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Clear filtersADX and Trend Strength
ADX measures how strongly a market is trending without saying which way. Its real use is deciding which other indicators are appropriate right now.
Beta and Volatility
Two different measures of movement. Historical volatility says how much a security moves; beta says how much of that movement is shared with the market.
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
Five lines intended to be read as one picture. Every component is a midpoint of a range or a shifted copy, which is what makes the whole thing derived from the same series.
Volume Profile
Volume plotted against price rather than against time. It answers where trading happened, which a conventional volume bar cannot.
Market Profile
A distribution of time spent at each price rather than volume. Built for a session, it describes where the market accepted a price and where it rejected one.
Elliott Wave, Assessed
A framework describing price as a nested sequence of five-wave and three-wave structures. Widely followed, and difficult to falsify in the form it is usually applied.
The Wyckoff Method, Assessed
A framework describing markets as cycles of accumulation and distribution driven by large operators. Its mechanism is plausible; its identification is retrospective.