Trend Following Systems: Three Ways to Read a Trend
You pull up a chart of a stock that's clearly been climbing for months. The 50-day moving average sits comfortably above the 200-day, so your trend filter says long. Then…
You pull up a chart of a stock that's clearly been climbing for months. The 50-day moving average sits comfortably above the 200-day, so your trend filter says long. Then…
A stock runs 30% in six sessions, then goes quiet. The candles shrink, the volume dries up, and price drifts sideways for a week. Most traders read that stall as…
VRSN's back on traders' screens this week, popping onto Yahoo's gainers list after VeriSign's 23 July quarterly report and a raised full-year outlook. That's a fair excuse to pull the…
On 15 October 1998, a small silicon carbide chip maker closed at 4.12 and pushed above the shelf it had been building for the better part of a year. That…
You've got a chart in front of you and a decision to make before you touch a single indicator: reach for a breakout tool that assumes the move keeps running,…
Digital Turbine, which trades under the ticker APPS, is back among the most-watched names on StockTwits this week. That's reason enough to pull up its chart from the summer of…
You have two versions of the same trend system in front of you. One is a single line of code: take each market's own return series, smooth it with a…
A stock gaps down six percent on no fresh news, tags the lower Bollinger Band, and its 14-period RSI prints 22. Two experienced traders pull up the same chart. One…
First Solar's back near the top of the trending lists this week. Second-quarter results are scheduled for 30 July 2026, and there's a U.S. polysilicon trade ruling pending, both drawing…
AXSM is back on traders' screens this week, after the FDA accepted Axsome Therapeutics' filing for a new narcolepsy drug in mid-July 2026. The chart that's worth studying, though, is…