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Hi! Different market conditions require different indicators. For example: trend-following indicators work well in trending times when volatility is low. According to 'Curtis Faith' book 'Way of the Turtle' you can classify a time series in two dimensions: 1. The strength of the trend 2. The...

With market scanning software there is one big problem. Statistically:When picking samples from a very large population you will always get stocks wih extreme patterns. It is better to use a smaller pool of scanned items, not more than 100-200 stocks. I use portfolio or market scanning...

I'm using Optimal Trader to scan for stocks, (but mostly for mutual funds) I'm scanning with neural network prediction combined with various trend detection filters and volatility-change-detection. the only drawback is that you have to add symbols manually(that is 100 symbols for the ftse100)...

The smoother the curve, the more delayed the trading signals will arrive. There are no really good ways around this, I'm afraid. But, you can improve the smoothing a bit by making the smoothing more intelligent than simply calculating an average of the last x days...there are several adaptive...

Theoretically, Forex markets should not be suitable for TA. The Hurst Exponent, an estimate of a signals predictability, is very close to 0.5 for currencies.... More on the Hurst Exponent: Description of the the Hurst Exponent or Hurst Exponent and Technical Analysis

Wow...interesting video... Why is the forex market so full of bull****ting scammers? It's not like that in other markets....

There are no general good settings for MACD which produce better solutions than a simple buy-and-hold strategy! If there were, it would have been far to easy to detect! But you can improve MACD by making it more intelligent. The results are smoother curves and with less delay. Moving Average...

Try Optimal Trader Only $99/y with a good user guide. Includes technical analysis ( quite technical if you want to..), market scanner (though you have to add the symbols manually), data back to the 80's and interesting new solutions regarding technical analysis... I'm mostly using it to pick...