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So momentum is pretty easy to recognize on a on a chart, but there are a couple of little things to
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understand and a couple of tricky things, too, just to be aware of.
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If you're using a momentum indicator and you may think, well, when the momentum line is horizontal,
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you may think that momentum has stopped.
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You know, that it's basically stopped in its tracks.
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So that's actually not so.
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It's actually the the acceleration has stopped or it's starting to slow down and it's going to accelerate
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or accelerate or it's accelerating that it's going to accelerate maybe in a different direction, possibly
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as it flattens out, might go up or might go down.
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But it hasn't technically, you know, the price hasn't stopped or the momentum hasn't stopped.
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And that's the thing.
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When you look at momentum, your eye will naturally line up with the price.
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It's OK with that.
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We do a little bit of that previous lesson.
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But you think there's a strong correlation to that, what you're seeing on the chart?
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And that can be true for sure.
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That's the whole idea of using momentum.
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But it's not always true, you know, as far as an exact lineup there as we learn there.
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So that's something just be aware of when you're looking at momentum.
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A couple other things, too, is momentum sometimes does mirror the price move, you know, because
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momentum is tracking the closing price of X number of days, back number, certain number of days back.
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So we're looking at and it will appear as a smooth line, a smooth price line in the more days in your
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lookback, period, the smoother the line we had used in another lesson, the example of ten days.
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If we'd gone further back like 20 days, that will actually smooth out the line.
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So if you have some real highs or low some outliers, I'll continue to smooth that out even even further.
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But unlike the moving average, it does not include all the days in between.
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You know, by omitting that extermination information, the line gets smoother.
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So what I mean is we're looking at ten days back, we're looking at that price on that 10 day back.
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So that was an outlier.
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You know, that would you know, that would impact your momentum.
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But it's not looking of the prices that are happening in between like a moving average one.
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And that's what we're talking about.
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However, if you have a one day price spike, you may see a jump in momentum for a moment, but later
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you will see a sudden drop as the data is excluded from the series.
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So you have that one day price spike.
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Let's say it's a price spike up.
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You're going to see your momentum indicator.
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Have, you know, maybe more of a change, maybe more of a dramatic change, and then it's going to,
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you know, account for that in the next the next day as it looks back at its lookback, period.
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So the spike situation, where is where it pays to look at price is right.
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We had a section around spikes and obviously looking at your open, high, low, close or candlestick
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price bars and not just look at momentum, that could be a little bit misleading.
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So don't necessarily trade just on the momentum indicator.
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Again, different the momentum investing, but it just trading on the momentum indicator.
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In fact, I think where momentum really does well is is using momentum, some use as a primary care.
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But I think it works best as a secondary indicator.
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So you're you're using another indicator, you know, for maybe your price or your you're seeing something
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form, maybe a dog or something like that using some agap.
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We looked at Agap, you're using something else and then maybe you'll use momentum to confirm that.
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So it's best use as another indicator.
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And if you're using it with another indicator, you can have your other indicator be the primary and
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then momentum be your secondary.
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Or you could also use momentum as your primary at that point.
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But you would use the something else to kind of give you confirmation on it.
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It's really best with momentum to have some type of pairing and not use it just all on its own.
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Now, there are ways to adjust momentum or filter momentum to if you shorten the momentum time frame
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like we used an example ten days.
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But let's make sure that the real shortly, three days, you'll be more responsive to price changes.
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It's going to be the more recent prices, right?
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It's going to it's only a three day look back as opposed to a ten day.
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Again, it's only looking at that specific day.
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The momentum is versus a moving average.
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But the idea is they'll be more sensitive to those price changes.
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And if you have a shorter time frame, it's going to show more buy and sell signals.
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You're going to have more whipsaws or more frequently trading.
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You might have some potential losses based on false trend signals or maybe some more expense there,
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depending on how you're placing your orders, because you're going to have more trading orders and that
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if you reduce your time frame as far as momentum to have it be more responsive.
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Another thing you can do with momentum, too, is you can filter with a training rule or apply a trading
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rule.
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So example, instead of buying or selling when the momentum line simply crosses the zero line, you
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could say you will take a buy or sell action only when the momentum line is crossed by more than two
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percent.
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Right.
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So it's got to be at least two percent above that zero line or two percent below that zero line for
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a decision to be made.
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So now, if you think about that, well, there's an opportunity cost by delaying for that two percent
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to be in place.
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And that's exactly true.
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That's what happens with filters.
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It helps strengthen your decisions, but it also costs you in terms of opportunity cost that you could
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have bought in.
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Let's say you could have gone in a little bit earlier and had a little bit more profit.
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By by getting in earlier than waiting for that two percent to happen, but again, that'll help eliminate
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whipsaws.
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They'll help eliminate or help reduce whipsaws, help help strengthen your buying decisions, especially
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for coupling it with another indicator saying, all right, I see this other indicator of this primary
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indicator out there.
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I'm going to follow my primary, use momentum as my secondary to confirm, but I'm only going to lose
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my momentum to confirm if it's, let's say, two percent above the zero line.
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And my primary indicator is still showing a bias signal.
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Now, I feel confident to maybe make a trade, maybe even a bigger trade at that point.
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So that's another way that you can kind of start pushing this together.
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And later in the course, we talk about how to kind of do this and start pairing up different types
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of indicators.
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And momentum is great to pair up with other indicators as well.
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So with that, that's the building block of momentum.
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And you can just trade right on momentum or you probably see it as ARACY or rate of change.
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And that's very, very effective.
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But there's a couple other ones I want you to take a look at here that are in the momentum family that
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build on that.
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So let's look at those in the up in the next couple of lessons here, and then you can kind of choose
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which one you like best.
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