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Technical Analysis (Part 12) – Direct Price Analysis (DPA): Trending or Ranging?

June 15, 2017 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Pessimistic Bear

In the last article, we looked at indicators on price. This week we try to answer one of the hardest questions in technical analysis. When is a market trending or ranging? Understanding what camp you are currently in will be crucial for your trading success. Many of the technical tools you will come across work better in the different periods of price action. We look in particular at one indicator; the Directional Moving Indicator (DMI), which tries to answer this question. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: trading, technical analysis, investing, Renko, kagi, Moving Averages, vodafone, dmi, directional moving indicator, ranging, trending, line break, Directional Movement Indicator, parabolic sar

Technical Analysis (Part 10): Direct Price Analysis (DPA) – Moving Averages

May 31, 2017 by The Stop Hunter 4 Comments

Financial markets

In Part 9, we dug into the world of price patterns. This week, in Part 10 of our blog series, we explore a common method used in the world of maths and finance to find trends in data; that of moving averages. The moving average is a highly effective, multi-purpose tool that can enhance your technical analytical abilities.
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Filed Under: Education, Trading Tagged With: trading, technical analysis, S&P500, FTSE100, investing, MACD, Moving Averages, simple, weighted, exponenential, golden cross, death cross

Technical Analysis (Part 8): Direct Price Analysis (DPA) – Trends, Support & Resistance

May 17, 2017 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Last week in Part 7, we looked at Market Breadth. We now start a chain of eight articles covering technical analysis directly carried out on price. We will be looking at patterns, support & resistance, trends, Fibonacci, pivots, moving averages, bands, indicators and Ichimoku. The first of the eight, looks at Trends, Support & Resistance. Understanding these principles will give you the necessary building blocks to understand price action and analysis and evolve your technical analysis learning. [Read more…]

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Technical Analysis (Part 7): Market Breadth

May 10, 2017 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Last week in Part 6, we looked at Equivolume. This week, we look at one of the more established and quite straight forward technical analytical approaches to gauging the sentiment of any given stock market: Market Breadth.

What is market breadth?

Market breadth is all about upward, downward and sideways movement and range, principally applied to stocks and their stock markets, to gain an understanding of whether the overall market is bullish, bearish or flat. The concept of market breadth is used to measure the ‘health’ of any given stock market. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Trading Tagged With: trading, technical analysis, FTSE100, S&P 500, volume, Moving Averages, equivolume, richard arms, arms index, market breadth, TRIN, 52 week high low, new low, new highs

MSTA Exam Prep session for the Society of Technical Analysts (STA) at the LSE

April 6, 2017 by The Stop Hunter 1 Comment

Great interactive session last night teaching the Society of Technical Analysts (STA) Exam Prep session for the MSTA qualification at the London School of Economics. Covered all sorts of topics; the obvious exam hints and tips, how you write professional grade Technical Analysis reports, analysis in 3 time frames for the investor and trader, the basics: moving averages, trends, risk return, money management, Fibonacci, Ichimoku and much, much more. Good luck to all students sitting the exam in late April!

Filed Under: News Tagged With: trading, technical analysis, risk, STA, Ichimoku, LSE, society of technical analysyts, Exam, Moving Averages, reports, MSTA

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