Plain-English guides to technical indicators, settings, chart behavior, and practical trading rules for trend following and breakout strategies.
Aroon Oscillator is a trend-focused indicator built from the Aroon Up and Aroon Down lines. Its job is to show whether recent price action is being driven more by fresh…
TRIX is a momentum oscillator built from a triple-smoothed exponential moving average. Its main purpose is to measure the rate of change of that smoothed average rather than the raw…
Vertical Horizontal Filter, usually shortened to VHF, is a trend-strength indicator built to separate directional movement from noisy back-and-forth movement. It does not try to predict the next bar. Instead,…
Choppiness Index is a volatility structure indicator used to judge whether price is moving in a directional way or spending more time chopping sideways. Its main job is not to…
The RMO Indicator, short for Rahul Mohindar Oscillator, is a trend-following tool built to separate long-term market bias from shorter-term timing signals. Its main job is to show whether the…
The Elder Impulse System is a trend and momentum filter created to simplify chart reading into a small number of clear states. Instead of giving a single oscillator line, it…
Trend Intensity Index is a trend strength indicator built to show whether price is spending more time trading on one side of a moving average than the other. In practical…
Laguerre RSI is a momentum oscillator built to track directional pressure while smoothing price more efficiently than a standard RSI. Instead of using a fixed lookback based only on gains…
The SMI Ergodic Indicator is a momentum oscillator that compares recent price change with the recent magnitude of price movement. In practice, it tries to show whether bullish or bearish…
Connors RSI, often shortened to CRSI, is a short-term momentum oscillator built to detect very stretched conditions in price. It was designed for traders who want a faster and more…