The Trader's Cheat Sheet is a list of 44 commonly used technical indicators with the price projection for the next trading day that will cause each of the signals to be triggered. The Trader's Cheat Sheet is based on end-of-day prices and intended for the current trading session if the market is open, or the next trading session if the market is closed.
The projected trigger prices of the signals are listed from highest price at the top of the page to lowest price at the bottom. These are shaded in green if the common interpretation of the signal is bullish, and shaded in red if the common interpretation of the signal is bearish.
Each projection on the trading calendar can be examined to determine if the price change to each trigger level will tend to confirm or reverse the price move.
- Green areas above the current price will tend to provide support to confirm the upward move.
- Red areas below the current price will tend to provide resistance to confirm the downward move.
- Green areas below the current price will tend to provide support to limit the downward move.
- Red areas above the current price will tend to provide resistance to limit the upward move.
The complete Cheat Sheet can be used to give an indication of market timing: green below the current price and red above will tend to keep trading in a narrow band, whereas green above the current price, or red below can produce a breakout where each new price level is confirmed by a new signal.
Some of these signals such as Fibonacci Retracements have a fixed bullish or bearish interpretation. Others such as crossovers of a short-term and a long-term moving average are interpreted as a reversal of the current signal. Some of these projections will produce trigger prices so far removed from the price action that they can be ignored. The closer the trigger price to the current price, the more quickly it will come into play. A price projection of 0.00 is valid for a technical indicator if the calculation determines it will be impossible to trigger the signal.
Barchart defines the 14-Day %K Stochastic Stalls as follows:
- Value1 = (3 times %K Stochastic - 2 times Raw Stochastic)
- Value2 = (14-Day Highest high minus the 14-Day Lowest low) / 100.0
- Stall = (Value1 * Value2) + 14-Day Lowest Low
Barchart defines the 14-Day %D Stochastic Stalls as follows:
- Value1 = (3 times %D Stochastic - 2 times %K Stochastic)
- Value2 = (14-Day Highest high minus the 14-Day Lowest low) / 100.0
- Stall = (Value1 * Value2) + 14-Day Lowest Low
My Barchart members have the option to export the data to an Excel spreadsheet or as a .csv file.
Note: A security needs to have at least 5 days of trading activity in order to generate a Trader's Cheat Sheet.
