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Technical Analysis Tutorial: The MACD Indicator

The MACD indicator is one of the most popular tools in technical analysis, and it’s another tool that we occasionally use in our reports.
Developed by Gerard Appel in the 1960s, the basic idea of MACD histogram is to follow the trend in the market under consideration, with a special hybrid of two different moving averages.
We take two exponential …

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Technical Analysis Guide: RSI and Parobolic SAR

We included the RSI and Parabolic SAR indicators in the new levels sheet available in our Members Area, so thought that it would be worthwhile to briefly introduce them to anyone who might not be familiar with how they worked or how to use them.

Fig 1: The New Levels Sheet. (Click to enlarge)
RSI (Relative Strength Index)
One …

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Candlestick Charts – The new book by Clive Lambert, Director, FuturesTechs

“Candlestick Charts – An introduction to candlestick charts”, Clive Lambert’s first (maybe not last!) book has recently been released, and you can get your copy now.
Early feedback has been positive. Thank you to those who have already got their copy, and thank you to those who have offered their thoughts
To order your copy we have set up …

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The 2009 Society of Technical Analysts Diploma

Dear All,
We are often asked here at FuturesTechs about training courses on Technical Analysis.
There are many providers out there, but none with the impeccable reputation of the UK’s Society of Technical Analysts. The STA runs their Diploma Course every year at the London School of Economics in Aldwych. The course runs for 11 Wednesday evenings in a row …

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The Sentiment Cycle – An interesting perspective

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The first speaker on the  Society of Technical Analysts (STA) annual diploma course, at least for the last few years, has been Julian McCree, who always extolls the idea of Market Sentiment, and in particular the Sentiment Cycle, a theory developed by Justin Mamis (author of The Nature of Risk, Stock Market Survival and …

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Fibonacci? What’s all that about?

I, like many technical analysts, place quite a heavy reliance on Fibonacci levels, especially for “bigger picture” calls and direction.
So what’s it all about? FuturesTechs members have a couple of articles I wrote a few years back that they can access in our Members’ area that explain things (I hope) quite well.
Take a look at the number sequence …

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Marabuzo!! A great bit of Candlestick work.

One of the things we at FuturesTechs towers take very seriously is Marabuzo lines.
What are they? A large bodied candlestick on a Daily chart is the result of a big one way push over the course of a day. In the example of large red real bodies the market often wakes up the next day sure in the …

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