In technical analysis the triple top chart pattern can be a possible signal for a reversal lower in price. This pattern is formed when price action find resistance inside a price zone three separate times. This type of price behavior can give clues that there are no buyers at higher prices above that resistance zone […]
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A candlestick chart is a type of visual representation of price action used in technical trading to show past and current price action in specified timeframes. Most candlestick charts will reflect a higher close than the open as represented by either a green or white candle with the opening price as the bottom of the
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An RSI divergence indicator signal shows traders when price action and the RSI are no longer showing the same momentum. The RSI shows the magnitude of a price move in a specific timeframe. The RSI is one of the most popular oscillators used in technical analysis. A divergence looks at it in relation to the
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A technical indicator/price action divergence happens if a momentum indicator like the MACD (moving average convergence divergence), doesn’t show the same movement to higher highs or lower lows that price action does to confirm momentum. If the price on the chart makes a new high price but the MACD does not make a higher high
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A divergence in an uptrend happens when price action makes a new higher high but the technical indicator used on the chart doesn’t. A divergence happens during a downtrend when price action makes a new lower low, but the technical indicator used on the chart doesn’t. If a divergence is signaled, it can be a
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The is a Guest Post by Skylar Hammond is a writer for True Trader What is Swing Trading? You’ve watched the movies. You’ve read the books from the money gurus who purport that the only way to have real wealth is by “playing the stock market.” Now, you’re ready to dip your toes in the
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Here are two bitcoin trading strategies using the 5 day exponential moving average crossing the 20 day exponential moving average by using the BTCUSD pair the other is using the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ticker symbol $GBTC traded on the over the counter market (OTC). These are both examples of short term trend trading signals for
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Simple trend trading signals have the best chance of having an edge as they create big wins and small losses by their structure of letting winners run and cutting losers short. Also, adjusting a trend signal that is a positive expectancy model with a simple filter can improve its risk/reward ratio. A trader will have
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An engulfing bullish pattern is created when a bearish small black or red body candle happens on a chart and then the following candle has a large bullish white or green candlestick body that has both a higher high and a lower low. This pattern shows that the lows of the previous day were lost
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This is a Guest Post By Robert F. Smith @RobInTheBlack of Smith’s In The Black YouTube Channel Algorithms, a traders best friend. Wait, What?? One of the most common misconceptions in Trading is that “Algorithms are picking Me Off”. Nothing could be further from the truth. Perhaps you’ve had this happen to you. You place a stop order under
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A trading journal is a trading book you write about yourself. A trading journal has two uses, the first is to move your feelings, thoughts, and ego issues out of your mind and on to paper so you can see patterns of psychological error. Creating a profitable trading system is only the first step to
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RSI indicator buy and sell signals are based on oversold and overbought conditions on a chart. The RSI is a measurement of price moving too far and too fast in one direction and as the RSI gets extended farther and farther from the 50 RSI baseline the probability of a reversion to the mean increases.
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Pure price action signals use the current price alone to indicate when to get in and when to get out of a trade. It is possible to use pure price action signals to create systems for entry and exit signals to trade. A range trader will use a repeated price level that hasn’t broken as
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On a bar chart an inside bar is a single bar which is smaller than the previous one and within the range of the highest price and lowest price of the last price bar. An inside bar can be located in relation to anywhere inside the last bar, the top, the middle or at the
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Contango is a situation in the price action of the commodities market where the futures forward price of a commodity is more than the spot price expected of the futures contract at its maturity and delivery date. The opposite condition in the futures market to contango is called backwardation. The commodity market is in backwardation
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In the trading world there is an ongoing debate in many circles on whether trading price action alone is best or if technical trading indicators can add value to trading decisions. Many believe that trading based on price alone is the best way to trade as you are don’t over complicate your decisions with the
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In my opinion these are the twelve top trading movies ever made based on popularity and entertainment value. The Big Short: This is my all-time favorite trading movie. It told the stories of three traders that bet against the housing market bubble and won big. Wall Street: A tale of all that is wrong with Wall Street
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The marubozu is a Japanese candlestick pattern used as a technical indicator of extreme price action inside a specific time period. The marubozu shows visually that an asset has been bought or sold with momentum in one direction with a candle and closed at either its high price or low price of the trading period.
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The broken wing butterfly is an option play that is also called a skip strike butterfly and can be constructed with calls or puts. It is an adjustment to a conventional butterfly option play. This strategy using call options consists of embedding a short call option spread inside of a long call butterfly spread. An
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The long high beta, short low beta is a statistical arbitrage trading strategy that is a bet against beta. To implement this type of strategy you must first find stocks with higher betas than the market and short them. The second side of this strategy is to buy long positions using leverage in stocks with
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