Chart studies · Reference
Reference guides for every study on the WideRadar chart — what it measures, how it is calculated, and how to read it.
Bollinger Bands wrap a moving average in standard-deviation bands that widen when volatility rises and contract when it falls.
Donchian Channels plot the highest high and lowest low over a lookback period, marking the boundaries a breakout must clear.
Ichimoku combines five lines into a cloud that shows trend, momentum and support or resistance for one instrument in a single view.
Keltner Channels place bands a multiple of Average True Range above and below an EMA, giving a volatility envelope that is smoother than Bollinger Bands.
A least-squares best-fit line through recent closes with deviation bands, showing the statistical trend and how far price has strayed from it.
A moving average smooths price into one line showing trend direction, and this indicator covers eight flavours from the simple SMA to the low-lag TEMA.
Parabolic SAR plots dots that trail behind price, tightening as a trend matures and flipping to the other side when the trend reverses.
Pivot points derive a central level plus three support and three resistance levels from the previous period's high, low and close.
Supertrend is an ATR-based line that sits below price in uptrends and above it in downtrends, flipping side and colour when the trend reverses.
VWAP is the average price weighted by volume since the session opened, widely used to benchmark execution and to judge intraday fair value.
VWAP with volume-weighted standard-deviation bands at plus and minus one, two and three sigma, marking how stretched price is from fair value.
CCI measures how far price has strayed from its statistical mean, with readings beyond plus or minus 100 marking unusual excursions.
Elder Ray splits each bar into Bull Power and Bear Power, measuring how far the high and low reach beyond an exponential moving average.
MACD tracks the gap between a fast and a slow EMA, with a signal line and a histogram that show momentum building or fading.
Rate of Change is the percentage difference between the current price and the price N bars ago, oscillating around zero.
RSI is a 0-100 momentum oscillator comparing the size of recent gains to recent losses, with 70 and 30 as the conventional extremes.
The Stochastic Oscillator shows where the close sits within the recent high-low range, on a 0-100 scale with 80 and 20 as extremes.
TTM Squeeze flags low-volatility periods where Bollinger Bands contract inside Keltner Channels, with a histogram showing momentum direction.
Williams %R shows where the close sits in the recent high-low range on an inverted scale from 0 down to -100.
ADX measures trend strength on a 0-100 scale without regard to direction, with the +DI and -DI lines showing which side is dominant.
ATR measures volatility by averaging the true range of each bar, giving a price-unit estimate of how far the market typically moves.
CMF sums volume weighted by where each bar closes within its range, oscillating between -1 and +1 around a zero line.
Dollar volume multiplies each bar's volume by its price, showing how much money actually moved through the stock rather than how many shares did.
MFI is a volume-weighted version of RSI on a 0-100 scale, with 80 and 20 marking the conventional extremes.
OBV is a running total that adds volume on up days and subtracts it on down days, tracking whether volume is flowing in or out.
Volume counts how many shares or contracts changed hands in each bar, showing how much participation is behind a price move.