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Sage advice, Anapa. Swing trading suits me - day trading would be exhausting. I'm not sure whether to sell Glencore and invest in Vedanta. Vedanta tends to be more volatile then Glencore - it often retraces from ~700 to ~900.

Anapa69, I started buying GLEN on 8 May at 360. My records indicate I did not trade everyday - only three times over a period of eight days. I made 7.1% profit over this period. I would have made 9.1% profit if I had purchased at 360 and held it until today at 393. If I had been constantly monitoring the stock during the working day, I might have been able to trade the dips to the 370s. I lack clarity, focus and awareness - I must not be allowed near FX and ETFs. Thanks for the advice.

That clinches it. I'm holding until it's over 400. The volatility is part of what makes the miners so attractive. Many thanks for the chart, Mick.

The techniques I use - Fast Stoch and RSI - are not giving their usual accurate predictions. Now, only the MACD is useful, but it is slower. Any chartists know why? I bought in at 384 and am not sure when to sell.

The past few days I've been trading using technical analysis - *Bollinger Bands - Gives general feel for the state of the market *Fast Stochastic Oscillator - ABOVE 95 = sell signal *RSI - ABOVE 70 = sell signal *MACD - didn't find it particularly useful for day trading but kept it open out of habit. I used the Hargreaves Lansdown site using the 1W chart for GLEN. Yesterday afternoon things changed. Both the Fast Stochastic and RSI indicated VERY STRONG sell signals... ... but the price rose rapidly. However, the MACD, which is was usually not as accurate for GLEN on this time frame, indicated a STRONG buy. A broadly similar situation occurred today - Fast Stoch and RSI indicating Sell signals while the MACD indicating strong Buy signals. Today, I trused the MACD instead of the Fast Stoch and RSI and made more money again. Why has the reliability of the technical indicators changed?

I will use the force wisely!

Technical analysis is better than guessing.

I made �500 today using the Fast Stochastic Oscillator, RSI and Bollinger Bands.

I made �300 today using the Fast Stochastic Oscillator and Cutler's RSI. Many thanks for the excellent advice.

Hi, Many thanks for the sage advice, Appleby. I've been trading Glencore and Vedanta but they're not as volatile as they were last year. The commodities crash was fantastic for swing trading! I've just graduated so this is all good.

BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust I've applied Bollinger Bands, Fast Stochastics and RSI to the share price chart over the past five days and it is relatively easy to catch 1% bounces everyday. Am I missing something or is this similar to GLEN? Any advice would be great, I'm new to all this.