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Indicators Through the Outer Box, unit 3: Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands and the C-Average

Moving averages A moving average is the average closing price of the last N bars, recalculated each bar. A simple moving average (SMA) weights every bar equally. An exponential moving average (EMA) gives recent bars more…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 4: Moving Averages as a Trend Read

What you will be able to do Calculate a simple and an exponential moving average , and explain the difference. Read a trend from an average three ways: its slope, price’s position, and crossovers. Combine the reads into …
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Identifying a Trend, unit 10: The Trend on the Outer Box Ladder

…smooths the read: the average of the last N completed Cs, read like any moving average (Class 4), by its slope and by price’s position against it. With N = 3 at the end of week 4: (1.0925 + 1.0995 + 1.1015) ÷ 3 =…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 9: Trading With the Trend

…initial stop where the trend read is wrong. Trail the exit by structure, by moving average , or by ATR. Size the trade by the stop, and decide whether to add to a winner. Explain why a sound trend strategy can lose m…
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Risk and Money Management, unit 3: Stops, Targets and Expectancy on the Ladder

…expectancy near zero before costs is usually negative after them. Going deeper Moving the stop as levels are crossed Chapter 21 also says what to do as the trade moves: When price reclaims a level in your favour (for th…
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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.
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Indicators Through the Outer Box, unit 2: Momentum for Timing: MACD, RSI and the TDI

…is above C, and only the sell signals while it is below C. MACD The MACD ( moving average convergence divergence ) measures the gap between a fast and a slow average of price: MACD line = 12-bar EMA − 26-bar EMA (an…
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Identifying a Trend

Ten classes on telling a trend from a range: swing structure, trendlines and channels, moving averages, measuring trend strength, momentum, timeframes, how trends start and end, trading with a trend, and the trend read on the Outer Box ladder.
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Identifying a Trend, unit 1: What a Trend Is

…have tested simple trend rules across many markets and long histories: Moving-average and breakout rules on the Dow Jones index showed returns that a random walk could not explain over most of the twentieth cent…
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Indicators Through the Outer Box, unit 4: Combining Indicators and Testing Them Honestly

…RSI, momentum, rate of change, the TDI’s price line. Trend from averages: moving averages , MACD, the C-average. Three indicators from one group agreeing is not three confirmations. One from the range group and one…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 8: How Trends Start and End

…needs its own evidence: a lower high, a lower low, a falling average, RSI moving into its downtrend range. Until then, the honest read is “no trend”: use range tactics or wait for the next trend to prove itself. St…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 3: Trendlines and Channels

…The slope is the pace A trendline’s slope tells you how fast the trend is moving. Compare it with the market’s normal daily range: A gentle line (a small slope compared with the daily range) describes a sustainable…
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Trading Futures, unit 6: Equity Index Futures

…this reason. If you compare the futures with yesterday’s index close without removing fair value, you will think the open will be stronger than it is. The overnight session and its range Because the index futures trade …
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TradingView

…. It describes the bars on the chart; it is not a signal to buy or sell. Moving averages (40%) : four checks, each +1 or −1: close above the fast EMA, fast above mid, mid above slow, and the slow EMA higher than i…
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thinkorswim

…. It describes the bars on the chart; it is not a signal to buy or sell. Moving averages (40%) : four checks, each +1 or −1: close above the fast EMA, fast above mid, mid above slow, and the slow EMA higher than i…
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MetaTrader 4 and 5

…. It describes the bars on the chart; it is not a signal to buy or sell. Moving averages (40%) : four checks, each +1 or −1: close above the fast EMA, fast above mid, mid above slow, and the slow EMA higher than i…
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NinjaTrader 8

…. It describes the bars on the chart; it is not a signal to buy or sell. Moving averages (40%) : four checks, each +1 or −1: close above the fast EMA, fast above mid, mid above slow, and the slow EMA higher than i…
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cTrader

…. It describes the bars on the chart; it is not a signal to buy or sell. Moving averages (40%) : four checks, each +1 or −1: close above the fast EMA, fast above mid, mid above slow, and the slow EMA higher than i…
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TradeStation

…. It describes the bars on the chart; it is not a signal to buy or sell. Moving averages (40%) : four checks, each +1 or −1: close above the fast EMA, fast above mid, mid above slow, and the slow EMA higher than i…