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F VT TRADER: MOVING AVERAGE CROSSOVER (MAC) OSCILLATOROur Traders’ Tip this month is based on an article from the March 2009 issue of StockS & commoditieS titled “Second Chance Options” by Barbara Star. In her article, Star describes a short-term trading strategy that combines technical analysis tools such as the moving average crossover (mac) oscillator, momentum, support/resistance zones, and market retracements with option contracts.

We’ll be focusing on only the mac oscillator here. The

mac oscillator is a simple yet useful indicator for identifying trends and filtering out some false trend reversals and poten-tial price whipsaws during range-bound periods. The mac oscillator plots a +1 value while its faster moving average is above its slower moving average and it plots a -1 value. However, the mac oscillator only plots these +/-1 values while the moving averages are more than 1% apart, making it easier to identify times when the moving averages are in very close proximity to each other and price is potentially range-bound as well those times when the moving averages are diverging away from each other and the price is poten-tially trending.

We’ll be offering the moving average crossover (mac) os-cillator for download in our VT client forums at http://forum.vtsystems.com along with hundreds of other precoded, free indicators and trading systems.

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FIGuRE 15: TC2000, QuICKSORT AND QuICKSCAN. To find the most active stocks today, click on volume on the chart (1); click QuickSort (2), and a watchlist window will pop up showing the most active stocks (3). In this example, we’re looking at the most active stocks in the S&P 500. To view the most active in a different list, just click on the watchlist selector to change to a different list.

FIGuRE 16: VT TRADER, MOVING AVERAGE CROSSOVER (MAC) OSCILLATOR. Here is the MAC oscillator on a EUR/USD 30-minute candle chart.

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