Field Guide to Trading Terms

Charts & indicators


Family VI · 62 entries

This family covers the visual and statistical tools used to read price behaviour: chart types, price patterns, and the indicators derived from price and volume. The terms answer the question of how a market's past and current prices are displayed, measured and interpreted before any trade decision is made. A newcomer should start with technical analysis, because it defines the underlying premise that price data can be studied directly, and every other term in this section is an application of that premise.

The most common mistake is treating an indicator's output as a signal in isolation, rather than as one measurement that must be read alongside price structure and context.