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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.

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Index of Technical Indicators

Accumulation/distribution index
Average True Range

Bollinger bands
Bottom (technical analysis)
Breakout

Candle line
Candlestick chart

Detrended price oscillator

Elliott wave principle

Force Index
Fibonacci Numbers

Gann angles

Hikkake Pattern

Keltner channel

MACD
Momentum
Moving average

Negative volume index
Noise chart

On-balance Volume

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

Rate of change
Relative strength index
Resistance

Stochastic oscillator
Simple MA

Trend following

Ultimate Oscillator

Volatility
Volatility clustering

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.

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