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ADX Indicator: Measure Trend Strength for Swing Trades
The ADX indicator measures how strong a trend is, not its direction. Learn the 14-period setting, 20/25/40 zones, +DI/-DI crossovers and a swing-trade workflow.
Williams %R Indicator: Swing Trade Entries & Exits
Williams %R shows where the close sits in its recent range on a -100 to 0 scale. Learn the levels, settings, and a trend-aligned swing strategy with a worked example.
IPO Anchored VWAP: Find Key Support and Resistance
An IPO anchored VWAP shows the average price paid by everyone trading since the first day. Learn how to set it, read it, and plan entries and stops around it.
VWAP + Moving Average Confluence: Swing Trade Entries
When anchored VWAP and a key moving average land at the same price, more traders have a reason to act there. Learn how to find the zone and plan the swing trade.
Accumulation/Distribution Line: Trends & Divergences
The Accumulation/Distribution Line turns close location and volume into one running total. Learn the formula, how to read divergences, and how to confirm breakouts with it.
Volume Profile Explained: HVN, LVN and Point of Control
Volume profile plots trading volume by price, not by time. Learn to read the point of control, value area, high- and low-volume nodes, and build swing trade plans from them.
MACD Histogram Strategy: Spot Momentum Shifts Early
The MACD histogram plots the gap between the MACD and signal lines, turning before they cross. Learn to read it, spot divergence, and build a swing trading entry around it.
Bollinger Band Squeeze: How to Trade a Volatility Breakout
A Bollinger Band squeeze flags a stock whose volatility has dropped to a multi-month low. Learn how to measure it, confirm breakout direction and trade it with defined risk.
Keltner Channels: Breakouts and Trend Continuations
Keltner Channels wrap an EMA with ATR-based bands to define trend and volatility. Learn two core setups and how to filter false signals with volume and RSI.
On-Balance Volume (OBV): Confirm Breakouts & Divergences
OBV adds volume on up days and subtracts it on down days to show whether money is flowing in or out. Learn the formula, divergences and how to confirm breakouts.
2-Period RSI Strategy: Mean-Reversion Swing Trading
The 2-period RSI strategy buys sharp short-term dips in stocks that remain in long-term uptrends. Here are the settings, filters, exits and a worked example.
VWAP Standard Deviation Bands: Swing Trade Entries & Exits
VWAP bands wrap a statistical envelope around VWAP. Learn how to read the +1SD and +2SD levels, the two core setups, and how to set stops and targets with defined risk.
EMA Ribbon: Use Multiple Moving Averages as a Trend Filter
An EMA ribbon stacks several exponential moving averages to show trend direction, strength and transitions at a glance. Learn to read it and trade pullbacks with it.
Anchored VWAP Explained: Swing Trading Entries That Work
Anchored VWAP pins the volume-weighted average price to a key event, creating a dynamic support and resistance line. Learn anchors, entries, stops and a worked swing trade.
Relative Volume (RVOL): Find Real Breakouts With Volume
Relative volume shows how active a stock is compared with its own normal pace. Learn the RVOL formula, useful thresholds, scanner workflow and breakout rules.
Volume Dry-Up (VDU): Low-Volume Consolidation Breakouts
A volume dry-up shows sellers have run out of shares inside a tight consolidation. Learn how to measure it, what breakout volume to demand, and how to trade it.
Bullish Divergence: Spot Reversals with RSI and MACD
Bullish divergence is when price makes a lower low but RSI or MACD makes a higher low, hinting that selling momentum is fading. Learn to spot it, confirm it and trade it with a stop.
Bearish Divergence: Spot Tops with RSI & MACD
Bearish divergence is a warning that momentum is fading while price still climbs. Learn to read it on RSI and MACD, confirm it, and use it for exits or short setups.
Fibonacci Retracement Levels Explained for Swing Traders
Fibonacci retracements mark where a pullback may pause. Learn to draw them, use the 38.2% and 61.8% zones, and pair them with confluence and confirmation.
Average True Range (ATR): Smarter Stops and Targets
ATR measures how far a stock typically moves in a day. Use it to place stops outside normal noise, size every trade to the same dollar risk, and set realistic targets.
Stochastic Oscillator Explained for Swing Traders
The stochastic oscillator shows where a stock closed within its recent range. Learn the formula, %K and %D, overbought and oversold levels, and how to trade them.
Golden Cross & Death Cross: How to Trade Them
Golden and death crosses are the most-watched moving average crossovers. Learn how to spot them, why they lag, when they fail, and how to use them as confirmation.
Bollinger Bands Explained: Time Entries With Volatility
Bollinger Bands wrap a 20-day average with bands that widen and narrow with volatility. Learn the squeeze, band-touch reversals, trend riding and the mistakes that cost traders money.
VWAP Indicator Guide: How to Read and Trade It
VWAP is the average price of a session weighted by volume. Learn how it is calculated, how to trade it as support and resistance, and how anchored VWAP extends it to swing trades.
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