Webinar

Charts of the Month: How to Find Which Indicator is Best for Momentum

On Demand
Duration: 45 Minutes
Original Date: November 28, 2023

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A key assessment of market sentiment is whether your market is in a trend or in mean-reversion. This allows traders then to choose an appropriate strategy for the current situation. Momentum is perhaps the best measure for this assessment. Find out how to choose the best technical indicator of momentum for your strategy. This webinar briefly outlines five popular choices (RSI, RMI, Williams %R, CCI and Stochastics) and then uses BT to compare their relative performance.

Speakers

Tim McCullough

Technical Analysis Application Specialist

Bloomberg

Tim is the application specialist in Technical Analysis at Bloomberg LP in London, where he manages the rapidly increasing demand for charting and data visualization tools in EMEA. He has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets, in trading, sales and research at major international banks, including State Street, UBS, BNP Paribas and Lloyds. He uses diverse but complementary technical methodologies, based on behavioral finance, to help Bloomberg clients to analyze sentiment in all asset classes and all conditions of volatility and liquidity. In 2018 he additionally took an MSc in Financial Investigation, including a dissertation examining the dependency of financial markets on illicit flows from money laundering. He previously took a BA in Classics and is a full member of the Society of Technical Analysts in London and of IFTA.

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