MARKET SCANNER GUIDE

2017
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FXCM’s Market Scanner is a tool designed to identify potential buying and selling opportunities by scanning the
market with a suite of traditional technical indicators.

First, the user selects the symbols, time frame and indicators that are to be used in the scan.

SYMBOLS:

All: Scans popular products including both Forex and CFDs.

Forex: Scans only Forex pairs.

CFDs: Scans only CFD products.

TIME FRAME:

Short: Indicator values will be based on the m15 time frame.

Medium: Indicator values will be based on the H1 time frame.

Long: Indicator values will be based on the D1 time frame.

INDICATOR LIST:

200 EMA, 30 EMA, MACD, RSI, Stochastics (“STOCH”), CCI, SSI.

 
 

Once the settings have been selected, the user will then click the “Scan” button.

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Market Scanner will then display signals of various strengths depending on the bias of the indicators selected.
The more indicators that have a bias in the same direction, the stronger the signal will appear on the Scanner.
If indicators contrast with each other, this will result in a weaker signal or no signal.

Finally, Market Scanner will display the strongest 5 signals generated by the scan. If there are more than 5
products that have signals with the same strength, they will be displayed according to their popularity with
FXCM clients.

By clicking the “Details” button, the user can see which indicators signaled buy or sell individually.

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INDICATOR CRITERIA:

200EMA:

 Price greater than a 200 period exponential moving average = +1 bias.

 Price less than a 200 period exponential moving average = -1 bias.
 Price equal to a 200 period exponential moving average = 0 bias.

30EMA:

 Price greater than a 30 period exponential moving average = +1 bias.

 Price less than a 30 period exponential moving average = -1 bias.
 Price equal to a 30 period exponential moving average = 0 bias.

MACD:

 MACD Histogram greater than 0 = +1 bias.

 MACD Histogram less than 0 = -1 bias.
 MACD Histogram equal to 0 = 0 bias.

RSI:

 RSI value less than or equal to 30 = +1 bias.

 RSI value greater than or equal to 70 = -1 bias.
 RSI value greater than 30 and less than 70 = 0 bias.

Stochastics:

 Stochastics D% line less than 20 = +1 bias.

 Stochastics D% line greater than 80 = -1 bias.
 Stochastics D% line greater than 20 and less than 80 = 0 bias.

CCI:

 CCI value less than or equal to -100 = +1 bias.

 CCI value greater than or equal to 100 = -1 bias.
 CCI greater than -100 and less than 100 = 0 bias.

SSI:

 SSI less than or equal to -1.22 = +1 bias.

 SSI greater than or equal to 1.22 = -1 bias.
 SSI greater than -1.22 and less than 1.22 = 0 bias.

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Market Scanner does not take in to consideration your individual personal circumstances and trading
objectives. Therefore it should not be considered as a personal recommendation or investment advice. Past
performance is not indicative of future results. There is no guarantee that the systems, trading techniques,
trading methods, and/or indicators will result in profits or not result in losses.

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