Indicators & Oscillators
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Keltner Channel
Bands plotted a multiple of average true range above and below an exponential moving average of price.
Indicators & OscillatorsLagging Indicator
An indicator that confirms a move after it is under way, typically built by smoothing price over a lookback window.
Indicators & OscillatorsLeading Indicator
An indicator claimed to change before price does, usually built from the rate of change rather than the level of price.
Indicators & OscillatorsLookback Period
The number of past periods an indicator examines when computing its current value.
Indicators & OscillatorsMACD
The moving average convergence divergence indicator: the difference between a fast and a slow exponential moving average of price.
Indicators & OscillatorsMACD Histogram
The difference between the MACD line and its signal line, plotted as bars around a zero axis.
Indicators & OscillatorsMarket Breadth
The extent to which a market's move is shared across its constituents rather than concentrated in a few.
Indicators & OscillatorsMomentum Indicator
An indicator measuring the speed of price change rather than its level or direction.
Indicators & OscillatorsMoney Flow Index
An oscillator bounded 0 to 100 that applies the RSI calculation to price multiplied by volume rather than to price alone.
Indicators & OscillatorsMoving Average
The average price over a fixed number of recent periods, recalculated as each new period is added.
Indicators & OscillatorsMoving Average Crossover
The point at which a shorter moving average crosses above or below a longer one.
Indicators & OscillatorsOn-Balance Volume
A running total that adds a period's volume when the close rises and subtracts it when the close falls.
Indicators & OscillatorsOscillator
An indicator that moves within a bounded range, used to describe the pace of price change rather than its direction.
Indicators & OscillatorsOverbought
A description of an oscillator reading above a conventional upper threshold, such as RSI above 70.
Indicators & OscillatorsOversold
A description of an oscillator reading below a conventional lower threshold, such as RSI below 30.
Indicators & OscillatorsParabolic SAR
A trailing stop-and-reverse indicator that plots dots which accelerate toward price as a move extends.
Indicators & OscillatorsPrice Oscillator
The difference between two moving averages of price, expressed either in absolute terms or as a percentage.
Indicators & OscillatorsPut-Call Ratio
The ratio of put option activity to call option activity, measured by volume or by open interest.
Indicators & OscillatorsRate of Change
The percentage change in price over a fixed number of periods.
Indicators & OscillatorsRelative Strength
The performance of one security measured against another security or an index over the same period.
Indicators & OscillatorsRelative Strength Index
An oscillator bounded between 0 and 100 that compares the average size of recent gains with the average size of recent losses.
Indicators & OscillatorsSignal Line
A moving average of an indicator's own values, plotted alongside it to mark where the indicator turns relative to its own trend.
Indicators & OscillatorsSimple Moving Average
A moving average that weights every period in the window equally.
Indicators & OscillatorsSmoothing Period
The number of periods an indicator averages over, controlling how much noise it removes and how much it lags.