MACD bullish and bearish divergence with price is one of the factors that traders use to judge the end of a trend or strong directional move. Usually some kind of tradable reversal takes place after a bullish or bearish divergence between the MACD indicator and price. We will look at a couple of examples from […]

This double top variant appeared today on the FTSE just before lunchtime. I say double top variant because it could also be described as a Head & Shoulders top if it weren’t for the fact that the head was lower than the shoulders. It’s an unusual pattern but it traded just perfectly. The chart above

Markets spend 70% of the time at least in trading ranges so learning how to identify and trade trading ranges is vital for any aspiring trader. We are going to take a look at a textbook trading range from todays action on the FTSE 100 index to help you identify a trading range and profit

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How to trade a low volatility market. There are some days and periods of time when there is reduced volatility in the markets. Yesterday was one of these times since it was a public holiday in the UK and US. The main markets tend to close during public holidays however the 24 hour markets are

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We have three day trades to review for you from this morning. One trade was a gap close on the FTSE 100 and the other two trades were on the DAX. These type of chart patterns occur regularly on the FSTE and the DAX indices. Our aim for reviewing these trades for you is so

Two mornings and two very different trading conditions on the DAX index over the last two days. Have a look at the charts above. On the face of it you might just see one chart on the left where the market is going down and another chart on the right where the market is going

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Today I’m going to highlight some interesting trades on the DAX one minute timeframe. There are three trades that we took and that are contained in the chart above. Two of the trades worked perfectly and the third worked out ok but didn’t reach target. As always the idea in highlighting our trades is to