Tools for Technical Analysis
Close to ninety percent of all traders lose money. The remaining ten percent somehow manage to either break even or even turn a profit — and more importantly, do it consistently. How do they do that?
That’s an age-old question. While there is no magic formula, Elliott Wave International’s own Jeffrey Kennedy has identified five fundamental flaws that, in his opinion, stop most traders from being consistently successful.
Scuba-diving is a lot like financial markets. Investors and traders jump in — and use an array of safety gauges to keep them on the right side of price action.
Well, at least those investors and traders who use technical market indicators. For them, those bold, red lines indicating the point of danger — those are equivalent to the most critical component of market analysis: protective stops. The second prices cross this line, it’s time to “swim back up to the surface” and safely re-adjust your position.
Back in 2012, the yen looked like the strongest monetary unit in the financial universe, standing at an all-time record high against the mighty U.S. dollar, the world’s “reserve” currency. Flash ahead to now (circa September 2015), and the yen is down 30% whilst clinging to its lowest level against the dollar in 12 years. So, what changed?
Technical versus fundamental analysis: Which approach yields better investment results? A new study by three finance professors offers an answer.
The focus of their study were a thousand pairs of recommendations made between November 2011 and December 2014 on the TV show “Talking Numbers” … The first half of each pair was a recommendation from a top technician about a stock in the news; the second half was a recommendation about that same stock from a leading fundamental analyst.
The “personality” of a third wave shows itself in recent market action. Third waves are wonders to behold. They are strong and broad, and the trend at this point is unmistakable. … Third waves usually generate the greatest volume and price movement … .
“When the alarm goes off and the dreamers awake, it will be pandemonium in the stock market.” — Bob Prechter
The stochastic oscillator is a popular tool for analyzing a market. Watch the video to learn how you can use this indicator in your trading. Another way to use Stochastic is as a trend analysis tool. In the following video Jeffrey gives a good explanation of the terms “overbought” and “oversold”. He says these two terms are responsible for more lost money among rookie traders than anything else. So watch the video and get some great tips on using stochastics in your trading.
Let’s look at the 2014-15 Dollar rally and how the Elliott Wave Principle applies to Currencies and Foreign Exchange (Forex). I always say trading forex markets is like riding a bike — except that said bike has one flat tire and the ground beneath it is covered in ice.
So why is Forex so popular, you might ask? In fact, forex is the most liquid market on earth, where trillions of dollars change millions of hands every day.
The reason people are so willing to ride that bike — so to speak — is because if you can stay on, the rewards are often unmatched. The trick, of course, is staying on.
This article was excerpted from a new multimedia report, “The New Financial Theory that Could Make the Difference in Your Investing Success,” (You may watch the excerpt as a video presentation below or if you prefer continue reading the excerpt below the video.)
How do you know what “your” forex market will do tomorrow? You don’t. All anyone can do is guess. But some guesses are more “educated” than others…
“Markets are doing what they are supposed to be doing: inflicting the most pain on the most number of people. Markets fool the most number of people at the most unexpected moments, but by tracking Elliott wave patterns, sentiment (and the news) you can prepare yourself.”
