August 2008
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
6h 50m
English
book
Sentiment in the Forex Market: Indicators and Strategies to Profit from Crowd Behavior and Market Extremes
by Jamie Saettele
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104 SENTIMENT IN THE FOREX MARKET
These indicators work because markets do trend and markets do reverse
at optimistic and pessimistic extremes.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
One problem that traders, especially new traders, face is that there are so
many indicators to use. Which ones should you use? Many free charting
packages include at least a dozen or more indicators, and paid packages
include many more. The charting package that I use provides hundreds
of already programmed technical indicators. Traditionally, indicators are
classified as either trending or range. Moving averages are often consid-
ered to work better in trending markets and oscillators such as RSI, and
stochastics are considered to work better in range bound markets. Techni-
cal indicators are just a piece of the puzzle, along with sentiment indicators
(see Chapter 5) and price patterns.
Using these tools together will improve your odds for success. Finally,
there is no correct answer to the question, “What indicators should I use?”
Trading is very personal, and you should use what you feel most comfort-
able with. I will show you how I use the indicators that I use, which hope-
fully will inspire your ideas.
WHAT TIME FRAMES TO USE?
A study of price data, technical analysis can be classified as a statistical
study. Any statistician will tell you that the results ...
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