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Indicators That Earn Their Place

Four indicators, each taken apart until you know what it is really measuring — and a final rule for how few you need.

Pour qui
Anyone whose chart has six indicators on it and no more clarity than before.
Avant de commencer
Reading a Candle Chart, and Levels, Trend and Retracement.
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À la fin, vous saurez

  • Say what an indicator is calculated from, and why that makes it lag
  • Tell a leading indicator from a lagging one and use each for what it is good at
  • Read a moving average and choose between simple and exponential
  • Read RSI without treating overbought as a reason to sell
  • Read MACD and its histogram as one picture
  • Choose two indicators that do not say the same thing twice

16 documents

Un court quiz après chaque document ; le suivant s'ouvre quand vous le réussissez.

  1. Unité 1

    What an indicator is

    1. 01What Is a Technical Indicator5 min
    2. 02Leading vs Lagging Indicators5 min
    3. 03Why Indicators Lag5 min
    4. 04How Many Indicators You Actually Need5 min

  2. Unité 2

    The average

    1. 05What Is a Moving Average5 min
    2. 06What Is a Simple Moving Average5 min
    3. 07What Is an Exponential Moving Average5 min
    4. 08SMA vs EMA: Which to Use5 min

  3. Unité 3

    Where averages cross

    1. 09Golden Cross and Death Cross Explained5 min
    2. 10Why Everyone Watches the 200 Moving Average5 min

  4. Unité 4

    The oscillators

    1. 11What Is RSI5 min
    2. 12How to Read RSI Overbought and Oversold5 min
    3. 13What Is MACD5 min
    4. 14How to Read the MACD Histogram5 min
    5. 15What Is the Stochastic Oscillator5 min
    6. 16How to Combine Two Indicators Without Repeating Yourself5 min