Archive for the 'Technical Analysis' Category


Technical Indicators: Rate of Change (ROC) and Momentum

Monday, December 11th, 2006

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 […]

Technical Indicators: Fast and Slow Stochastic

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

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 […]

Technical Indicators: On-Balance Volume

Friday, December 8th, 2006

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 […]

Technical Indicators: Relative Strength Index

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

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 […]

Technical Indicators: Parabolic SAR

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

After a small digression into lower indicators yesterday, we’re returning to the upper indicators, or indicators which are graphed on the price chart, today. This is the last of the available indicators on bigcharts.com and, hopefully after reading this part of the series, you’ll have at least a good idea of the information that each […]

Technical Indicators: Exponential Moving Averages and MACD

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Another moving average that is often used when evaluating potential stocks is the exponential moving average (EMA). EMAs are different from the simple moving averages that we have discussed in that they are exponentially weighted towards recent closing prices. As a result, an EMA is more sensitive to price changes. This makes using EMAs very […]


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