Parabolic SAR is a trend-following indicator that plots a series of dots above or below price. SAR stands for “stop and reverse,” which describes its original purpose: it acts like…
The Supertrend indicator is a volatility-based trend overlay that tries to keep you on the right side of sustained moves. It draws a single line that sits below price in…
Ichimoku Cloud is a multi line indicator designed to show trend direction and trend quality at a glance. It does this by combining two fast and slow midpoints, a lagging…
An indicator does not need to be complex to be useful. The Gann HiLo Activator is a good example: it is built from two simple moving averages, yet it can…
The Alligator Indicator is a trend timing tool popularized by Bill Williams. It overlays three smoothed moving averages on price, then shifts each average forward by a fixed number of…
A moving average crossover is one of the simplest ways traders try to separate trend from noise. You plot two moving averages on the same chart, a faster one that…
A Moving Average Ribbon is not a single indicator line. It is a group of moving averages plotted together, usually from fast to slow periods, so you can see trend…
A Moving Average Envelope is a pair of bands plotted at a fixed distance above and below a moving average. Think of it as a simple channel that rides the…
The Average Directional Index (ADX) is a trend strength indicator. It answers one narrow question: how strong is the current trend, regardless of whether the trend is up or down.…
The Directional Movement Index, or DMI, measures one thing above all: whether price is actually moving in a direction, and if it is, which side is in control. J Welles…