any forex trader who tries to find the right trading momentum by trying various technical indicators. In addition, they also expect technical indicators to be used to generate maximum profit. However, in practice, there is no definite formula in trading that can always generate profits. Therefore, traders must learn various technical indicators to compile their own successful trading formula.
Basically, forex technical indicators can be classified into four types. That is an indicator that shows the direction of the trend (trend-following), an indicator that confirms the trend direction (trend confirmation), an indicator that shows overbought and oversold, and an indicator that helps determine the exit level (profit taking). Here are the details.
1. Technical Indicators That Show Trend-Following
Price movements in the forex market are not only in one direction, but can go up and down. The increase and decrease itself can occur at one time only, or one period continuously. When price movements occur continuously, a trend is called a trend.
Although it may be possible to profit by trading against the trend, most traders try to enter the market in accordance with the direction of the main trend. It has been proven that how to trade by following the direction of the trend (trend-following) is very profitable.
What is the trend-following strategy? Trend-following is to determine when you have to buy or sell in the same direction as the current market trend.
How do we know what trends are going on? Well, tracking the trend situation in question can be done by indicators that follow the trend direction. One simple trend-following technical indicator that is simple, quite powerful and widely used is the Simple Moving Average (SMA).
To track trends using the Simple Moving Average, we need to install two high school indicators with different periods, such as SMA-50 Day and SMA-200 Day. The following is an example of trend tracking with the intersection method of 2 SMA curve lines:
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