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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Momentum oscillator

Momentum Oscillator
The momentum indicator calculateschange of over a specified length of time as a ratio. high values of themomentum oscillator may indicate that prices are trending strongly upwards. Themomentum oscillator is closely related to MACD and Price Rate of Change (ROC).The Momentum indicator measures the amount that a price has changed over agiven time span. It displays the rate-of-change of a price as a ratio. Themomentum oscillator measures the velocity of directional price movement. Whenprice moves up, at some point the market is considered to be overbought; whenit moves down, at some point the market is considered to be oversold. a reaction or reversal is imminent. The slope of the momentum oscillator isdirectly proportional to the velocity of the move. The distance traveled up or down by themomentum oscillator is proportional to the magnitude of the move. The momentum oscillator is usuallycharacterized by a line on a chart drawn in two dimensions. The Y axis(vertical) represents magnitude or distance the indicator moves; the X axis(horizontal) represents time. The momentum oscillator drawn in this manner ischaracterized by the fact that it moves very rapidly at market turning pointsand tends to slow down as the market continues the directional move.
It is used as a trend-followingoscillator. Buy when the indicator bottoms and turns up and sell when theindicator peaks and turns down. It is also used as a leading indicator.
This method assumes that markettops are typically identified by a rapid price increase and that market bottomstypically end with rapid price declines. As a market peaks, the Momentumindicator will climb sharply and then fall off diverging from the continuedupward or sideways movement of the price.

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