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
MomentumThe 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 …
Moving Average Convergence Divergence MACD
MomentumMACD 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…
Stochastic Oscillator Stoch
MomentumThe 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…
Stochastic RSI StochRSI
MomentumThe Stochastic RSI applies the Stochastic formula to RSI values instead of price, producing a highly sensitive 0–1 (or 0–100) oscillator that reaches…
Commodity Channel Index CCI
MomentumThe Commodity Channel Index measures how far the current price has deviated from its statistical mean, oscillating around zero with ±100 as the usual…
Williams %R %R
MomentumWilliams %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…
Momentum Indicator MOM
MomentumThe Momentum indicator measures the rate of price change by subtracting the price N periods ago from the current price, oscillating around a zero lin…
Rate of Change ROC
MomentumThe 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…
True Strength Index TSI
MomentumThe True Strength Index is a double-smoothed momentum oscillator that filters price-change noise to show clear trend direction and momentum, oscillat…
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
TrendA 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…
Simple Moving Average SMA
TrendA 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…
Exponential Moving Average EMA
TrendAn exponential moving average is a moving average that weights recent prices more heavily using an exponential decay, so it reacts faster to new pric…
Weighted Moving Average WMA
TrendA 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…
Hull Moving Average HMA
TrendThe 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…
Volume Weighted Moving Average VWMA
TrendA 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…
Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average KAMA
TrendThe Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average, devised by Perry Kaufman, automatically adjusts its smoothing speed based on market efficiency — reacting fast w…
Supertrend
TrendSupertrend 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 …
Ichimoku Cloud
TrendThe Ichimoku Cloud, developed by Goichi Hosoda in the 1960s, is a complete trend-analysis system whose five lines show trend direction, support and r…
Parabolic SAR SAR
TrendThe 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…
Volatility Indicators
Volatility indicators measure the magnitude of price fluctuation rather than direction. ATR, Bollinger Bands, Keltner Channel, Donchian Channel and Standard De…
Average True Range ATR
VolatilityThe Average True Range measures market volatility by averaging the true range — the greatest of the high-low span or the gaps from the prior close — …
Bollinger Bands BB
VolatilityBollinger Bands plot a moving average with an upper and lower band set two standard deviations away, so the bands widen when volatility rises and squ…
Keltner Channel
VolatilityThe Keltner Channel plots an exponential moving average with upper and lower bands set a multiple of Average True Range away, forming a smooth volati…
Donchian Channel
VolatilityThe Donchian Channel plots the highest high and lowest low over a look-back period as upper and lower bands, with their midpoint between them, so a p…
Standard Deviation SD
VolatilityStandard Deviation measures how far price disperses from its own moving average over a look-back period, quantifying volatility as a single number th…
Historical Volatility HV
VolatilityHistorical Volatility measures how much a market's returns have fluctuated over a past period, expressed as an annualised percentage, giving a standa…
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
VolumeOn-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…
Volume Profile
VolumeVolume 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 Weighted Average Price VWAP
VolumeVWAP is the volume-weighted average price of an instrument over the session, showing the true average price at which trading occurred and serving as …
Money Flow Index MFI
VolumeThe 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…
Chaikin Money Flow CMF
VolumeChaikin 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 …
Accumulation/Distribution Line A/D
VolumeThe Accumulation/Distribution Line is a cumulative volume-flow indicator that adds each bar's money flow volume — volume weighted by where price clos…
Ease of Movement EOM
VolumeEase of Movement is a volume-based oscillator that relates price change to volume, oscillating around zero to show how easily price is moving — high …
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…
Average Directional Index ADX
Trend strengthThe ADX is a trend-strength indicator that measures how strongly a market is trending on a 0–100 scale, with readings above 25 signalling a strong tr…
Directional Movement Index DMI
Trend strengthThe Directional Movement Index is a two-line system of +DI and −DI that shows whether upward or downward movement dominates, giving trend direction, …
Aroon Indicator
Trend strengthThe Aroon indicator uses two lines — Aroon Up and Aroon Down — to measure how many periods have passed since the highest high and lowest low, reveali…
Vortex Indicator VI
Trend strengthThe Vortex Indicator uses two oscillating lines — VI+ and VI− — built from the relationship between highs and lows across bars, to identify the start…
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…
Advance/Decline Line A/D Line
BreadthThe Advance/Decline Line is a cumulative breadth indicator that adds the daily difference between the number of advancing and declining stocks, showi…
McClellan Oscillator
BreadthThe McClellan Oscillator is a breadth-momentum indicator equal to the difference between a 19-day and a 39-day exponential average of net advancing s…
TRIN (Arms Index) TRIN
BreadthTRIN, or the Arms Index, is a breadth indicator that divides the advance/decline ratio by the advancing/declining volume ratio, measuring whether vol…
Oscillators
Oscillators are technical indicators that fluctuate around a central value or between fixed limits to reveal momentum, cycles and overbought/oversold extremes.…
Awesome Oscillator AO
OscillatorsThe Awesome Oscillator is a momentum indicator that plots the difference between a 5-period and a 34-period simple moving average of the bar's median…
Accelerator Oscillator AC
OscillatorsThe Accelerator Oscillator measures the acceleration or deceleration of momentum by subtracting a 5-period average of the Awesome Oscillator from the…
Percentage Price Oscillator PPO
OscillatorsThe Percentage Price Oscillator is a momentum oscillator identical in construction to MACD but expressed as a percentage, plotting the difference bet…
Detrended Price Oscillator DPO
OscillatorsThe Detrended Price Oscillator removes the trend from price by comparing a past price to a displaced moving average, isolating and highlighting the s…
Fisher Transform
OscillatorsThe Fisher Transform is an oscillator that mathematically converts price into a Gaussian-like distribution, turning gradual price movements into shar…
A–Z index
- Accelerator Oscillator (AC)
- Accumulation/Distribution Line (A/D)
- Advance/Decline Line (A/D Line)
- Aroon Indicator
- Average Directional Index (ADX)
- Average True Range (ATR)
- Awesome Oscillator (AO)
- Bollinger Bands (BB)
- Chaikin Money Flow (CMF)
- Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
- Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO)
- Directional Movement Index (DMI)
- Donchian Channel
- Ease of Movement (EOM)
- Exponential Moving Average (EMA)
- Fisher Transform
- Historical Volatility (HV)
- Hull Moving Average (HMA)
- Ichimoku Cloud
- Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average (KAMA)
- Keltner Channel
- McClellan Oscillator
- Momentum Indicator (MOM)
- Money Flow Index (MFI)
- Moving Average (MA)
- Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)
- On-Balance Volume (OBV)
- Parabolic SAR (SAR)
- Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO)
- Rate of Change (ROC)
- Relative Strength Index (RSI)
- Simple Moving Average (SMA)
- Standard Deviation (SD)
- Stochastic Oscillator (Stoch)
- Stochastic RSI (StochRSI)
- Supertrend
- TRIN (Arms Index) (TRIN)
- True Strength Index (TSI)
- Volume Profile
- Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
- Volume Weighted Moving Average (VWMA)
- Vortex Indicator (VI)
- Weighted Moving Average (WMA)
- Williams %R (%R)