Technical indicators

The Technical indicators section is a dashboard of standard chart-based indicators across trend, momentum, volatility, volume, and pivots, each with plain-English context. This page explains what the dashboard shows, how to read the main readouts, and how two of them are computed. The section is available to Free, Pro Lite, and Pro accounts.

Before you begin

What it shows

The dashboard groups its readouts:

Moving averages: simple and exponential 10, 20, 50, and 200-day.
Trend: MACD, ADX with the positive and negative directional indicators, Aroon, and the parabolic stop and reverse.
Volatility bands: Bollinger Bands.
Momentum: the 14-day relative strength index with an overbought or oversold badge, plus the stochastic oscillator, Williams %R, rate of change, the commodity channel index, and the money flow index.
Volatility: average true range, standard deviation, and historical volatility.
Volume flow: volume-weighted average price, on-balance volume, the accumulation-distribution line, the Chaikin money flow, the volume ratio, and the volume-weighted moving average.
Pivot points: the central pivot with resistance levels R1 to R3 and support levels S1 to S3.
Advanced oscillators: the true strength index, the ultimate oscillator, and the know-sure-thing.

Each group carries a tooltip that explains it.

Inputs

The dashboard takes no input. It displays the latest computed values, and tooltips appear on hover.

Outputs and how to read them

Moving averages: a price above a moving average (green up arrow) suggests an uptrend; below (red) a downtrend. The percentage shows how far the price sits from the average.
Relative strength index: above 70 reads "Overbought," below 30 reads "Oversold," and in between reads "Neutral."
MACD histogram: positive (green) suggests building bullish momentum; negative (red) bearish.
Pivot points: R levels are potential resistance (sell zones), S levels are potential support (buy zones), and a price above the central pivot reads bullish.

These are timing and context indicators, not valuation.

How it is calculated

Two readouts illustrate the math: the relative strength index and the distance from a moving average.

Relative strength index

The 14-day relative strength index measures recent up-moves against down-moves to gauge whether a stock is overbought or oversold.

RSI = 100 − 100 / (1 + RS), where RS = average gain / average loss

In this formula, average gain and average loss are the mean up-day and down-day price changes over the last 14 trading days, and the window is 14 days. For example, an average gain of 1.5 and an average loss of 0.75 give an RS of 2.0, so the index is 100 minus 100 over 3, which is 66.7 (Neutral, approaching overbought). In a strong trend the index can stay overbought or oversold for a long time, so it is a context signal, not a trigger.

Distance from a moving average

The figure next to each moving average shows how far the price sits from it, as a percentage.

difference percent = (current price − moving average) / moving average × 100

Here current price and moving average are in US dollars. For example, a price of 182.50 against a 50-day simple moving average of 170.00 gives (182.50 minus 170.00) divided by 170.00, times 100, which is plus 7.4% above the 50-day average. A single moving-average crossing is noisy, so traders usually combine several indicators.

Data and timing

The indicators are computed from AlphaVantage daily price and volume history, with quotes delivered through AlphaVantage from Nasdaq. They refresh daily after the close, so the readings reflect end-of-day data.

Use cases

Time an entry within a buy zone.
Check whether a stock is overbought before adding.
Identify nearby support and resistance levels.

Limitations and disclosures

In a strong trend, momentum indicators can stay overbought or oversold for a long time, and a single moving-average crossing is noisy. The section is descriptive market data, so no disclosure is required here.