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I am an intra day trader trading CFD's. I use MacD, EMA and price channels in my decision making when placing a trade. I have tested many time frames but consistantly miss trends in either direction. Could someone assist me with the best or more accurate time frame for the above please or should I use different indicators. Thank you in advance.
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well, to start with, you can't intra-day trade with CFD's. completely the wrong instrument
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Rams
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And don't use both EMA and MACD.....and what price Channels are you using....
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I trade CFD's on a weekly basis. The time scale currently is 22 days and 10 on occasion. So does MacD fall away completely? What must I use in it's place? Appologies if my termanology does not make sence, I'm trying to figure it out myself.
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Rams
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choose either MACD or EMA since MA in MACD is Moving Average...
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saash
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I also have a cfd portfolio. Whatever indicators and time-frame you are trying to use, do a back-test on what you determine to be buy-signals and sell-signals, for at least the past year or longer. Moving averages are lagging indicators, so they will not likely give you a signal at the point of a trend reversal, but will rather show you that a new trend may have developed, an existing trend is in tact, or that a trend might be comming to an end. For weekly trading, you might like to try the stockastic indicator.
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Preston
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My indicator is very simple. If my mother-in-law looks like a monster-in-law, then i go short. If she look like Kim Basinger, then my minds is playing trick on me and i do not trade for that day.
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rubbish. MACD is a measure of convergence or divergence of two moving averages. It is not a moving average itself. It can't even be plotted on the same axis. MA and MACD are two completely different things.
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Rams
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Ja, and try explaining that to Bev....it's like saying Napoleons white horse is not black....when was the last time you traded anything....it's like using Stochastics and RSI to trade...
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Rams
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And MA in MACD is Moving Average!
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@ Preston - wahaaa... maybe your mother-in-law would be a more accurate indicator. I'm still not completely clear as what I should use. Rams has summed it nicely. I guess I will keep on testing until I find indicators that will work for me. Thank you al
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Preston
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Buy this book, Technical Analysis from A to Z, 2nd Edition Steven Achelis. http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Analysis-2nd-Steven-Achelis/dp/0071363483 It has all the various indicators that one can use. Unfortunately my indicator still need to be "patent".
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Prestonmyhusban
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SimonPB
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now it gets interesting ..
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Rams
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Ja, he getting the couch tonite
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