Technical analysis is often the bread and butter of short-term traders because specialized trading tools can quickly analyze price data and trends. While long-term investors are usually more concerned ...

The stochastic oscillator is an indicator of momentum for stocks, often used by day traders and technical traders. Read more ...

The stochastic oscillator is a momentum indicator that measures how powerful a price move is. Although the formula can be applied to any kind of data, it is most often used with closing prices of ...

I am always astonished that many traders don’t really understand the indicators they are using. Or, even worse, many traders use their indicators in a wrong way because they have never taken the time ...

You’re watching price action unfold and need to decide: buy, sell, or wait? RSI and Stochastics are two of the most popular tools for this decision, but they work very differently. RSI measures ...

The stochastic indicator is similar to the parabolic SAR in that it's hard to calculate but easy to interpret. The theory behind the stochastic oscillator, a well-known momentum indicator is that ...