When you discuss technical analysis, especially where its applications in the Forex market are concerned,
it's important to understand its basic underlying principle. Simply stated, past price fluctuations (historical) will influence and help to predict future price activity. Additionally, it is important to realize that no matter what type of asset is being gauged or monitored that technical analysis remains unchanged in function. The aspects of technical analysis are what changes or fluctuates, not the premise it is based upon.
Common Indicators
Predicting any future fluctuations or movement in exchange rates normally results from traders using a variety of indicators combined with the support of or the resistance to them. The interpretation of all the different technical indicators is a subject field unto itself and will be covered at another point in time. Due to their popularity, the technical indicators worth mentioning (and possibly studying in the future) are:
* Bollinger bands
* Fibonacci retracement
* moving averages
* moving average convergence divergence (MACD)
* stochastics
Minimal Rate Inconsistencies
Hedge funds and the larger banks are considered two of the major players in the Forex market, and all of them employ the use of computers and sophisticated software in order to constantly monitor fluctuations and movements of currency exchange rates. More importantly, they use their computer system software another important reason --- to monitor any noticeable inconsistencies between the different currency pairings.
Taking their systems and software applications into consideration, most of the major inconsistencies that are encountered are normally gone with the blink of an eye. In other words, they only last for a few seconds. Many investors and traders utilize technical analysis because it makes presumptions (not assumptions, big difference here) about key factors that will influence a currency's movement in the Forex market. This would include factors classified as the following:
* Economical
* Political
* Psychological
* Social
The presumption is that all of these factors are taken in consideration by the technical analysis format that is used and therefore have been factored into the exchange rates used by the current market being studied. Because so many investors now participate and so much money changes hands, what becomes of major importance is the flow of all that capital rather than attempting to identify rates that are incorrectly priced.
Trend or Range
The determination of movement that two paired currencies make in certain directions, as well as predicting whether or not those currencies travel sideways in a "range-bound" manner, is always the goal of investors and traders that are very successful in the FX market. Once you take that premise into consideration, it becomes apparent that the tendency is to draw trend lines and patterns that connect the higher levels of the past which have in turn prevented an exchange rate to appreciate or depreciate.
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Probably most of you have taken a course or studied the use of charts in the past. This should add to your knowledge about choosing the right carts and reading these charts correctly. There are several good charting packages available free. I use and what I recommend you "Netdania". Using Charts Effectively The default number of periods on these charts is 300. Here are a few good starting points if you are new to charting and technical analysis: Hourly chart that's about 12 days of data, 15 minute chart its 3 days of data, 5-minute chart it's slightly more than 24 hours of data. You can create multiple "tabs" or "layouts" so that it's easy to quickly switch between charts or sets of charts.
