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Bollinger Bands Indicator
What is the Bollinger Bands indicator? Bollinger Bands is one of the most used technical analysis tools, where three various lines are drawn, with one above and one below the security price line and a middle line that forms the envelop shows its specific period moving average. The lines indicate a volatility range in which a specific…
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Donchian Channel
What is the Donchian Channel? The Donchian Channel indicator is a technical analysis tool that plots those lowest lows and the highest highs on the chart. It calculates those prices by using by default 20 bars of data. However, traders can use shorter or longer Donchian Channels according to their own preference or trading strategy.…
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Average True Range (ATR) Indicator
What is the ATR indicator? The Average True Range’s up and down movement according to the price of the asset gives a measure of volatility. The higher ATR value shows greater volatility and lower ATR value means less volatility. The Average True Range indicator tells to place a stop or limit order and time to open or…
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VWAP: The Ultimate Intraday Indicator
What is the VWAP? The volume-weighted average price (VWAP) indicator is among such indicators that look to make the most of the volume. It is a technical analysis tool that calculates the true average price of a financial asset weighted by volume for a predefined period of time. The incorporation of volume into the average price of a…
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McGinley Dynamic Indicator
How to calculate the indicator? The Mcginley Dynamic indicator is so special because it quickly adjusts for changes in the speed of the market. It also immediately minimizes huges prices, price whipsaws, and price separation. It is all automatically done by it as a factor of its formula. The formula is MD = MD1 +…
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Aroon Indicator
What is the Aroon indicator? The Aroon indicator is a technical indicator. It is used to detect trend changes in the price of an asset, and the strength of that trend. The indicator measures the time between highs and the time between lows over a specific period. The idea is that strong uptrends will regularly…
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Moving Average Indicator
What is the Moving Average indicator? In technical analysis, the moving average is an indicator. It represents the average closing price of the market over a particular period. Traders often use the moving averages as it can be a good indication of current market momentum. In statistics, a moving average is a calculation. It is…
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MACD Indicator
What is the MACD indicator? Gerald Appel created the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator in the late 1970s. The indicator is one of the simplest and most efficient momentum indicators out there. The MACD turns two indicators, moving averages, into a momentum oscillator. It does so by subtracting the longer moving average from a short one.…
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Rate of Change Indicator
What is the ROC indicator and how to calculate it? The Rate of Change indicator is a momentum oscillator. Traders use it in their technical analysis tool belt. It calculates the change in price percentage of a financial asset between periods. The indicator calculates the change percentage by taking the current price and comparing it to a…
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Know Sure Thing (KST) Indicator
What does the Know Sure Thing indicator tell traders? The Know Sure Thing indicator serves multiple purposes such as it gives bearish and bullish signals. The presence of Know Sure Thing above the signal line means the bullish trend. The presence of the Know Sure Thing indicates the bearish trend in the market. Traders also…
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