Common trading strategies
Traders have a wide variety of strategies at their disposal to try to interpret price movements and take advantageous trading positions. Some traders may use a particular approach almost exclusively.
Technical analysis
Technical indicators play an important role in any trading strategy, allowing traders to separate the signal from the noise. Take a look at some of the most popular technical analysis tools below.
Who invented the moving average?
Why is the moving average useful for traders?
Technical analysis: how to trade with a moving average indicator
Using moving averages to identify the four stages of the market cycle
What is the exponential moving average (EMA) indicator?
Who invented the exponential moving average indicator?
What are oscillator indicators and how do they work?
Who invented the Fibonacci retracement indicator?
Why is the Fibonacci retracement indicator useful for traders?
What is the Head and Shoulders chart pattern?
How to interpret the Head and Shoulders pattern
Why is Parabolic SAR useful for traders?
Oscillators and how to use them
What is the stochastic oscillator?: Stochastic oscillator calculation
Stochastic oscillator trading strategy: How to trade with the stochastic oscillator
Who invented the stochastic oscillator?
Stochastic trading: why is the stochastic oscillator useful for traders?
What is support and resistance (S&R)?
Who invented support and resistance?
Psychological levels of support and resistance
Fibonacci support and resistance
Why is support and resistance useful for traders?
Technical analysis: how to trade with support and resistance?
What is the Average Directional Index (ADX)?
Who invented the Average Directional Index?
Why is the Average Directional Index useful to traders?
Technical analysis: how to trade with the Average Directional Index?
Who invented the Ichimoku cloud?
Why is Ichimoku cloud useful for traders?
What is an Average True Range (ATR) indicator?
Who invented the Average True Range (ATR) indicator?
Technical Analysis: how to use the Average True Range Indicator?