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- Add indicators and candlestick patterns to Stock Master charts Add any of 30 indicators, 13 overlays and 61 candlestick patterns to a Stock Master chart, change their settings and colors, and save the layout.
- Add indicators, drawings and chart templates on finabase.io Add and tune indicators and candlestick patterns on a Finabase web chart, draw trend lines and Fibonacci levels, and save chart templates per range or by name.
- Average true range (ATR) A volatility measure averaging each bar's true range, which includes any gap from the prior close; usually over 14 periods.
- Backtest a trading strategy in Stock Master Test a signal-based trading strategy on a stock or a whole watchlist in Stock Master, read trades, win rate and P&L, and avoid the classic backtesting traps.
- Backtest indicator signals and rule-based strategies on Finabase Backtest indicators and candlestick patterns on a stock with Finabase on the web, read trades, win rate and gain, and build if/then allocation strategies over two years.
- Bollinger Bands Bands set two standard deviations above and below a 20-period moving average, widening and narrowing with volatility.
- Divergence When price and an indicator move in opposite directions, such as a new price high with a lower RSI high, hinting momentum is fading.
- Exponential moving average (EMA) A moving average that weights recent prices more heavily, so it reacts faster than a simple moving average of the same length.
- Find today's technical signals with the Finabase scanner Use the Finabase technical scanner on the web to see which indicator, candlestick and mover signals fired today on an index, an exchange or your own watchlist.
- MACD Moving average convergence divergence: the 12-period EMA minus the 26-period EMA, with a 9-period signal line.
- Moving average The average price over the last N periods, recalculated each period, which smooths noise and shows the trend.
- Oscillator An indicator that moves within a band or around a center line, such as RSI or stochastics, used to gauge momentum and extremes.
- Overbought A reading that price has risen far and fast relative to its recent history, flagged by oscillators such as RSI above 70.
- Oversold A reading that price has fallen far and fast relative to its recent history, flagged by oscillators such as RSI below 30.
- Put-call ratio The volume (or open interest) of put options divided by that of calls, read as a gauge of how bearish or hedged options traders are.
- Relative Strength Index (RSI) A 0–100 momentum oscillator that compares the size of recent gains with recent losses, with 70 and 30 as common extreme levels.
- Set price, percent and indicator alerts in Stock Master Create Stock Master alerts for a price, a daily or total percent move, volume, a trailing stop or an indicator turning bullish or bearish, and manage them.
- Set price, percent and indicator alerts on finabase.io Set Finabase alerts on the web for price levels, daily moves, volume, trailing stops and indicator signals, delivered by push in Stock Master or email.
- Simple moving average (SMA) The plain average of the last N closing prices, recalculated each bar; the most common way to smooth a price series and read its trend.
- Stochastic oscillator A momentum indicator that shows where the latest close sits within the high-low range of a recent window, scaled from 0 to 100.
- Technical analysis The study of price, volume and the patterns they form on charts to judge trends and timing, as opposed to analyzing a company’s financials.
- Volume-weighted average price (VWAP) The average price a security traded at over a period, weighted by the volume at each price; the standard intraday benchmark for execution quality.
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