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by Mike Carr, CMT
Every trader knows they shouldn't fight the trend but most seem to prefer trying to call tops and bottoms rather than profiting from the easy to spot trend.
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Mike Carr, CMT
Mike Carr, CMT, is a member of the Market Technicians Association, and editor of the MTA's newsletter, Technically Speaking. He is also the author of "Smarter Investing in Any Economy: The Definitive Guide to Relative Strength Investing," and "Conquering the Divide: How to Use Economic Indicators to Catch Stock Market Trends."
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Don't Fight the Trend
10/09/09 09:30:34 AMby Mike Carr, CMT
Every trader knows they shouldn't fight the trend but most seem to prefer trying to call tops and bottoms rather than profiting from the easy to spot trend.
Position: N/A
| Is the dollar at a bottom? Pundits are busily following foreign exchange markets so that they can definitively say that the long decline in the greenback is over. Technicians can loom at a chart, like we have in Figure 1, and quickly realize that the Dollar Index is still in a downtrend. |
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| Figure 1: The weekly chart of the dollar shows no sign of a bottom. |
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| We can see that MACD is bearish and the 26-week rate of change is below its moving average. These indicators tend to be bullish when large price moves occur. Until they turn up, investors are really just bottom fishing. |
| Gold, as seen in Figure 2, is bullish. Both MACD and the rate of change are on buy signals. |
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| Figure 2: Gold is clearly in an uptrend on this weekly chart and the daily chart can be used to time trades. |
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| The daily chart can be used to time entries and exits, and in this case would have been bullish in early September, just as the big move began. Trading with the trend can be boring, but profitable. |
Mike Carr, CMT, is a member of the Market Technicians Association, and editor of the MTA's newsletter, Technically Speaking. He is also the author of "Smarter Investing in Any Economy: The Definitive Guide to Relative Strength Investing," and "Conquering the Divide: How to Use Economic Indicators to Catch Stock Market Trends."
| Website: | www.moneynews.com/blogs/MichaelCarr/id-73 |
| E-mail address: | marketstrategist@gmail.com |
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