What indicators should short-term futures look at?

The indicators are: moving average, random KD line, relative strength index, convergence channel and moving average divergence index.

Moving average

A moving average is a line drawn by averaging the closing prices in the past several periods. Unlike the candle chart, it reflects the price trend more reliably.

Simple moving average

A simple moving average is to add the prices over several (n) time periods (e.g. 5 or 10 minutes, every day, etc.). ) one by one, and then divide by the total period n to get the average value of the nth period. Then mark the average value of each period on the graph and connect them with curves to get the average line of n periods.

Standard moving average

Since the moving average is a lagging indicator, smma gives more weight to the recent data when calculating the average in order to get closer to the market trend. In this way, we can see the market trend earlier.

Moving averages have many uses, mainly used to identify/confirm trends, as well as to identify/confirm resistance and support levels. For example, the fast line rises over the slow line, which is called the "golden fork" and is a buying signal.

Extended data:

When buying or selling a certain number of spot commodities in the spot market, selling or buying the same variety and quantity of futures commodities (futures contracts) in the opposite direction in the futures market, using the profits of one market to make up for the losses in another market, so as to avoid price risks.

Because futures trading is an open contract transaction of forward delivery goods, a lot of market supply and demand information is concentrated in this market, and different people, from different places, have different understandings of all kinds of information, which leads to different views on forward prices through open bidding.

In fact, the process of futures trading is a comprehensive reflection of the change of supply and demand relationship and the expectation of price trend in a certain period of time in the future. This kind of price information has the characteristics of continuity, openness and anticipation, which is conducive to increasing market transparency and improving resource allocation efficiency.

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