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You can also at anytime during the trade close the trade by calling your broker or executing the trade on your dealing station. Simple Moving Average This is the most widely used and is simply calculated by adding up a set of values and dividing the total by the number in the set.

When investor expectations change, they often do so abruptly. A downtrend is present when prices make a series of lower highs and lower lows.

We will get more specific about things later. You may even want to just chart by hand with some graph paper.

When prices move without such a discernible series, prices are said to be trading side ways in a range or trendless. If you are going to trade professionally it is vital that you can identify trading opportunities.

Depending on which financial newspaper you buy you will either see the bid/offer price quoted separately or if there is just one price that is normally the mid price between the bid/offer spread. Once S5 was reached it made a little rally and came back to close below S5.

Remember to always do your homework. The difficulty arises because of the time factor.

If each day is an independent event then the markets must be random. Prices seemed to follow a random walk as he observed them.

Now we will combine these insights to maximize the efficiency of trading. This is your money and you are responsible for it.

Which Moving average to use Any time span can be considered from minutes to years. In up trends, every time price drops to the up trend line and then resume their advance, the trend line has acted as support to the price up trend.

Should back up here slightly and mention that in 1884 Dow published his first stock market average of 11 stocks. An intraday (relates to action on that particular day only) price chart may show a significant trend, which is contrary to a trend recognizable on a daily price chart, which may be contrary to a trend on a weekly chart.

We can use this in our approach. For markets that have volume I would expect to see a sudden increase in volume to help confirm the breakout.

An accumulation stage, the public participation stage and finally the distribution stage. You no longer need to call your broker and ask him to place the order for you.

Most traders classify themselves as either Fundamentalists or Technicians. It is also not necessary for what I am trying to achieve and that is to give you a broad idea of how the markets work and some way to trade them.

The longer the time span used to calculate the moving averages the greater the significance of its violation by price. Market action discounts everything.

Once he has come up with his evaluation he can determine if he thinks the currency is undervalued or overvalued against a given currency. This is particularly true if you are waiting for a certain price to trade to confirm your view.

A 4-day or 9-week moving average eliminates the presence of price fluctuations for periods up to 4 days or 9 weeks respectively. They illustrate the decaying rate of progress of the trend.

By the way the chart on the left is the chart of the Dow Jones. The primary trend may take years to come to an end and develops over time.

This to and fro, buying and selling in the direction of the trend plots out a recognizable channel of dynamic flux of the trend. However you approach the stop price, it is a level beyond which you are not prepared to give up profit, or where a position slips back to evens or a small loss.

Your stop loss policy can be set in a number of ways. Some use an actual figure and some a percentage figure.

Another strategy commonly used is to close, say half your position when you are comfortable with the profit level, and let the other half continue to trade. When you look at the price of any financial instrument as a technical analyst you believe that is the true value of the instrument as the market sees it.

Which is where we get the term Random Walk. Some commonly used ones are Major primary trend monitored by a 40-week (200-day) moving average.

As you can see from the diagram below, the trend is moving up. After a while, buying becomes exhausted and is overwhelmed by selling and profit taking.

Now convinced that the buyers have the upper hand, buy. In an up trend, as prices come back to the trend line, new increased buying comes into the market and overwhelms the sellers.

The longer the trend line has been in effect and the more times it has been successfully tested the more important the trend line becomes. If you tell him I want to buy Xyz Company first he knows your intention and has some advantage.

All this means is that anything that can effect the price of a security has already been allowed for by the market participants. In statistical language, the probabilities are equal.

Successful investing depends on recognizing the short, medium or long-term trend and their correction (Rallies and Dips) inside the larger trend. We then buy/sell our security early in these new trends and exit the trade profitably when the trend ends.

You will hear a lot about the Dow Theory as you travel through your trading career. Also similarly with support.

Once downloaded you will be able to see all the information about your chosen security and it will normally have two small boxes, one for buy and one for sell. If I enter a trade from the long side I will place my stop at the next lowest support.

For those who do not wish to trade the trend so aggressively one can use the trend line for placing and moving stops and to initiate new trades. The bulls think prices will move higher and the bears think prices will move lower.

This is my preferred method of trading. Simple moving averages give equal weighting to each time period’s price.

The market continues it’s bullish move to R3 and then retraces to S3. All you need to do is decide what you want to do and select the appropriate box.

A good trader takes a small loss and goes on to the next trade. We also can observe that prices once finding support or resistance will move ahead and away from the trend line then return to the trend line.

For markets that have volume I would expect to see a sudden increase in volume to help confirm the breakout. Finding out you don’t know how to operate your dealing system or you don’t know the correct terminology to use when speaking with your broker on the phone when trading live is a recipe for disaster.

When the correction is complete the final phase of trend advancement occurs usually at the slowest rate of change for the whole progression of the trend and then this too corrects. You may not be aware of it, but if you do this, you are performing one of the basic experiments in probability.

Even with electronic dealing station you should be able to see the bid/offer prices before the system knows your intention. In the old days you would look at the financial newspapers and write down the imaginary trades on a piece of paper, which is where the term comes from.

The minor trend is like a small stream, which runs this way and that but is headed, in the general direction of the river. You know that these are the only two choices- or probabilities.

Dow himself never actually used the phrase. Regardless of the indicator you use what you are really studying is the science of human behavior.

As you can see from the diagram below, the trend is moving up. This is my preferred method of trading.

We can use this in our approach. The most important thing, however you approach the decision, is to know where you will cut a losing position before entering the trade.

The coin has no memory of what happened the toss before. In a rising trend a falling price often finds support and in a falling market rising stock prices often find resistance when they reach the level of the moving average.

The longer the time span used to calculate the moving averages the greater the significance of its violation by price. Lets explore the argument that no matter what you do you can’t beat the market.

A 4-day or 9-week moving average eliminates the presence of price fluctuations for periods up to 4 days or 9 weeks respectively. Retracement of prices often reverse when they reach the moving average level.

Imagine the situation you have a position in Xyx Company and call your broker and tell him that you are trying to close your position so you need a quote. Once you have entered a trade immediately place a stop.

If you are going to trade professionally it is vital that you can identify trading opportunities. Technical analysts look at charts the same way a doctor would look at x-rays.

We will be going into this in more detail in future chapters when we cover learning to trade. If the moving average has flattened out or has already reversed direction then its violation increases the likelihood of a reversal of the recent trend.