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The Donchian channel is a useful indicator for seeing the volatility of a market price. If a price is stable the Donchian channel will be relatively narrow. If the price fluctuates, a lot the Donchian channel will be wider. Its primary use, however, is for providing signals for long and short positions.
A price channel is a pair of parallel trend lines that form a chart pattern for a stock or commodity. [1] Channels may be horizontal, ascending or descending. When prices pass through and stay through a trendline representing support or resistance , the trend is said to be broken and there is a "breakout".
The purpose of Bollinger Bands is to provide a relative definition of high and low prices of a market. By definition, prices are high at the upper band and low at the lower band. This definition can aid in rigorous pattern recognition and is useful in comparing price action to the action of indicators to arrive at systematic trading decisions. [3]
The Donchian channel indicator may identify certain price breakouts in relation to its trading pattern, which allows it to produce trading signals. Additionally, such price channel can identify trends, highs and lows in the market, levels of support and resistance, market volatility, and breakouts. [3]
An OHLC chart, with a moving average and Bollinger bands superimposed. An open-high-low-close chart (OHLC) is a type of chart typically used in technical analysis to illustrate movements in the price of a financial instrument over time.
A chart pattern or price pattern is a pattern within a chart when prices are graphed. In stock and commodity markets trading, chart pattern studies play a large role during technical analysis.
An example of the detrended price oscillator in cTrader trading platform. The detrended price oscillator (DPO) is an indicator in technical analysis that attempts to eliminate the long-term trends in prices by using a displaced moving average so it does not react to the most current price action.
The aspects of a candlestick pattern. A candlestick chart (also called Japanese candlestick chart or K-line [8]) is a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency.