Technical Analysis

Trading the Inside Day Breakout Strategy

An inside day is a day where the range is contained within the preceding day’s range. For a valid inside day breakout set up there should be at least two consecutive inside days. The more inside days in a row, the greater the chance of the volatility breakout trade occuring. Longer term timefr

In Neck Line

In Neck Line is a two candlestick continuation pattern. The bullish in In Neck Line formation occurs during an uptrend, with a long bodied white candlestick. The second candlestick gaps up but fails to advance further and closes around the top of the prior candlestick’s body.

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo is a technical indicator published over 30 years ago in Japan. It measures market momentum and trend and also outlines levels of support and resistance. Ichimoku means ‘one look’ in Japanese and this reflects the indicators intent to measure multiple aspects of the mar

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo is a technical indicator developed by a Japanese journalist in the 1960′s. Ichimoko literally translates to ‘one look’ – suggesting the multi-faceted aspect of this indicator. The Ichimoku indicator suggests support and resistance levels, trend bias as well

Hull Moving Average (HMA)

By Alan Hull Website: AlanHull.com The Hull Moving Average solves the age old dilemma of making a moving average more responsive to current price activity whilst maintaining curve smoothness. In fact the HMA almost eliminates lag altogether and manages to improve smoothing at the same time. To

How the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers Connect

Leonardo Fibonacci discovered the Fibonacci Sequence – a series of numbers where adding the two previous numbers in the sequence provides the next number. The sequence begins with 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…. The Golden Ratio, or Phi, is a nu

Gartley 222

The Gartley 222 pattern is named for the page number it is found on in H.M. Gartley’s book, Profits in the Stock Market. See also: Gartley Pattern

Trading the Bow Tie Pattern

The chart formation known as the Bow Tie Pattern was developed by Dave Landry. You can learn about the specifics of the technical setup here: Advanced Bow Tie Trading Methods

Slow Stochastic Oscillator

George C. Lane developed the Stochastic Oscillator in the late 1950s. The Stochastic Oscillator is a momentum indicator that illustrates the location of the current close relative to the high/low range over a set number of periods. The Slow Stochastic cha

Simple Moving Average

A Simple Moving Average (SMA) is calculated by adding the closing price of a security for a number of time periods and then dividing this total by the number of time periods. This illustrates the average price of the issue over a set number of periods. The moving