You may be wondering to what extent you can trust and expect support and resistance to work. Obviously, if you can trust them to hold firm the majority of the time, say 80% of the time that they are tested, then you can base your...
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The Psychology Behind Support and Resistance
The reason that support and resistance work, and that the price will keep on touching and rebounding off them, is down to the psychology of the market participants. There is no ‘magic’, just commonsense. One...
Reversal of Roles
Now for reasons I’ll go on to explain in the next section, often support and resistance reverse their roles, once they are penetrated or ‘broken’. If the price goes up through resistance by a good way, then that...
Support and Resistance
Another way of looking at peaks and troughs in a price chart is using the concept of support and resistance. Again, this is a fundamental idea used in technical analysis, and the various aspects of it can be very powerful...
The Parts of a Trend
Now you may remember that Dow Theory talks about the three parts of a trend, the primary, secondary, and minor. The primary or major trend may last for years, and Dow classified it as something lasting more than a year, although...
What is a Trend?
Module 3 – Trend Concepts Introduction Now that we have reviewed the fundamental ideas of technical analysis and the basics of charting, it is time to introduce you to some tools that you will use as you develop your knowledge...
Ways of Using Charts
Now it’s time to get an overall idea of how charts fit in to the world of technical analysis and the many ways that you can use them to help in your trading. They are an essential device for the trader to spot...
Future Charts
When you’re looking at using long-term charts in connection with your trading, you may wonder how you can apply this to the futures markets. Futures markets, and for that matter options too, have expiry dates associated...
What about Inflation?
Now with all this talk about long range charts, you may have been wondering whether inflation will upset your analysis, and whether you should try and account for it and make adjustments. After all, the rate of inflation must be...
Using Long-Term Charts in Trading
Firstly, let’s be clear that you shouldn’t use long-term charts on their own for making any trading decisions. You can’t time your entries and exits from a trade with any precision based on long-term charts, and why...
