Category: Technical Indicator

  • Heiken Ashi candlestick chart

    Heiken Ashi candlestick chart

  • Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Charts

    Ichimoku Kinko Hyo charts

  • Fibonacci Arcs

    In the spread betting example below you can see how the Fibonacci levels are used in a form of Fibonacci Arcs. As you can see the Arcs are the projection of the Fibonacci levels: 38.2% 50% and 61.8% In the spread betting strategy below the 38.2% retracement and the 61.8% retracement proved to be strong…

  • Fibonacci

    Fibonacci Retracements are ratios used to identify potential reversal levels. Trader’s use these to predict where support or resistance levels are. The most popular Fibonacci Retracements are 61.8% and 38.2%. Fibonacci numbers were identified by Leonardo Fibonacci, represent ratios that naturally occurred in Nature. Fibonacci numbers are simply a series of numbers that when you…

  • Bollinger Bands breakout strategy (the squeeze)

    Now we will show you completely the opposite of what we showed you earlier. This is a Bollinger band breakout strategy. This spread betting strategy works especially when prices have been trading in a range and there has been no decision on direction. Then suddenly they move either lower or higher and break out of…

  • Bollinger Bands mean reversion strategy

    As we stated in our previous page the Bollinger Band is created by two bands around the 20 moving average centre line, and these two bands are the 2 standard deviation. In statistics, the 2 standard deviation contains 95.4% of the price movement. Normally,  the price will move away from the centre line towards the…

  • Bollinger Bands

    Bollinger bands are a measurement of volatility. This is a very popular indicator created by John Bollinger. They can be used in many different ways. These are created by measuring the 2 standard deviation from a 20 day moving average of the price.They have three part to this technical indicator:   The moving average: This…

  • Parabolic SAR

    The Parabolic Time/Price System or better known as the Parabolic SAR is an entry and exit system created by J.Wells Wilder. SAR = “Stop and Reverse” . It combines price and time components to generate your spread betting long or short signals. The Parabolic SAR adapts to the change. It is also an effective tool…

  • Parabolic SAR Stop loss

      As we mentioned earlier the Parabolic SAR Technical Indicator can function as an area where to place your stoploss, this is both to protect your wins while the trend increases or to minimize your loss when the trend goes against you. The Effectiveness of the Parabolic SAR as a stop loss tool: 1) Initial…

  • ZigZag – Practicle use

    Not many spread betting platforms offer the ZIGZAG, but if you find it it does help in your analysis and projection. Example many Elliot wave chartists could use the ZigZag line to filter out noise when doing their count. The ZigZag settings to be applied is subjective o the individual doing the count, and how…