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 ...

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In this article, we compare two of the most widely used technical indicators in trading: the RSI (Relative Strength Index) and the Stochastic Oscillator. These momentum-based tools help traders ...

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 Oscillator (SO) is a momentum indicator that compares an asset’s closing price to its recent high–low range. It helps traders identify when a market may be overbought, oversold, or ...

We develop a high frequency (HF) trading strategy where the HF trader uses her superior speed to process information and to post limit sell and buy orders. By introducing a multifactor mutually ...

We use state‐space methods to investigate the relation between volume, volatility, and ARCH effects within a mixture of distributions hypothesis (MDH) framework. Most recent studies of the MDH fit ...