Technical analysis is often the bread and butter of short-term traders because specialized trading tools can quickly analyze price data and trends. While long-term investors are usually more concerned ...

Trading Strategies with Stochastic Oscillator There are three distinct strategies that can be used to invest using stochastic: a momentum crossover strategy, an overbought and oversold technique, and ...

A sharp price decline of 8% in the price of spot gold over the past month may have created a short term buying opportunity in the commodity, but divergence on the weekly chart shows a sign that the ...

Timing is everything in trading. Catching a market move just as it begins, or avoiding a downturn before it accelerates, can be the difference between a profitable and a painful trade. But how do ...

Many Forex traders use the Stochastics indicator to find oversold and overbought conditions. Stochastics was developed as a divergence indicator by George Lane in the 1950’s. GBPUSD has been declining ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The stochastic oscillator is a technical indicator that enables traders to identify the end of one trend and the beginning of another. Discover what the stochastic oscillator is and how to use it to ...

The Dow Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq set all-time intraday highs on Nov. 7 at 23,602.12, 2,597.02 and 6,795.52, respectively. Each have momentum (12x3x3 weekly slow stochastic) readings ...

What is the stochastic oscillator? The stochastic oscillator is a momentum indicator, which compares the most recent closing price relative to the previous trading range over a certain period of time.