Rick Orford
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LATEST ARTICLES
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Bolster Your Trading Strategy With The Volume Oscillator
We’ve discussed various technical indicators in our previous posts. Relative strength index, moving averages, 52-week highs, and exotic-sounding TA indicators like Ichimoku Kinko Hyo have all been dissected here. All such indicators have distinct advantages and weaknesses, and we’ve discussed where they can be best employed. Aside from that, you’ll notice that we always emphasize…
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Get Ready to Trade Reversals Using the Wedge Pattern!
We talked about triangle patterns in our last pattern article. If you’ve started to apply the strategy in your trading and investing, you’ll notice that some patterns that ostensibly look like triangles don’t quite fit with the usual ascending, symmetrical, or descending arrangements because of how their trendlines converge. If that’s the case, you’re probably…
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Should You Be Wary of the Death Cross?
Technical analysis is full of fun little terms like “bear trap,” “gravestone doji,” “falling knife,” “widow maker,” and “doomsday call.” Each term represents a specific scenario or pattern analysts use in everyday trading — and they’re usually not as bad as they sound. However, one chart pattern stands “head and shoulders” above those ominous expressions…
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Buy High, Sell Higher with 52-Week High Breakouts
One of the most oft-repeated lines in investing is “buy low, sell high.” It makes perfect sense since that is, in essence, how to make money off the stock market. Many people took this adage and made it the central concept of their trading strategy. They scan for stocks wallowing in the deep end of…
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From Pattern to Profits, a Primer on Triangle Patterns
Technical Analysis is one of the most well-known trading and investing strategies, and pattern trading is among the most popular TA methods. Pattern trading seeks to impose order upon the market’s seemingly random, chaotic movements. Many chart patterns exist, like the double top, head and shoulders, and more. Today we’ll discuss the triangle pattern, one…
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Enhance Your Trend Trading Strategy With ADX!
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could tell the strength of an ongoing trend for a certain stock to improve your trading strategy? Well, I’ve got some good news for you — there is a way to do that! Let me tell you all about the ADX Indicator. What is ADX? The Average Directional Index…
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Choose Your Weapons! A Closer Look At EMA and SMA
Investors will encounter different sets of technical indicators like RSI, MACD, Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands, etc. Two of the most common ones are Exponential and Simple Moving Averages. Newbie traders and investors may be confused about the difference between these indicators and how to apply them to their investing strategies. In this article, we will…
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How To Use Momentum in Your Trading Strategy With the Power of RSI
Wondering how to use momentum in your trading strategy with the power of the Relative Strength Index or RSI? Let’s face it, consistently profiting in the financial markets is difficult. It requires a lot of research and testing of strategies to find the elusive “holy grail” of trading. Most literature would tell us that there…
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Get’em While They’re Hot: 3 Previously Oversold Dividend Kings
2022 was one of the most challenging periods for investors in the stock market, from persistent inflation to consecutive interest rate hikes that lasted till this year. These ongoing macroeconomic issues created a lot of difficulties for most investors. Throughout the year, investors remained skeptical about the prospects of improvement as analysts continued to predict…
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Harness the Power of Statistics – A Primer on Beta
Risks always go hand in hand with investing. Although returns are the selling point of investing and creating wealth, risks are like the monsters that hide under your bed, ready to grab your arm when you least expect it. Most beginners encounter the allure of high returns without fully understanding that it comes with commensurately…
