Well, yes they are but that doesn’t mean you can’t use them in other areas also… Actually, trend lines on RSI can often provide you with break signals much earlier than signals from the price chart. Let’s face it trends are trends wherever they are seen. If you consider the…

In my opinion, one of the strongest signals generated by technical indicators is MACD divergence on a daily chart. MACD stands for Moving Average Convergence/Divergence and can be quite useful for giving hints of a possible market reversal.

Although I do not maintain a private practice of counseling/coaching for traders, it is perhaps inevitable that traders would contact me for assistance after reading my book on The Psychology of Trading. Once in a while I take on a project of working with a group of traders because of…

The Percent Range (%R) technical indicator was developed by well-known futures author and trader Larry Williams. This system attempts to measure overbought and oversold market conditions. The %R always falls between a value of 100 and 0. There are two horizontal lines in the study that represent the 20% and…

Did you know that the Canadian dollar has a very unique trading characteristic at the end of every month? According to our statistical analysis, we found that over the past 10 years, USD/CAD tends to fall in the last week of the month with a 95 percent confidence level. A…

The universe of foreign exchange has expanded dramatically since entering the new millennium and its future remains golden. Fresh from the pruning dictated by the introduction of the euro, the wave of banks mergers, and the emerging market crisis of 1998, currency trading benefited greatly from the equity crisis in…

Okay, traders: Do you know what is the most important aspect of successful futures trading? Is it identifying the trading opportunity? Is it proper entry into the market? Is it the trading “tools” you are using? Is it an exit strategy that is the most important aspect of trading? The…