I. The Catalogue
Trend
Indicators of direction and strength of trend
- 01→
ADX (Average Directional Index)
MembersAn indicator that measures the strength of a trend without saying anything about its direction. It answers a single question: is the market trending at all?
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 02→
Aroon Indicator
MembersA measure of how recently the last extreme was made — a 'freshness gauge' for trends. Tushar Chande's unusual idea: read not the direction of price, but the youth of that direction.
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 03→
Donchian Channels
MembersThe highest high and lowest low of the past N bars, drawn straight. No smoothing, no statistics — the oldest and simplest trend-following envelope, and the one the Turtles famously traded.
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 04→
Moving Average Envelope
MembersA fixed-percentage band wrapped around a moving average. Older than Bollinger Bands, simpler than Keltner — the most primitive of all channel indicators, and the one that refuses to bend with the market's mood.
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 05→
Hull Moving Average (HMA)
MembersAlan Hull's 2005 design folds two weighted moving averages together to suppress lag without surrendering smoothness — an attempt to reconcile two qualities that, mathematically, cannot both win.
Advanced2026-05-14 - 06→
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
A Japanese-born system that reads price, time, and trend in a single glance. Five lines and a cloud, designed to make the market's equilibrium visible at once.
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 07→
Keltner Channels
MembersAn ATR-based envelope. Where Bollinger Bands measure the spread of consensus through standard deviation, Keltner measures the depth of the market's breathing through range.
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 08→
Parabolic SAR
MembersStop And Reverse — a mechanical trailing stop that follows a trend from behind and flips position the moment it ends. A row of dots that closes the window for hesitation.
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 09→
SuperTrend
MembersAn ATR-based trailing line that flips between above and below price. While the line holds, the trend's hypothesis is still alive — an indicator made of one visualised expiry date.
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 10→
Vortex Indicator
MembersA 2010 indicator that borrows from fluid dynamics — measuring upward and downward motion as two separate currents, and reading the market by the direction in which the vortex is winding.
Intermediate2026-05-14 - 11→
Bollinger Bands
MembersA moving average wrapped in a standard-deviation envelope. Squeeze, band-walk, the real meaning of ±2σ — and the worst misuse: 'fade the touch'.
Intermediate2026-05-13 - 12→
MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)
A trend oscillator that graphs the 'difference' between two moving averages. Signal crosses, the zero line, divergence — how it works, and the lag trap everyone falls into.
Intermediate2026-05-13 - 13→
Trend Lines & Channels
The simplest tool and the most misused. How to draw trend lines correctly, what makes them valid, how to judge a break, and the trap of discretion.
Introductory2026-05-13 - 14→
Moving Average
The most fundamental trend indicator. Moving averages smooth out price data to visually reveal the direction of a trend.
Introductory2026-05-12