Darren Winters Seminars

In what will become a regular feature on indicators, we start the series with the Average Directional Index (ADX). Now for those that have met Kevin or myself, you will realise we do not like that many indicators, so you can be sure of getting a frank view!

I thought we would start the series with an indicator that many newer traders have probably not yet come across and some more experienced may have looked at and left.

Of the technical analysis new traders and investors are taught, indicators make up a reasonable amount of that teaching. Every charting package on the market has them, but are they necessary?

One of the very first ‘holy grails’ of trading we encounter is indicators. When we first analyze them whilst looking at past charts, their accuracy looks impressive. But in a live trading environment, are they as useful as they look when we first learnt them with the benefit of perfect 20/20 hindsight?

Since this newsletter began in 2002, our main aim was to encourage readers to take control of their finances. Here, we look at the best ways to trade/invest for your pension.

Trading and investing your own pension pot is becoming ever more popular as more people open their own Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs). Before I go any further, I would suggest that you don’t start trading your own pension fund until you feel competent enough to do so.

If you are ever wondering what the smart money is doing then studying volume may be the answer. Here we look at an indicator that may give you the heads up when the smart money is moving in or out of a stock.

With the huge amount of volatility in the markets at present, we are often asked about a safe way of trading covered calls. Here we look at two alternatives and weigh up the pros and cons.

With so many commentators bearish on the future prospects of the dollar, we thought we’d better look at the alternative view to the majority and see what the commercial hedgers are up to…

A number of companies had used some of their surplus cash to buy back their own stock. Here we look at the pros and cons and also take a look at dilution and stock splits.

Every successful trader or investor we have ever interviewed always refers to the importance of risk management and money management. It is a well known fact that you can be very successful in terms of profit even with a win ratio of just 40%, yet so much emphasis is put on selecting the right trade and very little is really put on money management. Here we look at a couple of techniques which may help.

As with all of the indicators I have currently covered in this series, I have gone back to the work produced by the person who developed the indicator to see how they originally meant their work to be used. The reason for this is that many people put their own angle on things,  which often bears little resemblance to how the indicator was designed to be used.