If I use moving averages at all – and these are certainly not one of my preferred technical analysis tools – I opt for the 9 and 26-period ones of the Ichimoku cloud system; I will also use a crossover […]
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Picking your moving averages apart: tweaking versus crossovers
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: adaptive, crossover, exponential, moving average
Tags: adaptive, crossover, exponential, moving average
Don’t be shy, give it a try! Join us for our next monthly meeting
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be interviewed on IG TV for their Charting the Markets show (which you can view in the blog section [top right] of the STA’s homepage www.sta-uk.org. ). Before and after we went on air […]
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Must read classics: Richard W Schabacker – the real bible of technical analysis
In the mornings I work from a desk, admittedly of Victorian workhouse-style layout, facing East over The Shard at the Financial Times’ headquarters. Always the first one in on the 5th floor, it’s lovely to watch the sun rise and […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Bible, Books, Classic, Harriman House, STA Library
Tags: Bible, Books, Classic, Harriman House, STA Library
Mesch Capital Management, Inc: On Market Profile
Continuing our series of videos of lectures recorded at IFTA’s annual conference held in London in October 2014, I give you one of my favourites: Robin Mesch, who founded the firm and is a veteran US futures trader. Not only […]
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For he’s a jolly good fellow: And so say all of us!
At our December monthly meeting and Christmas party, Credit Suisse veteran and member David Sneddon was awarded a Fellowship by the Society, recognising his contribution to technical analysis. After what he described as ‘’a very stimulating and fantastic career’’ he […]
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‘Trading with Intermarket Analysis’: By John J Murphy
As part of our offering to members (plus all and sundry), we are sharing videos of lectures by some the most important contemporary technical analysts. We start with legend John Murphy, who’s text book ‘Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets’ […]
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Secondary technical indicators: Their moment in the limelight
Being a ‘fear and greed’ sort of technical analyst, I’ve been having a great time with stock market indices this month; big moves, punchy candlesticks, speechless equity analysts backpedalling. Such fun! One thing that did make me sit up and […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Arms index, NYSE Tick, oscillators, volume
Tags: Arms index, NYSE Tick, oscillators, volume
Dr Van K. Tharp: And his Super Trader Programme
Over to the conference centre at America Square yesterday evening, to an event jointly hosted by the Society of Technical Analysts (STA) and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). A great layout with semi-circular tables for the many attendees, […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Books, Psychology, rules
Tags: Books, Psychology, rules
Brian Marber: In Memoriam
Brian Marber, Fellow of the Society of Technical Analysts, passed away on 9 June 2018. He had been granted a Fellowship in the early years of the Society for his great contributions to the field, in investing in and trading […]
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Peak – AOD Fall Intervals as an indicator of US Stock Market Corrections
In our Spring 2017 Market Technician journal, David McMinn did an article predicting we were due a sell-off in the stock market in December 2017. The actual event arrived later than expected in early February 2018 with two one day […]
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Thinking Man’s Trader Report
Context is the critical element in your search for opportunities, not a price and direction forecast. Enthusiasm, what Greenspan called back in the 90’s “irrational exuberance” is the hallmark to a late stage of a Great Bull market, like it […]
When the Liberals away, the STA can play: Annual Dinner a great success
As usual the STA Annual Dinner was timed to coincide with the Liberal Party’s annual conference, this year in sunny Bournemouth – as billed on their web site. This means that we had the whole of their gorgeous club pretty […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Trading
Tags: dinner, networking, Speeches
Tags: dinner, networking, Speeches
Low, low volatility: Vix versus the rest
The Vix index, originally developed by Menachem Brenner and Dan Galai in 1986, was launched as a futures contract in 2004 on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (then options on this future introduced in 2006). It followed the stock market […]
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Tags: options, Portfolio, volatility
Tags: options, Portfolio, volatility
Why study for the STA Technical Analysis Qualification – my story
Like most investors in the Stock Markets when I started investing back in 1999 I was an amateur. I got caught up in the DotCom hype and after losing money after the bust, I stayed away from the markets for […]
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STA Summer Party
This week’s meeting was dedicated to the new MSTA’s who had recently qualified from the STA exams. It was apparent we had some excellent graduates from some of the conversations I had at the drinks portion of the evening. However, […]
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The Importance of Cloud Charting
The evening of the US election, with a general consensus betting on a Hilary win, the STA flock turn up to see one of our very own speak at the Bitish Banking Association. Nicole Elliott is famed for bringing Ichimoku […]
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JPMorgan Run
Last Thursday, the STA participated in the annual JPMorgan run to raise money for Cancer Research UK. This year we had a great turn out with over 15 runners who all did extremely well. We started at the Prince Albert […]
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Technical Trading: Is it still beating the foreign exchange market?
Academics from the University of Hong Kong and University of Warwick have carried out a large-scale investigation of technical trading rules in the foreign exchange market, using daily data over 45 years for 30 developed and emerging market currencies. Employing […]
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Why investors keep buying shares that are bad for them
Dr Keith Anderson, lecturer of accounting and finance at the University of York, and also a guest speaker at one of our monthly STA meetings had an article recently printed in the Interactive Investor. Click on link below to read. […]
STA at The Shard: Joint event with Warwick Business School
Organised by Tom Hicks MENG MSTA MSCI, and more importantly the STA’s Head of Programmes, for many members it was an opportunity to scale new heights – if you could manage the rather complicated lifts to the 17th floor, that […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Trading, Trending
Tags: flows, moving average, Psychology, uncertainty
Tags: flows, moving average, Psychology, uncertainty
Nicole Elliott Interview series: Anne Whitby FSTA
Anne Whitby FSTA kicks off our series of interviews with leading technical analysts. As part of our social media programme, and in an effort to help and educate budding professional and amateur chartists, this series aims at giving a light-hearted […]
Secondary, tertiary, and other indicators
We all know that the prime mover of technical analysis is a time series analysis of market prices, sometimes labelled as ‘descriptive statistics’ by statisticians. They then call all further analysis based on this data ‘inductive statistics’ which include forecasts, generalisations, and extrapolations.
Not reverting to type: Though CAPE mean reverts
Why oh why did I tell Professor Russell Napier that traditionally the speaker at December’s meeting should be brief because he kept STA members from the canapés and drinks at the after-party? The man is quite the maverick and rattled […]
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Additional uses of the DMI indicator by Karen Jones Head of FICC Technical Analysis , Commerzbank
I have found the DMI indicator to be a useful tool. The more traditional way to use this index is in conjunction with an ADX signal above 20 (this tells you that a market is trending in the first place). […]
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Check out Mickey Bain’s S&P analysis using point and figure charting
Mickey is an STA member and he has produced this analysis, this represents his own opinion and is not representative of the opinion of the STA.
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Trend following Wilder’s RSI trendline breaks
Since my last blog post regarding Fibonacci Extensions for profit targets, I have received some great feedback, so I would like to say thank you to everyone who took the time to read it. In this post I will be […]
Posted in General, Markets, Technical Analysis, Trading
Tags: relative strength, RSI, Stock market, volatility
Tags: relative strength, RSI, Stock market, volatility
Using Fibs for profit targets
First of all I would like to say I hope I can do the blog justice in Nicole Elliott’s absence as I have immensely enjoyed her posts so far, secondly I wanted to post something in this blog that I […]
Posted in General, Markets, STA charts, Technical Analysis, Trading
Tags: Fibonacci, Ratios, Stock market, trending
Tags: Fibonacci, Ratios, Stock market, trending
How bond traders use charts: without being technical analysts
Did you know that there are an awful lot of market professionals out there who are not technical analysts – yet they use charts all the time. As a technical analyst you might well believe that you have little to […]
Determined charitable souls: STA meet in Battersea Park
Despite Thursday 9th July 2015 being the first complete London underground strike in 13 years, STA runners weren’t daunted (though numbers slightly depleted) as they ran for charity at the annual JP Morgan fun run. Setting up team HQ at […]
A blast from the past: Bubbles, baths and blood
Founder member of the STA Philip Gray treated us to a no-holds-barred look into manias and the madness of crowds last night. Warning us: ‘this lecture will seriously damage your wealth’ he regaled us with interesting, and many hilarious anecdotes […]
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Tags: Bubbles, overvaluation, volatility
Tags: Bubbles, overvaluation, volatility
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