Free Weekly UK Technical Analysis 13/04/2015

DISCLAIMER: I am not FCA authorised or authorised in any sense to give financial advice. Do not regard any of the following links, or information as investment or trading advice.

N.B. Currently FireFox does not support Google Drive and therefore these reports may not open.

This Week's Analyses:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0wd9XTIWftmfnFpOVFMZlljaDRBSVNaTzEtZURmVlg4QlFKSkN6WExqMUJRczBBMGdUVU0&usp=sharing

How to use these reports:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/technical-analysis-instructions.html

More information regarding this project can be found here:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/my-experience-with-quantitative-finance.html

Free UK Technical Analysis 01/04/2015

DISCLAIMER: I am not FCA authorised or authorised in any sense to give financial advice. Do not regard any of the following links, or information as investment or trading advice.

N.B. Currently FireFox does not support Google Drive and therefore these reports may not open.

Today's Analyses:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0wd9XTIWftmfkxvNVFLTW5KZWdWbVVVMHlzTjlKV1VDaE5VcnZvSTJqSjFmeWZqeGdLQXM&authuser=0

How to use these reports:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/technical-analysis-instructions.html

More information regarding this project can be found here:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/my-experience-with-quantitative-finance.html

Free UK Technical Analysis 31/03/2015

DISCLAIMER: I am not FCA authorised or authorised in any sense to give financial advice. Do not regard any of the following links, or information as investment or trading advice.

N.B. Currently FireFox does not support Google Drive and therefore these reports may not open.

Today's Analyses:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0wd9XTIWftmfklaSldoYWR6aGZ2SU8xbzZDUjlMdnlSbzU0MEVsT25nOFhPRDZtY1FtTGc&authuser=0

How to use these reports:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/technical-analysis-instructions.html

More information regarding this project can be found here:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/my-experience-with-quantitative-finance.html

Free UK Technical Analysis 06/03/2015

DISCLAIMER: I am not FCA authorised or authorised in any sense to give financial advice. Do not regard any of the following links, or information as investment or trading advice.


Today's Analyses:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0wd9XTIWftmfmFseEZmbWdDdmNkMExRMlFZQ2xpTlozMDl4X3gtN1BuZ2EzbGZHc2hVVnc&authuser=0

How to use these reports:

• http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/technical-analysis-instructions.html

• More information regarding this project can be found here:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/my-experience-with-quantitative-finance.html

Free UK Technical Analysis 05/03/2015

DISCLAIMER: I am not FCA authorised or authorised in any sense to give financial advice. Do not regard any of the following links, or information as investment or trading advice.


Today's Analyses:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0wd9XTIWftmfjF3VXRlQ2p4dU1ZVzZxak1lenJIeXctZEdRRVFEa1ZoZXgwci1aekJwZ00&authuser=0

How to use these reports:

• http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/technical-analysis-instructions.html

• More information regarding this project can be found here:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/my-experience-with-quantitative-finance.html

Free UK Technical Analysis 04/03/2015

DISCLAIMER: I am not FCA authorised or authorised in any sense to give financial advice. Do not regard any of the following links, or information as investment or trading advice.


Today's Analyses:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0wd9XTIWftmfmcyeURobmdUTDdmeS1UREtUV3N0cDBtVDQ3Q1NpeHhPWVJkQ3oyX1BMS0k&authuser=0

How to use these reports:

• http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/technical-analysis-instructions.html

• More information regarding this project can be found here:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/my-experience-with-quantitative-finance.html

Free UK Technical Analysis 03/03/2015

DISCLAIMER: I am not FCA authorised or authorised in any sense to give financial advice. Do not regard any of the following links, or information as investment or trading advice.


Today's Analyses:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0wd9XTIWftmfjBPQWtvSTZubHd4bjFzQ2E4NTc5eng1d2t6REUtYm9SY2hiNXV6eG8wMXM&authuser=0

How to use these reports:

• This system is currently based around Simple Moving Averages (SMAs) that are based around the principals of Fibonacci numbers. These are used alongside a Slow Stochastic Oscillator (SSO) to create buy and sell signals, which are given numbers based upon their strengths.

• Over time, I adjust the stochastic coefficients and the weightings of the moving averages to create more reliable results during my back testing (for my use), but to also make the system more reliable generally.

• Attached in the linked folder will be a file called "buysignallers.txt" and "sell signallers.txt", which can both be used to show the position of a stock against the others that are analysed. This is where you will find the total signal strengths for stocks.

• It is worth noting that not all stocks and shares may load or process due to where the program gets its data from and some stocks with share prices below 0.10p will currently not analyse properly.

• These reports are all made up of a list of signals and comments and the data for these are taken daily. E.G. Today's signals use yesterday's closing stock prices - given in pence, not pounds! 

• The "signals" show the fibonacci SMAs that crossover and or any slow stochastic notifications.

• The "comments" show the value of the said SMA with the value of the previous day shown in brackets.

e.g. 

# Signals

Sell - 24.802226076843513707865168540 - 34 crossed 144

# Comments

SMA 3 - 25.50 (25.50)

SMA 5 - 25.50 (25.50)

• More information regarding this project can be found here:

http://themaskedstocktrader.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/my-experience-with-quantitative-finance.html

Technical Analysis - When it works best.

Good morning.


Regardless of whether you love it or hate it, technical analysis has become a very popular trading and investing tool, which people seem to try and apply in every position they make.


Personally, I feel that technical analysis can be a great trading method (especially for intra-daily trades) and that it can yield some very strong trades. However, the nature of it's huge growth in popularity means that people are now trying to apply it in cases where it was never intended to be used.


When I use it:


1. When daily volumes are high and consistent:


- This will obviously vary between stocks, but I would say that if there isn't a trade at least every one to two minutes then using technical analysis isn't going to yield any better results than luck.


2. When judging an entry:


- On some of my longer positions (days or weeks) I will use intra-daily technical analysis to judge at what price I may make an entry into a stock at. These picks usually have a fundamental reason behind the trade as well - not just pure technical trades.


3. Making pure technical analysis trades:


- This sounds obvious, but in these trades in particular I would be looking for trend lines on the chart and as many other factors (moving averages, etc) to go along with my technical analysis. In my case these trades will either be intra-daily or will only last a couple of days. Furthermore, to ensure the accuracy of these purely technical trades, I will pretty much only chose FTSE 250 stocks or AIM stocks with high volumes and low spreads.


A word of caution:


Technical analysis can make some great trades, but because it's a retrospective method an analytic tool, it means that fundamental changes in the company can cause huge changes in the technical analysis that can thus cause poor signalling in either the long or short direction. Therefore, you need to be very careful when using it with high "news beta" stocks as mis-signals will be commonplace.


Good luck,

The Masked AIM Trader.