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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. Each vertical line on the chart shows the price range (the highest and lowest prices) over one unit of time ...
A candlestick chart (also called Japanese candlestick chart or K-line) is a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency. While similar in appearance to a bar chart, each candlestick represents four important pieces of information for that day: open and close in the thick body, and high and ...
Marubozu (jp: まるぼうず, 丸坊主, close-cropped head, bald hill) A long or normal candlestick (black or white) with no shadow or tail. The high and the low represent the opening and the closing prices. Considered a continuation pattern. Spinning Top A black or white candlestick with a small body. The size of shadows can vary.
A new up line is added when the previous high is exceeded by the underlying chart's close and a down line is added when the previous low is exceeded by the underlying chart's close. [7] If neither previous high (in an uptrend) nor previous low (in a downtrend) is breached by the underlying chart's close, nothing is added to the chart.
A pivot point is calculated as an average of significant prices (high, low, close) from the performance of a market in the prior trading period. If the market in the following period trades above the pivot point it is usually evaluated as a bullish sentiment, whereas trading below the pivot point is seen as bearish.
Tenkan-sen (転換 線) calculation: (highest high + lowest low)/2 for the last 9 periods. Also called the conversion line (blue line), it is primarily used as a signal line and a minor support/resistance line. This is the turning line and is derived by averaging the highest high and the lowest low for the past nine periods.
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]
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 period). The main purpose of a Heikin-Ashi chart is to show the general trend of the price (direction of price) and the strength of each trend; [ 10 ] these are represented by the wicks: small lines that extend from ...