STAGE 1 · READING THE MARKET
Indicators: The Basics
A DAO Education course module: 13 lessons, ≈ 2 h 42 min. From candles and volume to structure and liquidity.
- Level I/A
- Module test 12 questions
- Achievement Technical Analyst
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Lessons in this module
- 6.1
Indicator categories: trend, oscillators, volume, volatility
Organize the types of indicators and what they are for
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- 6.2
SMA/EMA, golden/death cross
Use moving averages and their crossover signals
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- 6.3
MACD: how it works and its signals
Read MACD as a momentum indicator, without divergences, which have a block of their own
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- 6.4
Bollinger Bands and volatility
Assess market volatility with Bollinger Bands
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- 6.5
ATR and volatility-based stops
Calculate a stop loss from current volatility with ATR
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- 6.6
ADX and Ichimoku: an overview
Get a general picture of ADX and the Ichimoku cloud
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- 6.7
VWAP in intraday trading
Use VWAP as the reference for the day's average price
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- 6.8
Volume Profile: POC, value area, anchored VWAP
Find the price levels where volume actually traded and anchor VWAP to an event
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- 6.9
Channels: Keltner, Donchian, TTM Squeeze
Complete the family of channel indicators and understand how they differ from Bollinger Bands. CCI, MFI, PSAR and CMF are covered in Module 7
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- 6.10
Panel scale: making different ranges live together
Understand why adding CCI to a stochastic panel flattens everything else, and bring different series to one scale instead of putting up with it
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- 6.11
Williams %R as entry timing
Use the position of the close within the range as a separate layer: the trend gives the direction, and %R only answers “now or wait”
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- 6.12
A map of distance from the mean
Measure how far price has moved from its average with three rulers at once, in ATR, in sigmas and relative to VWAP, and understand why a late entry is more dangerous than a wrong one
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- 6.13
Moving average slope: trend acceleration, not direction
Read the slope of an average as a measure of acceleration: price above the average tells you the direction, and the slope tells you whether the move is gaining strength or running out of steam
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