Indicators
What each indicator measures, how it’s worked out, and how to read it.
VWAP
Oscillators
- RSIThe RSI (relative strength index) compares the size of recent gains with recent losses and turns the answer into a number from 0 to 100.
- MACDMACD (moving average convergence divergence) measures the gap between two exponential moving averages of price.
- Stochastic oscillatorThe stochastic oscillator shows where the latest close sits inside the recent high to low range, as a number from 0 to 100.
Moving averages
Bands and channels
Trend indicators
- ATR (average true range)The ATR (average true range) measures how big recent candles have been, in the same units as price, counting any gap from the close before.
- Ichimoku cloudThe Ichimoku cloud is an indicator made of five lines, each worked out from the highest highs and lowest lows of past candles.