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The MACD indicator is one of the most popular tool in technical analysis because it gives traders the ability to quickly and easily identify the short-term trend. Even short term momentum changes can ...

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The technical analysis indicator is called the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) histogram, which represents the difference between the MACD line and its signal line. The MACD line is ...