Avoid Wrong Signals
When it comes to indicators, we can devide them into three classes:momentum indicatorstrend-following indicatorsvolatility indicatorsKnowing which one belongs to which category, and how to combine the...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Indicator Cheat Sheet For Your Trading [Infographic]
Indicators are very famous tools and used by millions of traders. However, often traders don’t really know what their indicators are doing or how to use them. Over the past articles, we covered and...
View ArticleADX – Using The ADX Indicator To Find And Trade Trends
Read the article in German: Auf Deutsch——————The ADX indicator is a popular trend indicator and it provides information about momentum and trend strength. In this article, we will dissect the...
View ArticleHow to Trade the Money Flow Index (MFI) Like a Pro
Money Flow Index (MFI) is basically a momentum indicator that oscillates between a reading of zero to a hundred. However, there is a major difference between the Money Flow Index and some of the other...
View ArticleMoving Average Channel System
When it comes to moving averages, most people just think about the same old cross-over system, the boring Golden Cross or general trend following.Indicator trading can be MUCH more and there are SO...
View ArticleFractals trading and how to use the Alligator – Williams Chaos Theory
Bill M. Williams, Ph.D. is considered as one of the forefathers of modern trading psychology. Back in the 1980’s, he came up with chaos theory that offered a methodological understanding of market...
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