Dates and Locations

8 & 9 February '12	London, UK	Apex City of London Hotel >>
13 & 14 June '12	London, UK	Apex City of London Hotel >>

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Course Outline: Advanced Technical Analysis

Advanced Technical Analysis is a two-day course for practitioners with market experience who are familiar with the essentials of technical analysis and who would like to delve further into using TA on a regular and integral basis. The course will help delegates find their own way of putting together indicators and studies into coherent strategies - across different asset classes and for different market conditions.

The course gives particular attention to the following topics:

Charting scales
+ Comparing linear and log scaling on charts – what they show and when to use them

Candlestick charts
+ The unique advantages of candlestick charting
+ An overview of the 40 most popular patterns and their signals
+ Some lesser known but effective patterns and how to trade them
+ Developing a trading strategy by applying stochastic studies to candlestick charts

Point and figure charting
+ Generating clear and unambiguous trading signals
+ Optimizing the chart settings to the market being traded
+ The most effective applications of the point and figure technique.

Chart patterns
+ The most effective continuation and reversal patterns and how to identify and trade them
+ Head-and-shoulders, double tops and bottoms, and consolidation areas.

Trading volume
+ Volume theory
+ The On Balance Volume (OBV) indicator
+ Chaikin’s oscillator

Moving averages techniques
+ Choosing ideal period settings for moving average lines across different markets
+ Optimization
+ Advanced rule-based trading methods such as the Turtle system

DAY 2
Fibonacci ratios
+ Fibonacci and market psychology
+ Practical applications: retracements, targets and time.

Trend lines
+ Drawing them correctly
+ Targets and false breaks
+ Tom DeMarks’ TD Lines: an alternative approach to trend lines
+ Exit methods

Ichimoku charting
+ Ichimoku explained and its practical application

Advanced indicators
+ Moving Average Convergence-Divergence
+ Wilder’s Relative Strength Index
+ Stochastics
+ Directional Movement Index

DeMark Indicators
+ TD Sequential and TD Combo: calling tops and bottoms accurately

Long-term trend analysis
+ Identifying a trend and assessing its strength
+ Indicators that measure if the market is trending or non-trending
+ Measuring if the trend is close to exhaustion using volume data and histograms
+ Market breadth indicators - how broadly based is a market rally?
+ Advance/Decline analysis techniques