Articles for: Technical Analysis

As a general baseline of analysis, history gives us an indication of how our markets will react at current levels.

The market fall may be mostly over but there is still more pain ahead – for the US dollar, anyway. On the flipside, currencies like the lil’ Aussie battler are set to rise further.

Trading breakouts is a popular technical trading method that can be applied in a variety of styles.

It is several years since I have seen such controversy and diversity of opinion amongst the bears and the bulls about market direction.

From the low created in the beginning of 2005, Cotton (CT-SpotV) could not break through the resistance met at around 58 cents.

The last two weeks have been interesting in our local markets to say the least. Since the August 2007 lows around 60% of our ASX Sectors have managed to recover to a reasonable level.

I read with curiosity a personal finance article (in Australia) about fixing your home loan interest rate. Well, whether you fix it is going to depend on what part of the globe you live in.

Bollinger Bands are one of the most widely used and well regarded technical indicators around. One of the reasons for their popularity is that they are a directional analysis tool as well as a measure of volatility.

To believe in the predictive power of analysis is to accept a couple of assumptions.

I am talking about black gold and not ‘good oil’ in the sense of the ‘low down’ or ‘secret information’.