Vertical Horizontal Filter – Settings and Trading Rules

Vertical Horizontal Filter, usually shortened to VHF, is a trend-strength indicator built to separate directional movement from noisy back-and-forth movement. It does not try to predict the next bar. Instead,…

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Trend Intensity Index: Settings, Signals & Trading Rules

Trend Intensity Index is a trend strength indicator built to show whether price is spending more time trading on one side of a moving average than the other. In practical…

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Vortex Indicator VI Settings, Periods, and Signal Filters

Vortex Indicator is built to answer a practical question: is the market showing directional persistence, and if so, is that persistence rising or fading. It does this using two lines…

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Chande Trend Meter CTM – Settings, Thresholds, Signals

Most indicators answer one narrow question. The Chande Trend Meter is built to answer a broader one: is this market trending, and if so, how strongly. It does that by…

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Moving Average Ribbon Settings That Traders Actually Use

A Moving Average Ribbon is not a single indicator line. It is a group of moving averages plotted together, usually from fast to slow periods, so you can see trend…

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How to use ADX Average Directional Index

The Average Directional Index (ADX) is a trend strength indicator. It answers one narrow question: how strong is the current trend, regardless of whether the trend is up or down.…

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Directional Movement Index DMI explained

Directional Movement Index (DMI) is one of those indicators that looks more complicated than it is. You see two lines moving around each other, sometimes crossing, sometimes separating, and traders…

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