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"Momentum" in general refers to prices continuing to trend. The momentum and ROC indicators show trend by remaining positive while an uptrend is sustained, or negative while a downtrend is sustained. A crossing up through zero may be used as a signal to buy, or a crossing down through zero as a signal to sell. How high (or how low when negative ...
Kijun-sen (基準線) calculation: (highest high + lowest low)/2 for the past 26 periods. Also called the base line (red line), this is a confirmation line, a support/resistance line, and can be used as a trailing stop line. The Kijun Sen acts as an indicator of future price movement.
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. Each vertical line on the chart shows the price range (the highest and lowest prices) over one unit of time, e.g., one day or one hour.
The highest and lowest price points are represented by wicks similarly to candlesticks. [1] To calculate the highest and lowest price of a period: Heikin-Ashi High=Max value of (High-0, Open-0, and Close-0) [8] [9] Heikin-Ashi Low=Min value (Low-0, Open-0, and Close-0) [8] (where -0 indicates that values are being taken from the current bar or ...
An oscillator in technical analysis of financial markets is an indicator that informs if the price of a financial instrument is very high or very low, indicating whether it is overbought or oversold. This helps traders make decisions about when to trade (buy or sell) that instrument.
Trend following is used by commodity trading advisors (CTAs) as the predominant strategy of technical traders. Research done by Galen Burghardt has shown that between 2000-2009 there was a very high correlation (.97) between trend following CTAs and the broader CTA index. [2]
It is formed by taking the highest high and the lowest low of the last n periods. The area between the high and the low is the channel for the period chosen. [2] Donchian Channels are a technical indicator that seeks to identify bullish and bearish extremes that favor reversals, higher and lower breakouts, breakdowns, and other emerging trends.
The average directional movement index (ADX) was developed in 1978 by J. Welles Wilder as an indicator of trend strength in a series of prices of a financial instrument. [1] ADX has become a widely used indicator for technical analysts, and is provided as a standard in collections of indicators offered by various trading platforms.