FoundationsStock Alerts + Tools0:44Indicators

What a Chart Can and Cannot Tell You

The honest version: an indicator is a restatement of price, not a source of new information about the company.

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What the lesson covers

0:00Every indicator on every chart is built from the same four numbers.
0:05The whole input. Open, high, low, close and volume. That is the entire input. Nothing else goes in.
0:13So what is an indicator?. An indicator rearranges those numbers. It cannot add information that was never in them.
0:22Why that still matters. Price already carries what other people did with their information. That is worth reading.
0:31The claim to be careful with. No indicator has a hit rate on its own. The setup, the market and the exit decide that.
0:39Read a chart as evidence of behaviour, never as a forecast.

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