David Land explains why just a few observations can be a dangerous thing.
A long tale
David Land explores the ramifications of long-tailed results in candle charts
Time out
One of the big attractions of technical analysis is that it’s quite transferable across different asset classes. This has been of great benefit to traders who have been dealing in shares and have then wanted to start dealing in foreign exchange and commodities. The trader can be happy knowing that an up trend is an up trend regardless of the product they are trading.
This is the end…
I’m not sure that there is a single book on trading anything that doesn’t remind traders that the trend is their friend – for obvious reasons, too.
Hidden strength of moving averages
One of the first indicators that anyone comes across when it comes to technical trading is the moving average. Because of its relative simplicity and the fact it’s so commonly used, I suspect this reduces the impact it would otherwise have. The first strategy people discover, the moving average crossover, is one that seems very…
Get to the point
One of the most versatile technical trading methods involves the identification and then trading of triangle formations. Like all forms of ‘pattern recognition’ you will need to put a lot of practice into looking for set-ups which can be quite time consuming but is a necessary process with few shortcuts available. The real upshot for…