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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 ...

Stochastic is a simple momentum oscillator developed by George C. Lane in the late 1950’s. Being a momentum oscillator, Stochastic can help determine when a currency pair is overbought or oversold.

The stochastic oscillator is one of the most relied-upon tools in technical analysis, ranking alongside popular indicators like the relative strength index (RSI) and ...

Slow Stochastic provides clear signals in a forex strategy -Take only those signals from overbought or oversold levels -Filter forex signals so you are taking only those in the direction of the trend ...

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 ...