Hey mooers,
After learning how to look for divergences between price and volume in the previous post, it's time to learn how to use on-balance volume (OBV) to confirm the underlying trend.
Traders often use the OBV to look for trend confirmations or try to correctly identify the strength and the direction of the ongoing trend. The OBV line's slope is also helpful. A trend accompanied by an OBV line with a steeper slope ...