Indicator Guide (Technical Indicators)
Last Updated on November 24, 2022 by Oddmund Groette
Below we have assembled the trading indicators we have covered so far. It’s a work in progress and many more trading indicators are added in the future.
Unlike many other websites, we are not interested in anecdotal evidence and thus we have backtested all the trading indicators.
Table of contents:
Sentiment indicators:
- What Are Market Sentiment and Sentiment Indicators?
- TRIN – Arms Index Trading Strategy – What is it? (Backtest)
- What Is The Put Call Ratio? Does It Work? (Backtest And Strategy)
- AAII And Market Sentiment Indicators – How To Trade It (Examples And Backtests)
- Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index (Contrarian Sentiment Indicator)
- What Is The McClellan Oscillator And Summation Index? (Trading Strategy And Backtest)
- Advance-Decline Indicator (Strategy Backtest)
Oscillating indicators (mean reversion indicators):
- Which oscillating indicator is the best for trading strategies?
- The stochastic indicator – does it work? (Stochastic trading strategies)
- Williams %R explained – does it work? (Williams %R strategies)
- CCI Indicator — What is it? (Trading Strategy And Backtest)
- Does the MACD indicator work? (Including strategies)
- Ultimate Oscillator Indicator Trading Strategy (Backtest)
- DeMarker Indicator Strategy — What Is It? (Backtest)
- How the RSI indicator works (RSI trading strategies)
- Connors RSI — What Is It? (Trading Strategy and Indicator Backtest)
- Cutler’s RSI — What Is It? (Trading Strategy and Indicator Backtest)
- Weekly RSI vs daily RSI – what is best?
- Zweig Breadth Thrust Indicator – how to measure market breadth
- The internal bar strength (IBS) indicator
Trend following indicators:
- ADX indicator backtest (Strategies – does it work)?
- DMI — What Is It? (Backtest And Trading Strategy)
- RSI momentum strategy (Does RSI momentum work? Backtest)
- The Best Moving Average – A Comparison and backtest of all variants of MAs
- Donchian Channels – What is it and do they work? (Backtest commodities and S&P 500)
- Parabolic SAR (Trading Strategy And Backtest)
- The 200-day moving average trading strategy: How MA systems work (backtest and indicator)
Volatility indicators:
- Are the Bollinger Bands profitable? (Including strategies)
- Average True Range trading strategy (ATR indicator – how to use it)
- Keltner Bands strategies (Keltner Channels strategies)
- What is the VIX and how does it work? (VIX trading strategies)
- WilliamsVixFix explained – does it work? (Including trading strategies)
- Williams Volatility Channel — What Is It? (Trading Strategy)
Other indicators and how they work (including quant systems):
- Which indicator is best for swing trading?
- Divergence Trading Strategy — What Is It? (Backtest)
- What is a Death Cross in Trading? Does it work?
- Double Death Cross Strategy — What Is It? (Backtest)
- Heikin Ashi explained (is it useful?)
- Rolling Returns For The S&P 500 – What Is It And How Do You Calculate It?
- Zig Zag Indicator Trading Strategy — What Is It? (Backtest And Example)
- Aroon indicator strategy (backtest and example)
- On-Balance Volume — What Is It? (Backtest And Trading Strategy)
- Rate of Change Indicator Strategy – What Is It? (ROC strategy and backtest)
- Hindenburg Omen indicator: How to use it? Backtest, formula and what is it?
- The Elder Ray Indicator (with strategies): Does it work?
- Andrews Pitchfork Trading Strategy — What Is It? (Backtest And Example)
- The Chaikin Oscillator – does it work? (Chaikin Trading Strategies)
- Linear vs. logarithmic charts and scale – what is log scale chart (what is the difference?)
- What is contango? Examples and what causes it?
- What is backwardation? Examples and what causes it?