Study Notes: Oscillators
I am currently studying the brilliant Babypips.com materials on Technical Analysis.
I'm capturing my study notes on live chart examples.
These are notes from:
babypips.com/learn/forex/leading-indicators-oscillators
Takeaways:
- Oscillators are great at giving signal for trend changes
- But they often get ahead of the game and assume *every* fluctuation in momentum is a trend change
- Oscillators fluctuate between buy and sell signals, think of a desktop fan that goes from left-right
Examples:
- Parabolic SAR, Stoch, RSI
My own thoughts:
- Using all oscillators together and looking for 'agreement' might be a nice approach. Charts with decent price history allow you to see how reliable this has been in the past, as a gauge of probability.
- Ichi Clouds is the only indicator that successfully works as a full trading system. You can see these ones have a modest hitrate - only to be used to support a rationale rather than drive it.
I'm capturing my study notes on live chart examples.
These are notes from:
babypips.com/learn/forex/leading-indicators-oscillators
Takeaways:
- Oscillators are great at giving signal for trend changes
- But they often get ahead of the game and assume *every* fluctuation in momentum is a trend change
- Oscillators fluctuate between buy and sell signals, think of a desktop fan that goes from left-right
Examples:
- Parabolic SAR, Stoch, RSI
My own thoughts:
- Using all oscillators together and looking for 'agreement' might be a nice approach. Charts with decent price history allow you to see how reliable this has been in the past, as a gauge of probability.
- Ichi Clouds is the only indicator that successfully works as a full trading system. You can see these ones have a modest hitrate - only to be used to support a rationale rather than drive it.
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