33 indicators, including what each one cannot do

The average closing price over a fixed number of completed candles.

A weighted average of closes that gives more weight to recent candles.

A linearly weighted average: the most recent close carries weight n, the oldest weight 1.

The difference between two EMAs, plus a signal line and a histogram of their gap.

Whether a market is trending (ADX) and in which direction (+DI versus −DI).

A trailing stop-and-reverse level that accelerates toward price as a trend extends.

Trend, support/resistance and momentum in one framework using midpoints of past ranges.

An ATR-based trailing band that flips side when price closes through it.

The best-fit straight line through recent closes, with channel lines at a chosen deviation.

How recently the highest high and lowest low of the lookback occurred.

Upward and downward pressure by comparing candle-to-candle range extensions against true range.

The rate of change of a triple-smoothed EMA, designed to strip out short-term noise.

A moving average that speeds up in trends and slows down in noise, using an efficiency ratio.

The ratio of average gains to average losses over n candles, scaled 0–100.

Where the close sits within the high–low range of the last n candles.

Where RSI sits within its own recent range — a stochastic applied to RSI rather than price.

How far the typical price sits from its moving average, in units of mean deviation.

How far price has moved over a fixed number of candles, in absolute or percentage terms.

The difference between a 5- and 34-period simple moving average of candle midpoints.

Momentum across three timeframes at once, to reduce the false divergences of single-period oscillators.

Demand for the instrument by comparing successive highs and lows, scaled 0–1.

Average candle range including gaps — the single most useful input to stop placement and sizing.

A moving average with bands placed a number of standard deviations above and below it.

The width of the Bollinger Bands relative to the middle band — a normalised volatility reading.

An EMA with channel lines placed a multiple of ATR above and below.

The highest high and lowest low of the last n candles, with their midpoint.

The dispersion of closes around their mean over a lookback period.

The rate of change of the smoothed high–low spread.

Reference support and resistance levels derived from the previous period's high, low and close.

Proportional retracement levels of a measured swing.

The average price weighted by volume since a session start.

A running total that adds volume on up-closes and subtracts it on down-closes.