Plain-English guides to technical indicators, settings, chart behavior, and practical trading rules for trend following and breakout strategies.
The Fisher Transform is an oscillator designed to highlight turning points by transforming a normalized price series into a curve that tends to produce sharper peaks and troughs. In practice…
True Strength Index, usually shortened to TSI, is a momentum oscillator designed to smooth price change enough to reduce noise while still reacting when momentum meaningfully shifts. It is built…
Ultimate Oscillator is a momentum oscillator designed to reduce false signals that can happen when you rely on a single lookback period. It does that by combining three momentum measures…
Commodity Channel Index CCI is a momentum oscillator designed to show how far price has moved away from its recent average. It does this by comparing a typical price for…
Williams %R is a momentum oscillator that measures where the current close sits inside a recent high to low range. It is a fast way to answer one question: is…
Momentum Indicator is a simple way to measure how much price has moved over a defined lookback period. It does not try to predict direction by itself, it just quantifies…
Rate of Change, usually shortened to ROC, is a momentum indicator that measures how fast price is changing compared with a prior point in time. It answers a direct question:…
Moving Average Convergence Divergence, usually shortened to MACD, is a trend and momentum indicator built from exponential moving averages. It measures the distance between a fast EMA and a slow…
Stochastic RSI is an oscillator built in two layers. First you calculate RSI, which converts recent up and down closes into a momentum value. Then you apply a stochastic calculation…
The Stochastic Oscillator is a momentum indicator that measures where the current close sits relative to a recent high to low range. It does not try to say whether price…