The CCI indicator (commodity channel index) is an oscillator originally created in 1980 by Donald Lambert . He developed CCI originally to identify and quantify cyclical moves in commodity charts, but this technical indicator has also been used on stock indexes, exchange traded funds, stocks and charts of other markets. It can be used as […]
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Anchored volume weighted average price or simply AVWAP is a previous meaningful benchmark price on a chart chosen by traders that quantifies the average price a market has traded at through a time period, based on both volume and price. This metric is important because it provides traders with a visual into the nature of
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The McClellan oscillator is a market breadth technical indicator used by traders to analyze the New York Stock Exchange listings balance between the advancing and declining stocks over time. The McClellan oscillator quantifies the Advance-Decline Data on a stock market exchange, it could also be used on stock indexes, portfolio holdings, or any watchlist of
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The MACD-Histogram quantifies the distance between MACD and its 9-day EMA signal line. The histogram reads positive when MACD is above its 9-day EMA and reads negative when the MACD is below its 9-day EMA. The MACD-Histogram is a technical oscillator that moves both above and below the zero line on its chart. The MACD-Histogram
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An RSI divergence indicator signal shows traders when price action and the RSI are no longer showing the same momentum. The RSI shows the magnitude of a price move in a specific timeframe. The RSI is one of the most popular oscillators used in technical analysis. A divergence looks at it in relation to the
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Technical analysis is the art and science of reading price action on a chart. Here is a quick reference guide that can be used as a cheat sheet. A range bound market can be identified by horizontal upper resistance and horizontal lower support. When price breaks out of a trading range it can signal the
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The VWAP (volume-weighted average price) is the ratio of the value of shares traded to total volume that is traded over a specific time period on a chart. It measures and quantifies the average price a stock is traded at for set period of time to create a technical indicator on a chart. VWAP is
An ATR trailing stop is one way to manage a trade at both the time of entry as a stop loss setting and if it evolves into a winning trade by exiting when the price reverses far enough to trigger a trailing stop exit. This type of trailing stop uses the technical indicator of the
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The MACD is an abbreviation for the moving average convergence/divergence technical trading indicator and is used in technical analysis to filter the trends, swings, and momentum of price action. It is designed to reveal changes in price strength, direction, momentum, and duration for the moves of trends and swings. The MACD is a simple visual momentum indicator. The
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