FXCM
FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM), is a leading world-wide provider of foreign exchange trading (currency trading) and related services to retail and institutional customers. FXCM, founded in 1999, was the first forex broker to list on the New York Stock Exchange, […]
Accumulation/Distribution Index
Accumulation/Distribution Index (ADI) A cumulative total volume analysis indicator Marc Chaikin created the ADI as a cumulative total volume technical analysis indicator. The ADI adds or subtracts each day’s volume in proportion to where the close is between the day’s […]
Advance Decline Line
Advance Decline Line (ADL) The Advance Decline Line measures the number of individual stocks participating in a market rise or fall Definition The ADL is a stock market indicator used by speculators to measure the number of individual stocks participating […]
Average Directional Index (ADX)
Average Directional Index (ADX) The Average Directional Index (ADX) an indicator of trend strength. J. Welles Wilder created the Average Directional Index in 1978 as an indicator of trend strength in a series of prices of a financial instrument. ADX […]
Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
Commodity Channel Index (CCI) The Commodity Channel Index is used in identifying cyclical trends in commodities, equities and currencies Donald Lambert introduced the CCI (an oscillator) in an article published in the October 1980 issue of Commodities magazine (now known […]
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD)
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) a lagging indicator that is also a form of Absolute Price Oscillator Definitions Gerald Appel developed MACD as a technical analysis indicator in the late 1970s. MACD shows the difference between a fast and slow exponential […]
Parabolic SAR
Parabolic SAR (PS) used to find trends in market prices and securities J. Welles Wilder Jr. devised the Parabolic Stop and Reverse (SAR) to find trends in market prices or securities. The method can be used as a trailing stop […]
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Relative Strength Index (RSI) a momentum oscillator J. Welles Wider developed the RSI and published it in a 1978 book, “New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems”. It was also published in Commodities magazine (now Futures magazine) in June of the same […]
Stochastic Oscillator
Stochastic Oscillator (SO) A momentum indicator that uses support and resistance levels Calculations Dr. George Lane promoted this indicator in the 1950s. “Stochastic” refers to the location of a current price in relation to its price range over a period […]
Trix Indicator
Trix Indicator Price times volume The Trix Indicator (TI) shows the slope of a triple-smoothed exponential moving average. The term Trix is actually a shortcut of “triple exponential” and was developed by Jack Hutson in the 1980s. Given an n-day […]
