S&C: The Trader’s Bread and Butter – Volume and Divergence

Stocks & Commodities: The Trader’s Bread and Butter

In this article that was published in Stocks & Commodities magazine, Gail Mercer, founder of TradersHelpDesk discusses how identifying setups with volume and divergence are ideal for trading forex, futures, or exchange-traded funds and can add to a trader’s profitability.

Gail discusses the importance of recognizing both buyers and sellers and then identifying when there is a discrepancy between a price move and either buyers or sellers. For example, when price is forming new lows, you would anticipate more sellers entering the move. A failure to do so would indicate that the move is weakening (sellers are losing interest.