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Bill M. Williams (1932–2019) [1] was an American trader and author of books on trading psychology, technical analysis, and chaos theory [2] in trading the stock, commodity, and foreign exchange (Forex) markets.
The indicator is a highly-effective technical tool used to evaluate the strength of the current trend and to determine if an established trend will continue or reverse.
The default period is generally set to 14. By doing this, you can monitor overbought and oversold conditions. Since the Williams %R fluctuates between 0 and -100, this would mean that readings between 0 and -20 are overbought, while readings between -80 and -100 are oversold. This means that the Williams %R is a bound indicator.
It is a trend-following (lagging) indicator and may be used to set a trailing stop loss or determine entry or exit points based on prices tending to stay within a parabolic curve during a strong trend. Similar to option theory's concept of time decay, the concept draws on the idea that "time is the enemy". Thus, unless a security can continue ...
Sell in May and go away is an investment strategy for stocks based on a theory (sometimes known as the Halloween indicator) that the period from November to April inclusive has significantly stronger stock market growth on average than the other months.
Also called the base line (red line), this is a confirmation line, a support/resistance line, and can be used as a trailing stop line. The Kijun Sen acts as an indicator of future price movement. If the price is higher than the blue line, it could continue to climb higher. If the price is below the blue line, it could keep dropping.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William B. Harrison, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -29.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
George Lane (1921 – July 7, 2004) was a securities trader, author, educator, speaker and technical analyst.He was part of a group of futures traders in Chicago who developed the stochastic oscillator (also known as "Lane's stochastics"), which is one of the core indicators used today among technical analysts.