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Donchian channel with support and resistance zones on EUR/USD. The Donchian channel is an indicator used in market trading developed by Richard Donchian. [1] It is formed by taking the highest high and the lowest low of the last n periods. The area between the high and the low is the channel for the period chosen. [2]
Richard Davoud Donchian (September 1905 – April 24, 1993 [1]) was an American commodities and futures trader, and a pioneer in the field of managed futures. The first publicly managed futures fund, Futures, Inc., was started by Donchian in 1949.
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A price channel is a pair of parallel trend lines that form a chart pattern for a stock or commodity. [1] Channels may be horizontal, ascending or descending. When prices pass through and stay through a trendline representing support or resistance , the trend is said to be broken and there is a "breakout".
Later, Justin-Niall Swart employed a Donchian channel-based trend-following trading method for portfolio optimization in his South African futures market analysis. [18] The early form of an Automated Trading System, composed of software based on algorithms, that have historically been used by financial managers and brokers.
S&P 500 with 20-day, two-standard-deviation Bollinger Bands, %b and bandwidth. Bollinger Bands (/ ˈ b ɒ l ɪ n dʒ ər /) are a type of statistical chart characterizing the prices and volatility over time of a financial instrument or commodity, using a formulaic method propounded by John Bollinger in the 1980s.
The relationship between different moving average trading rules is explained in the paper "Anatomy of Market Timing with Moving Averages". [4] Specifically, in this paper the author demonstrates that every trading rule can be presented as a weighted average of the momentum rules computed using different averaging periods.
An example of the detrended price oscillator in cTrader trading platform. The detrended price oscillator (DPO) is an indicator in technical analysis that attempts to eliminate the long-term trends in prices by using a displaced moving average so it does not react to the most current price action.