"I'm always on the lookout for "paralysis by analysis". Often less is more when it comes to learning how to trade. It's important to start simply. Like any long term goal, it's best to break it down into manageable pieces. That's how you make progress and avoid feeling overwhelmed."
– Scott Hoffman
Futures & Options Broker
Technical Analysis Chart Learning Center
Interactive Charting comes with numerous studies. Some of the studies display as overlays on the underlying chart data, while other studies are displayed exclusive of the underlying chart data (in a separate pane). Please note that the placement of the study cannot be modified.
Default parameters for each study are shown below (in parentheses after the study name). The user can change the parameters for the study after it has been applied to the chart by accesing the study’s properties (double-click on the plotted study).
Choose a study from the list to view its description, formula, and typical interpretation.
Interactive Chart Study List
- Bollinger Bands - BOLL (20,2)
- Commodity Channel Index - CCI (20)
- Crack Spread - CRACK
- Crush Spread - CRUSH
- Directional Movement Index - DMI (14)
- Envelope - ENV (10,1%)
- Exponential Moving Average - EMA (9)
- Exponential Oscillator - EOSC (5,10)
- Highest High/Lowest Low - HHLL (10,10)
- High/Low Moving Average - HLMA (10,10)
- Historic Volatility - HV (20)
- Keltner Channel - KC (10)
- Least Squares Linear Regression - LIN
- Line Oscillator - LOSC (6,21,6)
- Momentum - MOM (10)
- Moving Average - MA (9)
- Moving Average Convergence / Divergence - MACD (12,26,9)
- Moving Standard Deviation - MSD (20)
- Open Interest - OI
- Oscillator - OSC (5,10)
- Parabolic Stop and Reversal - SAR (0.02,0.2)
- Rate of Change - ROC (10)
- Relative Strength Index - RSI (10)
- Slow Stochastic - SSTOC (14,3,3)
- Smoothed Moving Average - SMA (9)
- Smoothed Oscillator - SOSC (5,10)
- Stochastic - STOC (14,3)
- Variable Moving Average - VMA (MA:10,EMA:10,SMA:10)
- Volume - VOL
- Volume and Open Interest - VOI
- Weighted Close - WTCL
- Williams’ Percent R - %R (10)
Content Source: Futuresource
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