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DownloadApplying Gann Angles To Computer Charts by Brent Aston
Applying MIDAS To Daily And Weekly Charts by A. Coles and D. Hawkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Applying MIDAS To Daily And Weekly Charts by A. Coles and D. Hawkins In this second part of this series we go one step further by adding deeper insight into price action. SO far, we have explored what technical analyst Paul Levine called the scientifi
BLUE: Overextended On Weekly And Monthly Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Up by nearly 800% in the past year, shares of BlueBird Bio, Inc. have issued a major weekly sell signal.
Candlestick Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlestick Charts
Candlestick Charts For Daytrading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlestick Charts For Daytrading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Does this sound familiar? The price of a stock is moving up. Feeling the adrenaline course through your body, you click the buy button. You watch in horror as the market tumbles, taking the st
Candlesticks Vs. Bar Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When you look at your charts, do you understand everything they're telling you?
Candlesticks Vs. Bar Charts by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks Vs. Bar Charts by Rudy Teseo When you look at your charts, do you understand everything they're telling you? Most books and articles on candlestick charting point out that any patterns occurring in bar charts (cup with handle, head and sho
Chart Your Stocks With Float Charts by Steve Woods
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (20-27): Chart Your Stocks With Float Charts by Steve Woods Price is king. Volume is queen. Both live in the context of time. But is there a prince or prime minister who has been overlooked? Float charts may have the answer
Charting Breakouts With Convertible Point & Figure Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we introduce a charting technique that builds on the classic point & figure charting style and updates it to put the time dimension into play
Charts, Charts, Everywhere
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charts, Charts, Everywhere
Charts, Charts, Everywhere
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charts, Charts, Everywhere
Corona Charts by John F. Ehlers
Creating charts with Lotus by John O'Donahue
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating charts with Lotus by John O'Donahue Those who have used a personal computer for technical analysis of the markets probably are familiar with Lotus 1-2-3, and recognize what a powerful tool it can be. It is particularly good for evaluating new i
Detecting Breakouts In Intraday Charts by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting Breakouts In Intraday Charts by Markos Katsanos Here's an important enhancement to the finite volume elements indicator that's especially useful with intraday minute charts. In the April 2003 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I introduced the finite volu
Detecting Flags In Intraday Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you apply flags to intraday charts? Once you do, how can you determine the optimal price target? Here is a system that will help you identify flag formations as well as enter and exit them at the right time.
Finding Support/Resistance With Point & Figure Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks, Gold, and Crude Oil could be at, or nearing, important reversal points.
Fun And Frustration With Fed Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trying to determine what is going using publicly available data can be frustrating at the best of times. But data shortfalls become glaringly obvious when the picture is rapidly unraveling like it is now.
GM: Generally Bearish Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of General Motors appear to have begun their descent again as a powerful C-wave correction unfolds.
Gann analysis on point and figure charts by Douglas Arend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gann analysis on point and figure charts by Douglas Arend Of the many analytical techniques attributed to W.D. Gann, perhaps none is more widely followed than the so-called geometric angles. Although applied generally to historical and intraday bar char
Ichimoku Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some indicators may appear to be more complicated than they really are. Here, we dissect ichimoku charts and take the mystery out of them
Ichimoku Charts by Ken Muranaka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Mountain Man Is Back, This Time In Computerized Trading Rooms Ichimoku Charts by Ken Muranaka A Japanese charting technique developed early in the 20th century is enjoying renewed popularity. Invented before World War II by a Tokyo newspaper write
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Charts by Nicole Elliott
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Charts by Nicole Elliott Here's another charting method that's been around for decades, and yet can be brand-new to most Western audiences. Ichimoku kinko hyo is a method of technical analysis that has been around since before World
Infosys Shows Conflicting Head-And-Shoulders Pattern On Daily And Weekly Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Infosys bottomed out on the daily chart, breaking out of a bullish head-and-shoulders pattern. On the weekly chart, it seems to be forming a bearish head and shoulders, unconfirmed as of yet. The weekly chart is defining a $60-80 range for the stock.
Intraday swings with wave charts: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 12 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intraday swings with wave charts: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 12 by Jack K. Hutson The serious follower of Wyckoff, a trader who embraces the entire scope and intricate details of this methodology, has not completed his or her analytic ars
Inverted Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Inverting charts can occasionally help make chart reading easier.
Kagi Charts by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kagi Charts by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan If you've ever seen a reference to this particular form of candlestick charting and wondered what they were, you can find out here. The financial markets exist because of the complementary relationship between bul
Linking Point & Figure And Bar Charts by Robert Busby, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (30-35): Linking Point & Figure And Bar Charts by Robert Busby, Ph.D. Ever thought of combining these two chart pattern techniques? Find out how. Point & figure is one of the oldest western techniques of charting, tracing i
Logarithmic point and figure charts by Luis Ballesca Loyo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Logarithmic point and figure charts by Luis Ballesca Loyo During the early development of technical analysis, almost all types of graphing methods used the arithmetic values of prices for charting. Not so long ago, it became a common practice to constru
MIDAS And Intraday Charts by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MIDAS And Intraday Charts by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins In this third and final part of this series, we will look at how to apply the TB-F algorithm to intraday charts. by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins Like Midas, which is an acronym for market i
Monthly Charts Can Highlight Trading Opportunities
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After more than seven years, Learning Tree is showing signs of life.
New Dimensions In Market Charts by Salvatore J. Chiappone, DDS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Like the markets, technical analysis evolves. This article details the construction and use of bar-chart types beginning with a short review of older forms -- bar charts, candlesticks and Equivolume -- and a presentation of two new forms, flagbars and time
Night trading: the impact on technical charts by Heidi Schmidt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Night trading: the impact on technical charts by Heidi Schmidt The new night trading session at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is causing worry among technical chartists. Should technical analysts adopt the new child at first sight and incorporate th
On Building Point & Figure Charts by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Building Point & Figure Charts by Daryl Guppy Point & figure charting is one of the classic techniques of technical analysis. Here's a refresher look at the basics. Point and figure (P&F) charting concentrates on price and its changes by eliminatin
Point and figure charts: an overview by Charles Idol
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Point and figure charts: an overview by Charles Idol The popularity of the personal computer has given rise to a bewildering number of charting techniques. In addition to a profusion of moving averages of one kind or another, we have linear regressions,
Price Squares & Time-Price Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you tell a story about the markets using circles and squares? Here's a look at how Gann angles work in the present day world
Price projections on point and figure charts by Luis Ballesca Loyo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price projections on point and figure charts by Luis Ballesca Loyo One of the great advantages of point and figure (P&F) charting is its well-defined features: price formations, buy and sell signals, trendlines and price projections. The P&F method est
Product Review Sierra Charts
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Product Review: IQ Charts by David Penn
Product Review: Sierra Charts by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Product review: GoNoGo Charts Complete
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is it risk on or risk off? Is it time to enter a trade or stay out? The GoNoGo Charts Complete add-on to MetaStock helps takes the guesswork out of making important trading decisions
Profitable Insights From Ratio Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can draw conclusions from the behavior of a chart from its two contributing elements. Here's where ratio charts come in
Quick Scans: Topline Encyclopedia of Historial Charts
Quick-Scans: Using Option Charts To Boost Trading Profits by Dennis D. Peterson
Rainbow Charts by Mel Widner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, in part 1 of two, these Contributing Writers explain the steps necessary to evaluate trading system behavior with the use of statistics. Most systems I have seen are simply optimized by being tested with different parameters, examined for profitab
Reading indicator charts by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reading indicator charts by Arthur A. Merrill In the preceding column, I discussed the smoothing of indicator data. When you have tamed the wild fluctuations, how do you translate the result into a forecast? How do you read the chart? There are several
SIDEBAR: Building swing charts by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SIDEBAR: Building swing charts by Technical Analysis, Inc. How to build a swing chart, with example.
SLV Bullish On Both Daily And Weekly Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's been a wild ride for the silver market since 2003, but the charts now appear to point toward the possibility of further gains this year.
Sidebar: About Renko charts and box sizes by Robert Busby, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (30-35): Sidebar: About Renko charts and box sizes by Robert Busby, Ph.D. Here's an amusing technical phenomenon. The P&F data is computed using a box reversal of one and is then manipulated into four columns in the followin
Silver Weekly Chart's Uptrend Intact
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver is back on track, offering swing traders a potentially low-risk buy setup.
Steve Ruffley Of iView Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ruffley is CEO of www.iViewcharts.com, Chief Market Strategist at www.Intertrader.com, and creator of www.TraderMaker.com and TraderMaker Pro software. He's the author of The Ruff Guide To Trading (due to be published in late 2014). He has presented more
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: April Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Answers to April's Mystery Chart contest ("No chumps and Mystery Charts," Stocks & Commodities, April 1990) were pretty terse, although contestants had no trouble identifying the weekly heating oil price chart. The brevity may have been from the sim
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: April Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...April's challenging chart should have leaped off the page to any member of the energy trading complex. The weekly heating oil chart from July 1988 to January 1990 was indeed a unique opportunity to trade a panic. Action like this -- out of nowhere -- c
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: December Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We're the first to admit December's Mystery Chart (Figure 1) was tough. We threw in too few hints and, since we used the Standard & Poor's index rather than the Dow, only four people came up with the 1982 stock market bottom, although thousands have
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: First Mystery Charts Results
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In our first Mystery Chart contest, we were fascinated with the variety of ways traders looked at the same data. From pure chartcraft to Gann angles to spreads, readers hardly felt constrained in generating ideas for trading. We've summarized some of
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: January Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chumps don't trade Teledyne, which was January's Mystery Chart (Figure 1). Brokers should accept no orders from anyone who isn't well-capitalized, well-connected or just as ornery as the other players. The window in Figure 2 itself shows what has hap
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: July Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...All entrants save one for the July Mystery Chart correctly identified COMEX gold (variously, June and March) and most amazingly traded it correctly for the subsequent breakdown (Figure 1). Since the move was so dramatic, heavy emphasis was placed sho
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: June Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yes, I suppose I gave away the June chart when I said it was a currency spread ( Figure 1). On the other hand, it turned out there were a lot of currency traders! Picking a winner this time was tough. There were no wrong entries and the quality of th
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: March Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Mystery Chart in your March issue is a daily soybean chart from about May 15, 1979, to June 23, 1980. The chart depicts a low in April 1980, which preceded a seven-month rise of more than $2.00 a bushel. However, the moves in 1979 and 1980 were d
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: May Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For the May Mystery Chart (Figure 1), I contrasted theperformance of two blue-chips headed, I said, in different directions despite their industry fundamentals. Which stocks were they and where would they be in a year.
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Mystery Charts Repetitive bottoming soybeans
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Mystery Charts S&C's "how-I-done-it" challenge
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A true technician loves a challenge and the formation highlighted above presents one. First, tell us what this is and when it occurred. Describe how it would have been traded by your discipline (charts, regression, breakouts and so on). We will judge
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: November Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Our November Mystery Chart is a world-class stock index, the richest in the world. I'm giving this broad hint so you can readily load in the information necessary for your analysis, which will show us what we would have done on August 3, 1990, when t
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: November Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Picking the winner for our first Mystery Chart (November 1989) was tough, since we received several great entries. But we had to choose, and finally, we settled on Greg Carnell's effective use of moving averages, momentum and divergence. A close seco
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: September Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The winner for our September Mystery Chart (Orange Juice, Figure 1) was easy to determine: only two sturdy souls made the necessary predictions, though many recounted their work on the historical data. One person was right and one was wrong. Our newe
Stocks And The Art of Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you trying to decide whether to buy or sell a stock? If you are, get out your stock charts. This simple method of analysis will make your decision easier.
Swing Charts by J.R. Davis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Swing Charts by J.R. Davis A profitable trade has two dimensions: time and space (which, for our purposes, will be known as price change). A trade that occurs in a few seconds is extremely difficult to cash in unless you are directly on the floor. On th
Swing Trading With Swing Charts by Teresa Lo
The Impeccable Timing Of Intraday Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A good trader is always looking for clues of a reversal, trying to piece together the technical jigsaw puzzle.
The Story Is In The Charts Not The News
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kylie Jenner, the social media maverick with over 250 million followers, looks set to become one of the youngest billionaires in U.S. history. Ulta Beauty, Inc. (ULTA) has helped in no small way to amplify her fortunes. This is because with 970 stores sp
Time And Money Charts by Stuart Belknap, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time And Money Charts by Stuart Belknap, Ph.D. Interested in a universal price display? This might be the ticket. Whether you use indicators, automated setup and signal rules, or any other method, before opening or closing positions you probably read c
Trading Eurodollar One-Minute Bar Charts, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How do you determine when a price trend starts? The velocity of price movement can have something to do with it. Here's one way you can measure volatility.
Trading Eurodollar One-Minute Bar Charts, Part 2
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The level of noise in price movements can have an impact on our trading. Here's a system that filters out the noise and trades the trends.
Trading Renko Charts by Suri Duddella
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Renko Charts by Suri Duddella This charting technique can be used to display trends that may not be that obvious in a bar or candlestick chart. Renko charts were invented by Japanese traders hundreds of years ago and named for renga, a Japanese
Two Charts That Matter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As stocks continue to set new highs, there are some signs emerging to keep traders on their toes.
Untidy Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Remdesivir is an antiviral medication developed by Gilead. The Federal Drug Administration recently authorized its use in COVID-19 patients because research has shown that it shortened recovery times in people seriously ill from the coronavirus. News of
Using Renko Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ever tried using renko-style charts? They have their advantages: Renko charts offer a way to help visualize pure price movement. Here's how you can start incorporating them into your analysis
Using Upside Down Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sometimes to improve clarity, it pays to flip a chart upside down and study it that way for a while.
Using Upside-Down Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sometimes, to improve clarity, it pays to flip a chart upside down and study it that way for a while
Using Weekly Charts To Catch Runaway Moves
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Part-time traders often become frustrated when they're unable to watch the market all day, but weekly charts give them an advantage of full-time trading.
Warren's Best Valuation Measure And Other Charts Updated
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As markets continue higher some historic market indicators, including one of Mr. Buffett's favorites, get even more stretched.
Weeklies And Dailies: A Tale Of Two Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Think you missed your moment? Try changing your time frame.
Wyckoff Part 7: Coordinating vertical and figure charts for more effective forecasting by Jack K. Hu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wyckoff Part 7: Coordinating vertical and figure charts for more effective forecasting by Jack K. Hutson Vertical charts, alone, are a detailed source of information for the Richard D. Wyckoff analysis of individual stocks groups and the market. But whe
Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 6 Figure charts by Jack K Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 6 Figure charts by Jack K Hutson Thus far in this series we've concentrated on the price volume information supplied by vertical charts, which are the mainstay of Richard D. Wyckoff's technical analysis. But as an a
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