Recent content by Black Tulip

Dear Trader T, I'm afraid the answer really is 'whatever makes sense to you'! Generally speaking though, I would use the highs and lows to draw a trend-line. I'm sure you will already appreciate that there are many ways of using trend-lines to help you identify what the price action is doing -...

Hi Trader T, Many apologies for the delay in getting back to you. Various reasons which I won't bore you with! Yes, the STA and Ichimoku Clouds is a bit of a funny one. Clearly it is part of the syllabus BUT not part of the HSC. I pointed this out to them and they did send me some information...

Hi everyone. Did the Home Study course (HSC) about 18 months ago so given my experiences of that and my subsequent membership of the Society of Technical Analysts, I'll answer the last 2 posts together: 1. The HSC is almost enough to for the exam (as I've said before, it is well presented and...

Hi Brad, The exam is, as you say, 3 hours long during which time you have to do the following: a) Analyse about 14 charts of the same security over different time periods with different indicators in order to produce a report which provides a short-, medium- and long-term forecast with...

Hi there - first post (ever) so be gentle with me! Yes, I did the STA Home Study course earlier in the year. It's a 700-page odd CD-ROM covering everything from oscillators, candlestick patterns etc through to Gann Theory and Market Profiling. I'd been trading for about a year before I did it...