+ Technical Analysis Articles (ActionForex.com) +

Educational articles on using technical analysis on trading. Available in ...

Last Update: Sun May 4 17:25:46 2008

+ Weekly Trading Lesson: Don't Change Time Frames To Stay In A Losing Trade + Too many times I hear about new traders opening a trade using the 5-minute chart (not my favorite approach) and when the market moves ...

+ Weekly Trading Lesson: Bollinger Bands + One of the more popular technical indicators in use today is Bollinger Bands. Created by John Bollinger in the early 1980s, this tool ...

+ What Is The Average Directional Index (ADX)? + You see that the EUR/USD was moving up strongly, so you bought this pair on the last pullback. But now after another move up, the pair ...

+ RSI Indicator: The "Cornerstone" of Andrew Cardwell's Trading Model + "The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is such an indicator, offering the best of all worlds," said Cardwell, president of Cardwell ...

+ When is a Pattern not a Pattern? + The easy answer to the question is "when it's not a pattern". And that really is the real crux of the issue... Let me explain. Let's ...

+ Overbought and Oversold RSI Readings + When is an overbought RSI reading bullish and when is it bearish? One classic interpretation of momentum indicators is that of [...] signals when used within a consolidating market although mere oversold or overbought readings should not be used to buy or sell...

+ A Practical Guide to Technical Indicators: Part 1 Moving Averages + Over the past decades, attempts have been made by traders and researchers aiming to find a reliable method to predict next action of [...] have a variety of different fundamental and technical analysis methods and many theories today that really work. For the first pace...

+ How Profitable Are Candlestick Strategies in Currency Trading? + Some of the most popular trading strategies in forex markets involve the use of Japanese Candlestick charts. Given a specific pattern [...] in anticipation of reversal or continuations in price. Yet testing the profitability of such concepts is easier said than...

+ How to Trade Both Trend and Range Markets by Single Strategy? + Seven years ago when I was about to finish a long time study on how to understand the real meanings of economic concepts and in a ...

+ John Murphy's Key To Success: Simplicity + "My work has gotten better due to simplifying my approach," John J. Murphy, the veteran technical analyst, author and CNBC resident [...] futures traders attending the Technical Analysis Group (TAG) XVIII trading conference sponsored by Dow Jones Telerate in New Orleans.

+ "Vibrating Prices" and the Trading Philosophies of W.D. Gann + William Delbert (W.D.) Gann is regarded as one of the pioneers of technical analysis and market behavior. He wrote several books on [...] developed the well-known "Gann angles" and "Gann Fans." Gann was born on a farm near Lufkin, Texas, in 1878. His rise to trading...

+ Cycles - How Do They Work? + Regular readers of my reports will probably recognize that I use cycle analysis when trying to work out which direction a currency ...

+ "Triple Moving Averages" Explained + Those who have followed my work for some time know that I take a "toolbox" approach to analyzing and trading markets. The more ...

+ The Importance of Basic Trading Tools - Like the Venerable Trend Line + In some of the educational stories I have written, I discussed my "primary" trading tools and my "secondary" trading tools. I also ...

+ What Do They Mean by Overbought and Oversold? + Many times in trading we here the terms overbought and oversold. We hear an analyst state that the EUR/USD is overbought and due for a ...

+ Fast Stochastics or Slow Stochastics? + New traders typically want to know the difference between Fast Stochastics and Slow Stochastics. They also want to know whether the [...] or 5,5,5 (for Slow Stochastics) as seen in most charting packages developed for FX are better or worse than the typical...

+ Using a Moving Average with RSI: Another way to create a signal from RSI + Have you ever been frustrated with RSI? How many times does it fail to reach those overbought and oversold areas? When it does, quite ...

+ Trend lines - Aren't they things you draw on price charts? + 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 ...

+ What is MACD Divergence? + In my opinion, one of the strongest signals generated by technical indicators is MACD divergence on a daily chart. MACD stands for ...

+ Using Larry Williams' Percent Range Indicator in Your Trading + The Percent Range (%R) technical indicator was developed by well-known futures author and trader Larry Williams. This system attempts [...] The %R always falls between a value of 100 and 0. There are two horizontal lines in the study that represent the 20% and...