Category Archives: Trend Following Trading Strategies

Bollinger Band Tactics

Bollinger Bands draw their power through two important characteristics. First, they exhibit an underlying trend-range axis just like price or moving averages. Second, they constrict or expand as they move. The interaction between these two forces draws unique patterns as … Continue reading

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How To Trade With Relative Strength Index

On the assumption that traders are in a trading market rather than a trending market, they can observe the following behaviours of the RSI: If the index rises above 70, an intermediate top is usually imminent, according to the concept … Continue reading

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Making Moving Average Rules Less Sensitive

Moving averages trading rules are simple and powerful. In this article we explore some ways to make the rules less sensitive in an attempt to reduce whipsaws. 1) Traders can wait for the breaking of moving average lines by several … Continue reading

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Simple Swing Trading

Take a look at the nice up-trend on the chart below. There are plenty of reasons to have entered around £10 and sat comfortably in your armchair until some warning signs and an exit around £14, or even higher. A … Continue reading

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Trading Strategy Using High Close Doji

In this article I want to share with you in detail this one specific trade setup and what it takes to confirm the buy signal or what’s known as a trigger to execute a trade. This is the pattern I … Continue reading

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Trading With Single Moving Average And Oscillators

Let’s use a single moving average and stochastics in our attempt to use indicators in our system to find the consistent losing trader to trade with. Above is a chart of the QQQQ. On the chart is a 50 period … Continue reading

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Combining Mean Reversion and Momentum Trading Strategies in Foreign Exchange Markets

5. Conclusion This paper employs a trading strategy, previously applied only to the stock market that creates abnormal returns in the FX market. By running a simple parametric test, I find that UIP deviations follow mean reversion and momentum. In the FX … Continue reading

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Impulsive Corrective Wave Retracement

Regardless of how strong a long-term market trend is, the market never moves only in the direction of the long-term trend – there are always minor movements against the long term market trend. These deviations usually don’t last very long and after … Continue reading

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King Keltner Trading Strategy

A moving average calculation is the main indicator used in the King Keltner trading strategy. A moving average is calculated by summing up x prior data points and then dividing the summation by x. Most times these calculations use a fixed number of … Continue reading

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EMA and MACD Trading Strategy

World Class Online Trading Courses To Improve Your Trading! Timeframe: Any (but I recommend from 15 minutes chart and above) Indicators: Moving averages (Exponential) i. Period 5 (Yellow) ii. Period 10 (Magenta) iii. Period 15 (Red) iv. Period 65 (White) … Continue reading

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