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Moving Average – Moving Average Forex trading Indicator

Moving Average based indicators are one of the nearly all commonly utilized technical trading indicators in the forex markets. most forex trading strategies would employ the apply of a moving average in some way or another.

Determining the direction of the trend is the main employ of moving averages. It is a tool that smooths out price movement. It can also be employed to recognize support along with resistance levels and various types of moving averages are typically utilized in conjunction with one another.

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Thursday, May 13th, 2010 currency trading No Comments

MACD – How To Apply The MACD Forex Indicator

The MACD is a forex indicator that is based on the moving averages. It stands for Moving average convergence divergence. It is a reasonably well-liked indicator in the forex trading business.

There are two key uses of utilizing the MACD indicator, trend identification in addition to market momentum. This gives the trader two important pieces of data simply at a glance. To produce this tool, a 12 period (EMA) and subtracting it by its 26 exponential moving average.

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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 currency trading No Comments

ActForex S3 Moving Average Cross Over Alert Strategy

In January of 2010 I started writing trading strategies for the ActFx trading platform.  Typically trading strategies are used to automate trading, I took a different approach… You see I am a big believer of the human touch.  In my 30+ years dealing with computers (I started very young), I’ve come to realize that “Technology is Great, when it works” and that technology is simply a tool that works best when technology and human intuition are married.  Voila… and my first trading strategy was born that simply alerts traders of potential trading opportunities, using two Exponential Moving Averages on the 1 hour chart, across 13 currencies! No trades are placed.

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