Technicals and charts

Technical indicators describe how a stock's price and volume have been behaving, not what the company is worth. DocStoX shows them in two places: the Technicals terminal, and the Technicals section on every stock page.

The chart#

The chart on /technicals works in candles or as a line, across six ranges: 1M, 3M, 6M, 1Y, 3Y and 5Y. You can lay moving averages, Bollinger Bands, Supertrend and VWAP over the price, with synced panes for volume, RSI and MACD underneath. Every indicator is computed from the bars shown on screen, so switching range recalculates them rather than just zooming a fixed line.

Trend indicators#

These describe the direction price is moving in and carry a direct bullish or bearish reading.

• Price vs 200-day average and Price vs 50-day average: whether price sits above or below its own long-term and medium-term average, the conventional definitions of an uptrend or downtrend.
• Supertrend: an ATR-based band that flips bullish or bearish only when price closes through it.
• ADX: measures how strong the current trend is, above 25 for a trending market and below 20 for a rangebound one. ADX never says which way, only how convincingly.
• Directional index (+DI / -DI): which side, buyers or sellers, currently has the upper hand.
• Golden cross / death cross: the 50-day average crossing above or below the 200-day average, shown only when it has just happened.

Momentum indicators#

These describe how stretched a move is, not which way price will go next. An overbought or oversold reading is a condition, not a signal to buy or sell.

• RSI: above 70 is overbought, below 30 is oversold. A stock in a strong trend can stay at either extreme for a long time.
• MACD: whether the MACD line sits above or below its own signal line, a lagging read on medium-term momentum.
• Stochastic %K, CCI, Williams %R and Money Flow Index: a family of related oscillators that each locate price within its recent range in a slightly different way. MFI is volume-weighted, so it can disagree with the others when a move lacks real participation behind it.
• Rate of change: the plainest measure, how much price has moved over the last 10 sessions.

Volatility indicators#

These size how much a stock moves, without implying a direction.

• Bollinger %B: where price sits inside its own volatility bands.
• Bollinger width: a narrow band (a squeeze) often comes before a larger move, in either direction.
• ATR %: the stock's typical daily move as a percentage of price, useful for judging how tight a stop is relative to ordinary noise.
• Historical volatility: the annualised swing in price over the last 20 days.

Volume and flow#

• Volume vs 20-day average: today's turnover against its recent norm. Twice the average or more is treated as breakout volume.
• On-balance volume: a running total that adds volume on up days and subtracts it on down days. Its direction over time matters more than any single reading.

Support, resistance and moving averages#

The levels ladder lists pivot points (R1 to R3 above the current price, S1 to S3 below) and moving averages (SMA 20/50/200, EMA 20, 20-day VWAP), each shown with its distance from the current price.

Candlestick and other signal patterns#

DocStoX also flags single- and multi-candle patterns when they print, such as a bullish or bearish engulfing candle, a morning or evening star, a hammer, or three white soldiers, alongside events like a new 52-week high or breakout volume. These are shown as flags, not as a call to act.

Adjusted prices#

Chart prices are split and bonus adjusted, so a stock's history reads as a continuous line through a corporate action rather than showing a false cliff on the day of a split. See Price adjustments for how this works.

• Setups and patternsScreen the whole market for the same conditions covered here.