The moving average convergence/divergence indicator helps investors identify price trends Brian Dolan's decades of experience as a trader and strategist have exposed ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She holds a Bachelor of ...

Employers added just 22,000 jobs, far below consensus expectations, signaling that hiring momentum has slowed. A softer labor market reduces upward pressure on wages, that, in turn, eases one of the ...

One of investors' most challenging questions is when to sell a winning stock. No one ever went broke taking profits, but exiting a high-flying stock too early can cause FOMO and create the temptation ...

Overbought doesn't mean over, as it can mean the trend and momentum are strongly to the upside. But that doesn't mean new investors should rush to buy. Alphabet's stock is technically very overbought ...

In recent weeks, we've been examining various technical indicators that traders here at Schaeffer's use to determine potential moves in stocks. We've looked closely at Bollinger Band breakouts and ...

As part of a series looking at technical/momentum indicators, today we're going to look at MACD. Developed by Gerald Appel (publisher of Systems and Forecasts) in the late seventies, the rather ...

Technical indicators computed from market observables can provide forex market analysts and traders with a useful way to generate objective trading signals. Technical analysts have also long known ...