Hi, traders! Today we'll speak about one of the most pretty instrument of divergence detection. The Chaikin oscillator is named for its creator Marc Chaikin.1 The oscillator measures the accumulation-distribution line of moving average convergence-divergence (MACD). To calculate the Chaikin oscillator, subtract a 10-day exponential moving average (EMA) of the...
One of the most attractive things about being a trader is that once you become proficient with your trading system you don't have to spend all day in front of your computer like an extra in the Walking Dead. There's a lot more to life than trading. The goal is that once we have developed that skill, we can “trade to live” and not “live to trade.” I like to teach...
Thanksgiving is a distinctly American holiday, where our nation takes pause to reflect on all the things we have to be thankful for due to the actions of a courageous band of dedicated men and women who crossed a dangerous ocean to an unknown continent for the simple hope... of freedom. As traders, I am glad that we all, regardless of our national origin, our...
Gadang has a good background in the last 4 weeks. - Price moving sideways with minimal spread and volume is low. - It has Sp, followed by a few Test with low volume. - Price went up few bars before went down in the last bar. Assuming this is a pullback, we need to the see the price movement and volume. - If pullback succeed, may consider entry at the...
Trends are not easy to spot when they're developing. I'm sure I looked at AUDCAD many times across several time frames in last 80 days. Now I'm seeing the trend on 12H better, having missed the boat several times! Jeeez this is so annoying! I suspect that several times I must have thought, "Nah.. it's about to reverse soon. " - and just ignored it very swiftly....
I don't disagree with the notion that right now we are set up almost identical to the market in 2014. I don't disagree that we probably have a while longer before we see a bull run. But I am pretty confident we aren't going to see 2+ years of bear market and I don't think we will see a 2+ years of bull market after. I think what we are experiencing is the final...