Archive for December, 2006
Technical Indicators: Rate of Change (ROC) and Momentum
Momentum and Rate of Change (ROC) indicators actually display the exact same information. The indicators are designed to measure the optimism or pessimism of investors in the market with regards to the stock in question. The way they do this is by measuring the closing price of a stock relative to the closing price of [...]
read more »Technical Indicators: Fast and Slow Stochastic
The stochastic oscillator is another technical indicator designed to oscillate in a range of numbers (0 to 100) and tells the reader whether or not the stock is overbought or oversold. It looks vaguely similar to MACD in the sense that there are two lines graphed on the graph and signals are often made when [...]
read more »Technical Indicators: On-Balance Volume
On Balance Volume (OBV) is a very simple statistic that can often be very helpful when trying to determine if whether or not volume movements have been favorable or unfavorable. it was created by Joseph Granville in the 70s and has since become one of the more popular technical indicators used by today’s investors. It [...]
read more »Technical Indicators: Relative Strength Index
And, today, we dive back into lower indicators or charts which are not graphed directly on the price chart. We’ve already discussed a few of these, MACD and Volume/Volume+, but now we’ll go through all the available ones on bigcharts.com. The one pictured as the third chart in the picture above is the Relative Strength [...]
read more »A Simple Breakout/Trend Reversal System
Well, now that we’ve spent a little time getting to know some basic technical indicators and how to read a stock chart, it would seem to be a good time to put it all together in a simple system which will allow us to find stocks to invest in. Right now, it may seem awkward [...]
read more »Weekend Websites: Silver Jewelry Club
Apologies for not posting last night. We’ll continue with the technical indicators series next week. For now, it’s the weekend! And, it’s time for a weekend diversion. I think this one will more than make up for missing a post. Continuing in the series of sites to save money on, I have found one just [...]
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