Technical Analysis

RoboForex Technical Analysis and Trading Signals service

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The Forex and CFD broker RoboForex (a company regulated by CySEC and IFSC) provides its clients with technical analysis updates and trading signals on currencies, gold and crude oil which can help the trader to take advantage of market opportunities.

The technical analysis and signals are supplied by Trading Central, a leading independent company specialized in technical analysis of financial markets, whose services are used by 38 of the world’s 50 leading banks as a second opinion in addition to their own in-house market analysis. The technical analysis reports from Trading Central cover many asset classes such as Forex, Commodities and Market Indices. Traders can also benefit from a wide range of reports based on a variety of technical indicators, covering multiple time frames that are ideal for short, medium and long-term traders.

Also, the clients of this broker have access to updated market news from Dow Jones.

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DeMarker Indicator

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DeMarker – A good tool for market trends analysis

DeMarker indicator (DI) is a technical indicator (specifically an oscillator) created by Tom Demark and it is used to analyze the trend of the price of an instrument such as a currency pair (Forex) in the market. It can also be used to study the trends of other instruments such as stocks and commodities for example. It is an oscillator created to identify new buying and selling opportunities. In some way, is similar to the Directional Movement Indicators developed by Welles Wilder. In general, Demark goal was to create an indicator that overcome the problems normally associated with other technical indicators and tools used to identify overbought and oversold trading conditions in the market.

This indicator tracks the market sentiment of an asset by comparing the asset’s present price with the price of the previous period. The basic concept behind the DI is that it can be used to detect changing market interest in an asset and by doing so identify market highs and lows.

Demark designed this forecasting method to predict the beginning of a trend in the medium and long term, and is based on specially designed coefficients.

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Wedges Chart Patterns – Description and trading rules

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Wedges are chart patterns that sign a continuation in the market trend formed before the wedge. Wedges are quite similar to the triangle formations (simetrical triangle, ascending triangle and descending triangle) and it is formed along with 2 trendlines which are a support and a resistance. This chart pattern is basically a long-term pattern and it lasts up to 3 to 6 months but it can be seen in shorter time frames (in lower time frames is less reliable). In this case the trader can foresee those converging trendlines which remains slant in position.

The trendline remains upward or either in downward direction. This remains quite distinct from the uniform trendlines occurring in the triangles.  Unlike triangles formations, in wedges formations the bands or lines among which the price fluctuates point in the same direction.

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Candlestick Pattern Matching Lows

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The candlestick pattern Matching Lows is a formation of two bearish candles presented in markets with a downward trend. It has a moderate reliability and indicates that the price is likely to change from bearish to bullish trend. This pattern can be identified as follows:

  • The current market trend is bearish.
  • During the first period a big black candle is formed.
  • In the second period there is a shorter black candle which has a close that is equal or almost equal to the close of the first candle.

Gator Oscillator Indicator of Bill Williams

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Gator Oscillator (gator comes from the word alligator as this animal is used as an analogy to describe the indicator) is a technical indicator which helps visualize the periods in which the Alligator indicator expands or shrinks. It was developed by Bill Williams in his Theory of Chaos and is currently a widely used indicator for traders and investor in all kinds of markets including Forex.

It is used to study the bullish or bearish trends of a financial asset. So, depending on the value of the histogram that represents it, it indicates the phase of the market trend in which the financial asset is located.

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Momentum Indicator

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Momentum is one of the indicators used regularly in technical analysis. This indicator measures the acceleration in prices by comparing the closing price of the last session with the closing price of past sessions. The fact that it allows to observe the speed of movement in prices – in its graphical representation this would be seen as a change in … Read more

Fibonacci Pivot Points

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Summary: In this article we describe the use and calculation of Fibonacci Pivot Points, a little known variant compared with traditional pivot points. The novelty about this tool is that it interestingly combines the pivots and Fibonacci sequence to determine support and resistance levels where there is high probability that the market made ​​major moves.

The pivot points in its different variations can be used in two ways: to display the main trend in the market that we are analyzing or to display price levels in which we can open and close a position. To identify the direction, if the price level of the pivot point is crossed in an upward motion, then we can say that the market is bullish, but if the break occurs in a downward movement, then the market is bearish. Generally, if prices remain above the pivot point then the upward trend will continue until an event cause a reverse in the price movement and when the price remains below this level then the market will continue its downward direction until something happens that force a change in the current trend.

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Ascending Triangle Chart Pattern

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The Ascending triangle is a common chart pattern that is used in making market technical analysis and consists of a clear shape with 2 trend lines. This formation is used by many traders that operate regularly in financial markets like Forex. When it comes to ascending triangle, 1 trend lines is set horizontally which prevents the rate from going higher whereas the 2nd trend line joins the increasing trough series. Investors march forward to take over the long positions while the rates break towards the high resistance.

As the ascending triangle is usually deliberated as a continuation chart pattern, it is found during the consolidation period during the uptrend. When the breakthrough happens, buyers keep sending the rates insistently for the assets with higher value and probably they will be of higher volume as well. The pricing objective is usually fixed to the entry rate complementing the vertical height in the triangle.

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Symmetrical Triangle Chart Pattern

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The Symmetrical Triangle is a chart formation that is also addressed as a coil and it is generally formed while the trend occurs as a continuation pattern. This pattern incorporates 2 lower highs and 2 higher lows. While the points get connected, then it forms a Symmetrical triangle by means of line coverage. Moreover the connectors remain wide in the start and it gets narrowed down at last. Although it is a trend continuation pattern, many reports have shown the importance of symmetrical triangle and even they play a dominant role in the trend reversals. They result with a continuation with the present market trend. Never mind whether it is reversal or continuation, the succeeding moves could be fairly discovered by means of a potential breakout.

Generally, price action within the triangle is usually identified by zigzag movements of three waves. This is better understood if one observes the following example:

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Alligator Technical Indicator

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This indicator was designed to detect market trends by reading the distance between three moving averages. The Alligator is a very dynamic and easy to use technical indicator. It was discovered by Bill Williams who presented it in the book Trading Chaos (published 1995 by Marketplace Books, Inc.). This is a powerful indicator that combines moving averages, nonlinear dynamics and fractal theory in a technical indicator that is widely used by traders for confirmation of market trends in many financial markets such as Forex.
 

Most of the time, the market remains stationary. In fact, it is estimated that only 15 -30 percent of the time, the market moves with a clear trend either up or down, which are the periods when most traders take their profits. For this reason, the famous Bill Williams sought to develop an indicator that would serve precisely to provide entry signals in the periods when the market is most active, mainly those in which the price moves with a definite trend.

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