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Compression Ranges
Price consolidations provide us with excellent breakout trading opportunities. While we can try and find these setups by paging through chart after chart, there’s a way we easily find these trades by detecting a Compression Range.
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Donchian Channels
When looking for breakout opportunities, we can often use analysis tools that detect when a security has established a range and then look for a break of that range. Futures trader Richard Donchain developed an indicator that looks at the highest high and lowest low over n number of periods which he called the Donchian Channel.
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Mansfield Relative Strength
Measuring a stock’s performance compared to the general market can help us find the stocks that are outperforming and under performing. While there are many relative strength indicators available, one of the easiest and most reliable is the Mansfield Relative Strength indicator.
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The Hull Moving Average
Many traders use moving averages in order to reduce the noise, or smooth, price activity. However, when you smooth price with an average, you are creating a lag in the indicators reading. While moving averages like Exponential Moving Averages and Weighted Moving Averages can help reduce lag, they are still prone to late readings.
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Measuring Volatility
When traders hear the work "volatility", it usually brings up thoughts of erratic markets. But in order realize profits, we need the markets to move. So as long as volatility isn't excessive, we can often use it to our advantage. The question then is "How do we determine excessive volatility"? The answer is to measure it so we know when volatility is unusual.
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Turning Momentum and Acceleration into Trading Gains
Momentum is a property of physics which many traders apply to technical analysis. In trading, momentum measures the strength of trend. By determining a stock’s momentum, we are able to not only ride high momentum to profits, but also identify changes in momentum for optimal entries.
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Technical Analysis Topic: Support and Resistance
When we look at charts, we will often find price levels where the market reacts to them like a barrier. When price tests the levels, they will often reverse the other direction. These levels are referred to as support (to the downside) and resistance (to the upside).
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Technical Analysis Topic: Bollinger Bands
Market technician John Bollinger introduced the trading world to Bollinger Bands, and this famous indicator is now used by traders in every market and timeframe. Bollinger Bands use a 20 period Simple Moving Average and plot two upper and lower bands 2 standard deviations on the SMA.
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Analyzing the Battle Between Investors and Traders
A moving average can help us determine short, medium and long term trend direction and trend reversals. However, we can also use multiple moving averages in order to help us with trend analysis. The use of multiple moving averages will allow us to see trend information for different timeframes and different types of market participants.
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Technical Analysis Topic: The Relative Strength Index
Momentum indicators can help us determine when a security is overbought and oversold as well as trend direction and strength (underlying price chart). While momentum indicators have a lot of similarities, the Relative Strength Index is the preferred momentum indicator of many traders.
