First introduced in 1978 in the book New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems by J. Welles Wilder, the average true range (ATR) indicator has long been a valuable tool for technical traders of all ...

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In this lesson, we explore the average true range indicator, how to calculate it, and what it’s got to do with turtles (it will make sense when we get there!). What is the average true range (ATR) ...

Fundamentally, trading is about analyzing the supply and demand of a security (asset which can be traded), such as stocks, commodities, or Forex pairs. A trader then makes decisions to purchase or ...