Recent content by sgsaxton

Thanks for your reply. You are quite right I did mean the Linear regression Moving Average. I've used it to determine strength or weakness. i.e if the price rallies and then falls back below the Lin Reg Ma one would look to put on a short position. How ever it has a tendency to overhshoot and...

thanks for your input all. Does anyone use it? It amazes me how little information I've been able to find out about it beyond the theoretical. No methodologies what-so-ever. :confused: Yet its included in almost all software packages.

That depends on what you use it for, how you use it and what your definition of reliable is. Price by itself is unreliable. At any given point in time it can do anything. A moving average crossover is unreliable by its self and means very little but at a support or resistance level it can...

I've been tinkering with this thing since January and sometimes found it useful for entries. Does anyone use it? What's its real purpose? Thanks, Steve

I agree but even then with discretion, based on price action. It can stop you out even though the price is going your way, just because it ratchets down over time. I've also used the Linear Regression in a similar way, but that too can do the same thing. While we're on that subject, what is...

Depending on the markets behavior, I 'll sometimes use it for exits. Other times I use price or time.