The STA Blog - Tag: gaps
How to cope with holidays: All year around
I’m not going to resort to the usual media drivel to pad out a lean time for news. Nor am I going to tell you sanctimonious stories about dealing with too much food, the ‘outlaws’ and competitive parlour games. I’m […]
Tags: days in a week, gaps, hours in a day
Mind the Gap! As they say on the London Underground
Their trains come in two sizes: bigger, 8 carriage ones on the sub-surface lines and smaller 6 carriage ones for the deep tube lines (the local vernacular). This allows trains to flex but, in doing so, the centre of each […]
Tags: candles, gaps, patterns
Mind the Gap! ‘Support, Resistance – Hidden Gaps and other Methods’
February’s STA Monthly Meeting was yesterday, Tuesday the 9th, via Zoom webinar. The guest speaker was Clive Lambert, vice-Chair of our society, also on its education and marketing committees, and an IFTA board member. We have all heard about […]
Tags: All Session, candles, gaps, Market Profile, Vacuum
When is an island not an island? A: No, the answer isn’t Brexit Britain
With lockdown being de rigueur this season, and all the talk of family bubbles, travel corridors, quarantining and social isolation, I happened to spot a few potential island reversals in the charts. Which then set me thinking about their validity, considering the other idea that gaps should be filled.
Tags: Fibonacci Retracements, gaps, Island Reversals, moving averages
‘Market action discounts everything’ says Technical Analysis: But sometimes price charts lie
Before reading on, take a close and careful look at the chart that goes with this piece. I’ve deliberately not told you what the financial instrument is, nor what it’s priced in, or where it’s traded. It looks, for all […]
Tags: gaps, holidays, volume
Don’t bother day trading: in it for the long haul
Zaheer Anwari is a determined young man – and a confident one too. A degree in software engineering under his belt but bored with it, he ditched that to teach English and travel around Asia. Moving into photography, he says […]
Tags: Breakouts, gaps, moving averages, stops
Memories of October 1987: As markets reel at Trumponomics
Stock, bond, and FX markets have been on a wild ride since the so-called ‘surprise’ election of Donald Trump as 45th US President. He doesn’t start the job until January but already there is much speculation as to who he […]
Tags: crash, gaps, October 1987, Stocks
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