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Technical Indicators in Forex trading

Written by article default Monday, 31 August 2009 18:19

Technical Indicators in Forex trading

A technical indicator is a series of data points that are derived by applying a formula to the price data of a security.

Price data includes any combination of the open, high, low or close over a period of time. Technical indicators offer a different perspective from which to analyze the price action. Data generated thru technical analysis are widely used to alert, to confirm and to predict the market movements.

Click into the link in order to view details of each technical indicators.

Index of Technical Indicators

A

  • Accumulation/distribution index
  • Average True Range

B

  • Bollinger bands
  • Bottom (technical analysis)
  • Breakout

C

  • Candle line
  • Candlestick chart

D

  • Detrended price oscillator

E

  • Elliott wave principle

F

G

  • Gann angles

H

  • Hikkake Pattern

K

  • Keltner channel

M

  • MACD
  • Momentum
  • Moving average

N

  • Negative volume index
  • Noise chart

O

  • On-balance Volume

P

  • PAC charts
  • Parabolic SAR
  • Pivot point calculations
  • Point and figure chart
  • Price and Volume Trend

 

R

S

T

  • Trend following

U

  • Ultimate Oscillator

V

  • Volatility
  • Volatility clustering

W

  • Williams %R

Short note: Listed above are some of the common used technical analysis indicators for Forex trading (as well as stocks). From time to time, we will keep adding guides and detail explanations to each technical analysis.