It is also worth noting that due to the fact that there are no indicators underneath the price,
like the MACD and Stochastic in the above chart, you have a completely uninhibited view of price which allows for a less distorted and larger view of the price action than if you had multiple indicators taking up the bottom portion of your screen as can be seen in the chart above.
The other problem with lagging indicators
like MACD and moving averages is that they will chop you to pieces in consolidating markets; firing off buy and sell signals just as the market is about ready to reverse and re-test the other side of the trading range or consolidation area.
If
you like MACD but would prefer using it in absolute values then the Percentage price Oscillator is the way to go.
If you're going to do it, you should combine it with a good trading system or, at least, other strong trading techniques —
like MACD divergence.
As it is based on volume, you must interpret it differently from price oscillators
like MACD and RSI.
Not exact matches
Like Workday, the pullback happened on low volume, and Lang noticed the
MACD indicator approaching the same kind of bullish crossover it made in Salesforce's chart.
Golden cross breakout signals can be utilized with various momentum oscillators
like stochastic, moving average convergence divergence (
MACD) and relative strength index (RSI) to track when the uptrend is overbought and oversold.
I find that the supplementary rules help to identify more complex pullbacks
like a wedge, but the a better entry signals can usually be found based on the chart pattern rather than waiting for a
MACD buy signal.
I personally prefer using more quantified trading signals
like price support and resistance levels, moving averages,
MACD, and RSI to take out as much of my opinions as possible from my trading decisions.
looks to me
like the signal line is called the
macd line here?
Traders often combine lagging indicators as well,
like the stochastic oscillator, RSI,
MACD, etc., in search overbought / oversold conditions or even hidden divergence occurring at these specific Fibonacci levels.
What should be the parameters values to get similar
MACD like in Bloomberg's chart?
This group of traders use all of the techniques of the first school of price action traders, yet they often combine price action with indicators
like the stochastic oscillator, RSI,
MACD, bollinger bands, etc... and many combinations of western indicators.
Oscillators
like RSI, stochastics, and
MACD are powerful tools if you know how to use them.
The indicator, created by Marc Chaikin, produces values for buying and selling pressure
like other money flow indicators but also uses two exponential moving averages to determine momentum in a similar way that the moving average convergence divergence (
MACD) indicator does.
I
like to use the analogy of traders in the pits of the major stock and commodity exchanges; do you think those guys are looking at
MACD, Stochastics, Elliot Wave or other «BS» indicators?
Then,
like the earlier pair of USD / JPY, the calculation gets a little messy here as the cross of the moving average hadn't occurred at the time when
MACD went below the zero line as it did with the EUR / USD pair.
You can also use technical indicators
like moving averages and
MACD.
Technical indicators
like (EMA, SMA,
MACD, RSI, STOCHASTICS, VOLUME, OPEN INTEREST, ADX, BOLLINGER - BANDS)
Like Accumulation distribution line (ADL), Know sure thing (KST), Aroon indicator, simple moving average (SMA), Moving average convergence divergence (
MACD), Accumulation distribution line (ADI), Negative volume index (NVI) etc..
In this webinar, we begin to layer technical indicators
like Moving Averages,
MACD and RSI on to our understanding of trends to develop a deeper assessment of price action.
Since a market's P.A. reflects all variables affecting that market for any given period of time, using lagging price indictors
like stochastics,
MACD, RSI, and others is just a flat waste of time.
The
MACD is easing into the signal line and looks
like it may just kiss it and move on.
It doesn't require off - chart indicators i.e indicators that appear independently under the chart window
like RSI, stochastics,
MACD and so on.
In this article, I'm going to show you how to trade
MACD divergence
like the pros.
Some indicators such as
MACD or Stochastic have multiple lines all up on each other
like teenagers with raging hormones.
Ask yourself why so many traders fail so often with quick - fix, complex, and outrageous «magic» trading methods
like Elliot wave, Fibonacci extensions, and indicators
like Stochastics,
MACD and RSI... this stuff is haphazard at best and catalysts for blowing out your trading account at worst.
Stay informed of important indicator crossovers
like moving averages,
MACD and RSI.
I
like to filter it with other tools such as
MACD, Wilder's parabolic, etc..
Ranging from Bollinger Bands to
MACD and Stochastic RSI, users are able to customize the design and layout to their
liking.