Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis
best use may be in spotting divergenCe—priCes go one way and the
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Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis - Forex Strategies ( PDFDrive )
best use may be in spotting divergenCe—priCes go one way and the
indiCator goes another. 43 ForeX trading using interMarket anaLysis below 20 indicates buy. Stochastics indicators give a good crossover sell signal at the high in April, but then show a crossover buy signal in May during the middle of the downtrend. After giving a signal too early, the buy signal provided by a stochastics reading below 20 persists for more than a month until the market finally does bottom in early July, making that indicator relatively worthless to the euro trader during the time the market was trending downward. Even though the oscillator indicators often are not reliable in trending conditions, they can still provide some good clues about future price direction because of divergence—that is, while prices may hit a new high or low, the indicator reading does not. Divergence is a visible sig- nal that the indicator is seeing some underlying weakness or strength not revealed by the price action. On the right side of the euro chart, note that the price rises to a new high, but the second stochastics high is lower than the previous high, a divergence from price action, sug- gesting the downtrend that followed. For these types of clues, forex traders may want to include some type of momentum oscillator in their analysis to confirm a signal provided by another indicator. moVing To moVing aVerages Probably the most widely used indicator is some form of moving aver- age. Moving averages are rather simple to understand and easy to calculate. Traders who do not want to do the math can just choose simple, weighted, or exponential moving averages from their analyti- cal software. The length of moving averages can be adjusted quickly, depending on the trading time frame, and traders can use the closing price for a period or any combination of open/high/low/close. A simple moving average is the sum of prices for number of days (N) divided by the number of days (N). As each new price is recorded, the oldest price is removed from the average and is replaced by the new t r a d e s e c r e t s 44 price as markets move through time. Weighted and exponential moving averages are structured to give more weight to the newest price, based on the assumption that current price action is more significant to the near-term outlook than an old price that happened N periods ago. Traditional technical analysis with moving averages is rather straight- forward. In the simplest arrangement, if prices move above the moving average, you buy and remain long while prices stay above the average; if prices fall below the moving average, you sell and stay short while prices remain below the average (Figure 4.5). Many traders use a com- bination of several moving averages, buying when the shorter average crosses above the longer average and selling when the shorter average drops below the longer average. Moving averages have the same problem as other indicators in relying on prices that have already occurred, meaning a moving average is another lagging indicator. Some analysts use displaced moving aver- source: vantagepoint intermarket analysis software (www.tradertech.com) F igure 4.5. Download 1.29 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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