By Bennett McDowell There are three main reasons why day trading is so difficult: 1) When day trading, trading time is compressed. Losses and wins come at you faster and more often which requires a mature, developed psychology to properly handle that kind of instantaneous feedback in such a short period of time. 2) You
By Fari Hamzei For the purposes of this article, I assume that you are familiar with Hamzei Analytics’ Central Intelligence (CI) and Directional Volatility (DV) indicators — both are available on the eSignal platform. In the DV indicator PDF, you’ll see I talk about using the DV indicator to identify a high probability Big Range*
Breakout systems can actually be considered another form of swing trading, (which is a style of short term trading designed to capture the next immediate move). In other words, the trader is not concerned with any long term forecast or analysis, only the immediate price action.
I am not a huge fan of technical indicators, being primarily a chartist in my market analysis. That said, I do watch the volatility-based indicators to help get an idea of how the market is doing at present and what is likely to happen in the future. The two indicators I use in that regard are Bollinger Bands and Average True Range (ATR).
In a very brief but informative article in the January 1991 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Arthur Merrill considered the question of whether the degree of volatility in the stock market is a useful indication of the market’s future course.