About Day Trading: Can Heikin Ashi Charts Improve Your Trading?

Day Trading In the Spotlight | More Topics |   from Adam Milton If you use candlestick or bar charts in your trading, there is an alternative type of chart that some traders believe has a significant advantage over candlestick and bar charts. These alternative charts are called Heikin Ashi charts, and they could make a significant difference to your trading and your profit / loss. This week's trading newsletter includes: - an introduction to Heikin Ashi charts, including their calculation, and an example of how they are used in trading, - the definition of spread betting, and how some traders can use spread betting as an alternative to regular trading, - the weekly economic calendar with volatility expectations. Good trading everyone :-)   In the Spotlight Heikin Ashi Charts Almost every trader is aware of candlestick and bar charts (if you're not, my trading charts articles will help you), but not as many traders are aware of Heikin Ashi charts. Heikin Ashi charts (Average Bar charts in Japanese) are similar to candlestick and bar charts, in that they look similar and display similar information, but some traders believe that they have a significant advantage over candlestick and bar charts. If you use candlestick and bar charts in your trading (which is most traders), and especially if you use the direction of individual candlesticks and bars as an indicator, my introduction to Heikin Ashi charts will help you decide if Heikin Ashi charts will be useful to you ... read more              More Topics Trading Psychology Spread Betting Spread betting is a type of gambling that can be used as an alternative to regular trading. Spread bets can be placed on many of the same markets as regular trading (such as the FTSE 100 stock index). Spread betting is similar to binary betting, but it is not fixed odds betting, as a spread bet's profit and loss will vary with every price movement (as with regular trading) ... find out about spread betting   Economic Calendar With Volatility The Christmas and New Year holidays are finally over, so this week's economic calendar is more or less normal with regard to amount of new releases (primarily Europe, followed by the US, and then Asia). The US has eight high volatility news releases, while Europe have six high volatility news releases, and Asia has four high volatility news releases. Markets from all three regions will probably start experiencing high volatility and significant price movement again this week, as the level of trading activity should finally be back to normal ... view the economic calendar     Sponsored Links   Best Moves in a Bad Economy Save & Invest the Right Way Find out how to beat a bear market, make smart choices, and keep your cool even when the economy is unpredictable. Day Trading Ads Stochastic Forex Trading Tips Day Trading Stock MetaStock Data Forex Education Advertisement     Visit Related About GuideSites: Search About      Sign up for more free newsletters on favorite topics. You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Day Trading newsletter as lemmetry@GMAIL.COM. If you wish to change or remove your email address, please visit: http://www.about.com/nl/usgs.htm?nl=daytrading&e=lemmetry@GMAIL.COM About respects your privacy. Our Privacy Policy. Our Contact Information. 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2008 About, Inc.