Forex blog focuses on the best forex trading strategies and systems for beginners and advanced traders alike. Learn how to trade with technical indicators and discover the best FX strategies for scalping, day trading and swing trading.
It still remains unknown who’s behind the “Momentum” indicator, but as a member of the “Oscillator” family of technical indicators, it’s a leading indicator that gauges the rate-of-change for a currency pair. The momentum indicator tries to gauge the momentum that drives price movements for the currency pair in question over a specified period of time. […]
Continue reading
J. Welles Wilder is one of the best known technical analysts to have written at length about volatility indicators. His 1978 book, “New Concepts in Technical Trading” introduced a lot of fundamental concepts of modern technical analysis, and one of such is an indicator known as Average True Range (ATR). Volatility indicators have always been […]
Continue reading
The Commodity Channel Index, abbreviated as CCI, is an oscillator deployed to spot cyclical trends in a currency pair. It derived its name originally as a result of its use in analyzing commodities. Donald Lambert is said to be the man behind the Commodity Channel Index, as published in his book the “Commodities Channel Index: Tools for […]
Continue reading
The Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, which is also known as the Ichimoku for short, is a technical indicator that is deployed in measuring momentum, spotting trend direction, defining probable zones of support and resistance, as well as delivering trade signals. The wide-ranging technical indicator is made up of five distinct lines i.e. the tankan-sen, kijun-sen, senkou […]
Continue reading
The Envelopes forex indicator is a technical tool that tries to spot the upper and lower bands of a trading range. It does this by drawing two moving average envelopes on the activity chart, one lifted up a certain distance above and one shifted beneath. The moving average envelope remains one of the most common […]
Continue reading
The Average Directional Movement Index, also referred to as the ADX, a well-known technical trading tool designed by J. Welles Wilder and was introduced in his 1978 book, New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. The indicator in essence is derived from the smoothed averages of the difference between Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional […]
Continue reading
The Parabolic SAR has always been looked at as a tool mainly focused on catching the start of new trends. Developed by Welles Wilder, the Parabolic SAR represents a price-and-time-based trading system. In his words, Wilder tags it the “Parabolic Time/Price System.” The SAR connotes “stop and reverse,” and functions as the real indicator deployed in […]
Continue reading
John Bollinger is obvious the brain behind the Bollinger Bands, a technical tool that is used to gauge market volatility. This little tool will give you information on whether the market is quiet or whether the market is loud. The market is said to be quiet when the Bollinger Bands squeeze and it is said to […]
Continue reading
A technical analysts named J. Welles Wilder developed the Relative Strength Index or RSI, as a tool that aids in identifying overbought and oversold market conditions. The RSI indicator is scaled from 0 to 100 thereby making it uniquely similar to the stochastic indicator. It is a widely used technical indicator that exhibits overbought conditions […]
Continue reading
George Lane designed the Stochastics indicator in the last 1950s, as a tool for gauging the relationship between an asset’s closing price and its price range over a specified period of time. As a well-known momentum indicator, the Stochastics indicator is widely used by traders to spot possible trend reversals. The indicator was originally designed […]
Continue reading