Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis
Chart formations Come in many forms. this Chart of the usd/Chf pair
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Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis - Forex Strategies ( PDFDrive )
Chart formations Come in many forms. this Chart of the usd/Chf pair
features several Common teChniCal analysis patterns—a flag forma- tion that sometimes oCCurs at the midpoint of a trending move, an m top that suggests sell when the interim low is broken, and a 50 perCent retraCement of a prior move that often aCts as a support level. t r a d e s e c r e t s 40 The third technical analysis point to note on Figure 4.3 is a 50% retracement of the upmove, which technical analysts traditionally see as a strong support area. In this case, it was. Prices bounced off that support on schedule, just as analysts who look for that type of retrace- ment would have expected. It is one of several retracement areas that analysts project by using Fibonacci numbers and ratios. Having prices perform as technical analysts expect them to is far from a sure thing. Spotting trendline breaks and top or bottom formations tends to be quite subjective, relying on the eye of the beholder. Chart signals usually are not as obvious as they might seem when you look at the price action with the benefit of hindsight. Even if you recognize a chart pattern, interpreting what it projects and then making a trading decisions based on that analysis are just as subjective. Because the chart pattern aspect of technical analysis is so subjective, back-testing is not really possible, so there is no way to measure the accuracy of this method of analysis. adding TeCHniCal indiCaTors Traders then typically start to look for something more quantitative on which to base their analysis. In looking beyond basic chart patterns, many traders turn to technical indicators, which may be able to detect changes in market momentum or strength or weakness that are not obvious when looking at a price chart. Many of today’s analytical soft- ware packages usually include dozens of built-in indicators that are just a click of a mouse away so you do not have to do the calculations yourself or even comprehend how they were computed. Although these indicators can be back-tested and can be helpful in market analysis, they do share some general shortcomings: • First, most are based on only one thing: past prices. As a result, they are all lagging indicators and not forward- looking indicators. 41 ForeX trading using interMarket anaLysis • Second, using several indicators together may improve trad- ers’ perspective, but because they are looking at basically the same thing, adding more indicators does not necessar- ily result in better analysis. In fact, it may lead to another technical analyst’s catch phrase, “Paralysis by analysis,” which may cause traders to “freeze” and actually make it harder to make a trading decision. • Third, it is easy to curve-fit or over-optimize the parameters of an indicator to the past price action. When traders exam- ine historical price data, they may adjust the parameters to find those that performed best in the past, only to discover that they do not work quite so well in actual trading. • Finally, no matter what traders may see in promotional material, no one indicator is the elusive Holy Grail for traders, because there just is no such thing as the Holy Grail. Download 1.29 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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