The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Honestly, I used to stare at candlestick charts feeling like I was trying to read ancient runes. I’d spot a sudden spike, get excited, jump in, and then watch the price reverse like a mischievous Loki pulling a prank. After a few painful losses I asked myself: Is there a way to cut through the noise and see the real trend? That question sent me on a quest for the holy…
The Golden Cross is one of the oldest signals in technical analysis. When the 50-day moving average crosses above the 200-day moving average, it signals potential bullish strength. The opposite — the Death Cross — signals weakness and a potential exit. Simple in theory. But how far can you actually push a golden cross strategy when […]
This blog focuses on helping traders identify market trends and make more confident trading decisions using five popular technical indicators: Moving Averages, ADX, MACD, RSI, and Bollinger Bands. Each is explained with examples and accompanied by Python code snippets to help you implement them in your own strategy.
Before diving into this blog, it’s important to understand the fundamentals of te…
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By Mario Pisa Peña
In this post, we will review the well-known technical analysis pattern called Head and Shoulders and we will analyze the trading rules that will allow us to take advantage of this price configuration to take a position in the market.
Candlestick patterns are one way to interpret the price trend of a particular asset.
The main points we will review in this post are:
In this post…
