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Best Stochastic Settings For Day Trading
- Thread starter rc5781
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As I understand that indicator that just shows mostly overbought or oversold. I recommend using additional indicators such as the MACD or CCI.
I am sorry but Macd and CCI are oscilators just the same. ADX may help a little as it indicates the trend strength, but support and resistence levels coupled with channels and a study of their duration mixed with trend following indicators have a lot more benefit than just a bunch of standard indicators that are available to every tom , dick and harry.
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5,5,2 is a decent setting for the stochastic. There are other really good stochastics settings too..just depends what you are trying to accomplish through the use of the stochastic for your application. MACD used with stochastic is a very good combination.
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I'm day trading the S&P E-Minis. Any suggestions on stochastic settings best suited for this?
Consider Stochastic (5,2,3) on 5 minute charts. In particular, look for steep crossovers of 50% on low volume as a leading indicator of imminent high volume breakouts. (If price action already has you in, then it is a nice confirmation to see.)
To help stay with trends, consider the Stoch (14,1,3) in conjunction with the MACD(5,13,6) where you are looking to hold while Stoch<20 or >80 and MACD is well "away" from neutral.
Hope that helps.
Quote from Anekdoten:
If you would like to be faster and more precise with your entries and exits kill all those oscillators and learn to spot lows, highs and certain valuable patterns in price .
The effort would not go in vain.
Anek
What fun is that? If you want to succeed, you gotta trade off of various derivatives, don't you?