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Old 09-11-2007, 02:20 AM
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What studies (MACD, RSI etc...) do you use most often?

Do you use the same ones intraday as compared to looking back on historical charts?

Why do you use the ones you do?

Just thought I'd start this up to get some discussion about this stuff, since it seems like there are a million and one "tools" out there, but everyone's got their favorites right?
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Old 09-11-2007, 09:34 AM
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I do not use the MACD, RSI, SAR when I am trading intraday. I do use them on daily charts to get an overall picture. Before I start trading intraday, some people even go back to the weekly chart, which is not a bad idea.

One indicator, I feel that one needs is the average true range. I have posted about this indicator before. It gives you an idea of what the range will be using a 14 day look back. For that day's trading. Then I used the five-minute chart and one minute chart to do my trading.

The ones I use are the Bollinger band, 50 EMA , 27 EMA, 10 Ema high , 8 EMA low, volatility indicator and a couple of more that I have design. Also use the correlation indicator.
All this is used on the intraday chart. Five minutes also use some of these on the daily chart to get an idea how the intraday chart might look like.

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Old 09-11-2007, 11:38 AM
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What studies (MACD, RSI etc...) do you use most often?

Do you use the same ones intraday as compared to looking back on historical charts?

Why do you use the ones you do?

Just thought I'd start this up to get some discussion about this stuff, since it seems like there are a million and one "tools" out there, but everyone's got their favorites right?
It really depends on the type of trading you do. I'd have to stay after I look at a chart i like, with a good trent I'm comfortable with, I use RSI first to get good buy points. Even though MACD is lagging, you can base yourself on what happened before to know if it works for the future.

Basically, I use a combination of Chaikin Money flow for Volume, RSI for OB/OS levels(and entry point), MACD for trend reversal(on a small scale) and Price relative to see how it's going compared to the major index. This is really fort short term plays though, not intraday.

For Intraday, I like the way chuck does it, how he approaches a stock's volatility. Not for me though, not now at least.

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Montréal and Dave, did not mean to step in between you guys thought the post was for me. Sorry about that guys.

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Montréal and Dave, did not mean to step in between you guys thought the post was for me. Sorry about that guys.
Post was for everyone chuck and dont you EVER hesitate to add on to anything .

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