TRADING SIGNALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO USE THEM
Utilise the power of chart patterns to identify potential trades across multiple asset classes including stock indices, forex, commodities and individual equities
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WHat are Trading Signals?
Trading signals are actionable buy and sell suggestions based on emerging chart patterns and key levels. They can be used to provide trade ideas complete with risk management suggestions and take profit levels. They are intended to supplement your trading, they do not guarantee profits and can lead to losses.
The trading signals on our platform are provided by a third party provider - Autochartist. Formed in 2004, Autochartist provide financial market analysis tools to financial services firms across the globe.
Why use our trading signals
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Save Time: Easy-to-understand real time signals that help simplify your trading decisions. |
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Discover New Markets: Uncover opportunities across 100+ assets, including equities, indices, FX, commodities, and crypto. |
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Learn new skills: Enhance your technical analysis skills with expert insights and strategies. |
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Diversify Your Portfolio: Explore new markets and broaden your trading strategy. |
Understanding Trading Signals
Trading signals on our platform are driven by two core technical analysis tools: Chart Patterns and Key Levels. Understanding these patterns can help you spot potential market trends, identify entry and exit points and make more informed decisions.
Each signal will come with a description explaining the type of pattern that is potentially forming, the key levels to look out for and the duration of the trading opportunity.
See the following pages for more information on Chart Analysis and Chart Patterns to help understand some of the terminology used within our signals, as well as the below videos.
CHART PATTERNS
Chart patterns are visual representations of price movements that form predictable shapes over time. These patterns can indicate potential market trends and reversals, helping you anticipate whether an asset's price is likely to rise or fall. From Rising Wedges to Channel Downs, these patterns provide an insight into market psychology.
KEY LEVELS
Key levels represent significant price points in the market where assets can change direction. These include support and resistance levels, which highlight the floors and ceilings that price movements can adhere to.
How to Use our Trading Signals
Accessing Trading Signals
Navigate to the Signals page via our menu bars, where you’ll find a list of trade suggestions. Use the filters to customize the signals based on your trading preferences.
Filtering & Customisation
Customise your search by filtering signals by asset class, status, pattern completion confidence and more, helping you to identify the setups that best match your trading goals.
Creating Watchlists
Create watchlists to track your favourite assets, ensuring easy access to their signals. This helps you stay organised and ready to act when the right opportunity arises.
Analysing Signals
Select a trading signal to review its details. Each signal includes an analysis supported by a chart, with suggested stop and limit levels to help protect against potential losses and manage your risk.
Placing Trades
After reviewing the details, click the button to open a pre-populated ticket with all the signal information. Enter your stake and execute the trade or place the order seamlessly.
Signals have three statuses:
- Approaching: A promising pattern has been identified and is in the process of potentially forming. You can act early to take advantage if the pattern continues to develop.
- Active: The pattern has fully formed, place a trade or order to potentially take advantage of the completed setup.
- Expired: The signal is no longer valid as the trade window has passed.
Important Questions About Trading Signals
Q: Do trading signals provide a guaranteed outcome?
A: No. Trading signals provide trade ideas and opportunities that are created for you without you having to do the analysis yourself, but they are only that. They are not intended to provide a guaranteed outcome and should be used to supplement your trading as one part of your toolkit.
Q: Do trading signals constitute advice?
A: No. Our trading signal service shouldn't be regarded as advice, we provide an execution only service. You act on the trading signals entirely at your own risk.
Q: How long will my position stay open for?
A: Assuming your account does not breach the close out level, any position you open via the trading signals service will remain open until you either close them or they reach the stop or limit.
Q: What does pattern completion confidence mean?
A: Our third party provider generates pattern completion confidence based on historical signals that reached their target level, factoring in similar patterns, markets and published times.
Q: Does a higher pattern completion confidence increase the likelihood of a profitable trade?
A: No. Pattern completion confidence is based on historic outcomes. Past performance does not guarantee future success. This is a figure provided to us by our third party provider which we display as an additional indicator, we have no control over its calculation.
Q: Who is your third party provider?
A: Autochartist.
Q: What markets are signals available for?
A: We have signals on 100 different markets including all of the major stock indices, forex pairs, commodities, bonds and individual equities. We also have signals for crypto for professional clients only.
Q: Where can I access trading signals?
A: Our trading signals service is available on both our mobile app and desktop platform. They are not available via our TradingView integration.
Q: What are the charges for using trading signals?
A:The signals themselves are free of charge. If you place a trade you will pay the standard spread as well as daily funding charges if you hold the position overnight. See our Range of Markets for more information on our spreads and funding charges or alternatively click the info button within the platform. Some of our signals markets will be futures markets and will therefore not have overnight funding charges but the vast majority will incur funding charges.
Q: Do trading signals net off or force open positions?
A: If you have an existing open position and place a new trade in the same market via the trading signal service, this new position will be opened as a force open trade. This means you can incur additional costs. Learn more about force open positions here Force Open Positions
Q: How can I customise trading signals on Spreadex?
A: Spreadex offers filters for asset classes, signal time frames, win rates, and probabilities, allowing for time-efficient use tailored to your preferences.
Q: What risk management tools can be used with trading signals?
A: All trading signals come with suggested stop loss and take profit levels, these are standard features. You are also able to place a signal with a guaranteed stop in return for an extra cost.
