Learn how to use technical indicators to trade and analyze financial markets in this free online course. This free online course will show you what technical indicators are and how they are used. You will be shown the importance of trading indicators and how to use a blend of indicators and time frames. Gain a thorough understanding of how to select the best trading indicators when trading regardless of the trading strategy to be implemented. Also, you will be taught the formulas that are at the heart of a successful technical trader’s toolkit.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201703 |
| Course Category | Finance, Business |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Explain what technical indicators are • Describe the two types of technical indicators • Discuss what moving averages are • State the different variations of each type of moving average and how to calculate each • Recall what MACD is and what it is used for • Recognize how to set MACD up correctly and apply it to charts • Explain what Parabolic SAR is, what it’s used for and how to add it to a chart. • Discuss what Bollinger bands are and explain how to calculate them • Define the stochastics indicator • Summarize how to use and apply RSI • Discuss the golden ratio, known as God’s number, and how it is found throughout nature, architecture, astrophysics and trading • Describe how to use and apply pivot points |
| Course Code | 3168 |

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