Indicators Through the Outer Box
Four classes that map the most popular indicators onto the Outer Box ladder: which ones are boxes already, how momentum indicators time entries inside the box's bias, moving averages and bands against the C-average, and how to combine and test them.
Most indicators are built from the same few ingredients: highs, lows, closes and averages of them. Once you know the Outer Box ladder, you can see what each one is really measuring, which ones repeat each other, and where each fits: the box sets the direction, the indicator helps with timing.
Each class works the same way:
- Read the class, and if you can, load the indicator on your own chart beside the ladder.
- Tick I’ve read the class.
- Check yourself with the short quiz. You need 70% to pass, you can retake it as often as you like, and your best score counts.
This course is a map. Members’ monthly lessons take one indicator at a time much further, with real-chart readings.
It helps to have finished Outer Box Foundations, or at least to know R1, S1 and C from Market Basics. This course teaches how indicators work. It is not trading advice.
This course is free to read. Sign in to tick off each class, take the quizzes and earn the certificate.
Units
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1
Many Indicators Are Boxes AlreadyRolling boxes and locked boxes, and four popular indicators that turn out to be ladders: the Donchian channel, the stochastic, Williams %R and Ichimoku's lines.
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2
Momentum for Timing: MACD, RSI and the TDIWhat MACD, RSI and the Traders Dynamic Index measure, and how to use their signals only in the direction the box's C allows.
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3
Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands and the C-AverageWhat a moving average of closes measures, how the book's C-average differs, and why bands that breathe and a ladder that stays still answer different questions.
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Combining Indicators and Testing Them HonestlyOne tool per job, how to avoid stacking indicators that repeat each other, and a simple, fair way to test whether a filter or indicator actually helps.