Trading System  |  NOV 2007

Short-Term Volume And Price Oscillator by Sylvain Vervoort

Short-Term Volume And Price Oscillator by Sylvain Vervoort Using the turning points in the oscillator gives profitable trades. Come look. Before telling you about the construction and application of the short-term volume and price oscillator (SVAPO) I am using, let’s talk about some basics using an indicator as a buy & sell trigger. The indicator must have clear reversal points and be as fast as possible on the entry side. The faster you can get in at a price reversal, the tighter your initial stop-loss can be. This will save you a lot of money on those trades that move the wrong way. A trailing stop-loss, which is a stop-loss order that follows the prevailing price trend, is best set in relation to your investment horizon. Are you a swing trader trying to catch all the shorter profitable price moves, or a medium- to long-term trader trying to stay in the trade to capture the extended bigger price moves? OSCILLATOR AND PRICE RELATION There is no ideal indicator, which is why you have to protect your investment with a stop order. Using an oscillator as the only reference to enter or exit a trade is not a good idea. The oscillator should instead be used as an alert for having a closer look at the chart and only then making a decision, taking into consideration all possible technical analysis tools.

by Sylvain Vervoort