Every technical indicator, in one place

The full IndicatorsGyan library — grouped into seven families and listed A–Z below. Each indicator has a plain-English definition, its formula, best settings, buy/sell signals and Nifty & Bank Nifty examples.

How many technical indicators are there? Hundreds exist, but a few dozen do almost all the work. IndicatorsGyan organises them into seven families — trend, momentum, volatility, volume, trend-strength, breadth and oscillators — so you can pick the right tool for the job.

Momentum Indicators

Momentum indicators are technical tools that measure the rate of change of price to gauge the strength behind a move. They help traders identify overbought/ove…

Relative Strength Index RSI

Momentum

The RSI is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and size of recent price changes on a 0–100 scale, flagging a market as overbought above 70 …

Leading momentum oscillator

Moving Average Convergence Divergence MACD

Momentum

MACD is a trend-following momentum indicator that plots the difference between a fast and a slow EMA, with a signal line and a histogram, to reveal s…

Lagging trend-momentum indicator

Stochastic Oscillator Stoch

Momentum

The Stochastic Oscillator is a momentum indicator that shows where the current close sits within its recent high-low range on a 0–100 scale, flagging…

Leading momentum oscillator

Stochastic RSI StochRSI

Momentum

The Stochastic RSI applies the Stochastic formula to RSI values instead of price, producing a highly sensitive 0–1 (or 0–100) oscillator that reaches…

Leading momentum oscillator

Commodity Channel Index CCI

Momentum

The Commodity Channel Index measures how far the current price has deviated from its statistical mean, oscillating around zero with ±100 as the usual…

Leading momentum oscillator

Williams %R %R

Momentum

Williams %R is a momentum oscillator that shows where the close sits within the recent high-low range on a −100 to 0 scale, flagging overbought above…

Leading momentum oscillator

Momentum Indicator MOM

Momentum

The Momentum indicator measures the rate of price change by subtracting the price N periods ago from the current price, oscillating around a zero lin…

Leading momentum indicator

Rate of Change ROC

Momentum

The Rate of Change measures the percentage change in price over N periods, oscillating around a zero line to show the speed and direction of momentum…

Leading momentum oscillator

True Strength Index TSI

Momentum

The True Strength Index is a double-smoothed momentum oscillator that filters price-change noise to show clear trend direction and momentum, oscillat…

Lagging momentum oscillator

Trend Indicators

Trend indicators are technical tools that identify and follow the direction of a market's movement by smoothing price data. The most widely used are moving ave…

Moving Average MA

Trend

A moving average is a trend indicator that averages price over a set number of recent bars to smooth out noise and reveal the underlying direction, u…

Lagging trend-smoothing indicator

Simple Moving Average SMA

Trend

A simple moving average is the arithmetic mean of the last N closing prices, giving every bar in the window equal weight, which produces the smoothes…

Lagging trend-smoothing indicator

Exponential Moving Average EMA

Trend

An exponential moving average is a moving average that weights recent prices more heavily using an exponential decay, so it reacts faster to new pric…

Lagging trend-smoothing indicator

Weighted Moving Average WMA

Trend

A weighted moving average assigns linearly decreasing weights to the prices in its window, so the most recent bar carries the most weight and the old…

Lagging trend-smoothing indicator

Hull Moving Average HMA

Trend

The Hull Moving Average, created by Alan Hull in 2005, combines weighted moving averages of different lengths to produce a line that is both very smo…

Lagging trend-smoothing indicator (low-lag)

Volume Weighted Moving Average VWMA

Trend

A volume weighted moving average is a moving average that weights each bar's price by its trading volume, so prices set on heavy volume influence the…

Lagging trend-smoothing indicator (volume-weighted)

Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average KAMA

Trend

The Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average, devised by Perry Kaufman, automatically adjusts its smoothing speed based on market efficiency — reacting fast w…

Lagging adaptive trend-smoothing indicator

Supertrend

Trend

Supertrend is a trend-following overlay by Olivier Seban that plots a single line, based on price and the Average True Range, which sits below price …

Trend-following overlay with trailing stop

Ichimoku Cloud

Trend

The Ichimoku Cloud, developed by Goichi Hosoda in the 1960s, is a complete trend-analysis system whose five lines show trend direction, support and r…

Comprehensive trend and support/resistance system

Parabolic SAR SAR

Trend

The Parabolic SAR, created by J. Welles Wilder in 1978, plots a trailing series of dots below price in an uptrend and above price in a downtrend, acc…

Trend-following stop-and-reverse indicator

Volatility Indicators

Volatility indicators measure the magnitude of price fluctuation rather than direction. ATR, Bollinger Bands, Keltner Channel, Donchian Channel and Standard De…

Volume Indicators

Volume indicators combine price with traded quantity to measure the participation and conviction behind a move. OBV, VWAP, Money Flow Index, Chaikin Money Flow…

On-Balance Volume OBV

Volume

On-Balance Volume is a cumulative volume-flow indicator that adds the day's volume when price closes up and subtracts it when price closes down, turn…

Leading volume-flow indicator

Volume Profile

Volume

Volume Profile is a charting tool that plots volume horizontally at each price level over a chosen range, revealing the prices where the most trading…

Volume-at-price distribution tool

Volume Weighted Average Price VWAP

Volume

VWAP is the volume-weighted average price of an instrument over the session, showing the true average price at which trading occurred and serving as …

Intraday volume-weighted benchmark

Money Flow Index MFI

Volume

The Money Flow Index is a volume-weighted momentum oscillator that measures buying and selling pressure on a 0–100 scale, effectively an RSI that inc…

Leading volume-weighted momentum oscillator

Chaikin Money Flow CMF

Volume

Chaikin Money Flow is a volume-flow oscillator that sums the money flow volume over a look-back period and normalises it, oscillating around zero to …

Volume-flow oscillator

Accumulation/Distribution Line A/D

Volume

The Accumulation/Distribution Line is a cumulative volume-flow indicator that adds each bar's money flow volume — volume weighted by where price clos…

Cumulative volume-flow indicator

Ease of Movement EOM

Volume

Ease of Movement is a volume-based oscillator that relates price change to volume, oscillating around zero to show how easily price is moving — high …

Volume-based momentum oscillator

Trend Strength Indicators

Trend-strength indicators measure how strong a trend is, independent of its direction. ADX, the Directional Movement Index (DMI), Aroon and the Vortex Indicato…

Market Breadth Indicators

Market breadth indicators measure participation across an index — how many constituent stocks are rising versus falling. The Advance/Decline Line, McClellan Os…

Oscillators

Oscillators are technical indicators that fluctuate around a central value or between fixed limits to reveal momentum, cycles and overbought/oversold extremes.…

A–Z index

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