3 Types of Commodity Trading Stochastic Indicators

Fast, Slow and Full Stochastic

There are three types of Commodity Trading Stochastic Oscillator Commodity Trading Indicators: fast, slow and full stochastic oscillator indicator.

All the 3 versions of this stochastic oscillator commodity indicator look at a given period for example the 10-day period, and measure how today's commodities price close compares to the high and low range of the time period that is being considered in the commodity calculation of stochastic oscillator.

Stochastic oscillator commodity indicator works based on the principle that:

• During an upward commodity trend, commodities price action tends to close at the high of the candle.
• During a downward commodity trend, commodities price action tends to close at the low of the candle.

Stochastic Oscillator commodity indicator shows the strength of the Commodities trends, and identifies times when a commodity is oversold or overbought.

Fast Stochastic Oscillator Commodity Trading Indicator

Fast Stochastic Oscillator Commodity Trading Indicator - fast stochastic oscillator commodity indicator plots two lines, one solid and one dotted on the indicator section. These two lines are called the %K line and %D line. In this versions the %K and %D lines are calculated differently from the other versions, so as to add extra smoothing.

One disadvantage of using this fast stochastic commodity indicator version is that the %K and %D lines are too sensitive and they often give commodity whipsaws when they get to the overbought and oversold levels. The fast stochastic lines are prone to fake commodity signals/whipsaws.

Slow Stochastic Oscillator Commodity Trading Indicator

Slow Stochastic Oscillator Commodity Technical Indicator - slow stochastic oscillator commodity indicator smoothes out the commodities price data used for the original calculation and it is used by many Commodities traders. This slow stochastic commodity indicator version is less prone to whipsaws compared to the fast stochastic version.

For the slow stochastic commodity indicator. a 3 period moving average is used to smooth out the stochastic lines. The moving average is not that of the commodities price action but of the stochastic oscillator indicator lines data.

Full Stochastic Oscillator Commodity Trading Indicator

Full Stochastic Oscillator Commodity Trading Indicator - this stochastic oscillator does not use a fixed moving average period, like the slow commodity stochastic oscillator version above. Commodities traders don't want to use a fixed setting to calculate the stochastic commodity indicator.

Because of this reason the full stochastic was developed by commodity traders and it is more flexible than the earlier two commodity stochastics oscillator versions.

Full stochastic oscillator commodity indicator version allows commodities traders to choose the period they want for the fast and slow commodity stochastic indicator line.