Archive for the ‘trading charts’ Category

How Futures Traders Use Stochastics

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Popularized by legendary futures trader George Lane, the stochastic oscillator (commonly called stochastics) is a timing indicator widely used by futures traders to indicate overbought or  oversold positions. Stochastics compares closing price to price range over a specified time period. The driving principle can be summarized as follows: (more…)

Charting Basics: How Futures Traders Use Gaps

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

In recent posts, we’ve been reviewing essential charting basics for futures traders. Futures traders must have the ability to make decisions quickly. Effective charts provide the futures trader with the information — the trading signals — he needs to make those decisions. It is important for futures traders to be ...