This 2-day workshop is designed for all market professionals concerned with finding the precise moment to enter or exit a trading position in any asset class. By looking at a variety of trading techniques and real-time examples, the course shows how to use technical indicators to develop an effective short-term trading strategy. 

Each delegate will be equipped with a PC along with real-time charting software.

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DAY 1

Fibonacci ratios
+ When can they be used?
+ How to choose the A-B move to measure your B-C reaction
+ How to set targets

Oscillators
+ What works best?
+ The different types of oscillators, including the RSI, and what they show us
+ The compromise between timing and accuracy
+ Recognising bullish and bearish divergences
+ New ways to trade old oscillators

The Floor Traders Pivot System
+ Map the market day
+ How to trade the levels

Short-term trading with Sentiment Candles TNSC
+ A technique for trading using the sentiment of candles
+ Turning the method into a system
+ Finding high probability trade levels

DAY 2
Stochastics
+ Identifying strong and reliable signals
+ New signal techniques for the Fast Stochastic

MACD
+ The MACD - how, when used normally, it is too far behind the curve for short-term trading
+ A new MACD technique that brings the entry point as close as possible to the market turn

Bollinger Bands
+ When, and when not, to use them
+ Do 2 standard deviations still work best?
+ A rule based technique for making frequent scalping profits
+ Comparing Bollinger Bands with Keltner Bands

Gap trading
+ How to trade at the opening and at market figures

Short term chart patterns
+ Patterns that work
+ A 1-2-3 reversal pattern

Money Management and Risk
+ Risk/Reward ratio
+ How much to risk/trade?
+ How bad can it be?
+ Drawdown control
+ The hunt for stability

Introduction to Technical Analysis provides a thorough grounding in technical analysis to traders and investment managers of all asset classes who are new to the subject. This two day course covers the essentials of technical analysis, whether from a purely short-term timing perspective or for longer-term analysis, and is designed to get students quickly up to speed and to a level where they can apply TA correctly and confidently in the markets they cover.

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DAY 1

Technical Analysis

+ Why it works and its limitations

Dow Theory
+ Appreciating the contribution of Charles Dow

Chart types
+ Line, bar, candle and semi-log
+ Using them in different markets and market conditions

Support and resistance levels
+ Identifying levels
+ Assessing their strength
+ Expected price movement on the break of levels

Trend lines
+ Drawing lines correctly
+ Recognising trend line breaks and "false breaks"

Chart patterns
+ The major continuation and reversal patterns
+ How to recognise them and how to project subsequent price moves
+ Continuation and Reversal patterns which work again and again

DAY 2

Moving averages
+ The different types of moving average lines
+ Which periods to use
+ Moving average based trading techniques

Indicators
+ How to read the RSI
+ Monitor the Trend direction using the MACD
+ Learn to trade using the Stochastic Oscillator
+ Using Bollinger Bands

Volume
+ Understanding its significance and using volume data with price

Fibonacci
+ Why does it work?
+ How to measure retracements
+ How to project objectives

New developments in technical analysis
+ What new analysis is catching on?

Advanced Technical Analysis is a two day course for practitioners with market experience who are familiar with the essentials of technical analysis and who would like to delve further into using TA on a regular and integral basis. The course will help delegates find their own way of putting together indicators and studies into coherent strategies - across different asset classes and for different market conditions. The trainer will use a live terminal throughout the course to illustrate the techniques, focusing on the practical application of technical analysis and how to integrate it into your work process to improve profitability and reduce risk.

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DAY 1

What works best?
+ Which techniques should you use?
+ What should you avoid?

What timeframe chart suits you?
+ Rule of Five
+ How many charts do you need?

Candlestick charts
+ The unique advantages of candlestick charting
+ An overview of the 40 most popular patterns and their signals
+ Some lesser known but effective patterns and how to trade them

Sentiment Candles TNSC
+ A technique for trading using the sentiment of candles
+ Turning the method into a system
+ Finding high probability trade levels

Point and figure charting
+ Generating clear and unambiguous trading signals
+ Optimizing the chart settings to the market being traded
+ The most effective applications of the point and figure technique
+ Drawing trend lines and setting targets

Behavioural finance
+ Understand why the market behaves the way it does
+ Take advantage of its predictable irrationality
+ Know your self

Trading volume
+ Volume theory
+ The On Balance Volume (OBV) and Weighted OBV indicators
+ Chaikin's oscillator

Moving averages techniques
+ Choosing ideal period settings for moving average lines across different markets
+ Optimization
+ Advanced rule-based trading methods such as the Turtle system

Trading through economic figures
+ Tested techniques for trading through employment and economic data
+ Three ways to live dangerously

DAY 2
Fibonacci ratios
+ Fibonacci and market psychology
+ Practical applications: retracements, targets and time
+ Which level is likely to hold?
+ Setting targets

Trend lines
+ Drawing them correctly
+ Targets and false breaks
+ Exit methods

Ichimoku charting
+ Ichimoku explained and its practical application
+ Learn the rules
+ Understand why the lines and cloud is calculated the way they are
+ When does the technique work best?

Advanced indicators
+ Moving Average Convergence-Divergence
+ Wilder's Relative Strength Index
+ Stochastics
+ Directional Movement Index
+ Bollinger Bands
+ CCI

Long-term trend analysis
+ Identifying a trend and assessing its strength
+ Indicators that measure if the market is trending or non-trending
+ Measuring if the trend is close to exhaustion using volume data and histograms
+ Market breadth indicators - how broadly based is a market rally?
+ Advance/Decline analysis techniques

Stop-loss placement
+ 10 types of techniques for stop placement + Reduce 'false breaks' + Avoid catastrophes

A swing trading technique
+ Buy dips in an established trend
+ Rule based trading
+ Completely systematic approach
+ Tried and tested

Technical analysis and you
+ An individual round-up of the techniques, time frames and charts you should use in your job