Much of my focus was on how obscure technical indicators or methods, could be applied to the financial markets and used as an effective trading tool.

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Of course, in very strong bull or bear markets, we must rely on technical indicators that can stay with strongly trending markets, as momentum indicators like the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator or Relative Strength Index (RSI) will top or bottom out well ahead of prices.

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Meanwhile global markets tend to move pretty much in tandem with each other, and an even more ominous divergence has been in place for a while between the resilient U.S. market and numerous important global markets, on which technical indicators triggered sell signals a month or more ago.

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