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Most traders are well aware of the economic problems facing Greece related to debt - one day it looks like default, the next day the can has been kicked down the road with a temporary fix. But we are not into bashing the Greeks or writing off Greece as a...
Intermarket perspective in a 'risk' world By Darrell Jobman Traders may have different views about the prospects for the stock market or the price outlook for a commodity, but most would agree with the premise of intermarket analysis: Other markets...
By Louis B. Mendelsohn After years of studying the markets, observing the transition to global markets and developing countless computerized trading strategies, I began formulating an approach in the mid-1980s that explored the markets from an...
Background: %R was developed by well-known trader Larry Williams in the 1970s as a variation of stochastics. Instead of relating the latest close to the lowest low during a specified period, %R relates the close price to the highest high. Purpose: While...
Background: Relative Strength Index (RSI) is one of several innovative technical indicators introduced by J. Welles Wilder Jr. in his 1978 book, New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. It was developed as another means of comparing the strength of...
Background: The Commodity Channel Index (CCI) is usually associated with Donald Lambert and was designed to compare the current price with a moving average for a specified time period by using a constant divisor based on deviation to normalize the...
Background: The stochastics indicator is often associated with George Lane of Investment Educators, who developed specific rules to make stochastics an effective indicator. The premise of stochastics is rather simple. When prices are moving up, closes...
Markets can generally be described as trending - that is, moving steadily in one direction with a series of higher highs and higher lows or a series of lower highs and lower lows - or non-trending - that is, trading within a sideways range or trading so...
Background: The Rate of Change indicator is another view that looks just like the Momentum Indicator on a chart. Most of the comments for the Momentum Indicator also apply to the ROC except that ROC is a ratio or percentage value instead of a price. In...
Background: It isn't enough to analyze markets when you only look at one static price. Is that price high or low? Does that one price suggest a series of prices that are moving higher or lower? Traders have long looked at charts to get a visual picture...