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How to Use the Relative Volume Indicator (RVOL)
How to use the relative volume indicator: the RVOL formula, a worked example where one bar reads 1.5 and 2.5, and what it means on forex.
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How to Use the Accelerator Oscillator: Williams' Rules
How to use the Accelerator Oscillator: the formula, Bill Williams' two-bar and three-bar rules, the zero-line disagreement, and how to test it yourself.
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How to Use the ADX Indicator for Day Trading
How to use the ADX indicator for day trading: what it measures, why it is two settings not one, the periods published from 2 to 30, and what 25 means.
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How to Find the ICT Daily Bias: The Two Published Rules
How to find the ICT daily bias: the two published rules, where they contradict each other by arithmetic, and how to test a bias rule on your history.
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Harmonic Pattern Rules: Why the Sources Disagree
Harmonic pattern rules as they are actually published: the Gartley leg by leg, where 0.786 changes job, and how to test one rule set yourself.
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Goat Funded Trader Rules, and Is Any Challenge Free?
Goat Funded Trader rules in GFT's own numbers: drawdown, profitable days, Goat Guard, consistency, leverage, and what the $1 account really is.
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FundedNext Rules: The Numbers for Each CFD Model
FundedNext rules for each CFD model, from FundedNext's own pages: profit targets, daily loss, maximum loss, trading days, leverage, prices and fee refunds.
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Fibonacci Retracement Examples: Levels, Anchors, Testing
Fibonacci retracement examples with worked numbers: the level sets, where the two anchors go, wick against body, and how to test the tool on your chart.
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FTMO Challenge Rules: The Numbers, and How to Check Yours
FTMO Challenge rules in FTMO's own numbers: profit target, daily loss, maximum loss, Best Day, and how to check a strategy against them first.
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E8 Markets Free Trial? The Rules of Each Account
Is there an E8 Markets free trial? No, every route is paid. E8 One, Pro and Signature rules, prices, and Dynamic Drawdown against a trailing limit.
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Does the Nadaraya-Watson Envelope Repaint? What It Costs
Does the Nadaraya-Watson envelope repaint? Yes by default: the fit is recomputed as new bars arrive, so the chart you review is not the one you traded.
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Does Supply and Demand Trading Work? How to Find Out
Does supply and demand trading work? What a mechanical test of the published zone rules finds, why freshness stays unsettled, and how to test it.
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Counterattack Candlestick Pattern: Rules and Names
The counterattack candlestick pattern: two long opposite-coloured candles that close at the same price. Rules, three names, counts on EURUSD and GER40.
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Concealing Baby Swallow: Why It Almost Never Prints
The concealing baby swallow is four black candles with a gap and a poke back. Which condition makes it rare, measured one at a time on EURUSD and GER40.
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Closing Marubozu Candle: Which End Has No Shadow
A closing marubozu is a long candle whose closing end has no shadow. Which end, how short the shadow must be, and how often it prints on EURUSD and GER40.
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Chandelier Exit Formula: When the Line Moves Down
The chandelier exit formula, a worked example, and the two ways the long level can fall. Published settings, each with the page that printed it.
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Can You Hedge in Forex? The Rules, and How to Test
Can you hedge in forex? Yes, if your account carries both legs. What NFA Rule 2-43 and three prop firms publish, and how to test a hedging rule.
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Bull Bear Power Indicator Formula, and Its Missing Scale
The Bull Bear Power indicator formula, why MetaTrader splits it in two, why it has no overbought level, and how to test Bulls Power and Bears Power.
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Bollinger Bands Explained: What the Inventor's Rules Say
Bollinger Bands explained: the formula, what John Bollinger's own rules say about touches, settings and the 95% figure, and how to test a band rule.
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Best Days to Trade Forex: Is Friday One of Them?
Is Friday a good day to trade forex? The published rankings disagree, and most split Friday in two. How to measure your own weekday from tested trades.
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