Opening Range

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Definition of 'Opening Range'

The highest and lowest prices of a security during the first few minutes of daily trading activity. Opening ranges are important to technical analysts and day traders, because they base their trading decisions not on the fundamental aspects of a stock, such as its price to earnings ratio and the strength of the company's market position, but on the movements of a stock's price and the volume in which a stock is traded.
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Investopedia explains 'Opening Range'

Opening ranges can indicate how the market will perform for the day, as a whole. Day traders may base their trading decisions for the rest of the day on how current prices relate to opening range prices. Some technical analysts look for opening range breakouts to inform their trading decisions.
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    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/technical/04/040704.asp
    ... their strength. Fisher's ACD trading system uses intraday data to identify
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  • Spotting Breakouts As Easy As ACD

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/technical/04/032404.asp
    ... In the S&P 500 Index five-minute chart in figure 1, which shows the first ten trading
    days of Mar 2004 with ACD signals, the opening range (OR) (blue lines) is ...

  • How To Use A European Open Forex Strategy

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/11/european-open-forex-trading-strategy.asp
    ... Alternatively, we can use a second profit target by calculating the height of the
    opening range and then adding/subtracting it from the breakout point. ...

  • Enter Profitable Territory With Average True Range

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/08/ATR.asp
    ... In his 1990 book, "Day Trading with Short-Term Price Patterns and Opening Range
    Breakout", Toby Crabel demonstrated that this technique works on a variety of ...

  • Measure Volatility With Average True Range

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/08/average-true-range.asp
    ... If today's range is less than the 10-day average range, we can add the value
    of that range to the opening price and buy a breakout. ...

  • 10 Steps To Building A Winning Trading Plan

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/04/042104.asp
    ... Write down details such as targets, the entry and exit of each trade, the time,
    support and resistance levels, daily opening range, market open and close for ...

  • Trade Quick Moves with Weekly Options

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/moneyshow/TradeQuickMoveswithWeeklyOptions.aspx
    ... The horizontal line on the chart represents the opening range breakout in price
    that began around 12:30 ET from a multi-bar price consolidation just above $212 ...

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    ... The basics of opening an offshore bank account are similar to opening a bank ... Due
    to the wide range of different identification documents that may be presented ...

  • The Morning Forex Fake-Out Trade

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/11/morning-forex-fake-out-trade.asp
    ... The Set-Up Prior to a major market opening, forex pairs will often move within ... We
    ideally want a calm pre-market, or one that has a definable pre-market range. ...

  • Candlestick Charting: What Is It?

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/technical/02/121702.asp
    ... very tight trading range between the open and the close, and it is considered somewhat
    neutral. Doji lines illustrate periods in which the opening and closing ...

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