RE: Upward Trend12 Jan 2016 13:48
ADJ your quite right. You cant base a trade purely on one signal. If you do you will loose money, its the same with any indicator, they are useful in your charting but never fool proof, some will give false signals its how you intepert the TA, you should use a number of indicators to balance out a view, also if i see an oversold stock i would like to see some kind of bullish divergence with RSI, macd, money flow, momentum, stochastics, etc. If theres a bullish divergence then things could be turning.
Then view the chart on daily, weekly even monthly (if your going to view a long term investment) look for trend lines and potential chart patterns like double bottoms, wedges, head and shoulders, too many to name. If a pattern is forming e.g. a double bottom at a oversold position and a possible bullish divergence then it should grab your attention. Next thing to do is set an entry if you want to trade. If news comes out or if it runs away from you move on and look elsewhere. Theres 100s of opportunitys out there the hard thing is to find them and timing.
Everyone does charting differently. Some swing some play the momentum some long term some short term... you get the drift. Keep researching TA and fine turn your analysis of charts and youll do great. Just remeb not to fall back into old habbits e.g. buy on a spike when its hugely overbought and then see your profits falling and falling :)