I Tested The MACD - Does It Actually Make Money?

The MACD. One of the most installed trading indicators of all time. Dominating the indicator game with highly effective indications of high momentum in a market, but does it actually make money?
In this video, I spent 30 hours researching everything there is to know about the MACD. Tips, tricks, strategies, backtesting, and even going as far as to see what the optimal settings are for MACD. The results were pretty surprising...Enjoy!
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Do the stochastic oscillator? Is it the same to the RSI ?

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Thanks for giving more knowledge about MACD. It helps a lot. "Keep it up" our all best wishes with you.

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Great video, good humor to break it up and keep fresh! I e if the best MACD vids out there. Well Done 👍

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[@Spitfireseven]

This is my second time watching this video. The degree, scope and complexity of the MACD with Histogram is a study in and of itself. Having a the ability to view this indicator along with the candlestick chart and V-wap gives a much clearer picture of what your jumping into. This is pretty key. It's pretty key if you want to scalp options. This is all great information to go into the trade with.

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Great video man, really enjoy your edits, so much work goes into this. Hey quick question, how do you do the deep voice? I'm on a MAC and FCPX is this one of the plug-ins?

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Rsi and macd is the best combo... Buy when rsi moves above 60 and macd gives buy signal... And for sell do opposite. I tested it and it gave good results

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what time frame do you use?

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Rsi length =?

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Great video by the way What about td9 or Bollinger?

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When you compared short, long, and hold, it makes sense how longs would do better than shorts on s and p and gold because those tend to gain value over time compared to the us dollar which has lost more value than it has gained

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Hello there ! Wouldnt it be interesting to make a video on your backtesting process ? I really want to learning how to perform backtesting myself with my strategies and I wanted to know how YOU do it. Because all I see is jupyter notebooks stuff and I'm wondering what would you do ! Nice work, keep it up mate

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the dollar has that weird inverse activity becuase it normally runs inverse to the market and therefore performs well when your selling it, as the market always goes up and therefore the dolllar goes down

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Did you by any chance run this bot for optimal settings for other timeframes?

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whats the best time frame for the macd??

[@bananataco]

Thank you for the free content, i learned alot from your videos. There is however a flaw in the description of the MACD in this video i believe you got mixed up. at 1:23 you explain the two lines as the 12 EMA and the 26 EMA. This is incorrect. The first line, the "MACD line" is the 12 EMA minus the 26 EMA. The second line is simply a 9day EMA of the MACD Line called the signal line. Again thank you for the content.

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Hybrid QQE and Hybrid Squeeze indicators are anywhere from 30% to 50% more responsive to critical price movements than any RSI or MACD. There are very dialed in momentum shift trades you can target day after day with advanced (hybrid) QQE or Squeeze indicators.

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And what are the names of these indicators

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It would be great if you make video on super trend backtesting for short term trading (i.e option intraday / futures)

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Great video... By very objective I presume you mean strategy two is highly SUBjective? :D

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Have you done anything with the hopper strategy? This would be trading when the lines cross the zero line.

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[@darrel604]

Strategy #2 (Divergence) can be effective if a potential divergence is tested for confirmation over multiple, consecutive timeframes.

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Nobody gonna talk about the MACD histogram changing itself from red to light-red and from green to light-green? That's an obvious reversal one that kinda works!

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SIR, When swing trading forex with support/resistance what is reliable time chart to use for S/R levels--is it 4 hour OR 1 hour chart? I would think that 1H ,S/R levels are going to get easily violated if trading is against trend on 4H/Daily chart. Of course entry can be made even on 15 M chart BUT ENTRY HAS TO BE IN THE HIGHER TIME FRAME DIRECTION--I seek your experience.

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SIR, When swing trading forex with support/resistance what is reliable time chart to use for S/R levels--is it 4 hour OR 1 hour chart? I think that 1H ,30M, S/R levels are going to get easily violated if trading is against trend on 4H/Daily chart. Of course entry be made based on 15 M chart price action BUT ENTRY HAS TO BE IN THE HIGHER TIME FRAME DIRECTION--seek your wisdom

[@pilotgfx]

i think you should point out how amazing the strategy worked for several decades, short macd was at 1000 when sp500 was at 10, and for long all the way from 1930 to 2000 had outperformed SP500, as it is VERY UNLIKELY that someone has a 90 year sample size or even trades for that many years i think you should adress how amazing it was until 2000 :) thx for the video

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It worked well in earlier years because inflation was much lower. Now, gold is worth more and usd is worth less because of inflation, so the results make sense.

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What time frame did you use for these tests? I jest!

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Bro whats the best settings for crypto.

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What’s the best signal period?

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Could you back testing for the optimal MACD setting for BTC please?

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RSI would be nice, and then maybe you could try and combine things like the MACD and the RSI as I feel like most normal traders use those in conjunction.

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Rsi Length =?

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@@mdshuvomoralmoral2839 14 lookback

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yes thats what i do but dont focus on the overbougt and oversold hype, 50 level RSI is the secret

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@@Crystal_G_1989 50 is the middle ground lol. Most RSI Settings are 30-50-70. Above 50 and bouncing off of a 50 RSI is usually an uptrend. Rebounding downwards from 50 to 30 is usually a downtrend. Above 70 is usually over bought and a reversal is likely. Below 30 is over sold and an uptrend is likely. Buy at 30 sell at 50, sell at 70 and take profits at 50. Simple really

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@@re2590if it was simple, everyone would be rich. Using one indicator to enter trades is a terrible idea. You need to have multiple confluences as to why you enter a trade.

[@navketan1965]

SIR, When swing trading forex with support/resistance what is reliable time chart to use for S/R levels--is it 4 hour OR 1 hour chart? I think that 1H , 30M, 15M, S/R levels are going to get easily violated if trading is against trend on 4H/Daily chart. Entry be made on 15 M chart price action BUT ENTRY HAS TO BE IN THE HIGHER TIME FRAME DIRECTION--Thank you.

[@re2590]

Usually you make informed decisions depending on what graph looks best. You don't just go plotting random snr lines especially on lower time frames. So usually you look the best (non chaotic chart) wether that's 4h or daily, and then plot the snr and trade on LOWER time frames that you are able to keep up with.

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Is MACD good on 5 or 15 minute time frame?

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Here is what I use divergences for...Basically it's all good the trend is your friend etc. But what if that trend turns on you and reversed? So basically I use the divergence as a negative confluence and a red flag forgetting into a trade.

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14:25 how do you do that

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I have not found a good sentiment indicator would love to see a video

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I tried to enter the skirt I didn't succeed how can I get the MACD the set ups for Forex trading

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What time frame?

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Do you do any option trading? If so I’d like to know what strangely you use for that

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Second that...what binary option trading?

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Can you have your bot do this for the 3, 5, 15 & 30 min. time frames? this was very interesting and thank you!!

[@navketan1965]

Sir, Regarding Daily or 4 hour S/R(support/resistance) levels, Forex --do these levels deflect price 60% of times?--and if so why not put standing orders at the start of each day in few currencies(each order with take profit & stop loss) and let the statistical edge play out. It may be safer to just work with daily S/R levels but 4 H levels would give many more executions. And if one happens to be watching price action at the level LIVE then combine it with overbought/oversold stochastics/cci to confirm price deflection chances. Yes Higher time frame for direction. Any comments/suggestions?

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time frame? :)

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anyone know the settings for a lower time frame like 5M

[@pilotgfx]

wow so smooth must be a 60 fps upload

[@aquibmuhammad2038]

I did the back testing as per your settings and the result is different for different markets so basically there is no perfect settings. Although 12 26 is most optimal settings.

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Really? I would believe it. Because it is accepted generally. Is there discord or similar groups I can join?

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Great

[@StefanGraz]

1:23 this is wrong as far as I know: the MACD linie (blue) is calculated by the spread of the long (26) and short (12) MA. The signal line (orange) is the 9-period MA of the MACD-Line (lue).

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The long only strategy only outperforms if the market trends upwards. The short strategy gives the most opportunities when the trend is downwards, while you miss out on upwards movements. Simple logic.

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9:03 Hah! I read nothing yet, this video is one of my early to study trading

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I wanna see for Supertrend. Macd is so powerfull but for me it's not about settings, it's about how to help reading the chart. Because i can confuese a lot a lot. Thank you for video.

[@Merc399]

i thought macd divergence was measured off of the histogram peaks, not the MAs

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does this works for forex also?

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0:29 why is there a clip of a memtest when he's talking about backtesting lol

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Which indicator is the best?

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The one that works better for you and helps catch the move!

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Stochastic please

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I use the MACD on the daily, but only for divergences :D Printed me some good 🤑

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are you still using it now?

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make this type of video on moving average

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If you look at the histogram, it's clearly a bullish divergence. Only take extreme divergences, not subtle