Technical Indicators & Overlays
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Technical Indicators are the often squiggly lines found above, below and on-top-of the price information on a technical chart. Indicators that use the same scale as prices are typically plotted on top of the price bars and are therefore referred to as “Overlays”.
If you are new to stock charting and the use of technical indicators, the following article will help you get going:
An in-depth introduction to the various kinds of technical indicators and oscillators out there. A “must read” article for StockCharts users.
A version of the VWAP overlay where the chartist defines the starting point for overlay calculations.
A chart overlay that shows the upper and lower limits of 'normal' price movements based on the Standard Deviation of prices.
An indicator that can be used to set trailing stop-losses for both long and short positions.
A faster moving average calculation that offsets values in order to reduce the traditional lag found in moving averages.
A very responsive moving average calculation that weights recent prices more heavily than those earlier in the period.
A comprehensive indicator that defines support and resistance, identifies trend direction, gauges momentum and provides trading signals.
A unique moving average that accounts for volatility and automatically adjusts to price behavior.
A chart overlay that shows upper and lower limits for price movements based on the Average True Range of prices.
Chart overlays that show the 'average' value over time. Both Simple Moving Averages (SMAs) and Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) are explained.
A quick way to plot several moving averages with different look-back periods on a chart at once.
A chart overlay consisting of a channel formed from simple moving averages.
A chart overlay that shows reversal points below prices in an uptrend and above prices in a downtrend.
A chart overlay that shows reversal points below prices in an uptrend and above prices in a downtrend.
A chart overlay that shows a channel made from the highest high and lowest low for a given period of time.
A more responsive moving average indicator which significantly reduces the lag present in traditional moving average calculations.
A chart overlay with a horizontal histogram showing the amount of activity at various price levels.
An intraday indicator based on total dollar value of all trades for the current day divided by the total trading volume for the current day.
A chart overlay that shows filtered price movements that are greater than a given percentage.
Combines price and volume to show how money may be flowing into or out of a stock.
Uses Aroon Up and Aroon Down to determine whether a stock is trending or not.
Measures the difference between Aroon Up and Aroon Down.
Shows whether a stock is trending or oscillating.
Measures a stock's volatility.
Measures buying and selling pressure to determine which side is in greater control and driving price action.
Shows the percentage difference between the upper and lower Bollinger Band.
Shows the relationship between price and standard deviation Bollinger Bands.
Combines price and volume to show how money may be flowing into or out of a stock Alternative to Accumulation/Distribution Line.
Combines price and volume to show how money may be flowing into or out of a stock. Based on Accumulation/Distribution Line.
Scores the strength of a stock's trend, based on several technical indicators over six different timeframes.
An unbound momentum oscillator that attempts to improve on some of the shortcomings of traditional RSI.
Shows a stock's variation from its “typical” price.
A momentum oscillator created from the composite of RSI, ROC, and Up/Down Length, designed for shorter-term trades.
An oscillator that uses rate-of-change and a weighted moving average to measure momentum.
Shows the degree of correlation between two securities over a given timeframe.
An advanced momentum indicator that tracks a stock's rate of change.
A price oscillator that uses a displaced moving average to identify cycles.
Shows how far a security is trading from its 3, 6, 9, or 12-month highs, expressed as a percentage.
Shows how far a security is trading from its 3, 6, 9, or 12-month lows, expressed as a percentage.
Shows the percentage move necessary for a security to reach a 3, 6, 9, or 12-month high.
Shows the percentage move necessary for a security to reach a 3, 6, 9, or 12-month low.
Shows the percentage difference between price and a moving average of your choice.
An indicator that compares volume and price to identify significant moves.
A simple price-and-volume oscillator.
Shows a security's highest trading value in the span of a specific period.
Shows a security's lowest trading value within a specific period.
An indicator that identifies reversals when the price range widens.
A momentum oscillator based on the difference between two EMAs.
A momentum oscillator that shows the difference between MACD and its signal line.
A volatility-normalized MACD that can analyze trends.
A momentum oscillator that indicates if a trend is positive or negative in absolute terms.
A volume-weighted version of RSI that shows shifts is buying and selling pressure.
A cumulative volume-based indicator used to identify trend reversals.
Combines price and volume in a very simple way to show how money may be flowing into or out of a stock.
A percentage-based version of the MACD indicator.
The PPO indicator applied to volume instead of price.
Technical indicator that compares the performance of two stocks to each other by dividing their price data.
A momentum oscillator from Martin Pring based on the smoothed rate-of-change for four different timeframes.
A momentum indicator from Martin Pring that combines short-term, intermediate and long-term velocity.
Shows the speed at which a stock's price is changing.
Shows how strongly a stock is moving in its current direction.
A set of indicators/overlays that compare current volume to the average, in order to identify conditions where unusually high or low volume is powering a price move.
Uses RS-Ratio to measure relative performance and RS-Momentum to measure the momentum of relative performance.
Our relative ranking system based on a stock's technical strength.
Measures the rise-over-run for a linear regression.
A statistical measure of a stock's volatility.
Shows how a stock's price is doing relative to past movements. Fast, Slow and Full Stochastics are explained.
Combines Stochastics with the RSI indicator to help you see RSI changes more clearly.
Shows bullish (green), bearish (red), and neutral (yellow) zones on a chart using parameters you set.
A triple-smoothed moving average of price movements.
An indicator that measures trend direction and identifies overbought/oversold levels.
A volatility indicator used to identify periods of consolidation and determine the likely direction of the resulting move.
An indicator designed to measure market risk or volatility.
Combines long-term, mid-term and short-term moving averages into one number.
An indicator designed to identify the start of a new trend and define the current trend.
Uses Stochastics to determine overbought and oversold levels.
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