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Technical indicators distilled to what matters: how each one works, what it measures, and where it breaks down. No formula soup — just the practical signal behind the math.
Trend
7 indicatorsMoving Average
The foundational trend indicator — a smoothed average of recent prices used to identify direction and dynamic support/resistance.
Exponential Moving Average
A moving average weighted toward recent prices, responding faster to changes than a simple MA.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence
A momentum indicator built from two EMAs — signals trend changes through crossovers and divergence with price.
Average Directional Index
Measures the strength of a trend regardless of direction. Readings above 25 typically indicate a tradeable trend.
Parabolic SAR
A trailing stop indicator that plots dots above or below price, flipping sides when trends reverse.
Ichimoku Cloud
A comprehensive Japanese trend system of five lines — including a shaded 'cloud' — that simultaneously signals trend direction, momentum, and dynamic support/resistance.
Supertrend
A trend-following indicator that plots a single dynamic line above or below price — green in uptrends, red in downtrends — acting as a trailing stop.
Momentum
7 indicatorsRelative Strength Index
Measures the speed and magnitude of price changes on a 0–100 scale, identifying overbought and oversold conditions and momentum divergence.
Stochastic Oscillator
Measures where the closing price sits within a recent high-low range, generating overbought/oversold readings and crossover signals.
Stochastic RSI
Applies the Stochastic formula to RSI values, creating a faster, more sensitive oscillator that spends more time at extremes.
Williams %R
A momentum oscillator measuring where price closes relative to its recent high-low range, with an inverted scale from 0 to -100.
Commodity Channel Index
Measures how far price has deviated from its statistical average, oscillating above and below zero with no fixed maximum or minimum.
Rate of Change
Measures the percentage change in price over a specified number of periods, oscillating above and below zero to show momentum direction and speed.
Money Flow Index
A volume-weighted momentum oscillator that measures buying and selling pressure on a 0–100 scale — often called the volume-weighted RSI.
Volatility
5 indicatorsBollinger Bands
Bands plotted two standard deviations above and below a 20-period moving average, expanding in volatile markets and contracting in quiet ones.
Average True Range
Measures how much an instrument moves on average over a set period — pure volatility with no directional bias.
Keltner Channels
ATR-based bands around an EMA, similar to Bollinger Bands but smoother — most useful when combined with Bollinger Bands to detect volatility squeezes.
Donchian Channels
The highest high and lowest low over a lookback period, forming a price range channel — the foundation of the original Turtle Traders' breakout system.
Standard Deviation
The statistical measure of how dispersed price is from its mean — the mathematical engine behind Bollinger Bands and a direct measure of market volatility.
Volume
6 indicatorsVolume
The most fundamental market indicator — the total number of units traded in a period, used to confirm price moves and assess trend conviction.
On-Balance Volume
A cumulative volume indicator that adds volume on up days and subtracts on down days, revealing whether volume is flowing into or out of an instrument.
Volume Weighted Average Price
The average price weighted by volume throughout the trading day — the institutional benchmark for execution quality and a key intraday support/resistance level.
Accumulation/Distribution Line
Measures cumulative money flow using where price closes within its daily range, identifying whether institutions are accumulating or distributing a position.
Chaikin Money Flow
A bounded oscillator that summarizes buying and selling pressure over a fixed lookback, using the same money flow logic as the A/D Line.
Volume Profile
A horizontal histogram showing how much volume traded at each price level — revealing where markets have accepted or rejected value, not just when.
Support/Resistance
3 indicatorsPivot Points
Calculation-based support and resistance levels derived from the prior period's high, low, and close — widely used intraday reference points.
Fibonacci Retracement
Horizontal levels at key Fibonacci ratios that mark potential support and resistance zones during a price retracement.
Fibonacci Extension
Projection levels beyond a prior swing that identify potential profit targets using Fibonacci ratios — the forward-looking complement to retracements.
Breadth
2 indicatorsAdvance/Decline Line
Cumulative measure of market breadth — the running total of advancing stocks minus declining stocks, used to confirm or warn about index moves.
McClellan Oscillator
A short-to-intermediate breadth oscillator built from two EMAs of daily advancing/declining issues — measures the rate of change in market breadth.