Determining Support & Resistance Levels on Charts

By Jim Wyckoff In this educational feature, I’m going to tackle an issue about which several of my readers have inquired: How to determine support and resistance areas on the charts. My favorite method (and I believe this the most accurate method) of determining support and resistance levels is to look at a bar chart …

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Commitments of Traders: What are the Big Boys Up To?

I have discussed in past articles how volume and open interest can be used to help identify and confirm market situations and trading opportunities. I’ll take open interest one step farther in this column by examining the Commitments of Traders (C.O.T.) report, issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The C.O.T. report is released …

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Fascinating Market Correlations You’ll Want to Use

Experienced futures traders know there are many correlations among futures marketsโ€”some of which are valuable guides in helping to determine specific market trends, and some of which are fickle. This educational feature will examine some basic correlations among futures markets, and will likely be most beneficial to the less-experienced traders. However, it just might be …

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