ADVANCED
Do you Know a Sure Thing When You See One?
This advanced lesson will teach you the Know Sure Thing. This happens to be an indicator that is a complex, smoothed price velocity momentum indicator. This is a price velocity indicator that shows the rate of change in the prices over a moving average and weighted to give more recent data precedence. If it is used wisely, makes investing choices easier for even the most experienced. It was developed by Martin J. Pring and described in his book Martin Pring on Market Momentum, McGraw Hill 1993. Before you go jumping to conclusions, there IS no sure thing, as Pring points out, “it’s also important to know that this approach is not a sure thing.” But since there are better indicators available to us, we continue to search for the best method.
The KST can be used as a buy signal when the oscillating lines shown below cross each other going upwards. The sell signal is indicated when the lines seem to peak and come into a horizontal position, more or less. This is my approach, it is rather simple but it can give you more than 65% chance of having a profitable investment, more so when used for long term investment.
The KST seems to work, on the Charts I’ve tried it on, and may be useful to those who can get the formula and build the indicator in MetaStock version 11.0.
If you’re interested, this is MetaStock’s code for the KST indicator:
Periods:= Input(“Enter the number of periods”, 1,9999,1);
((1*Mov(((C/Ref(C,-(9*periods)))*100),(6*periods),E)
+2*(Mov(((C/Ref(C,-(12*periods)))*100),(12*periods),E))
+3*(Mov(((C/Ref(C,-(18*periods)))*100),(6*periods),E))
+4*(Mov(((C/Ref(C,-(24*periods)))*100),(6*periods),E)))
/10)-100;Mov(
((1**(Mov(((C/Ref(C,-(9*periods)))*100),(6*periods),E)
+2*(Mov(((C/RefC,-(12*+periods)))*100),(6*periods),E))
+3*(Mov(((C/RefC,-(18*periods)))*100),(6*periods),E))
+4*(Mov(((C/RefC,-(24*periods)))*100),(9*periods),E))
)/10-100,(9*periods),E);Input(“Plot a horizontal line at “,-100,100,0);
To get this indicator working, you must type the above code in the Equis Metastock 11.0 Charting Software at the Indicator Builder Option. Below is an example of It being used on Fannie Mae. Note that both red lines below the Chart have bowed into a horizontal position. This seems a time to sell, but never short-sell on this indicator, as that is not one of its defined uses.
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Understanding the RMO Oscillator
The Rahul Mohindar Oscillator can be used across any time frame and for any financial instrument. It is designed to work with both Bar Charts and Japanese Candlestick Charts. This indicator is a gauge as to market direction and can be a primary trend indicator in many trading systems.
The RMO is displayed as a histogram. As a bullish “buy” sign, we will look for the point at which the histogram shows movement crossing the oscillator’s zero line going upwards. If it should go down and cross the line going down, that would be our “sell” sign, or a “short-sell” sign.
The complete trading system is available through the Equis International MetaStock Charting Software. An example of the complete, 5 step method is shown in the Chart below.
This is the way the Charted RMO Trading Model looks using Apple Computers(AAPL):
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The RMO Oscillator, explained above, is the green graph shown at the top window of the Chart. This indicator is the first gauge as to the market direction. Once the primary trend is determined, the second window should be observed.
The second window of the Chart contains Swing Trade 2 in pink, and Swing Trade 3, which is purple. These two indicators are designed to help us see the medium term and the long term trends. The pink histogram (Swing Trade 2) represents the medium term trend and the purple histogram (Swing Trade 3) represents the long term trend. When the histograms cross each other, it represents a change in the strength of the trend.
Moving forward past the third window for the while, we see the blue and red Bar Chart below it. The red and blue alert arrows and the color of the bars on the Bar Chart represent the crossing points of the Swing Trade 2 and Swing Trade 3 histograms. These signify a change in the strength of the trend. Blue bars are taken as bullish signals, while Red bars are bearish.
To enter a long buy or exit a short sell position, three conditions must be met:
1. The RMO is currently above zero.
2. The most recent alert arrow must be blue.
3. The price bars on the Bar Chart must have become blue at or before the examined time frame.
To enter a short-sell or exit a position, the reverse must be true on all three conditions.
Now to the third window that we skipped before. This is the exit swing indicator and gives added protection when applying stops by having us put in a trailing stop at certain situations. The rules for applying this is that first you must be invested and in a profitable position. If you are in a long position, for example, and this indicator falls below the red horizontal line demarcating the chart, consider putting a trailing stop below the trade. And if this indicator, called the exit swing indicator crosses above the blue line demarcating the chart, consider putting a trailing stop above your short sell position.
This is just one example of the many different and complex trading methods in the Science of Technical Analysis. It has a whole realm on to itself that can never be beat by any other method of Market Analysis for success rate, popularity and enthusiasm which investors using it see. This world must be examined by all who wish to invest and those who put it off or blame it for certain disasters speak from a stance of utter ignorance of the Science, for if they examined even the simplest line studies, they would know the truth.