The Donchian channel is a technical indicator used by traders as a tool for trading price ranges. It was created by the father of trend following Richard Donchian. A Donchian Channel on a chart is created by using the highest high and the lowest low of the last periods of the timeframe on the chart. The space between the […]
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Technical analysis is a process for evaluating the historical price action on charts to identify the current trend or chart pattern to establish the possible probability of price action in the future. Technical analysts analyze past price action trading activity and the pattern of price changes in a market to project possible future price movements. Technical analysis
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Chart Facts: The ascending triangle is a bullish chart pattern that usually forms during an uptrend as a continuation pattern. Sometimes an ascending triangle pattern will form as a reversal pattern as a downtrend comes to an end, but they are usually continuation patterns in an uptrend. Regardless of their location during a trend ascending
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. TrendSpider is happy to announce our first-ever “Chart Pattern Beauty Contest” which will first be judged by the fintwit community through the hashtag #TrendSpiderContest19. Then, the top 25 charts with the most engagement will be judged by Steve Burns, Brian Shannon, TraderStewie, and John Caynor. Learn more below and see
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I like moving average signals for their power and simplicity in trend trading and here is why: Moving averages are a way to smooth price action and quantify a trend. Moving averages are tools that can work on any time frame. They can remove your predictions and opinions from your trading and replace them with
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After reading hundreds of trading books, here are the ones I found to be the best for helping me make money in the stock market specifically. ‘How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad, Fourth Edition’ This book shows the results of the extensive research that William O’Neil put
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On trade entry the risk/reward ratio measures a trades potential for loss versus the magnitude of possible profits. In backtesting the average of all the losses in a system compared to all the average gains gives you the system’s risk/reward ratio based on historical price action. Looking at your stop loss versus your profit target
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co. Market outlook: is this a V-shaped recovery? The stock market bounced this week after it tanked last week on trade war news. Is the stock market making a V-shaped recovery? Probably not. Technicals (short term, next 1-3 months): mixed. If I had to assign a probability to a
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we take a look at the broad market ETF daily Raindrop Charts (TM) and weekly hollow candles into mid-August. The markets were everything BUT stable with huge moves both to the downside and upside in all major broad market ETFs. To learn more about
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I first read the original version of this book over fourteen years ago, and it was the book that finally cemented for me the overall structure I needed to understand all the dynamics of profitable trading. I have read hundreds of trading books, and this one still stands head and shoulders above the rest. It
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