Your Guide To The Stock Market
Explore popular trading indicators like RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, and more.
The Typical Price Indicator (TPI) function measures the average of the high, low, and closing prices for the day using a simple, single-line plot. The traders can use the Typical Price indicator for smoothing out some of the inconstancies of the closing price. The Typical Price Indicator is comprised of information for the whole trading day and not … Read more
Twiggs Money Flow Indicator developed by Colin Twiggs. This is a variation on the Chaikin Money Flow or CMF indicator. It uses True Range and volume. Adjustable guides are given to fine-tune the signals. The Chaikin Money Flow uses Close Location Value (CLV) to evaluate the volume of money flow as bullish or as bearish, Twigs … Read more
Trade Volume Index, or TVI, is a technical analysis indicator used to measure the amount of buying and selling activity in a given security over a certain period of time. It can be calculated using day trading “tick” price data. The greater the trading volume relative to previous periods, the higher that security’s Trade Volume … Read more
True Range Indicator is an indicator that measures volatility. J. Welles Wilder developed this indicator. His most famous classic trading book is “New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems“. The developer, Wells Wilder believed that most trading systems were broken down into two basic components. The first part of this book focuses on the “technical trading … Read more
Traders use the trend intensity index indicator (TII) to measure the strength of a trend of a stock, ETF, index, or any other listed security. M. H. Pee developed this technical indicator. The TII indicator applies RSI principles of calculation (applied to the closing price deviations) instead of the closing prices. In technical analysis, the TI … Read more
The Time Series Forecast indicator (TSF) shows the statistical trend of a security’s price over a specified time period. This indicator is referred to as a moving linear regression that is similar to a moving average. The Time Series Forecast (TSF) indicator is based on a regression-based forecast model. It predicts future price action based … Read more
The Trix indicator (or Triple Exponential Average) is a popular technical analysis tool. It enables experienced traders to identify potential reversals in the markets. It measures momentum across three time periods and plots directional changes of the trend by utilizing a series of triple exponentially weighted moving averages. This indicator was initially designed for commodities … Read more
Welles Wilder has developed the technical indicator called the Swing Index indicator to determine the real strength and direction of the market by analyzing the high, low, and close prices of a stock. He describes how to create and use the Swing Index in his seminal book “New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems“. How to … Read more
The SuperTrend indicator is a very simple indicator, introduced by Olivier Seban. The buy and sell signal of this indicator changes to flip over the closing price. A buy signal is generated when the stock/index price turns greater than the indicator value and a sell signal is generated when the stock/index price turns lesser than … Read more
Stochastics Indicator or also known as the Stochastics oscillator is a momentum indicator. It shows the location of the close relative to the high-low range over a set number of periods. In the late 1950s, George C. Lane developed this indicator. This indicator follows the speed or the momentum of the price and the momentum changes … Read more
It’s always beneficial to gain an understanding of the concepts and tools associated with investing in order to get ahead – today we’re going to look at one such tool: the Stochastic Momentum Index indicator, or SMI. This technical indicator is usually used for measuring momentum over a certain period of time which can be … Read more