Indicators
Bollinger Bands and ATR: measuring volatility, not direction
Two tools that answer 'how much does this move?' rather than 'which way?'. Why that question decides your stop distance — and therefore your position size.
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Indicators
MACD explained: momentum from two moving averages
The MACD line, the signal line and the histogram — what each one is, what a crossover really tells you, and why the histogram often speaks first.
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Indicators
Moving averages: the indicator everything else is built on
A smoothed line of past prices, and the four honest uses it has. Why crossovers lag, and what a moving average genuinely tells you that price alone does not.
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Indicators
RSI explained: why overbought does not mean sell
The Relative Strength Index measures the speed of recent gains against recent losses. What the 70 and 30 lines actually mark, and the one RSI signal worth more than either.
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Indicators
Stochastics and KDJ — and how to stop adding indicators
The last oscillator family, and the closing argument of this series: why three indicators measuring the same thing is worse than one, and what to do instead.
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