Basic Technical Analysis Terms
For Penny Stocks Trading
I'm only going to list the most basic and common terms at this time. When
(and if) you purchase any technical analysis software for your penny stocks trading, you'll get a set of operation instructions that will cover all the terms for each application.
You should order a technical analysis book from Equis. (page 27)
Accumulation Occurs when the supply of a security is less than the demand.
Bottom A low for a security or the overall market.
Breadth The number of stocks advancing minus those declining.
Channel Trading range between two parallel lines in which prices move.
Congestion Area A sideways trading range where supply and demand balance out.
Consolidation Area A trading range in which prices move until continu- ing in the same direction as the trend prior to the consolidation area.
Cycle A price pattern of movement that regularly occurs in a given time interval.
Distribution Occurs when the demand for a security is less than the supply.
Envelope Also known as a trading band. Parallel lines above and below a graph containing normal price fluctuations.
Exhaustion When buying power is no longer enough to move prices up or when selling power is no longer enough to move prices down.
False Breakout A breakout of a chart pattern that aborts.
Gap Represents a price range on a chart at which no trading occurs.
Momentum The rate of expansion of a security's price or volume.
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