Chart pattern

A chart pattern or price pattern is a pattern within a chart when prices are graphed. In stock and commodity markets trading, chart pattern studies play a large role during technical analysis. When data is plotted there is usually a pattern which naturally occurs and repeats over a period. Chart patterns are used as either reversal or continuation signals.

Support & resistance	Bottom Fibonacci retracement Pivot point (PP) Top

Trend	Average directional index (A.D.X.) Commodity channel index (CCI) Detrended price oscillator (DPO) Know sure thing oscillator (KST) Ichimoku Kinkō Hyō Moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) Mass index Moving average (MA) Parabolic SAR (SAR) Smart money index (SMI) Trend line Trix Vortex Indicator (VI)

Momentum	Money flow index (MFI) Relative strength index (RSI) Stochastic oscillator True strength index (TSI) Ultimate oscillator Williams %R (%R)

Volume	Accumulation/distribution line Ease of movement (EMV) Force index (FI) Negative volume index (NVI) On-balance volume (OBV) Put/call ratio (PCR) Volume–price trend (VPT)

Volatility	Average true range (ATR) Bollinger Bands (BB) Donchian channel Keltner channel CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX) Standard deviation (σ)

Breadth	Advance–decline line (ADL) Arms index (TRIN) McClellan oscillator

Other	Coppock curve Ulcer index

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Chart pattern

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