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Forex Technical Indicators

Written by Aboutcurrency


This category displays the most common used technical indicators in forex trading.

Technical Indicators Index:

Moving Averages (MA's)
Technical Indicators | Written by Aboutcurrency
Moving averages (MA's) are one of the most popular technical analysis tools used when trading forex. Moving averages lag price, in other words, if price starts to move sharply upward or downward, it will take some time for the new data to filter into the moving average calculation and for it to react or "catch up". 
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Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Technical Indicators | Written by John Cheney
Developed by J. Welles Wilder, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is an extremely popular price following oscillator as a measure of a currency pair's price relative to itself and its past performance.
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Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD)
Technical Indicators | Written by Peter Sof
Developed by G. Appel in the 1960s, MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence) is a very popular technical indicator designed to identify trend changes and is often used to confirm trends in forex trading systems.
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Stochastic oscillator
Technical Indicators | Written by Aboutcurrency
The Stochastic Oscillator tracks market momentum and consists of two oscillator lines, called %D and %K. Oscillator readings below 20% are considered oversold. Oscillator readings above 80% are considered overbought.
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Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
Technical Indicators | Written by Aboutcurrency
CCI measures the position of price in relation to its moving average and is designed to identify cyclical turns. CCI works well in ranging markets and typically fluctuates between +100 and -100 readings.
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Bollinger Bands
Technical Indicators | Written by Aboutcurrency
Bollinger Bands can be used to measure changes in supply and demand for the underlying currency pair. 
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DMI Indicator - Directional Movement Index
Technical Indicators | Written by Pete V.
DMI indicator is a trend following indicator designed to determine first whether a currency pair is trending or non-trending before providing buy or sell signals in the direction of the trend.
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Parabolic SAR
Technical Indicators | Written by Pete V.
SAR stands for "stop and reverse" and Parabolic refers to the parabolic-shaped series of dots that are overlayed on the underlying currency price chart.
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Momentum
Technical Indicators | Written by Pete V.
Momentum indicator measures the difference between the current market price of a currency pair and the price of the same currency pair a certain number (n) of days ago.
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Price Envelopes
Technical Indicators | Written by Laim Dum
Price envelopes consist of 2 moving averages and are plotted at a set percentage above and below a 3rd moving average. Price envelopes can be used to indicate overbought and oversold levels. Overbought conditions are found at the upper band and oversold conditions at the lower band.
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Williams %R Oscillator
Technical Indicators | Written by Kent Gerard
Williams%R is a momentum indicator used to indicate overbought and oversold levels. Overbought market conditions are found at the upper band (readings from 0 to -20) and oversold conditions at the lower band (readings from -80 to -100).
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Average True Range (ATR)
Technical Indicators | Written by Aboutcurrency
Average True Range (ATR) is a popular volatility indicator used to measure the volatility in currency pairs. ATR does not provide any information about the direction of the trend (up or down), it only provides useful info about how volatile a currency pair is.
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Average Directional Index - ADX Indicator
Technical Indicators | Written by Aboutcurrency
ADX is a momentum indicator that measures the strength of a prevailing trend. ADX and can be extremely useful to determine if a trend is strong or weak or to filter out false breakouts in non-trending markets.
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