A percentage filter changes direction only after price moves a specified distance from a tracked high or low. This analysis explains its historical forex evidence, defines an unambiguous daily rule and shows how costs, delayed execution and sideways markets can change the outcome.
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Explore thirteen forex analysis methods, from indicators and price structure to currency momentum, weekend gap reversal and percentage filters. Find charts, worked examples, trading rules, historical evidence and clear limitations.
Weekend Gap Reversal: Evidence, Entry Rules and Risk Controls
Weekend gap reversal trades against unusually large changes between Friday’s close and the following market opening. This analysis separates a published historical finding from the common assumption that every gap will close, then sets out a practical model for testing the idea.
Currency Momentum: Rules, Evidence and a Monthly Trading Plan
Currency momentum ranks currencies against one another, buys recent leaders and sells recent laggards. This analysis explains the historical evidence and provides a fully specified monthly research plan, including quote conversion, portfolio construction, costs and failure conditions.
Support, Resistance and Price Action for Forex: Zones, Breakouts and Retests
Define support and resistance without hindsight, read rejection and breakout behaviour, and test a complete forex breakout–retest setup.
Ichimoku Cloud for Forex: Five Lines, Correct Timing and Trade Rules
Understand Ichimoku’s 9/26/52 settings, leading and lagging spans, and a complete forex cloud-breakout study without lookahead bias.
ADX and DMI for Forex: Trend Strength, Direction and Breakout Filters
Learn Wilder’s +DI, −DI and ADX calculations, distinguish strength from direction, and test a complete forex breakout framework.
ATR in Forex: Volatility, Stop Placement and Position Sizing
Calculate True Range and ATR, distinguish Wilder and simple averaging, and build a volatility-aware forex risk and trailing-stop framework.
Bollinger Bands for Forex: Volatility, Breakouts and Pullbacks
Understand Bollinger Bands, %B and BandWidth, with a worked EUR/USD example, a testable breakout framework and practical MT4/MT5 settings.
MACD for Forex: Crossovers, Divergence and MetaTrader Differences
Learn what MACD crossovers measure, how MetaTrader’s histogram differs, and how to test a complete EUR/USD trend-pullback strategy.
Moving Averages in Forex: SMA, EMA and a Complete Trend Framework
Compare SMA and EMA, understand lag, and build a testable moving-average setup with explicit entry, stop, exit and risk rules.