Indicator Guide (Technical Indicators)

Last Updated on June 22, 2022 by Oddmund Groette

Below we have assembled the trading indicators we have covered so far. It’s a work in progress and many more trading indicators are added in the future.

Unlike many other websites, we are not interested in anecdotal evidence and thus we have backtested all the trading indicators.

Indicators and how they work (including quant systems):

• Which oscillating indicator is the best for trading strategies?
• The Best Moving Average – A Comparison and backtest of all variants of MAs
• The 200-day moving average trading strategy: How MA systems work (backtest and indicator)
• What is a Death Cross in Trading? Does it work?
• Keltner Bands strategies (Keltner Channels strategies)

• What Is The Put Call Ratio? Does It Work? (Backtest And Strategy)

• Average True Range trading strategy (ATR indicator – how to use it)
• What is the VIX and how does it work? (VIX trading strategies)
• The stochastic indicator – does it work? (Stochastic trading strategies)
• Donchian Channels – What is it and do they work? (Backtest commodities and S&P 500)
• Williams %R explained – does it work? (Williams %R strategies)
• WilliamsVixFix explained – does it work? (Including trading strategies)
• Heikin Ashi explained (is it useful?)
• Does the MACD indicator work? (Including strategies)
• Are the Bollinger Bands profitable? (Including strategies)
• Ways to use ADX (Strategies – does it work)?
• How the RSI indicator works (RSI trading strategies)

• Connors RSI — What Is It? (Trading Strategy and Indicator Backtest)

• Cutler’s RSI — What Is It? (Trading Strategy and Indicator Backtest)
• Weekly RSI vs daily RSI – what is best?
• Zweig Breadth Thrust Indicator – how to measure market breadth
• Hindenburg Omen indicator: How to use it? Backtest, formula and what is it?
• The internal bar strength (IBS) indicator
• The Elder Ray Indicator (with strategies): Does it work?
• The Chaikin Oscillator – does it work? (Chaikin Trading Strategies)
• Linear vs. logarithmic charts and scale – what is log scale chart (what is the difference?)
• What is contango? Examples and what causes it?
• What is backwardation? Examples and what causes it?