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Parabolic Time/Price (0.02–0.2)

Time is the trade's enemy: once in, it must keep making money or it is liquidated. Making the liquidation point accelerate towards price as the profit grows cuts the lag intrinsic to any trend system without giving back what has already been earned — in short, consistent trends the level converges on price and extracts excellent profits. And the starting point is not a computer-generated number: it is the real extreme of the previous move.

VIDYA (9/30, accelerates on volatility, as the formula says)

The trend's speed should respond to relative volatility: comparing the distribution of recent moves against a longer historical yardstick tells you whether the market is more agitated than its own normal. Volatility above normal slows the trend and volatility below it speeds it up, so the line is not turned by passing agitation and still keeps up with the market when it settles.

r²-adaptive moving average (20)

How closely price resembles a straight line is itself the trend measure an adaptive average needs: when the regression fits well there is direction and the line can be fast; when the fit is poor there is no apparent direction and the line should be slow. And because the coefficient already runs between 0 and 1, it drops straight into the place of the smoothing constant, with no transformation at all.

20-day breakout on 2× volume

A breakout without volume is a trap: price pierces the high, everyone piles in, and the move dies because there was no money behind it. Doubled volume is the confirmation that an institution is on the other side.

20-period channel breakout

A break of the high forces anyone short to cover, and that feeds the move: entering on the break of the level catches the trend from the start, without a moving average's lag.

Bullish/Bearish engulfing

The engulfing shows one side taking control of the fight in a single stroke, and it is the most reliable reversal pattern in price action — with no indicator at all, only price.

Hidden divergence (rsi 14, by peaks)

When price corrects less deeply than the indicator does, the main trend's strength is intact, and the correction is a chance to enter with it.

INCONCLUSIVE· the verdict changed

Moving average crossover (20/50)

The moving-average crossover identifies the trend's turn in time to get into it: buying the upward cross and selling the downward one captures the main move and keeps you off the wrong side of the market. You hold until the opposite cross.

RSI oversold/overbought (14/30/70)

What has fallen too far tends to come back and what has risen too far tends to correct: entering as price leaves each extreme captures the reversal from the start. It works above all in a sideways market, where price spends most of its time.

Support and resistance (2 touches)

A price that has stopped the move before tends to stop it again: the level where price hit and turned back is where it should hit and turn back once more, and that is why it serves as an entry point.

20-period channel breakout

A break of the high forces anyone short to cover, and that feeds the move: entering on the break of the level catches the trend from the start, without a moving average's lag.

Bullish/Bearish engulfing

The engulfing shows one side taking control of the fight in a single stroke, and it is the most reliable reversal pattern in price action — with no indicator at all, only price.

Moving average crossover (20/50)

Stochastic 14/3 (20/80)

A close at the extreme of the range shows exhaustion, and the crossing of the two lines confirms the turn — which avoids the RSI's mistake of signalling too early.

Ascending scallop

The cup-and-handle in an uptrend is a pause, not a reversal.

Ascending triangle

Tops at the same ceiling with rising bottoms show ever more aggressive buying: the ceiling gives way.

Broadening bottom

The same volatility expansion, resolved upwards.

Broadening top

Rising tops and falling bottoms are growing volatility without direction — and the outcome is downwards.

Broadening top

Rising tops and falling bottoms are growing volatility without direction — and the outcome is downwards.

Broadening wedge, ascending

The two lines rise while spreading apart: an unstable advance that ends in a decline.

Broadening wedge, descending

The two lines fall while spreading apart: an unstable decline that ends in an advance.

Complex head-and-shoulders bottom

The double-shouldered version is held to be more reliable than the plain one.

Complex head-and-shoulders bottom

The double-shouldered version is held to be more reliable than the plain one.

Complex head-and-shoulders top

The double-shouldered version is held to be more reliable than the plain one.

Complex head-and-shoulders top

The double-shouldered version is held to be more reliable than the plain one.

Descending triangle

Bottoms on the same floor with falling tops show ever more aggressive selling: the floor gives way.

Descending triangle

Bottoms on the same floor with falling tops show ever more aggressive selling: the floor gives way.

Diamond bottom

The same expansion and compression at the bottom, resolving upwards.

Diamond top

Volatility that expands and then compresses is indecision at the top, and it resolves downwards.

Diamond top

Volatility that expands and then compresses is indecision at the top, and it resolves downwards.

Double bottom, both bottoms narrow

Two sharp plunges at the same level: panic rejected twice.

Double bottom, narrow then wide

The second, rounded bottom shows accumulation after the panic.

Double top, both tops narrow

Two sharp spikes at the same level: fast, violent rejection of the ceiling.

Double top, both tops wide

Two bowls at the same level: slow, drawn-out distribution.

Double top, narrow then wide

The second, rounded top shows that buying lost its urgency before giving up.

Double top, wide then narrow

The second, sharp top is the last attempt, and it fails quickly.

Falling wedge

A decline that loses range is a decline without conviction: it breaks upwards.

Head-and-shoulders bottom

Three valleys with the middle one lowest mark the exhaustion of the decline.

Head-and-shoulders bottom

Three valleys with the middle one lowest mark the exhaustion of the decline.

Head-and-shoulders top

Three peaks with the middle one highest mark the exhaustion of the advance; breaking the neckline confirms the reversal.

Head-and-shoulders top

Three peaks with the middle one highest mark the exhaustion of the advance; breaking the neckline confirms the reversal.

Horn bottom

Two plunges separated by a bounce mark the bottom.

Inverted descending scallop

The mirrored variant of the cup-and-handle in a downtrend.

Measured move down

After the bounce, the second leg down repeats the first.

Measured move down

After the bounce, the second leg down repeats the first.

Measured move up

After the correction, the second leg repeats the size of the first.

Measured move up

After the correction, the second leg repeats the size of the first.

Pipe bottom

Two adjacent, violent plunges mark capitulation and a floor.

Pipe top

Two adjacent, violent spikes mark euphoria and a ceiling.

Rectangle top

The consolidation after the advance is distribution: the breakout is downwards.

Rectangle top

The consolidation after the advance is distribution: the breakout is downwards.

Right-angled broadening, ascending

A flat floor with ever higher tops: buying pressure is building.

Right-angled broadening, ascending

A flat floor with ever higher tops: buying pressure is building.

Right-angled broadening, descending

A flat ceiling with ever lower bottoms: selling pressure is building.

Right-angled broadening, descending

A flat ceiling with ever lower bottoms: selling pressure is building.

Symmetrical triangle

The compression stores energy; the breakout sets the direction.

Symmetrical triangle

The compression stores energy; the breakout sets the direction.

Three falling peaks

Each attempt fails earlier than the last: the uptrend is over.

Three rising valleys

Each decline stops earlier than the last: the downtrend is over.

Three rising valleys

Each decline stops earlier than the last: the downtrend is over.

Triple bottom

Three failures at the same floor prove that selling is exhausted.

Triple top

Three failures at the same ceiling prove that buying is exhausted.

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2-day RSI (14/10/90)

A very short-period oscillator captures the shortest-term excess: when price stretches to an extreme over two days, it snaps back. Entering on the close after the extreme and leaving one day later captures the give-back without staying exposed to whatever follows it — and the quick exit is the protection, because the indicator can sit at an extreme for a long time.

A/D Oscillator (0.30/30/70, tied to the previous close)

Where the market opens and where it closes, within the day's range, reveals the implied direction of that session's trading: opening at the low and closing at the high is buying; the reverse is selling. Because each day is measured against its own range, the index needs no recalibration when price or volatility shift levels — it solves on its own the problem that defeats fixed-scale indicators.

INCONCLUSIVE· the verdict changed

Momentum divergence (12/26/9, by peaks of the indicator)

Momentum is a leading indicator: when price makes a new high but momentum does not follow, the advance is losing strength, and price tends to follow momentum's direction rather than its own. The wider the divergence, the likelier the turn — and the longer the period over which it forms, the larger the reversal it announces.

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RSI on the moving-average spread (5/50/200, 30/70)

The distance between a short and a long moving average is already what decides the trend, but it is read as a signal only when it changes sides — which happens late. Measuring the momentum of that distance with an oscillator shows it losing strength before the crossover, and the entry happens while price is still favourable, not after.

Strength oscillator (20)

The unpredictability of trending markets is the analyst's biggest problem. Comparing how far price actually travels with how much it merely swings within the day separates the periods where direction exists from those where there is only noise — and lets you use the right strategy in each, instead of applying one rule to markets that behave in opposite ways.

TRIX (14)

Smoothing three times before measuring the change delivers a line so clean that its own change of direction serves as an early signal, without the noise that forces you to wait for confirmation. And because the difference is taken at the end rather than the beginning, most of the lag triple smoothing would introduce is given back.

Trend entry timing (40/5, 20/80)

Trend-system entries always look badly timed: the signal arrives after price has already moved. Using a fast oscillator only to pick the moment — buying the pullback inside an uptrend, selling the bounce inside a downtrend — gets a better price without abandoning the direction the trend indicates. The oscillator does not decide the side; it decides only the timing.

Ultimate Oscillator (7/14/28)

A short-period oscillator is sensitive but unstable; lengthening it adds lag. Combining three periods at once, with decreasing weight, gives the sensitivity of the short one without its instability — and requiring the bounce to fail to exceed the previous peak filters out most of the false alarms a threshold alone would produce.

Gate by the equity curve trend (10 days, 80-day average)

A trend system's stream of results has a trend of its own: good and bad stretches come in blocks, not at random. Applying to the accumulated equity the same moving average you apply to price lets you stop trading when the curve turns down and resume when it turns up — avoiding the bad runs without predicting anything about the market.

2-period RSI below 25 with exit at the high of the last 2 candles

A very short-term RSI falling to an extreme marks the exhaustion of selling, and the bounce that follows returns price to its recent high — short trades, with a target that comes closer on its own while price fails to react.

Moving average crossover (20/50) with a stop at the last low and exit on a close below the 200-day average

It caps the loss at the point where the bullish structure breaks down — the last low — and takes the trader out as soon as price loses the long-term average, before the reversal eats the trend's gain.

Moving average crossover (20/50) · stop 2× ATR(20), exit at the 10-day low

With no fixed target, a winner's gain is not capped: the position is closed only when the move that justified it breaks down, letting profits run while each attempt's loss stays capped at the risk measured by recent volatility.

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Moving average crossover (20/50) · stop below the lower wick, 2:1 target

Anchoring the stop at the point that invalidates the pattern and demanding twice the risk from the target makes each win pay for two losses: a 2:1 reward-to-risk ratio sustains the result even when fewer than half the entries are right.

Moving average crossover (20/50) · stop below the lower wick, 2:1 target

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Return inside the Bollinger Bands (20/2) — lower band

A close outside the lower band followed by a close back inside marks the exhaustion of the decline, and price returns to the middle average — capturing that return with risk capped at the low of the turning candle.

Moving average crossover (20/50) · exit by 12 × average true range of 252

A trend technique delivers its result despite the trades that turn against it, not because of them. Cutting each trade as soon as price moves far enough from its own best point takes the loss before the technique itself notices the turn — and what remains is better than having no stop at all, provided the level adapts to volatility instead of being a fixed amount.