Trading Essentials · MACD: Reading Momentum the Right WayMACD: Reading Momentum the Right Way
Difficulty: Beginner
MACD is one of the most widely used indicators in the world — and one of the most misused. Most traders only watch the line crossings. The real information sits in three places most people skim past: the histogram, the zero line, and the gap between price and momentum.
🔵 WHAT MACD ACTUALLY MEASURES
MACD compares two moving averages of price — a fast one and a slow one. When the fast average pulls away from the slow one, mom
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London cocoa: Bearish channel points to £3,817London cocoa does not have a consolidation; rather, it has a distribution. This difference is important and it is being highlighted in the chart, the fundamental analysis, and the seasonal calendar. The Ivory Coast exported 2.14 million metric tons of cocoa in the current marketing year, up 19% on last year, and methodically destroying the deficit story that saw prices hit record highs of £10,820 in December 2024. Meanwhile, the regulator in that country has just announced plans to increase proc
AMD: RSI hit this level in 2021;Then fell 65% here is the trade!AMD has gained 306% from a low of $154.78 to $629.26, crossing the $1 trillion market capitalization mark on September 21, owing to 107% YoY growth in data centre business, $13 billion Q3 revenue guidance, and CFO Jean Hu's prediction of $3 trillion AI TAM by 2030. Shipment of commercial Helios platform, agreements with OpenAI, Meta, and HUMAIN, and Piper Sandler's Overweight ($600 price target) indicate growth in fundamentals on account of AI. However, the stock is trading at 158 times forward
Nas100: Chips surge, oil falls;30,000 broken here is the trade!Nasdaq 100 made another all-time closing high amid rising shares in semiconductor and memory chip stocks. AMD stock achieved a valuation of $1 trillion on September 21 among others including Intel, Arm Holdings, along with a 4.3% rise in Philadelphia Semiconductor Index. The memory chip industry’s big names like SanDisk, Micron, and SK Hynix carried forward the run on September 22 resulting in a 27,244 closing high of the Nasdaq Composite. This momentum is being fueled by the declining crude oil
Copper:The saucer is building,$6.89 Is the line!Here is my analysis of Copper futures and the trade setup I've made as of 21 September 2026, when Copper saw its 11th gain out of 12 weeks after the Yangshan premium the best real-time indicator of Chinese import demand,hit its highest level since November 2022 at $121 per tonne, while the Chinese refineries are expected to be undergoing maintenance from October to November, taking out supply at the very point when Golden September and Silver October start their consumption period. The treatment
Tesla: The Cybercab underwhelmed,NHTSA called here Is the shortThe Sept 3rd Cybercab event hosted by Tesla in Austin was rather disappointing, failing to provide more details about prices, production or regulations, without even the presence of Elon Musk. Hours after the event, the NHTSA initiated Audit Query AQ26002 to look into Tesla's self-certification of the 45 Cybercabs registered in Texas, lacking wheels, pedals, or mirrors. The current rules under the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards limit non-compliant vehicle sales to 2,500 vehicles per year
JPN225: 3% yields, a descending triangle,Here Is the Trade!The video has a detailed analysis of the Japan 225 and the trade setup that I have created as of 3 September 2026, the day when Japan's 10 year bond yield topped 3% for the first time since 1996 as US-Iran airstrikes increase oil prices, global inflation expectations rise, yen strengthens amid BOJ rate hike check speculation and the index falls 2.85% to four-week lows at 64,325. Nikkei index currently trades 12% down from its June peak of 73,007. Descending triangle has been developing quietly s
JPN225:Descending triangle developing here is the tradeThe Jappan 225 lost 2.85%, closing at 64,325 on Wednesday, to reach its lowest level in four weeks due to changes in the macroeconomic environment. The yield on Japan’s 10-year government bonds touched above 3% for the first time since 1996 due to increasing oil prices and expectations of additional tight monetary policy moves from the Bank of Japan. Stronger Japanese yen has put pressure on Japanese companies like Toyota, Sony, and Softbank. The index is still 53.76% higher year-to-date.
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NVIDIA:8.7% surge, now coiling ;here is the next moveThe following video contains my analysis of NVIDIA and the trade setup I have created as of 31 August 2026, which is five days following the NVIDIA fiscal Q2 2027 earnings report of $96.2 billion, up 106% year on year, where data center revenues were a record of $89.02 billion thanks to the ramp of Blackwell Ultra infrastructure, earnings per share of $2.22 more than doubled the previous year, and fiscal 2028 guidance for 70% revenue growth versus 44% consensus. The stock rose 8.7% on August 27
We make plans, and the market laughs.I was originally anticipating a deeper retracement toward $55K or even the mid-$40K zone before re-entering the market. However, price action and momentum indicators gave us a signal that was simply too strong to ignore.
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Weekly Bullish Divergence: As highlighted on the chart, while Bitcoin’s price made a lower low, the Weekly MACD clearly formed a higher low. On higher timeframes (especially the Weekly), bullish divergences are high-conviction momentum signals.
Cycle:
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UKNatgas:Profit target hit,Winter is coming and 182 is next!This is the update video for the UK NBP Natural Gas trade idea which was posted by me on 11th August 2026. That’s when I found the formation of a W pattern i.e. double bottom pattern where troughs were at 128 GBp level, neckline at 155 GBp level and MACD histogram at −0.64 contracting towards zero as the completion signal. The main target of 155 GBp has already been attained at 155.18 GBp. Prolonged heat in the northwest Europe has kept storage injection slower, Germany stocks lower than 5-year
USTECH100: The neckline is being tested here is the trade!There has been a notable comeback for the US Tech 100 Index, which has developed a solid technical base on the daily chart. Having fallen to 22,953 in late March due to tariff worries, the US Tech 100 made a strong bounce to 30,600 in early June before reversing to 27,600 following an FOMC meeting in June, where nine of its members projected 2022 rate hikes while the dot-plot median increased from 3.4% to 3.8%. The Index reversed its decline in just two weeks after CPI reading came in line with
NFLX - +25% Swing Setup | Strong MACD Divergence |Key ResistanceNFLX | +25% Swing Setup 🚀
Netflix is approaching a potentially decisive period. After the significant sell-off, the stock is now setting up for two very different scenarios ahead of the October earnings.
📈 Bullish scenario: The strong MACD divergence and the MACD moving averages crossing suggest that momentum may be starting to shift. However, the negative weekly trend remains the biggest obstacle. If earnings or any good news provide a positive catalyst and NFLX breaks through the key resista
SA40:Profit target hit an inverse head and shoulders where next?This video features an update of the SA40 trade setup that I shared on 28 July 2026, with the index having entered at 102000 due to a SARB hold, rand weakness, and threat of $100 Brent crude. Three weeks down the line, the first target of 107300 has been achieved and the chart has just made another discovery, one that is even more fascinating. An inverse head and shoulders pattern has emerged from the price action of May to August, whereby the left shoulder forms at one hundred and ten thousand,
Platinum: Cup-and-Handle breakout, WPIC deficit;trade setup!The platinum trade appears to be the least recognized asset in the precious metals complex at this time and today's chart may have just delivered the technical confirmation that has been brewing within the markets for months now. Even though the focus from investors all year long has been on the gold and silver trades, the platinum market has been quietly developing its own structural bull thesis that takes into account the generational supply crunch, the AI demand tailwind that has not yet been
HS50: 8.5% in three weeks, Politburo just pledged action.Three weeks ago, the index stood at 23,988 despite an avalanche of bearish news that could have been considered a good reason to close any long position. The 50% US import tariff on copper was introduced for the companies related to EV and technology. China's PPI was reporting deflationary figures. The Strait of Hormuz was blocked. Nevertheless, the MACD histogram produced the largest green bar of the last few months and this indicator spoke the truth long before the price did. The primary targe
MSFT: Q4 earnings beat, Azure $100B, MACD breakout!The market had been discounting Microsoft for the past six months based on which last night’s earnings report is making this valuation very hard to justify. The stock closed on July 29 after reporting revenue of $90.01 billion in its fiscal Q4 2026, beating the $87.61 billion estimate from Wall Street by $2.4 billion while delivering an adjusted earnings per share of $4.74 instead of $4.24. This represents an 18% increase YOY, marking the second consecutive quarter of such revenue growth. Azure
SA40:The MACD is building from the depths here is the trade!This video features a breakdown of the SA40 and my set up from this week where the South African Reserve Bank left the repo rate unchanged at seven percent in a shocking four-two vote split while Governor Kganyago mentioned one hundred dollar Brent crude as a potential worst-case scenario, which is coming true as US airstrikes against Iran for eleven straight days keep oil above ninety-seven dollars. The USD/ZAR pair has made a move past the sixteen fifty level and is heading towards seventeen d
SA40: Oil at $100, Rand at R17 and a SARB that just blinked!It goes without saying that the Top 40 is not a market that operates in a vacuum not ever. It is a market that feels all the domestic weaknesses that are inherent in South Africa, magnifies all of the fluctuations of the rand, and is immediately responsive to changes in the international commodity cycle in a way few other indices in the world are able to do. In this case, all three of these factors are acting upon the market simultaneously, and the index stands right at the confluence of these
Brent: 11 nights of strikes $100 is no longer a ceiling!In this video there is an analysis of Brent Crude Oil along with the trading set up that I have formed till date, i.e., 23 July 2026, when the oil market is dealing with three different fronts of supply at once ,the US-Iran peace treaty has been totally broken down, the eleventh consecutive night of air strikes against Iranian military bases is underway, Houthi militants have attacked two commercial vessels in the Red Sea with missiles and drones, and the attack on the Caspian Pipeline Consortiu
GOOGL: Chart is sitting on the fence,MACD is a calling reversal?The tech giant goes into earnings week laden with more doubts than its underlying fundamentals merit. Alphabet delivers results for the Q2 after Wednesday, July 22 close, with the street expecting revenues to be in the neighborhood of $116.91 billion which would mark a 21.2% growth YoY along with EPS of $2.90 that would mark a 24.2% growth YoY. Those are impressive numbers. Google Cloud posted revenues growing 63% YoY in Q1 to hit the milestone of $20 billion which was comfortably ahead of Micro
Trading Roadmap | Classical TA · Lesson 11 — Core IndicatorsLesson 11 - Core Indicators (RSI, MACD, Stochastic, Bollinger Bands)
Difficulty: Intermediate
The indicators on your chart are built from the same price data you already see. The four covered here are among the most widely followed in technical analysis — knowing how to read them can add useful context to your setups.
🔵 WHAT INDICATORS ACTUALLY DO
An indicator does not see the future — it reorganizes past price (and sometimes volume) into a different visual form. That can make cer
HS50: All 4 profit targets hit ,the MACD said it before reversalThis video includes a full update on my Hang Seng 50 trading idea that I posted on 9 July 2026, the same day the index succumbed to the pressure exerted by the 50% US copper tariffs, China deflation numbers and geopolitical tension emanating from the Strait of Hormuz. The MACD histogram predicted the reversal before price did, and all targets have been met in just one week. The primary target of 24,355 was achieved on July 10. The secondary target of 24,533 was achieved on July 15. The operative























