Recent content by Giorgos Siligardos

Introduction In his 1978 book “New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems” J. Welles Wilder Jr. presented several methods and trading techniques which became classic. In that book Mr., Wilder introduced one of the most widely used technical oscillators today: The Relative Strength Index (RSI for...

As of this writing (March 17, 2008), the status of interest rates sends some important messages to the stock market investors. This article aims at reading and decoding these messages. Debt Securities and the Stock Market In his book, "Intermarket Technical Analysis" (see [2]), John Murphy...

Virtual Trading (VT) is a general term referring to hypothetical trades made by a trader for either practicing or for evaluation of his/her methodology. You may have also heard the term "Paper Trading" which is usually used interchangeably with VT. In fact, the days prior the rush of personal...

The end of 2007 was characterized by extreme values in various indicators of stock market analysis. In this article I will review and analyze four of them. I will use the term "indicator" here not necessarily according to the technical analysis jargon but rather as a set of clues (either...

In this article we take a more detailed look at more advanced money and trade management strategies. Introduction The term “Trade Management” refers to methods and manipulations which can be followed before and after a trade has been made to ensure a protection from undesirable movements of the...

Breakouts out of trading ranges are of the most respected price movements by technical analysts. Trend followers adore them and short term swing traders who base their decisions upon overbought-oversold situations get anxious at their appearance. Technical analysis textbooks have a special...