Technical Analysis
Technical Indicators: On-Balance Volume
On Balance Volume (OBV) is a very simple statistic that can often be very helpful when trying to determine if whether or not volume movements have been favorable or unfavorable. it was created by Joseph Granville in the 70s and has since become one of the more popular technical indicators used by today’s investors. It [...]
read more »Technical Indicators: Relative Strength Index
And, today, we dive back into lower indicators or charts which are not graphed directly on the price chart. We’ve already discussed a few of these, MACD and Volume/Volume+, but now we’ll go through all the available ones on bigcharts.com. The one pictured as the third chart in the picture above is the Relative Strength [...]
read more »Technical Indicators: Parabolic SAR
After a small digression into lower indicators yesterday, we’re returning to the upper indicators, or indicators which are graphed on the price chart, today. This is the last of the available indicators on bigcharts.com and, hopefully after reading this part of the series, you’ll have at least a good idea of the information that each [...]
read more »Technical Indicators: Exponential Moving Averages and MACD
Another moving average that is often used when evaluating potential stocks is the exponential moving average (EMA). EMAs are different from the simple moving averages that we have discussed in that they are exponentially weighted towards recent closing prices. As a result, an EMA is more sensitive to price changes. This makes using EMAs very [...]
read more »Technical Indicators: Price Channel
Today we’re continuing our look at bigcharts.com’s “upper indicators,” or more precisely indicators that typically are derived from moving averages and often graphed along side the price chart. The chart above is one that has a stock price graphed along with its price channel. The price channel is a graph of the 20-day moving average [...]
read more »Technical Indicators: Simple Moving Averages & Bollinger Bands
Today, we begin to delve into the charts and technical indicators that many people use to find buy and sell points for a stock. The most simple of these is the Simple Moving Average (SMA) which is the sum of all the closing prices for a stock over a given period divided by that period. [...]
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