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Moving Averages: Determining Trend and Avoiding Whipsaws

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The moving average is a simple tool designed to help you easily determine the underlying financial trend of a stock, bond, commodity, mutual fund, or any other financial instrument. According to Wikipedia a moving average is “commonly used with time series data to smooth out short-term fluctuations and highlight longer-term trends or cycles. The threshold between short-term […]

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How to Spot High-Probability Trading Opportunities

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Discover the Dynamics of Using Moving Averages The “moving average” is a technical indicator which has stood the test of time. Nearly 25 years ago, Robert Prechter described this indicator in his famous essay, “What a Trader Really Needs to be Successful.” What he said then remains true today: “…a simple 10-day moving average of the daily advance-decline

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DJIA’s 200-Day Moving Average: Will the Dow stay above or below this demarcation line?

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Moving averages are one of the most widely followed indicator in technical analysis.
Simply put, when the price of an index or stock stays above a particular price moving average line on a chart, that price level serves as support — a level where buyers reside.

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How Elliott Wave Principle Can Improve Your Trading

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The following article is an excerpt from Elliott Wave International’s Trader’s Classroom Collection.

Every trader, every analyst and every technician has favorite techniques to use when trading. But where traditional technical studies fall short, the Wave Principle kicks in to show high probability price targets and, just as importantly, how to distinguish high probability trade setups from the ones that traders should ignore.

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What is the “Elliott Wave Principle”?

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In the 1930s, Ralph Nelson Elliott, a corporate accountant by profession, studied price movements in the financial markets and observed that certain patterns repeat themselves. He offered proof of his discovery by making astonishingly accurate stock market forecasts. What appears random and unrelated, Elliott said, will actually trace out a recognizable pattern once you learn

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