Friday, April 25, 2014

How to find Trend using ADX

Many traders or technical analyst used to follow trend in stock market. Technical analyst use ADX (Average Directional Movement Index) to find trend in stock market. Actually ADX is not a directional indicator; it will not give you direction of trend. Instead of direction or momentum, ADX can give you strength of trend for particular scrip.

Value for ADX varies in between 0 to 100. As the value of ADX changes the strength of trend will also change. If the value of ADX is below 20 then it is very poor trend. And if the value of ADX is above 40 you can say it is strong trend.

There are lots of strategies to find trend using ADX. Here is one strategy to find trend using ADX in stock market. ADX is a combination of two other indicators. One is positive Di and second one is negative DI. We can use positive directional indicator (+DI) and negative directional indicator (-DI) to find the direction of the trend.

If the value of +DI is higher than the –DI you can say it is up trend, while if the value of –DI goes higher than +DI then you can say it is down trend. +DI or –DI are nothing but the directional indicators which are used with ADX to find direction of trend.


Sometimes +DI / -DI generates false trend signals, to prevent these false signals we must confirm the value of ADX. If the value of ADX is above 20 or rising above 20, than and then you can confirm that trend is up trend or down trend based on the value of +DI / -DI.

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