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Ask any technical trader and they will tell you the right indicator is needed to effectively determine a change of course in a stock's price patterns. However, anything one "right" indicator can do to ...

An excellent tool to get an instant read of market momentum is the two-line MACD. The "Mac D" or Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator is the brainchild of Gerald Appel, a money manager in ...

The technical analysis indicator is called the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) histogram, which represents the difference between the MACD line and its signal line. The MACD line is ...

MACD uses 26-day and 12-day EMAs to signal buy/sell based on stock momentum. Buy when MACD line crosses above the signal line; sell when it falls below. MACD is effective in trending markets but less ...