On 08/14/13 16:28, Michael K wrote:
Stephen sounded far more serious about it. I was mainly sounding my
surprise at the volatility.
I'd hardly have the time for chart-watching, and I admit to knowing very
little about statistical trends.
More of a greatly disputed art than a science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis
From the bottom of that article, here's some of the jargon the people
who do try to predict markets use:
Concepts
Support and resistance
Trend line
Breakout
Market trend
Dead cat bounce
Elliott wave principle
Fibonacci retracements
Pivot point
Dow theory
Charts
Candlestick chart
OHLC chart
Line chart
Point and figure chart
Kagi chart
Patterns
Chart
Head and shoulders
Cup and handle
Double top and double bottom
Triple top and triple bottom
Broadening top
Price channels
Wedge pattern
Triangle
Flag and pennant
Island reversal
Gap
Candlestick
Simple
Doji
Hammer
Hanging man
Inverted hammer
Shooting star
Marubozu
Spinning top
Complex
Three white soldiers
Three Black Crows
Morning star
Hikkake pattern
Indicators
Trend
Average directional index (ADX)
Ichimoku Kinkō Hyō
Moving average convergence/divergence (MACD)
Mass index
Moving average (MA)
Parabolic SAR (SAR)
Smart money index (SMI)
Trix
Vortex Indicator (VI)
Know sure thing oscillator (KST)
Momentum
Relative strength index (RSI)
Stochastic oscillator
True strength index (TSI)
Williams %R (%R)
Volume
Accumulation/Distribution index
Money flow index (MFI)
On-balance volume (OBV)
Volume–price trend (VPT)
Force index (FI)
Negative volume index (NVI)
Ease of movement
Put/call ratio (PCR)
Volatility
Average true range (ATR)
Bollinger Bands (BB)
Donchian channel
Standard deviation (σ)
Other
Advance–decline line (ADL)
Arms index (TRIN)
Commodity channel index (CCI)
Coppock curve
Keltner channel
McClellan oscillator
Ulcer Index
Ultimate oscillator
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