Plain-English guides to technical indicators, settings, chart behavior, and practical trading rules for trend following and breakout strategies.
RSI is one of the most used momentum oscillators because it compresses recent gains and losses into a single bounded line. The main job is not to predict tops and…
Vortex Indicator is built to answer a practical question: is the market showing directional persistence, and if so, is that persistence rising or fading. It does this using two lines…
The QStick Indicator is a momentum tool built from candlestick bodies. Instead of looking at where price is relative to a moving average, it measures whether candles are tending to…
Most indicators answer one narrow question. The Chande Trend Meter is built to answer a broader one: is this market trending, and if so, how strongly. It does that by…
Trend Magic is a trend overlay that plots a single adaptive line on the price chart. It combines a momentum switch with a volatility based distance, so the line behaves…
Time series forecasting is the process of using past observations to estimate future values. In markets, the observations are typically price, returns, volume, volatility, spreads, or derived indicators like moving…
Linear Regression Channel, often shortened to LRC, is a trend and volatility overlay built from a linear regression line. The middle line is the best fit line through the last…
A Linear Regression Line is a best fit line drawn through the last N bars of price, most commonly the close. It is built to summarize the recent direction of…
Keltner Channels are a volatility based price channel that wraps around a moving average. You get three lines: a middle line that represents the baseline trend, plus an upper and…
Donchian Channels are price channels built from recent extremes. They plot an upper band at the highest high of the last N bars, a lower band at the lowest low…