Technical indicators
Want to know what the various abbreviations on our charts stand for? We explain more than 50 technical indicators.

• Acceleration (ACC): Chart pattern where the rate of change of share price increases sharply.
• Accumulation Distribution (AD): Tracks the buying pressure and selling pressure.
• Average True Range (ATR): Volatility indicator.
• Balance Of Power (BOP): Momentum indicator that measures buying and selling pressure, giving an indication of the degree in which individual stocks and the market in general are overbought or oversold.
• Bollinger Band (BOL): Provide several useful signals including confirmation of trend and an indication of volatility.
• Bollinger Oscillator (BOS): Computes the position of closing price relative to the width of the Bollinger Bands.
• Chaikin A/D Oscillator (ChAD): The degree of buying or selling pressure can be calculated by the location of a close relative to the high and low for the corresponding period.
• Chaikin Money Flow (ChMF): Intended to show whether a given equity is within a buying trend (money flow in) or a selling trend (money flow out).
• Chaikin Oscillator (ChO): Created by subtracting a 10-day EMA from a three-day EMA of the accumulation /distribution line.
• Chaikin Volatility (ChV): By comparing the spread between a security's high and low prices, it quantifies volatility as a widening of the range between the high and the low price.
• Chande Momentum Oscillator (CMO): Determines the momentum of price data by comparing the size of recent negative price changes to the size of recent positive price changes.
• Commodity Channel Index (CCI): An oscillator that provides an indication of overbought or oversold markets.
• Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO): Smoothes the trend in prices, allowing more easily identifiable cycles and overbought/oversold levels.
• Directional Movement Index (DMI): Helps determine if a security is "trending."
• Ease of Movement (EMV): Illustrates the relationship between volume and price change.
• Exponential Moving Average (EMA): This type of moving average reacts faster to recent price changes than a simple moving average.
• %D Fast (FastD)<br> • %D Slow (SlowD)
• %K Fast (FastK)
• Force Index (FI): Combines price movements and volume to measure the market.
• Intraday Momentum Index (IMI): Combination of the Relative Strength Index and Candlestick Analysis.
• Mass Index (MI): Range oscillator that uses changes in daily trading price and provides market reversal forecasts.
• Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD): A trend following momentum indicator used to signal trend changes and to indicate trend direction. Signals are generated by crossovers and divergence from price.
• MACD Oscillator (MACDO): Converts the two lines of the MACD into a single line that fluctuates above and below zero.
• Momentum - type 1 (MTM1): Measures the speed of price change and provides a leading indicator of changes in a trend
• Momentum - type 2 (MTM2): Measures the speed of price change and provides a leading indicator of changes in a trend.
• Money Flow Index (MFI): A divergence between the money flow index and price trend can warn of a possible trend reversal.
• Negative Volume Index (NVI): Used in conjunction with the Positive Volume Index, it's an attempt to identify bull markets.
• On Balance Volume (OBV): Used to either confirm the current price trend or warn of a possible reversal
• Parabolic SAR (PAR SAR): Useful in catching new trends early
• Positive Volume Index (PVI): Calculated based on price movements on days with increased volume.
• Percentage Volume Oscillator (PVO): Percentage difference between two moving averages of volume.
• Price Oscillator (POS): Shows the variation among two moving averages for the price of a security.
• Price and Volume Trend (PVT): Cumulative total of volume that is adjusted depending on changes in closing prices.
• QStick Indicator (QStick): Developed as a way to quantify candlesticks, the indicator is a moving average of the difference between the opening and closing prices of an issue.
• Rate of Change (ROC): Momentum indicator measuring velocity and also leads the price action.
• Relative Strength Index (RSI): Provides early warning of a sell or buy opportunity.
• Relative Volatility Index (RVI): Used to measure the direction of volatility.
• Simple Moving Average (SMA1, SMA2, SMA3): The average stock price over a user defined period.
• Standard Deviation (StDev): Statistical measurement of volatility. It measures how widely values range from the average value.
• Stochastic (STS): Determine when a market is overbought or oversold.
• Trend Deviation (TRD): A moving average of volume is divided by another, and a smoothed rate of change.
• TRIX Index (Trix): A 1 day rate of change of a triple exponentially smoothed moving average of closing prices.
• Ultimate Oscillator (ULT): Sensitive to buying and selling pressure and offers reliable signals.
• Volatility Ratio (VLT)
• Volume Moving Average (exponential) (VOL EMA)
• Volume Oscillator (VOS): Makes use of the difference between two moving averages of volume to determine if the overall volume trend is increasing or decreasing.
• Volume Rate of Change (VROC): Displays the ROC of the security's volume.
• Williams Accumulation Distribution (type 1) (WAD1): Tracks the buying pressure and selling pressure.
• Williams Accumulation Distribution (type 2) (WAD2): Tracks the buying pressure and selling pressure.
• Williams' %R (%R): Anticipation of market reversals