Types of Trading Analysis

There are 2 types of analysis you can take when approaching the forex: Fundamental analysis and Technical analysis. There has always been a constant debate as to which analysis is better, but to tell you the truth, you need to know a little bit of both.

Fundamental analysis:

Fundamental analysis is a method used to evaluate the worth of a security by studying the financial data of the issuer. It scrutinizes the issuer’s income and expenses, assets and liabilities, management, and position in its industry. In other words, it focuses on the “basics” of the business.

Technical analysis:

Technical analysis is a method used to evaluate the worth of a security by studying market statistics. Unlike fundamental analysis, technical analysis disregards an issuer’s financial statements. Instead, it relies upon market trends to ascertain investor sentiment to predict how a security will perform.If you want to use technical analysis to help you make an investment decision, you will refer to financial charts, tables and ratios found in the financial press.

Technical analysis can be conditionally divided into some main parts such as:

Types of charts.

Graphical methods.

Analytical methods.

Technical indicators.

Charts

All charts are potted with time on the x-axis and the currency pair on the y-axis. Each time period on our real time charts can range from a tick by tick a weekly interval (the tick refers to each individual pip movement).

Here’re the most popular types of charts:

Line Charts

A line chart simple a graph of the value of a currency taken at regular time intervals based on current prices. Below is a LINE CHART.

Bar Charts

Bar chart is graphic representation of price action using a vertical bar to connect the highest price to the lowest price during a period. The opening price is displayed as a horizontal line on the left side of the bar.The closing price is displayed as a horizontal line on the right side of the bar.Bar charts can be constructed for any time period in which prices are available. Traditionally, the most popular time interval for bar chart is hourly chart. However, since the wide availability of the real time prices, it is commen to use smaller time interval such as 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 5 minutes, 1 minuteBelow is a BAR CHART

Candlestick Charts

Candlestick Charts identical to a bar chart in the information conveyed, but presented in an entirely different visual context. The candlestick encapsulates the open, high, low and close of the trading period in a single candle.Candlestick charts are much more visually appealing than a standard two-dimensional bar chart. As in a standard bar chart, there are four elements necessary to construct a candlestick chart, the OPEN, HIGH, LOW and CLOSING price for a given time period. Below are examples of candlesticks and a definition for each candlestick.

What is a Candlestick?

While we briefly covered candlestick charts in the previous lesson, we’ll now dig in a little and discuss them more in detail.

Back in the day when Godzilla was still a cute little lizard, the Japanese created their own old school version of technical analysis to trade rice. A westerner by the name of Steve Nison “discovered” this secret technique on how to read charts from a fellow Japanese broker and Japanese candlesticks lived happily ever after. Steve researched, studied, lived, breathed, ate candlesticks, began writing about it and slowly grew in popularity in 90.

Candlesticks are formed using the open, high, low and close.

If the close is above the open, then a hollow candlestick (usually displayed as white) is drawn.

If the close is below the open, then a filled candlestick (usually displayed as black) is drawn.

The hollow or filled section of the candlestick is called the “real body” or body.

The thin lines poking above and below the body display the high/low range and are called shadows.

The top of the upper shadow is the “high”.

The bottom of the lower shadow is the “low”.

Candlestick Chart Terms

Candlestick chart patterns are very popular in forex trading because they are the main part of technical analysis. On all chart modules, users can toggle between line, bar and candlestick chart view.

The candle consists of two parts: the body and the shadows. The body reflects the open and closing price for the certain period. The candle body is black if the close price below the open, and white if the close was higher than the open for the period. The candlestick shadow reflects the intra-period high and low prices. (Note: In candlestick charting the following periods are often used; 5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, daily and weekly). Long shadows, show that the trading extended well beyond the opening and/or closing price, while short shadows, show that trading was confined closely to the open and/or closing price.

Basic Candlestick Patterns

Candlesticks with a long upper shadow, long lower shadow and small real bodies are called spinning tops. The color of the real body is not very important.

The small real body (whether hollow or filled) shows little movement from open to close, and the shadows indicate that both buyers and sellers were fighting but nobody could gain the upper hand.

If a spinning top forms during an uptrend, this usually means there aren’t many buyers left and a possible reversal in direction could occur.

If a spinning top forms during a downtrend, this usually means there aren’t many sellers left and a possible reversal in direction could occur.

CandleStick Patterns & Reversal Patterns

What do Candlesticks look like?

Candlestick charts are much more visually appealing than a standard two-dimensional bar chart. As in a standard bar chart, there are four elements necessary to construct a candlestick chart, the OPEN, HIGH, LOW and CLOSING price for a given time period.

The body of the candlestick is called the real body, and represents the range between the open and closing prices. A black or filled-in body represents that the close during that time period was lower than the open, (normally considered bearish) and when the body is open or white, that means the close was higher than the open (normally bullish). The thin vertical line above and/or below the real body is called the upper/lower shadow, representing the high/low price extremes for the period (one period of time measures the duration of selling or buying within the market).

ForexGen Putting It All Together

In a perfect world, we could take just one of these indicators and trade strictly by what that indicator told us. The problem is that we DON’T live in a perfect world, and each of these indicators has imperfections. That is why many traders combine different indicators together so that they can “screen” each other.

We urge you to study each indicator on its own until you know EXACTLY how it reacts to price movement, and then come up with your own combination that fits your trading style. Later on in the course, we will show you a system that combines different indicators to give you an idea of how they can compliment each other.

Everything you learn about trading is like a tool that is being added to your trader’s toolbox. Your tools will make it easier for you to “build” your trading account

Putting It All Together With ForexGen

Bollinger Bands

Used to measure the market’s volatility.

They act like mini support and resistance levels.

Bollinger Bounce.

A strategy that relies on the notion that price tends to always return to the middle of the Bollinger Bands.

You buy when the price hits the lower Bollinger band.

Bollinger Squeeze

A strategy that is used to catch breakouts early.

When the Bollinger bands “squeeze” the price, it means that the market is very quiet, and a breakout is eminent

ForexGen`s MACD

Used to catch trends early and can also help us spot trend reversals .

It consists of 2 moving averages (1 fast, 1 slow) and vertical lines called a histogram, which measures the distance between the 2 moving averages.

Contrary to what many people think, the moving average lines are NOT moving averages of the price. They are moving averages of other moving averages.

MACD’s downfall is its lag because it uses so many moving averages.

One way to use MACD is to wait for the fast line to “cross over” or “cross under” .

ForexGen`s Parabolic SAR

This indicator is made to spot trend reversals; hence the name Parabolic Stop And Reversal (SAR)

This is the easiest indicator to interpret because it only gives bullish and bearish signals.

When the dots are above the candles, it is a sell signal.

When the dots are below the candles, it is a buy signal.

These are best used in trending markets

ForexGen`s Parabolic SAR

This indicator is made to spot trend reversals; hence the name Parabolic Stop And Reversal (SAR)

This is the easiest indicator to interpret because it only gives bullish and bearish signals.

When the dots are above the candles, it is a sell signal.

When the dots are below the candles, it is a buy signal.

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

Relative Strength Index, or RSI mean

A technical indicator used to compare the magnitude of recent gains to recent losses to determine overbought and oversold conditions in the market. . It can be calculated using the this formula:

RSI=100
100- 1+rs

readings below 20 refer to oversold, while readings over 80 indicate overbought. the RSI ranges from 0 to 100

The RSI is best used as a valuable complement to other stock-picking tools. Relative Strength Index, or RSI, is like the stochastic in that it means overbought and oversold conditions in the market.

RSI is a famous tool because it can be used to indicate the trend formations. When you find a trend is forming, you can take a look at the RSI and look at if it is up or under 50.

Stochastics

A stochastic is an oscillator that will help us measure the overbought and oversold conditions in the market .The Stochastic is an another indicator to help us to know where a trend will be ending.

The Stochastic are scaled from 0 to 100.The stochastic tells us when the market is overbought or oversold.
When the stochastic lines are under 30 (the green line), it means that the market is oversold ,When the stochastic lines are up 70 (the red line in the chart) it means the market is overbought.

Stochastics are another indicators used to helps us to determine where a trend will be ending.A stochastic is an oscillator that measures overbought and oversold conditions in the market.

HOW TO APPLY STOCHASTICS
The stochastics let us know when the market is overbought or oversold. When the stochastic lines are under 30 (the green line) ,it means that the market is oversold but When the stochastic lines are up 70 (the red line), it means that the market is oversold

MACD

Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)

A trend indicator used to show the relation between two moving averages of prices.

with the MACD chart ,You will see three numbers
• 1- the number of periods used to calculate the faster moving average.
• 2-the number of periods used to calculate the slower moving average
• 3- the number of bars used to differentiate between the fast and slow moving averages.

MACD crossover is a signal to buy or sell
re are 2 moving averages with different speed, the faster will be quicker to react to price movement than the slower.

THR MACD STILL ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS TYPES USED BY MANY TRADERS

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