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Technical indicators
Indicators calculated from price and volume; how they are calculated, which question they answer and where they can mislead.
What are indicators, and what are their limits?
A technical indicator is a line or value calculated from price and volume data with a formula.
Moving averages (SMA, EMA)
A moving average is the average of the closing prices of the last given number of candles, recalculated with every new candle.
RSI (Relative Strength Index)
RSI is a momentum indicator that shows, on a scale of 0 to 100, how strong recent up closes have been compared with down closes.
MACD
MACD is the difference between the 12- and 26-period exponential moving averages.
Bollinger Bands
Bollinger Bands are two bands drawn two standard deviations either side of a 20-period simple moving average.
ATR (Average True Range)
ATR is the average of the candles' true range; it shows how much price typically moves in one candle, in price units.
VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price)
VWAP is the volume-weighted average of the prices traded since a chosen starting point.
OBV (On-Balance Volume)
OBV is an indicator that accumulates volume by the direction of the close: a candle's volume is added when the close rises and subtracted when it falls.
ADX and trend strength
ADX is an indicator that measures the strength of a trend, not its direction.
Divergence
Divergence is when the highs and lows of price and of an oscillator (such as RSI, MACD or OBV) point in different directions.
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