Technical Analysis

Description: Options Trading, Technical Analysis, Analysis

Technical Studies - Different traders use different technical analysis which could be classified by a type of technical indicators used in the analysis. Overall all technical studies (indicators) could be divided into four categories: a) price based indicators; b) volume based; c) breadth indicators; d) combined studies.

Technical and Fundamental Analyses - Fundamental and technical analysis are completely different approaches to analyze security (stock, options, futures, etc). Yet, both these types of analysis have the same purpose - predict possible future trend of analyzed security with intention to make profitable investment.

Moving Average - Moving averages are the most popular and most used techniques in technical analysis. It could be correct to state that 90% of technical analysis is build on the mechanism of Moving Averages which are used alone, as components of various technical studies, to smooth out different indicators, to build signal lines, etc.

MACD - MACD abbreviation stands for Moving Average Convergence / Divergence. MACD is one of the commonly used indicators in technical analysis. This indicator was created by Gerald Appel in the 1960s. The MACD calculations are very simple and are based on the exponential moving average (EMA).

 

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