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Some platforms that use coloured candlesticks on a white background (e.g. the ActForex platform or eToro’s platform) display bearish candlesticks as red candlesticks.
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Traders typically use values of between 0.5 and 2 as the breakout probability number, although there are no set rules as to what figures are used. Another way of using the volatility ratio is to determine the implied volatility relative to the recent historical volatility of the asset. The volatility ratio is thus based on the TR indicator (True Range Indicator), and detects days when the distance between the high and low prices for the asset on a given trading range is unusually wide.
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The Ichimoku indicator conmprises of several components: the Tenkan Line, Kijun Line, the Kumo, and the Senko Span A and B lines. Each of these components can be used to derive all manner of trade signals such as breakouts, crossovers, bounces, pullbacks, etc.
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The Ichimoku Cloud is also known as the Kumo and it is used in several ways to produce trading signals. It can act as a support or resistance, and a break of the Kumo signifies a breakout signal. If the price fails to break the Kumo, it can be used for support and resistance trading.
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A hybrid indicator combines other indicators with chart patterns or other technical factor to exert their action. An example is the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) which works by using elements of another indicator (the moving average).
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The presence of a hanging man is indicative of the end of an uptrend and a bearish reversal. The hanging man requires confirmation before being used as a bearish reversal trade signal.
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The presence of a hammer is indicative of the end of a downtrend and a bullish reversal. The hammer requires confirmation before being used as a bullish reversal trade signal.
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The GMMA was created by Daryl Guppy. The intersection of the two groups of moving averages is used to determine trend changes, with a bullish trend developing when the short term MAs cross above the long term ones, and a bearish trend occurring when the short term moving averages cross below the long term moving averages.
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The rounding top is best traced on the daily or weekly charts to reflect the long term nature of the pattern, and is characterized by a previous uptrend, a high forming the peak of the inverted U shape, then a period of price decline and then a breakout from the price support which is accompanied by an increase in selling volume.
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The golden cross occurs not only on moving averages placed on the chart for technical analysis, but also on indicators that utilize moving averages such as the MACD. It is akin to a resistance break and is the opposite of the death cross.
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The Gartley patterns can be bullish (M shaped) or bearish (W shaped). The shapes are formed by trend lines that connect the points XABCD, with the reversal taking off from point D.
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A gap may be a sign of the beginning of a strong trend, or it may be the beginning of the end of the trend if the gap occurs after a long period of trending prices.
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A Gann Fan is a diagrammatic representation of the collection of Gann Angles. It looks like a handheld fan and shows the various Gann angles superimposed on a chart.
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An ideal situation occurs when the price and time exist in a balance, corresponding to a Gann Angle of 45 degrees. The nine different Gann angles provide areas where price will find a support of hit a resistance.
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Fuzzy logic is incorporated into advance trading models in an attempt to react to changes in the market. By being able analyze several assets at the same time, an algorithm that uses fuzzy logic can identify the best trading opportunities out of so many at the same time.
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Fractals work best when combined with other indicators of technical analysis. A bullish fractal occurs when the lowest bar is located within the chart pattern with two bars with higher lows located around it. A bearish fractal occurs when the lowest bar is located in the middle of the pattern with two bars making lower highs located around it.
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It is used by analysts to find out the direction that a stock’s price will take and how trends will change.
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The appearance of a flag is an indication that the previous trend is going to continue, so traders should warm up to enter in the direction of the previous trend at the end of the consolidation period.
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This is a subjective order screening technique that investors can set on their own to avoid buying or selling at minor changes in price, or to only enter positions when a certain level of percentage change in price has been achieved.
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This principle is used in retracement trading. In a strong trend, there comes a time that investors will take profits and this usually occurs with the asset falling in value by at least 50%.
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They are used to forecast reversals on the basis of elapsed time.
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The Fibonacci retracement tool is used to deduce the possible points where a retracing asset will resume the previous trend.
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They are used to predict changes in trends since prices tend to be near the lines created by the Fibonacci analysis.
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Fibonacci fans are used to determne areas of support and resistance in a diagonal market.
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The Fibonacci extension tool is used to predict the highest or lowest point the market will get to after resuming the previous trend from a retracement level.
