Two traders run the exact same strategy. One doubles their account, the other slowly bleeds it away. Same rules, same instrument, same discipline. The difference is not skill or luck. It is the market regime each of them happened to be trading in.
MACD measures the distance between two moving averages and whether it is growing or shrinking. Here is how to read the line, signal, and histogram without misinterpreting the signals.
Moving averages are probably the most widely used indicator in trading. They appear on nearly every chart, in every asset class, across every timeframe. At their core, moving averages smooth out price data to reveal the underlying trend.