Charts & technicals

• Bear marketA fall of 20% or more from a peak; a correction is 10%, and a bull market is a sustained rise.
• Bollinger bandsBands drawn a set number of standard deviations above and below a moving average.
• Candlestick chartA chart where each period is drawn as a body between open and close, with wicks to the high and low.
• Golden cross and death crossWhen a shorter moving average crosses above or below a longer one.
• MACDAn indicator showing the gap between two exponential moving averages, with a signal line.
• MomentumThe tendency of recent winners to keep outperforming, and losers to keep underperforming, over months.
• Moving averageThe average price over a trailing window, used to smooth out day-to-day noise.
• OHLCThe four prices summarising a period: open, high, low and close.
• Relative strengthHow one security has performed compared with another or with an index.
• Relative strength indexAn oscillator from 0 to 100 measuring how one-sided recent price moves have been.
• Support and resistancePrice levels where buying or selling has repeatedly appeared in the past.
• Technical analysisStudying price and volume history to inform decisions, rather than studying the business.
• TrendA sustained directional movement in price over time.

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