The ADX is a volatility indicator that was invented by J. Welles Wilder. It measures the current volatility in the market.
The ATR was invented by J. Welles Wilder in the late seventies. It is a volatility indicator. When the volatility of the market increases, the ATR line goes up.
The Bollinger bands, created by John Bollinger in the eighties, measures the volatility of the price through the deviation of two bands, an upper and lower band, from the moving average.
Marc Chaikin invented the Chaikin Accumulation/Distribution oscillator. It is an indicator of an indicator since it uses the Accumulation/Distribution line in the calculation.
The CCI was developed by Donald Lambert in 1980. It measures the momentum of the price with a line at the bottom of the chart.
The DMI was created by J. Welles Wilder and has two lines, the positive and negative directional movement.
The DEMA is a trend indicator. Its main characteristic is a faster reaction to price movements. Therefore, it reduces the lag between the price and moving average.
The Elder Ray is an oscillator and combines components of trend and momentum indicators to measure the strength of the bullish and bearish trends. This indicator labels both trends as “bull power” and “bear power”.
An EMA is a very common trend indicator. It reacts quicker than the Simple Moving Average to price changes.
Developed by Perry Kaufman, the KAMA is a trend indicator used to identify the overall trend. It does this by smoothing out the noise when the price fluctuates.
The MESA adaptive moving average is a trend-following indicator. It adapts to price movements in a very unique way, based on the rate of change (ROC), as measured by the Hilbert Transform Discriminator.
As its name suggests, this indicator purely analyzes the momentum of the price. It is measured by comparing the current price to it a specific number of periods ago.
Also known as "the RSI that accounts for volume". MFI is an indicator that combines volume and price to carry out its analysis.
The OBV is a momentum and volume indicator. It combines price and volume in its calculation, and is represented with a line at the bottom of the chart.
The Parabolic SAR is a trend following indicator invented by J. Welles Wilder, who also brought us the RSI and ATR.
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