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Old 02-27-2008, 09:44 PM
daedalus daedalus is offline
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Originally Posted by kagein View Post
I had a good eur/usd trade today, had i been looking at my time chart the stochastic wouldn't have told me the pair was oversold. The tick chart however was showing oversold levels on the pull back. Why the difference?
that indicator is calculated off the # of candles in some fashion IIRC, so i'm assuming the time chart would have more candles, thus the pullback would be divided up over a larger denominator, making the indicator appear not to be such a large pullback, whereas the tick chart probably had less candles and thus, the pullback showed up larger on the tick chart stochastics.
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