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Breakdowns typically occur when there is a heavy buildup of traders whose short positions push hard against a key level of support. So we speak of breakdowns when there is heavy selling pressure at a support, and this leads to a break of support with heavy falls in price. These can be traded with stop orders in the sell direction.
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The breakaway gap is caused by sudden increase in the volume of an asset in the direction of the previous trend. This leads to a massive movement in the price of the asset, in the direction of the gap. A good example is the gap of 400 pips which occurred in crude oil prices on the weekend the Libyan civil war erupted in February 2011.
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It is used as a trend indicator to detect long term trends in the equity markets.
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The breadth of market theory simply serves to predict market direction as a function of the number of companies whose prices are advancing to those whose prices are declining. This provides information as to the sustainability of the current trend.
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It is used by investors to verify whether a market is bullish, bearish or neutral.
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This is a user-specified price interval in a point and figure chart that is required for the chart to move. It is the amount of price movement that is required to create a new X or O column on the chart.
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This is a trend determining tool that can be used to trade range-bound markets or trending markets in combination with other technical indicators.It is a registered trademark of John Bollinger who developed it and it is used to give a working definition of a security’s upper and lower price limit, which is to show if volatility is increasing, decreasing or staying the same.
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It signals a bearish trend.
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The blowoff effect is caused by the latecomers to the bullish party, entering bullish positions in an already overbought asset. This is soon followed by bearishness as the initial traders offload their positions on these traders.
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It is a graph of a normal distribution, which is a reflection of most human activity, with the best and worst on the extremes and most being located in the centre of the chart distribution.
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This is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern which can be used to initiate a short position in the financial markets.
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This is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern which can be used to initiate a short position in the financial markets.
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This is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern which is not very reliable as a stand-alone signal. It must be combined with other methods of technical analysis to be successful.
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It is a highly reliable candlestick pattern which shows clearly that sellers have entered and taken over the market, thereby checkmating the prior trend.
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It implies that the market trend is unlike to be bullish or bearish in the near future.
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A bar shows a vertical line and four short horizontal lines at right angles from the long vertical line to indicate the open, high, low and close prices of an asset.
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Day traders mostly trade in the same direction of the Ax.
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ATR is an index of volatility, with high ATR indicating high volatility and low ATR indicating low volatility.
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ADX being direction-independent, can be used to determine entrance and exit points for an investment.
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Autoregression is the basis of technical analysis, which aims to use certain setups that produced certain trade results in the past to reproduce the same effect whenever they occur again and again.
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It is used by investors to ascertain whether a manager’s decisions are yielding satisfactory gains.
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It is considered a bullish chart pattern and is traded on the basis of a bullish breakout of the horizontal trend line.
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Analysts consider this to be a strong buy signal.
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An ascending channel is seen in an uptrend and the trading strategy is to buy at the bounce on the lower trend line.
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This is a subjective order screening technique that investors can set on their own to avoid buying or selling at minor changes in price, or to only enter positions when a certain level of percentage change in price has been achieved.
