Technical indicators

Learn about technical indicators

Learn some of the more popular indicators used by traders, including MACD (moving average convergence divergence), RSI (relative strength index), SMAs (simple moving averages) and slow stochastics. Once you understand how they work they can be a valuable tool to back up your trading strategies.

Trendlines

Trendlines are a common technical analysis technique used to help identify possible trade opportunities. This primary indicator can be used on any chart type and asset class, and can help identify buying and selling opportunities from a technical perspective, and with effective risk management by highlighting potential price levels for stop-loss and take-profit orders.

Which chart type is best?

Learn about the different chart types that are available and see how they can help with your technical analysis strategies. This short session covers the most popular types, such as candlestick, line and bar charts, plus our spread charts.

Support and resistance

Support and resistance levels are common technical analysis techniques used to help identify trade opportunities. These primary indicators can be used on any chart type, helping to identify buying and selling opportunities. They can also aid effective risk management by highlighting potential stop-loss and take-profit order levels.

Automatic CFD pattern analysis

Learn about how our pattern-tools function can highlight the most popular technical pattern types, including triangles, channels, double tops and head & shoulders formations, plus over 50 different candle patterns, on any chart and most time intervals.

Using our charting package for trading CFDs

This in-depth session covers all the major features and functions of our powerful Next Generation chartina package.

CFD pattern recognition

Learn how pattern recognition technology could help you with your trading. Our pattern recognition scanner automatically scans over 120 of our most popular CFD and spread betting products approximately every 15 minutes, including forex, indices, commodities and shares, for common chart formations such as triangles, wedges and channels.

Learn about our advanced charting package

Chart pattern recognition scanner

Learn about how pattern recognition technology could help you with your trading. Our pattern recognition scanner automatically scans over 120 of our most popular spread betting instruments approximately every 15 minutes, including currencies (FX pairs), indices, commodities and shares, for common chart formations such as triangles, wedges and channels.

Automatically Identify Chart Patterns