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How are you paying per trading course? It’s rare that I come to you like this, but I’ve had a revelation after a recent email I received. You and I both know there are plenty of good trading courses out there, but for traders just starting out, they’re a bit pricey. So why are we paying thousands when we don’t have to? Well, here’s the answer to my revelation that should satisfy all. It’s called INO TV and I have an “on the house” preview just for my readers…

INO TV  gives you access to educational seminars streaming live just for traders. This on the house preview includes Dan Gramza, Derek Sammann and Joseph Raia! I recommend you tune in to watch these 4 seminars today. Remember, they’re on me! Enjoy, while I keep looking around for more good values for you, the trader. When Adam Hewsion asked me to review his INO TV service, I told him I really don’t have time. But he was persistent so I did it. As I started to explore the site… I got excited! For those of you who are new to the scene, in early 90’s there was this symposium called “TAG”. (Technical Analysis Group) that was I believe an annual or biannual event. All the biggest and best minds in the industry were there, and it offered traders and investors one of the only places to immerse themselves in trading ideas. (Remember this was the pre expo, pre Internet media era..) They recorded these presentations, first as audio cassettes (remember those?) then video later on… Well, INO TV has the rights to ALL THOSE SEMINARS! I also secured a link for you to watch 4 seminars for free! I have just scratched the surface as I believe they have some 500 titles. Some of the names I am excited to listen to are…

* Mark Cook
* Linda Raschke (Her “Short Skirt” presentation was one of the first   seminars I ever attended! Well worth the price of admission alone…)
* Richard Arms (The inventor of the TRIN)
* Larry Conners
* Toby Crabel (Who’s book Day Trading With Short Term Patterns and Opening Range Breakout sells for $1500 on ebay.)
* Mark Douglas
* Dr. Richard McCall
* George Lane (The inventor of Stochastics)
* Victor Niederhoffer
* Martin Pring
* Jack D. Schwager (Author of the Market Wizards series.)
* Victor Niederhoffer
* Peter Steidlmayer

And a ton more…. The best thing about most of these presentations is that they are old…(Really!) These ideas are universal and still as powerful as the day they were given…Yet I bet you money right now that many of you don’t know some of the names I put up on that list… That means that most of the other traders who have come to the markets recently are also in the dark! There is gold in them thar’ videos, and not much competition for what once were dominate investment strategies. The service is $100 a year for unlimited on-demand streaming access to their entire library. You will be amazed at what you see up there. It will really help your trading. Raschke’s Slump Busting Techniques” presentation is again more then worth the hund-ski.

A good trading education = a good trader = good profits

If you have not had the chance I strongly recommend that you check out this educational resource for traders, as it’s something I personally use and enjoy. You see, it’s no longer necessary to spend thousands of dollars, travel great distances and be away from home and family to understand the secrets of the market experts. It doesn’t matter where you live, it doesn’t matter if you are just starting to trade or a seasoned pro … this “brain trust” of trading experts has the potential to change your life. Check out how INO TV can provide you with the trading education and answers you’ve been looking for. I know capital is tight, but you can’t afford not to check it out today.

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Trend following is a stock exchange strategy that takes benefit of both the swings and roundabouts of the market. It’s a strategy that employs risk management to minimize likely losses. Traders who employ trend following enter the market after a trend has been revealed, they don’t attempt to forecast trends. They determine how much to speculate in a selected issue based primarily on the dimensions of the trading account and the stableness of the issue.

Most trend supporters invest in sophisticated software that can be programmed to exit if the trend changes all of a sudden. Then the traders do nothing and see if the trend reasserts itself before reinvesting. This is about following the already established pattern of certain stocks.

Price is the first rule of trend following. Other indicators are not important, although they don’t seem to be completely disregarded. The second factor is the decision of how much to trade. The timing is less vital than the amount of the trade. Then there is the exit strategy. When to get out if the trade is unprofitable or if the trade is profitable. Ultimately, you may set a stop loss for the maximum satisfactory loss.

Before entering a trade, most trend disciples will test it on their software so they can appraise the likely hazards and gains. The software is programmed with various factors relating to the particular trade. The trader then decides if he should make the trade under consideration.

One difficulty with trend following is the impact that unforeseen events can have on the market. Political upheavals, natural disasters and other events can effect the market in both positive and negative strategies. When Hurricane Katrina cause large damage to oil rigs and pipelines in New Orleans, the cost of oil and gas zoomed in the expectation of deficits. Although no severe shortages happened, investors and trend followers, in both the exchange and the commodities market, kept the price of oil elevated for months after the event.

All market investments are of a hopeful nature. The technique of following trends is one of many used by backers. It allows stockholders to use downward trends as well as up swings and make a profit in any kind of market. Trend supporters hold stocks for longer than those who use hot stack secrets in which the buy and sell could be concluded in a few hours. They also exploit sophisticated software which can assist them in making there calls.

I you don’t have a plan and the right information when you enter the market, you will almost certainly lose cash. Learn all you are able to and employ trend following together with other proved techniques and you will make the most of your investment bucks.

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RSI Relative Strength Index

As a trader, you should be familiar with the different technical indicators that are used in trading. Now technical analysis studies the past price action to predict the future price action. Technical indicators are an integral part of understanding the price action that is taking place in the market. Relative Strength Index is a highly popular technical indicator and widely used by the traders to trade different markets. Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a type of momentum oscillator. You must know what momentum means from your high school physics. RSI is a momentum indicator because it RSI follows the uptrend or the downtrend in the security prices. Now why RSI is considered to be an oscillator because RSI always fluctuates between 0 and 100%! Another feature of RSI that is considered to be very important by the traders is its levels that indicate when a security or a currency pair is considered to be overbought or oversold. When a security reaches one of these levels, an experienced trader always gets ready for a change in the RSI trend.

YouTube Preview ImageMost of the technical indicators are lagging. What lagging means is that they follow the price action! RSI indicator is also considered to be lagging as it compares the strength of the security or the currency pair on its up days with its down days and this way an RSI indicator can cut through the erratic changes and really confirm price movement. In some ways, it is also considered to be a leading indicator as you can count on an RSI indicator to change ahead of a currency pair’s or a security’s price action.

YouTube Preview ImageAnother intriguing concept is the overbought and oversold levels. Most of the time you will hear the security or the currency pair being overbought or oversold!  30 on RSI is considered to be an oversold level and 70 as an overbought level.  How do you know that the security or the currency pair is overbought or oversold at these levels? These overbought and oversold levels were introduced by a famous Technician J. Welles Wilder who had introduced the RSI indicator in his book, “New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems”.  These are just relative numbers. Keep 30 and 70 in your mind and when these two levels are penetrated look for confirmation from other indicators.

Now Wilder in his book quoted above had recommended these levels. The oversold level of 30 and the overbought level of 70 are indicated as lines on the bottom of the chart to let you see when these two levels are crossed by the RSI. So when you see one of these levels penetrated, time to get on your toes and get confirmation from another indicator. Wilder also suggested to use 14 as the standard number of price periods for calculating the RSI.

Calculating an RSI on your own with a spreadsheet is fairly complex. If you try to calculate the RSI indicator you may take a few pages! You just need to know this the RSI indicator takes the up and down days and plugs that data into a fairly complex formula to come up with a percentage number between 0 and 100. However RSI is very easy to use in practice. It is shown on the bottom of the chart as a slow moving line. By comparing this slow moving line at the bottom of the chart with the main candlestick chart in the upper part of the chart, you can understand what is happening to the price action.

YouTube Preview ImageMost of the time RSI will try to follow and mirror the movements of the price action in the top part of the chart. However, sometimes RSI will flatten while the price continues to move or even move in the opposite direction. When it does so, this change is known as Divergence. Divergences are the key to using RSI. Divergence is the most powerful tool in trading. More on the divergences in a later post!

As said earlier, you cannot simply use an RSI to buy when it hits 30 or selling when it hits 70. It is always good to combine the RSI with candlestick patterns or a divergence in RSI.  So you have to combine it with other indicators to give more reliable buy and sell signals.

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How To Draw Trendlines?

Trendline is a line on the chart that shows the general direction the currency pairs, stock or any other security is trending. Trendlines are one of the most basic technical indicators. If the currency pair or the stock is moving up in price, the trendline is going to slope upwards. And if the currency pair or the stock is moving down in price the trendline is going to slope downward from left to right.

Drawing Trendlines

YouTube Preview ImageDrawing trendlines seems to be easy and straight forward but can be tricky. So depending on how you think the currency pair or the stock is behaving, you draw a line of support in the bullish case and a line of resistance in the bearish case.

How to draw a trendline? Take a print out of the chart and draw a line with a ruler that connects two or more low points if the prices are steadily moving up or two or more high priced points if the prices are steadily moving down.

YouTube Preview ImageNow this should not fool you in thinking that trendlines are simple to draw. Drawing of a line connecting different points is such a subjective matter that it is difficult to consider trendlines as technical indicators. If you ask two different traders to draw a trendline on the same chart, both may draw two completely different lines. If one of the traders happens to be biased against a currency pair or stock, she may try to find a downtrend on the chart.

Despite all this inherent subjectively in drawing trendlines, most traders heavily depend on the trendline in making the buy or sell decision. So although different trendlines drawn on the same chart may appear to be different but all will have almost the same direction and almost the same slope!

YouTube Preview ImageNow a trendline can slope up in such a case it will be called a Bullish Trendlines. It can slope down in such a case it will be called a Bearish Trendline or it can be almost horizontal in such a case the market is choppy and moving sideways.  Taking the trendline direction into consideration helps you determine the status of the market whether it is bullish or bearish.

Automated Trendlines

Good news! You can take some of the subjectivity in drawing the trendlines by using a software package that does the drawing for you. Just choose your preferred timeframe and the software will draw the trendline for you. However, using the software removes the subjectivity to a degree but cannot do so completely. There will still be some subjective component to a software drawn trendlines.

YouTube Preview ImageYou as a user select the timeframe for the trendline that can impact on the trendline drawn by the software. So just like any computer program, what you get is what you input into the software as a data. Microsoft Excel can also draw a trendline so you can practice with that to begin with. Learn to draw trendlines correctly!YouTube Preview Image

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Moving Averages

Moving averages are one of the most basic yet the most widely used technical indicators. So what is a moving average? Put simply a moving average is the average of the closing price of the stock, the currency pair or any other security calculated over a certain period of time. Moving averages help you determine the trend.

There are a number of moving averages that you can use. However, you should know that the selection of the timeframe you use when you calculate the moving averages is very important. Timeframe of the moving average depends on the number of closing prices that you want to include in the calculating the moving average.

Suppose your trade lasts only for a day or two or even less than a day, in such a case a 5 day time frame though very short term is appropriate. On the other extreme, if you are a long term trader and are in the trade for months than you might use a 200 day moving average. So pick a time frame that is appropriate to the amount of time that you intend to have the trade on.

Simple Moving Averages

The most basic type of moving average is the simple moving average. It is very easy to calculate and is the most common of the moving average used by the traders. So if you want to calculate the 5 day moving average just add the 5 closing prices of the stock or currency pair for the last 5 days and divide it by 5 to take the average.

YouTube Preview ImageAlways remember the longer you timeframe for the trade, the longer the moving average that you need. Now the two other variations to the simple moving average is the Weighted Moving Average and the Exponential Moving Average.

Why would a trader want to calculate more complex moving averages? The major advantage of using these complex moving averages is that they tend to show the change in the trend more quickly than the simple moving average. Detecting trend changes fast can help you make more profitable trades.

YouTube Preview ImageAs a trader, you know that most recent price action is more important than distant price action. A simple moving average gives equal importance to all prices. In order to overcome this shortfall, weighted and exponential moving averages have been calculated that give more weight to the recent price action.

Weighted Moving Averages

YouTube Preview ImageA weighted moving average is calculated by multiplying the most recent price with the number of prices in your time frame adding it to the second most recent price multiplied to the total number of prices in the timeframe minus one and so on till you reach the oldest price in the list then divide the total sum by the total number of prices in the timeframe. Sounds complicated huh?

Exponential Moving Averages

YouTube Preview ImageExponential moving averages give a lot of emphasis on the recent price action as compared to the weighted moving averages.  Exponential moving average is even more complicated but you don’t need to calculate these moving averages, the charting package can do it for you. Just select the time frame!

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MarketClub Trading Videos

Crude oil recently fell through an upward trendline, corroborated by the MACD. A quick Fibonacci study shows where this market may be heading in the near term. This 4-minute video will provide details and show how easy it is to use these technical indicators within MarketClub. Did you know?… You can use MarketClub to establish direction and timing in the crude oil market but then trade options or option spreads instead of the futures contract. The initial margin on a crude oil futures contract is expensive (over $7,000 as of Sep 28) whereas an option spread can be established for $500. Its revolutionary Trade Triangle technology generates clear buy and sell signals for practically any market. MarketClub has over 30,000 members. Upon viewing the video, you’ll have access to historical videos and detailed product information and will be able to take a 30-day risk free trial of MarketClub.

Gold trading can be as profitable as forex trading. Technical analysis is almost the same and if you have been trading forex than you should know that gold trading will not be much difficult for you. If you have been following the gold market than you must know that gold recently broke the historical barrier of $1000 per ounce. Gold market has been in a secular uptrend for the last few years. This video is very informative. Read what Norman Hallett from The Disciplined Trader Intensive Program says: “Most of my subscribers are aware that I trade many markets, but my first love is the futures markets. It’s where I got my start and made my reputation…not only with the ability to stay cool and calm and take advantage of volatility (the reason I’ve made training other traders how to be disiplined), but in my market views.

I’ve learned to look at “related markets” when considering a specific market play. In the case of Gold, I look at the CRB Index,and the US Dollar.  Right now, both are in supportive positions for gold, which is what I want to see for getting into a long position in gold. Adam Hewison, just sent me a video analysis of gold where he sees gold as “decoupling” and acting on its own. I think it still has the support of “related markets”, not to say it doesn’t look good, because it does! See what you think.”
 
Watch the MarketClub Gold Trading Video!
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Turtle Trading Rules

What do all three of these guys have in common? Guys like Bruce Kovner, a former NYC Cab driver who turned $3000 he borrowed off his credit card into a multibillon dollar fortune trading forex or Richard Dennis, who started trading with $300, and turned it  into a mind bending $150 million+ or a guy like John Henry. He’s a former Arkansas Soybean and cotton trader who now owns the Boston Red Sox and a NASCAR team. 

Let me begin by first asking you a question: What do you think are great traders born or made? The answer to this question will determine whether you can make a fortune in trading or not.  The very same question bugged Richard Dennis whether great traders are born or made.

In mid-1983 Richard Dennis, a famous commodities trader was having an ongoing dispute with his long time friend and trading partner Bill Eckhart whether great traders were born or made. Richard believed that he could teach people to become great traders. Bill thought that aptitude and genetics were the determining factors.

So in order to settle this ongoing feud between two great friends and great traders, Richard suggested that they recruit some traders, train them, give them actual amounts to trade to see which one of them was correct.

So a large ad advertising positions for the trading apprentices was placed in the Barron’s, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Now Rich was the most famous trader in the world at that time. So more than 1000 applicants submitted their applications! From these, Rich interviewed 80.

Finally 10 were selected. Later on it became 13 when Rich added three more people he already knew to the list. These people were trained for two weeks and began trading after that. After proving themselves, Dennis funded most of them with $500,000 to $2,000,000 accounts.

Rules You Won’t Follow Don’t Matter

The students became famous as Turtles. The Turtles became the most famous experiment in trading history. As a famous trader and the father of Turtles, Richard Dennis said: “I always say that you could publish my trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anyone can make up the list of rules that are 80% as good as what we taught our people. What they couldn’t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules when things are going bad.”

Rules that you can or won’t follow will not do you any good. The Turtles had a lot of reasons to be confident of the rules they were given. Turtles had the confidence to follow those rules even during losing periods. Those who didn’t consistently follow the rules didn’t infact make any money and were dropped from the program.

Rules are important in life. More so in trading! Traders who want to be successful should figure out a way to gain enough confidence in their own rules of trading to be able to apply them consistently. Turtle trading experiment can teach you a lot about the importance of having a rule based trading system!  You can download your Turtle Trading Rules (37 page pdf). These are the orginal Turtle Trading System Rules as taught by Richard Dennis! Turtle Trading Rules themselves were simple-the secret was the ability to stick to these rules. Emotions are your biggest enemy in trading. Rules help you avoid emotions. Turtle Trading System was a mechanical trading system per excellence that was rule based and almost eliminated emotions in making trading decisions if you had the discipline to follow the rules under all market conditions.

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Triple Witching Hour In New York Stock Exchange

Stock indexes are considered to be a barometer of the market sentiment. S&P 500 Stock Index is considered to the most important barometer of the US economy. Similarly Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is synonymous with the New York Stock Exchange. When the Dow is up, the New York market is considered to be bullish and when the Dow loses points, the market sentiment turns bearish. When a trader or for that matter an investor is asked how is the market sentiment. She might reply that the market is up by 70 point which indicates a bullish sentiment in the market. Now these 70 points are meaningless without reference to the specific stock index that she is talking. The greatest financial innovation of the last quarter century is the introduction of stock index futures also known as index futures. There over 70 index futures contract those are traded in different stock exchanges around the world.

Now these index futures are intimately interconnected with the stock indexes on which they are based. Many day traders only trade index futures like the E-Mini S&P futures or the E-Mini Dow Futures. However, many investors only invest in stocks and may have no experience of trading index futures. If you have been investing in stocks and if you are interested in knowing the short term stock market movements in the NYSE than you should learn something about the index futures and how they are traded. Program trading and Index Arbitrage are two activities that can make the stock market highly volatile in the short term.

One of the most popular trading strategies used by professional traders is the index arbitrage. It involves the simultaneous buying or selling of the underlying stocks and the index futures contracts. You must know that the index futures contracts play strange games with the stock prices on the days when these contracts expire. Index futures contracts expire on the third Friday of the last month of each quarter that is March, June, September and December. Index options and options on individual stocks settle on the third Friday of each month instead of the last month of each quarter in case of Index Futures contracts.

The third Friday of the last month of each quarter is day you must always keep in the back of your mind while trading as it always have unusual volatility on that date. You must have by now understood that on the third Friday of the last month of each quarter that is on the third Friday of March, June, September and December, these entire contract expire at the same time. This simultaneous expiration of these contracts produces volatility in the markets on that day. That is why these days are known as Triple Witching Hour.

Index options contracts and options contracts on individual stocks expire on the third Friday of each month. The third Friday of each month when there is no futures contract settlement is known as Double Witching Hour and it produces less volatility as compared to the Triple Witching Hour. So what’s the mystery behind these double or triple witching dates that produces so much volatility in the markets?

Now you must know that the institutional investors like the pension funds, the mutual funds, the hedge funds, big banks and corporations are the major players in the markets. It they who actually determine the market sentiment! On these dates the market makers in NASDAQ and the specialists in the NYSE are instructed to buy or sell large blocks of stocks no matter what the price because institutional investors are closing out their arbitrage positions. Program trading can involve buying or selling of millions of shares with just one click on the trading software. This brings a lot of volatility in the market.

As a retail trader you are at the mercy of these big players in the market. So if there are huge buy orders, prices will soar on that date and if there are huge sell order, the prices will fall on that date. However these price swings do not matter to the arbitrageurs because the profits on the futures positions will offset the stock positions and so on.

Program trading and Portfolio insurance were the major causes of the market crash of October 1987. So in 1988 on the urging of NYSE, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) changed it procedures and stopped futures trading at the close of the Thursday’s trading and started settling the contracts on the Friday opening prices rather than at Friday’s closing prices. These changes have now greatly moderated the triple witching day’s volatility. However, you should still expect some volatility on these days! Know a Stock Index Futures Secret that can make you rich.

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Meet the HVMM (High Velocity Market Master)! Get your Ultimate Day Trading System copy free just now before it gets pulled down by HVMM. This Ultimate Day Trading System can trade forex, stocks and futures. Grab this Captial Growth Application for serious trading FREE before it’s gone!  Just as the Capital Growth App is universal, so is the HVMM System.  It works on any market and timeframe.  Whether you are a day trader or swing trader that trades forex, futures, stocks, commodities, ETFs, bonds or options you’ll want to step-up to this challenge. Now is the time to join the contest for the HVMM and win your FREE COPY of HVMM course worth $2797. To win a copy of the HVMM just take the short HVMM Quiz, answer the 9 questions and make sure you enter your email address at the end.  As long as you complete the quiz you’ll be entered to win, no matter what your final score is.

Have you been seeing those mega moves in the forex market?! Monday we saw the GBPUSD down 400 pips at one point.  Yikes.  See the HVMM ‘trick’ to bringing in 19 successful trades at one stretch during the European and U.S. market hours.  All with subjectivity and discretion removed.  They just focus on placing the trades and managing the targets and stops.  Simple enough? Let me know what you think.  From what I’ve seen, these guys thrive on giving out ‘tricks’ like this.  Word has it they’ll be holding a live webinar in a week (Wednesday March 10th at 12:00pm EST/ 9:00am PST/ 5:00pm GMT).  Join the HVMM Virtual Training!

Did you see the HVMM go head-to-head with the live markets? Then you saw them come out on top. Any comprehensive methodology that is put through the wringer of the live market is worth looking into in my books. If you didn’t catch the live demo, watch HVMM Live Session here!  They’re now giving away an entire High Velocity Market Master HVMM course!  Just visit the HVMM Blog, answer the questions posted, and you’re entered to win an entire HVMM course! It’s simple, get your hands on the HVMM.  Then, submit your ‘before’ story (as many of you already have) and 45 days from now submit your ‘after’ story.  In other words, tell the guys where you are currently in your trading career – even if you’ve been at this a long time – then in 45 days give them an update on how things have changed by trading the HVMM.  Finally, the community chooses the $2,500 winner!  That’s it.  But first things first, you’ll need the High Velocity Market Master and now you can grab it for just 6 affordable payments!  The 30-day money back assurance is still in effect so there’s seriously no risk whatsoever.

Get your HVMM and be a step closer to winning $2,500.00! The HVMM has been ‘unleashed’ so they say.  Did you see the results? I attended the High Velocity Market Master webinar yesterday and the results, the strategy, and the simplicity of the system spoke for themselves. Not only were the results impressive, but I was awed by the level of support the HVMM guys provide.  They truly seem to be dedicated to your success which is vital in this business.  They definitely had my attention (and I’m sure they did yours)! 

Often it’s the support not just the system that will make the difference between victory and collapse.  With guidance you can be conditioned to take on the markets, and hit them with everything you’ve got! Along with the dedicated, ONGOING HVMM Support, the package comes with everything you need to transform your trading career…

*Lifetime High Velocity Market Master Indicator Suite that you’ll immediately be applying to your charts. These indicators make the HVMM tick and you’ll use the exact same suite of indicators across all markets and timeframes for the ultimate in simplicity.

*5 Full Length In-Depth HVMM Training CD’s – that will play right in your computer, so you can watch and learn The High Velocity Market Master strategy step by step, at your own pace.

*HVMM Manual and Guide to Markets & Timeframes – these will let you see the key trade set-ups in detail.

*PLUS one (1) entire year in the exclusive Owner’s Club where you’ll have admittance to live training rooms, be able to see trade walk-through, get additional video training, receive marketing condition reports, have access to all system upgrades, and more! 

The way I see it, this system will give you what you need to be up and running in no time, plus help cut your trading time down significantly. It’s about building your account by getting in, getting out, and getting done. You’ll have the tools you need to change your trading career for the better.  And, they’re anxious for you to transform.  So anxious in fact, that they’re giving a $2,500.00 cash prize for the trader with the biggest transformation.  When you purchase the HVMM your eligible to win just by submitting your “transformation story” in 45 days! See how you can win $2,500.00 once you get your hands on the HVMM!

You only have a small window of opportunity to grab the system. Providing a high level of support means the guys over at the HVMM headquarters need to limit the number of new subscribers to ensure they have the resources to handle the initial batch (a wise decision, in my opinion). That’s why they’re stopping at just 250 copies! Get your HVMM before they’re gone! Seize this chance to start living your trading transformation story! I know some of you had some trouble ordering yesterday.  Try it again today – with onslaught of orders, their payment processing had a few hiccups. Not to worry though, you still have a bit of time left!

So do not order the HVMM until you hear what I’ve worked out with the guys over at the HVMM camp…Instead of one larger payment upfront, how about a few more *affordable* payments spread out over the course of 3 months?  3 monthly installments mean you can start building your capital WHILE you’re paying for the system. (This way, the system literally does pay for itself!) Enroll with the 3-time HVMM payment plan right now!

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Technical Analysis

Let’s first define what Technical Analysis is. Technical Analysis is the study of historical and ongoing price data through charts, price patterns and chart indicators. Charts display price in time intervals using bars and candlesticks. Technical Analysis is based on the Dow Theory and there a number of assumptions in that theory. The most important is that all available information is immediately impounded into the market prices of the currencies. The second assumption made is that prices always move in trends or patterns. The third assumption that is made is that history repeats itself. This means you can predict the future price action by studying the past prices.

YouTube Preview ImageWe follow trends because experience has shown that once a trend is in motion, it is most likely to continue rather than reverse it. The more one studies chart patterns, the clearer it becomes that reading and interpreting chart patterns are more an art form than a skill. Two charts are important in technical analysis. Bar charts and Candlesticks charts. Bar charts display price data in vertical lines that represents price action during a given time period. The tip at the bottom of a bar chart is the low for the period. The tip at the top is the high for the period. The open and close are represented by small horizontal dashes called tics. The tic to the left of the vertical line is the open. The tic to the right of the line is the close.

YouTube Preview ImageCandlestick charts are similar to bar charts in many ways but different in other ways. Candlestick charts were developed by Japanese rice traders. They are used extensively in technical analysis. Like the bar charts, the top of the vertical line represent the high. The bottom of the vertical line represents the low. However, the price action between the open and the close is represented differently by the use of candlestick bodies. A shaded body represents a lower closing price below a higher opening price. A hollow body represents a higher closing price above a lower opening price. The price action above and below the body is referred to as tails or wicks.  A forex day trader may use any one of the 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 and 180 minutes charts. A swing and position trader may use a daily, weekly or a monthly chart while doing technical analysis. These charts all use the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or the Eastern Standard Time (EST) depending on the software that your broker platform uses. But you can always adjust these times according to your local time.

YouTube Preview ImageWhile doing technical analysis, you need to understand what are markets patterns? What are Uptrends? What are downtrends and what are sideway trends? Markets expand and retrace constantly. Market prices may continue to expand for sometimes either upward or downward. It is the nature of the markets to surge then pause and retrace. Trends in currency markets make a series of peaks and troughs as they move. An uptrend consists of a series of ascending peaks and troughs. Each peak higher than the last peak! Each trough lower than the last trough! A downtrend consists of a series of descending peaks and troughs. A sidways trend consists of a series of horizontal peaks and troughs. All peaks and all troughs almost on the same level indicate a sideways market. 

Technical analysis is the study of past prices to predict future price action. It depends on the use of technical indicators in finding the best points for entry and exit for each trade. A number of advanced technical indicators have been developed. They are used by the traders to confirm a particular market pattern. Two or more technical indicators are used in conjunction to confirm whether the markets are trending, ranging etc. You need to master these technical indicators if you want to become a successful trader. Each chart and technical indicator plays a unique role in the overall analysis process. You need to learn how to use these technical indicators to confirm trending or non trending conditions. The time periods and the technical indicators are useful in spotting interday or intraday turning points caused by large moves, retracements, continuances or reversals.

Each technical indicator performs differently in both trending and non trending markets. You should understand how each technical indicator shows direction, entry, exit or weaknesses or strength of price action in trending or non trending market conditions. You should memorize these differences to make the best use of these tools in your trading.

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