First, you need to choose what kind of indicators you need to develop your own Strategy
What type of indicator a trader uses to develop a strategy depends on what type of strategy he or she intends on the building. This relates to trading style and risk tolerance. A trader who seeks long-term moves with large profits might focus on a trend-following strategy, and, therefore, utilize a trend-following indicator such as a moving average. A trader interested in small moves with frequent small gains might be more interested in a strategy based on volatility. Again, different types of indicators may be used for confirmation.

WHAT IS TRADING INDICATORS?

• An indicator simply manipulates price data using a mathematical formula. The indicator shows a visual representation of the mathematical formula and price inputs. To a skilled chart reader or trader an indicator often won't reveal more than what is visible just by analyzing the price chart (or volume) without any indicators.
• That said since there is so much to be analyzed on a price chart an indicator helps simplify it. This is why indicators are so alluring to new traders. Instead of learning to how to identify a trend on the price chart, they try to find an indicator that will identify the trend and trend reversals for them.
• Indicator based trading is relying on indicators to analyze the price and provide trade signals. Many indicators provide a specific trade signal which alerts the trade that now is the time to take a trade.

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TYPES OF TECHNICAL INDICATORS

TREND

• Moving Averages
• MACD
• Parabolic SAR

MOMENTUM

• CCI
• Stochastics
• Relative Strength Index

VOLATILITY

• Bollinger Bands
• Average True Range
• Standard Deviation

VOLUME

• Chaikin Oscillator
• OBV
• Rate of Change(ROCV)

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• A moving average (MA) is a widely used indicator in technical analysis that helps smooth out price action by filtering out the “noise” from random price fluctuations. It is a trend-following or lagging, indicator because it is based on past prices.
• Moving averages lag current price action because they are based on past prices; the longer the time period for the moving average, the greater the lag. Thus, a 200-day MA will have a much greater degree of lag than a 20-day MA because it contains prices for the past 200 days. The length of the moving average to use depends on the trading objectives, with shorter moving averages used for short-term trading and longer-term moving averages more suited for long-term investors. The 50-day and 200-day MAs are widely followed by investors and traders, with breaks above and below this moving average considered to be important trading signals.
• Moving averages also impart important trading signals on their own, or when two averages cross over. A rising moving average indicates that the security is in an uptrend, while a declining moving average indicates that it is in a downtrend. Similarly, upward momentum is confirmed with a bullish crossover, which occurs when a short-term moving average crosses above a longer-term moving average. Downward momentum is confirmed with a bearish crossover, which occurs when a short-term moving average crosses below a longer-term moving average.

• Moving average convergence divergence (MACD) is a trend-following momentum indicator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of prices. The MACD is calculated by subtracting the 26-day exponential moving average (EMA) from the 12-day EMA. A nine-day EMA of the MACD called the "signal line", is then plotted on top of the MACD, functioning as a trigger for buy and sell signals.

• Crossovers

-As shown in the chart above, when the MACD falls below the signal line, it is a bearish signal, which indicates that it may be time to sell. Conversely, when the MACD rises above the signal line, the indicator gives a bullish signal, which suggests that the price of the asset is likely to experience upward momentum. Many traders wait for a confirmed cross above the signal line before entering into a position to avoid getting "faked out" or entering into a position too early, as shown by the first arrow.

• Divergence

-When the security price diverges from the MACD, it signals the end of the current trend. For example, a stock price that is rising and a MACD indicator that is falling could mean that the rally is about to end. Conversely, if a stock price is falling and the MACD is rising, it could mean that a bullish reversal could occur in the near-term. Traders often use divergence in conjunction with other technical indicators to find opportunities.

• Dramatic Rise

-When the MACD rises dramatically - that is, the shorter moving average pulls away from the longer-term moving average - it is a signal that the security is overbought and will soon return to normal levels. Traders will often combine this analysis with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) or other technical indicators to verify overbought or oversold conditions.

• The parabolic SAR, or parabolic stop and reverse, is a popular indicator that is mainly used by traders to determine the future short-term momentum of a given asset. The indicator was developed by the famous technician J. Welles Wilder Jr. and can easily be applied to a trading strategy, enabling a trader to determine where stop orders should be placed. (The calculation of this indicator is rather complex and goes beyond the scope of how it is practically used in trading.)
• The parabolic SAR indicator is graphically shown on the chart of an asset as a series of dots placed either above or below the price (depending on the asset's momentum). A small dot is placed below the price when the trend of the asset is upward, while a dot is placed above the price when the trend is downward. As you can see from the chart below, transaction signals are generated when the position of the dots reverses direction and is placed on the opposite side of the price.

• As you can see from the right side of the chart, using this indicator by itself can often lead to entering/exiting a position prematurely. So, many traders will choose to place their trailing stop-loss orders at the SAR value, because a move beyond this will signal a reversal, causing the trader to anticipate a move in the opposite direction. In a sustained trend, the parabolic SAR is usually far enough removed from price to prevent a trader from being stopped out of a position on temporary retracements that occur during a long-term trend, enabling the trader to ride the trend for a long time and capture substantial profits.

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• The stochastic oscillator is a momentum indicator comparing the closing price of a security to the range of its prices over a certain period of time. The sensitivity of the oscillator to market movements is reducible by adjusting that time period or by taking a moving average of the result.
• FORMULA

• The K line is the fastest and the D line is the slower of the two lines. The investor needs to watch as the D line and the price of the issue begin to change and move into either the overbought (over the 80 line) or the oversold (under the 20 line) positions. The investor needs to consider selling the stock when the indicator moves above the 80 level. Conversely, the investor needs to consider buying an issue that is below the 20 line and is starting to move up with increased volume.

• The Commodity Channel Index (CCI) is a momentum-based technical trading tool used most often to help determine when an investment vehicle is reaching a condition of being overbought or oversold. As the price of an investment moves continually in one direction, these indicators help traders to determine when an institutional conviction may be changing, and a pause or pull-back in the market price may be coming. This information can permit traders to take profit or add to an existing position following a price pullback.
• First developed by Donald Lambert, the CCI is a stochastic oscillator that measures the change in an instrument's price relative to a pre-defined moving average (MA) of the price divided by 1.5% of a normal deviation (D) from that average. Oscillating indicators, in general, are technical trading tools whose calculated values move back and forth between two pre-determined levels, the top level indicating a market that is in the condition of being overbought and the bottom one indicating a market that is in the condition of being oversold.

• The Relative Strength Index - RSI is a momentum indicator that measures the magnitude of recent price changes to analyze overbought or oversold conditions. It is primarily used to attempt to identify overbought or oversold conditions in the trading of an asset.
• The RSI provides a relative evaluation of the strength of a security's recent price performance, thus making it a momentum indicator. RSI values range from 0 to 100. The default time frame for comparing up periods to down periods is 14, as in 14 trading days.
• Traditional interpretation and usage of the RSI is that RSI values of 70 or above indicate that a security is becoming overbought or overvalued, and therefore may be primed for a trend reversal or corrective pullback in price. On the other side of RSI values, an RSI reading of 30 or below is commonly interpreted as indicating an oversold or undervalued condition that may signal a trend change or corrective price reversal to the upside.

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• A Bollinger Band®, developed by famous technical trader John Bollinger, is plotted two standard deviations away from a simple moving average.
• Standard deviation is a mathematical formula that measures volatility, showing how the stock price can vary from its true value. By measuring price volatility, Bollinger Bands® adjust themselves to market conditions. This is what makes them so handy for traders: they can find almost all of the price data needed between the two bands. Read on to find out how this indicator works, and how you can apply it to your trading. (For more on volatility, see Tips For Investors In Volatile Markets.)
• Bollinger Bands consists of a centre line and two price channels (bands) above and below it. The centre line is an exponential moving average; the price channels are the standard deviations of the stock being studied. The bands will expand and contract as the price action of an issue becomes volatile (expansion) or becomes bound into a tight trading pattern (contraction).

• In this example of Bollinger Bands®, the price of the stock is bracketed by an upper and lower band along with a 21-day simple moving average. Because standard deviation is a measure of volatility when the markets become more volatile, the bands widen; during less volatile periods, the bands' contract.

• The average true range (ATR) is a technical analysis indicator that measures volatility by decomposing the entire range of an asset price for that period. Specifically, ATR is a measure of volatility introduced by Welles Wilder in his book, "New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems." The true range indicator is the greatest of the following: current high less the current low, the absolute value of the current high less the previous close and the absolute value of the current low less the previous close. The average true range is a moving average, generally 14 days, of the true ranges.
• Wilder originally developed the average true range (ATR) for commodities, but the indicator can also be used for stocks and indices. Simply put, a stock experiencing a high level of volatility has a higher ATR, and a low volatility stock has a lower ATR. The ATR may be used by market technicians to enter and exit trades, and it is a useful tool to add to a trading system. It was created to allow traders to more accurately measure the daily volatility of an asset by using simple calculations. The indicator does not indicate the price direction; rather it is used primarily to measure volatility caused by gaps and limit up or down moves. The ATR is fairly simple to calculate and only needs historical price data.

• The standard deviation is a statistic that measures the dispersion of a data set relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance. It is calculated as the square root of variance by determining the variation between each data point relative to the mean. If the data points are further from the mean, there is a higher deviation within the data set; thus, the more spread out the data, the higher the standard deviation.
• In the financial services industry, the standard deviation is one of the key fundamental risk measures that analysts, portfolio managers, wealth-management advisors and financial planners use. Investment firms report the standard deviation of their mutual funds and other products. A large dispersion shows how much the return on the fund is deviating from the expected normal returns. Because it is easy to understand, this statistic is regularly reported to the end clients and investors.
• The formula for standard deviation uses three variables. The first variable is to be the value of each point within the data set, traditionally listed as x, with a sub-number denoting each additional variable (x, x1, x2, x3, etc.). The mean, or average, of the data points, is applied to the value of the variable M, and the number of data points involved is assigned to the variable n.

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• Named after its creator, Marc Chaikin, the Chaikin oscillator is an oscillator that measures the accumulation/distribution line of the moving average convergence divergence (MACD). The Chaikin Oscillator is calculated by subtracting a 10-day exponential moving average (EMA) of the accumulation/distribution line from a three-day EMA of the accumulation/distribution line and highlights the momentum implied by the accumulation/distribution line.
• Fundamental analysts study business performance to glean information about the future direction of stock prices. Fundamental analysts believe that the ability to predict the market is about being the most informed. Technical analysts believe that all known information is already priced into the market and that patterns in the movement of stock prices can help to predict the future. Technical analysts use the Chaikin oscillator to find directional trends in momentum.
• It is the balance of this relationship that drives markets. Analysts measure this relationship, the balance of buyers (accumulators), and sellers (distributors) with myriad indicators, including accumulation/distribution indicators such as the Chaikin Oscillator.

• On-balance volume (OBV) is a momentum indicator that uses volume flow to predict changes in stock price. Joseph Granville first developed the OBV metric in the 1960s. He believed that when volume increases sharply without a significant change in the stock's price, the price will eventually jump upward, and vice versa./li]
  
  • The theory behind OBV is based on the distinction between smart money – namely, institutional investors – and less sophisticated retail investors. As mutual funds and pension funds begin to buy into an issue that retail investors are selling, the volume may increase even as the price remains relatively level. Eventually, volume drives the price upward. At that point, larger investors begin to sell, and smaller investors begin buying.
  
  
  
  
  
  RATE OF CHANGE (ROCV)
  • The rate of change - ROC - is the speed at which variable changes over a specific period of time. ROC is often used when speaking about momentum, and it can generally be expressed as a ratio between a change in one variable relative to a corresponding change in another; graphically, the rate of change is represented by the slope of a line. The ROC is often illustrated by the Greek letter delta./li]
    
    • Rate of change is used to mathematically describe the percentage change in value over a defined period of time, and it represents the momentum of a variable. The calculation for ROC is simple in that it takes the current value of a stock or index and divides it by the value from an earlier period. Subtract one and multiply the resulting number by 100 to give it a percentage representation.
    
    
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    ROC = {(current value / previous value) - 1} x 100
    
    
    
    
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Nice one kabayan pagpatuloy mo lang yan feel free na kumuha ng mga topic suggestions dito tsaka feel free na mag suggest, marami kang matutulungan sa post mo Walang anuman.

First of all let me start with one sentence, one sentence (badum tsssss....) did you get it? start with one sentence so I start with it?......
Okay so this is just a quick summary on what is Soft Fork and What is Hard Fork? I hope you like it

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[1] WHAT IS FORKS

• The blockchain – the technology underlying Bitcoin – is a distributed ledger made up of “blocks” of data that is continuously growing, forming a single chain of blocks (hence block-chain). Since Bitcoin is a decentralized network, participants in the network need to agree on a common set of rules to validate the transactions, in order to achieve consensus. This, therefore, results in a single chain of verified data that everyone agrees is correct, or a single truth.
• A byproduct of distributed consensus, forks happen anytime two miners find a block at nearly the same time. The ambiguity is resolved when subsequent blocks are added to one, making it the longest chain, while the other block gets "orphaned" (or abandoned) by the network.
• Forking implies any divergence in Blockchain- temporary or permanent. Very simply, forking is said to happen when a Blockchain splits into two branches. It can happen as a result of a change in the consensus algorithm or other software changes. Depending on the nature of change, the fork can be categorized into Hard Fork and Soft Fork.

[2] CAUSES

A Split in Consensus
As Bitcoin is a distributed and decentralized network, a fork occurs when miners discover a block at the same time, resulting in two split chains. However, this is a temporary fork as the chain that finds the next block first becomes the longest chain and automatically becomes the truth. Therefore, the shorter chain will be abandoned by the network.

A Change in the Underlying Rules of the Protocol
This represents a conscious change of the underlying codes by developers, and are permanent. The reason for changing the codebase can be due to:

• Adding new features to enhance the network’s functionalities
• Changing a core rule (such as increasing the block size)

Since the forks occurring in the first category (Split in Consensus) is temporary, the scope of focus (when someone talks about forks) should be in the second category, which is “A Change in the Underlying Rules of the Protocol”. The forks within this category are permanent and require participants within the network to upgrade their Bitcoin software, so as to integrate the new changes into their current software.[/i]


[3] SOFT FORK AND HARD FORK

SOFT FORK

• A soft fork is a change to the bitcoin protocol that restricts the ruleset enforced by full nodes that upgrade to enforce the soft fork rules. A block that is considered valid before the soft fork activates will be considered invalid by upgraded full nodes if it violates the new soft fork rules after the soft fork activates.
• An example is a soft fork that restricts the block size limit from 1MB to 500kB. Even though a 1MB block was previously considered valid, full nodes that upgrade to support this soft fork will reject any blocks larger than 500kB after the soft fork activates.
• New transaction types can often be added as soft forks, requiring only that the participants for e.g. sender and receiver and miners understand the new transaction type. This is done by having the new transaction appear to older clients as a "pay-to-anybody" transaction (of a special form) and getting the miners to agree to reject blocks including this transaction unless the transaction validates under the new rules. This is how to pay to script hash (P2SH) was added to Bitcoin.

HARD FORK

• A hard fork is a change to the bitcoin protocol that loosens the ruleset enforced by full nodes that upgrade to enforce the hard fork rules. A block that is considered invalid before the hard fork activates will be considered valid by upgraded full nodes if it follows the new hard fork rules after the hard fork has activated.
• An example is a hard fork that increases the block size limit from 1MB to 2MB. Even though a 2MB block was previously considered invalid, full nodes that upgrade to support this hard fork will accept any blocks up to 2MB in size after the hard fork has activated.
• A hard fork is a radical change to the protocol that makes previously valid blocks or transactions invalid. Any transaction on the forked (newer) chain will not be valid on the older chain. All nodes and miners will have to upgrade to the latest version of the protocol software if they wish to be on the new forked chain. This essentially creates a fork in the Blockchain, one path which follows the new, upgraded Blockchain, and one path which continues along the old path.

[4] DIFFERENCE
Hard fork is a consensus rule change that every node/miner must agree to enforce. If I don't update to use the new consensus rules, then any new blocks generated would be rejected by my node.
Soft fork is a consensus rule change implemented in such a way that older nodes will not 'see' the new rule and will continue to process as normal when new blocks are generated (albeit with lessened security since it can't validate the new rule changes itself).

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If it is your design I suggest having a design make some bitcoin with arms and feet that is lying in a hospital bed and make it looks like it has a sickness and put a medical monitor in the side of it and make sure the dips are frequent just a suggestion, feel sorry for your loss but it's because of the bitcoin volatility just wait for the trend to come again and wait for the whales to come again because there are some season where the whales visit bitcoin and eat some fomos their.

If bitcoin was managed well by a particular country it will help the price of bitcoin increase and it will also helps the living and give opportunities to their citizens because bitcoin can be a good source of income if you have a money to invest in or if you are a hardworking person but if the country knows about cryptocurrency more maybe they will create their own digital currency and that will they manage and make it has a value it is just my opinion.

Bitcoin is very valuable it is a gift that Satoshi has given to the world and nobody knows who is Satoshi and we could not thank him for what he created, here our country bitcoin is very valuable and some family and people here use bitcoin as their source of income or their part-time job or their full-time job and it is very easy to earn bitcoin really helps a person in need but some of the people here doesn't know the importance and benefits that bitcoin will give you.

That's a great information you got there I'm also a victim of phishing, I got phished by an airdrop form that asks your private key so you can get tokens I know that is dumb but that is free money and also I got phished from an email from my Gmail it is a link that will direct you to an exchange I thought that is how to get my bounty reward but guess what I got phished and also I suggest that you should add the HTTPS and the SSL certificates of the site because by that you will know the legitness of the site.

It's not that hard earning merits no you should not buy them because it is against the rules the implementation of merits is the best thing that's happened in this forum because the pieces of information that are coming from other users is very useful but the others are not you are just a jr. member and has a long way to go try reading and opening different topics and forums here it will help you and don't just earn do the LEARNING AND EARNING.

Well based on my experience i always checking their team because some of the scam ICOs has the same face of the founder make sure they are kyc verified and also check their ICO on some ICO review sites it actually helps me choosing some good ICO and also check their website fake ICO always have some ugly website that looks like some 5th grader made their website and the next thing is check their social media sites if they had many followers why not maybe they are legit somehow.

I think this is not how the  +Merits should work but nice try maybe next time it would work I suggest to post a good information like no one knows like an information that is new to them or that will help them not that facebook shit everybody knows how to turn off chat and also work on your English and how to construct a good sentence try downloading grammarly and playing duolingo it actually helps you.
my sentence wasn't good but at least i'm trying

Maybe that wasn't your lucky day because investing requires skills, money, courage and most of all luck maybe you don't read about the ICO so much or you did not research about it more carefully in investing in some ICOs or in different altcoins my criteria are first you need to pick the ICO with a high possibility of reaching the soft cap because when the ICO reach that it has a high possibility that the ICO will be successful someday and will triple your profit.

Yes that's the other members think we Filipinos are spammers kaya kailangan natin palitan yung mindset nila kaya tulungan nalang natin na makilala ang mga Pinoy members at magtulungan ang bawat isa. AMEN?



Thank you for the suggestions kabayan I will definitely put it in the LIST OF SUGGESTIONS tama kailangan din natin silang tulungan kung pano magpost ng maaayos kaya bigyan nalang natin sila ng konting time at content

There are too many Bounty Campaigns now and I know that it is hard to choose from them but based on my experience when choosing bounty campaign my criteria are:
1. There are little participants because the little the participants the higher the reward for you and also pick the bounty with high allocation
2. High Reward for a short period of time, make sure you choose the bounty campaign that worth your work for them do not choose a 5 months bounty for just .001 ETH you need to pick wisely
3. make sure their social media accounts are always updated so you will not create an post and most likely you will just like and share.

There is no specific time to buy Altcoins but based on my experience I suggest that you should buy Altcoin at their lower price because if the market will go up again, of course, the Altcoin too will go up also so that is a easy profit and i also suggest to you that to invest in Altcoin in their ICO or when the Altcoin is still developing because there is a chance that it will go to moon but the consequence is there is a 50% chance of profit and you will hodl for too long like 2 months.

I think the government doesn't or will not trace you it's impossible because I think the bitcoin made the transaction anonymously and quietly because when you made a transaction you can only see your public wallet address on the bitcoin block explorer unless you tell them your identity and your public wallet address but why not the government can do anything by the power of technology maybe they are tracking your IP address and getting your histories  just joking but always be careful.

DEFINITION OF TERMS
Merkle Tree

• A Merkle tree is a hash-based data structure that is a generalization of the hash list. It is a tree structure in which each leaf node is a hash of a block of data, and each non-leaf node is a hash of its children. Typically, Merkle trees have a branching factor of 2, meaning that each node has up to 2 children. Merkle trees are used in distributed systems for efficient data verification. They are efficient because they use hashes instead of full files. Hashes are ways of encoding files that are much smaller than the actual file itself. Currently, their main uses are in peer-to-peer networks such as Tor, Bitcoin, and Git.

There are too many Altcoins out there but I will suggest you one token that I like the Bittwatt token, Bittwatt is a very good token Bittwatt enables fast, transparent and trustworthy settlements between market participants. Based on consumer profiles, Bittwatt matches demand with market offers at every hour of every day. Now there are many countries that are implementing it and it is already listed in coinmarketcap now its value is very small because the exchange is only one but the team a doing a great job to develop the token more.

Yes now there are too many altcoins but only a quarter of them is a real Altcoin with a great value and goal while the remaining is just some shitcoin or maybe a scamcoin or an exitcoin not like last year there are not that many altcoins but those are successful because the investors can pick or choose freely to those good Altcoins like Cardano, monero, litecoin and Ethereum I agree with you ethereum is a good long-term investment in can like bitcoin someday.