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TrendSpider Strategy Guide: Customizing Your Trendline Settings

In this week’s strategy guide blog post, we tackle head on one of the biggest misconceptions about the TrendSpider platform, which is that the system only shows trendlines that the system is programmed to find. In reality, TrendSpider is a customizable tool and the settings on the system can be completely customizable and configured to look for trendlines however you prefer. As everyone’s trading strategy and technical analysis strategy is a little different, each trader may find their ideal settings to be slightly (or even completely) different than what we show in this video.

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Sunday Update for Week of 10/1 – A Look Into The Month of October

A prepared trader is a profitable trader, and Sunday is a great day to get ready for the week ahead by studying up from last week’s price action. This weekend, we are focusing on the recent events in the broad markets such as the interest rate hike and the turbulence in the European markets. As the month of September has ended for trading, the historically volatile October is here.

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TrendSpider Strategy Guide Post – Trading the SMA vs. the EMA

When most traders think of moving average confirmation strategies, they may immediately think of the generic and most widely used ones such as the 50-day Simple Moving Average vs. the 200-day Simple Moving Average. However, even though these can be very useful, especially as many traders become educated and are looking at the same thing creating self-fulfilling moves, there are other moving average relationships that backtest very well. Continue reading TrendSpider Strategy Guide Post – Trading the SMA vs. the EMA

Strategy Guide Blogs: Ways to Utilize the TrendSpider Platform

You’ve heard it a thousand times, but here it is again: there is no surefire way to win every time when trading in the markets. That said, if there is just one thing that really separates successful traders from the less successful ones, it’s having a concrete strategy. Here are five interesting and unique trading and analysis strategies that are enabled by TrendSpider’s technology.

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Trading Momentum Oscillators: What They Are and How to Utilize Them

There are so many different approaches to trading, you could try a new one every day for the rest of your life and never run out of options. However, one that has been consistently popular, and consistently effective over the years has been momentum oscillator trading strategies.

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