Technical analysis indicators are the mathematical formulae that day traders use on their charts to decide when to make their trades. Many popular and obscure indicators are explained, including their construction, their mathematics, and their basic use in trading.
Description of Accumulation Distribution, including definition, calculation, and its basic use in trading.
Description and example of the Aroon indicator, including its definition, calculation, and its basic use in trading.
Description and example of the bollinger bands indicator, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Description of the Commodity Channel Index (CCI), including definition, calculation, and its basic use in trading.
Description of the Directional Movement Index (DMI), including definition, calculation, and its basic use in trading.
Description and example of the Donchian Channel, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Description and example of Elliot Waves, including their definition, analysis, and their basic use in trading.
Description of the criteria that are used in Elliot Waves analysis, such as the relationship between waves, the distance that each wave can move, and the volume that each wave can include.
Description of the Fibonacci numbers, including their history, calculation, and examples of their use in day trading.
Description and example of the Force Index, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Description and example of Heikin Ashi charts, including their definition, calculation, and their basic use in trading.
Description of market profile charts, with explanations of the information that they provide, and examples of how they are used in day trading.
Description of the Momentum indicator, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Description and example chart of the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Description of simple, exponential, and weighted moving averages, including definitions, calculations, and their basic use in trading.
Description of the Parabolic SAR (Parabolic Stop and Reverse) indicator, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Description of Pivot Points, including definition, calculation, and their basic use in trading.
Description of the Relative Strength Index (RSI), including definition, calculation, and its basic use in trading.
Description of Reuters' automated news services, NewsScope and Sentiment Analysis, including how they work, the information that they provide, their formats, and their availability.
Description of the Stochastic Oscillator indicator, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Series of articles about trend lines, including the information that they represent, tutorials for drawing trend lines, and examples of trading using trend lines.
Description of the Triangular Moving Average (TMA), including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Description of the TRIX, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Description of the Volatility Ratio indicator, including its definition, calculation, and basic use in trading.
Descriptions of the settings used by technical analysis indicators such as the Commodity Channel Index (CCI), with examples of how to configure the indicators for different results.
Explanation of how to use the VDAX volatility index to calculate the expected daily range for the DAX stock index and futures market.
