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Tool for knowing when to buy/sell?
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wmb194 said:What you're asking about is called technical analysis and it's been around forever. You usually use multiple signals in conjunction with one another and can include RSI, MACD, Bollinger bands, moving averages of various durations, candlestick patterns and all sorts. No doubt you can Google a beginners guide but there's no magic bullet for these things.“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”0
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bostonerimus said:wmb194 said:What you're asking about is called technical analysis and it's been around forever. You usually use multiple signals in conjunction with one another and can include RSI, MACD, Bollinger bands, moving averages of various durations, candlestick patterns and all sorts. No doubt you can Google a beginners guide but there's no magic bullet for these things.
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius1 -
If stocks and bonds crash, what's the safest thing to invest in within a UK ISA?
Treasuries, I've read? Any specific suggestions?0 -
I find the best thing is the Tool for Anticipating Risks and Decision Information for Shares. There's more inside it than you realise from first glance ...7
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EthicsGradient said:I find the best thing is the Tool for Anticipating Risks and Decision Information for Shares. There's more inside it than you realise from first glance ..."Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius7
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bostonerimus said:Type_45 said:coastline said:Tools can help but if the magic tool was out there everybody would use it. Moving averages are better used for topping up with spare cash not these 50 and 200 day crossover methods. Look at the link the 50 in blue crosses over the 200 in red right at the bottom of the correction in March to give a sell and doesn't give a buy signal until July. Hopeless. !!
Much better off adding spare cash at the 50 day average or if the index is near the 200 top up there. Nothing perfect about this either. Institutions used to top up at the 200 day years ago.
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What can be used as an alert is the distance between the 200 day average and the index itself. Today this is the situation and it's more than likely to correct but who knows when. ? It's been over extended for weeks now.
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There's dozens of indicators on charting packages out there for free and even on your brokers website. Most are used for determining overbought and oversold conditions in short and long term timeframes. Again today looking at this link you can see RSI MACD and Stoc all extended but can stay extended until the index drops. Still there is uses for them just a case of what you want them for.
$SPX | SharpChart | StockCharts.com
If you look only at the index and the 200 then it does seem to be quite accurate as a sell signal?
Perhaps less accurate as a buy signal, as by that time a lot of upside has been missed out on.
Zombie companies, printing money which is inflating house prices and stocks, millions of people on furlough...
If you're invested in the stock market, and you aren't worried, then good luck to you.
I have a high tolerance to risk. But I'm seriously considering going into cash (within my ISA) until I figure out what to invest in. (I'm currently in VLS100).0 -
kinger101 said:EthicsGradient said:I find the best thing is the Tool for Anticipating Risks and Decision Information for Shares. There's more inside it than you realise from first glance ...7
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Type_45 said:If stocks and bonds crash, what's the safest thing to invest in within a UK ISA?
Treasuries, I've read? Any specific suggestions?
If stocks crash you might think about investing in stocks, but if you rebalance you will do that automatically.“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”6 -
Type_45 said:bostonerimus said:Type_45 said:coastline said:Tools can help but if the magic tool was out there everybody would use it. Moving averages are better used for topping up with spare cash not these 50 and 200 day crossover methods. Look at the link the 50 in blue crosses over the 200 in red right at the bottom of the correction in March to give a sell and doesn't give a buy signal until July. Hopeless. !!
Much better off adding spare cash at the 50 day average or if the index is near the 200 top up there. Nothing perfect about this either. Institutions used to top up at the 200 day years ago.
E1O3takUcAI655l (700×312) (twimg.com)
EzarU-9VgAM4T6w (881×609) (twimg.com)
What can be used as an alert is the distance between the 200 day average and the index itself. Today this is the situation and it's more than likely to correct but who knows when. ? It's been over extended for weeks now.
EzargtuVEAYAhMs (892×612) (twimg.com)
There's dozens of indicators on charting packages out there for free and even on your brokers website. Most are used for determining overbought and oversold conditions in short and long term timeframes. Again today looking at this link you can see RSI MACD and Stoc all extended but can stay extended until the index drops. Still there is uses for them just a case of what you want them for.
$SPX | SharpChart | StockCharts.com
If you look only at the index and the 200 then it does seem to be quite accurate as a sell signal?
Perhaps less accurate as a buy signal, as by that time a lot of upside has been missed out on.
Zombie companies, printing money which is inflating house prices and stocks, millions of people on furlough...
If you're invested in the stock market, and you aren't worried, then good luck to you.
I have a high tolerance to risk. But I'm seriously considering going into cash (within my ISA) until I figure out what to invest in. (I'm currently in VLS100).“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”3
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