Articles for: Technical Indicators

With the equity markets still in disarray from the tight global credit environment, many observers will be looking forward to 2009 with continued pessimism.

In the last edition of the Trading Tutors Newsletter I wrote an article about picking strong or weak sectors and choosing long or short trading opportunities within those sectors.

One way that major financial institutions go about their stock selection is to employ a process known as top down analysis.

Albert Einstein said that the solution to any problem should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Bonds are interest rate instruments which often emit clues as to where the equity market might go.

As I write this article on 18 September, 2008, the ASX200 has fallen 4%. You can almost smell the blood in the streets.

Moving averages have long been a favourite tool of technical analysts because of their simplicity and predictive power.

Politicians have a knack for changing horses in midstream, waffling on policy according to public sentiment.

Well well wouldn’t you know it? The banks have finally declared an increase in provisions for write offs.

I was reading through the Number One Trading Plan again on the weekend, and revisiting Section 11 – Price Forecasting, which is one of my favourite sections.