Glossary of Terms
1. Asset Information
Symbol: The stock ticker symbol, a unique series of letters assigned to a security for trading purposes.
Sector: A segment of the economy where businesses share the same or a related product or service. It groups companies together based on their business activities.
Name: The official registered name of the company or exchange-traded fund (ETF) that the stock symbol represents.
2. Technical Indicators
RSI (Relative Strength Index): A momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements on a scale of 0 to 100, used to identify overbought or oversold conditions.
Stochastic Oscillator: A momentum indicator comparing a particular closing price of a security to a range of its prices over a certain period of time. The sensitivity of the oscillator to market movements is reducible by adjusting that time period or by taking a moving average of the result.
MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence): A trend-following momentum indicator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of a security’s price.
Bollinger Bands: A volatility indicator created by John Bollinger, consisting of a moving average and two standard deviation lines above and below it.
ATR (Average True Range): A technical analysis indicator that measures market volatility by decomposing the entire range of an asset for that period.
ICHIMOKU Cloud (ICHCLD): A comprehensive indicator that provides information about momentum, trend direction, and support and resistance levels.
Chaikin Money Flow (CHAMF): An indicator that measures the volume-weighted average of accumulation and distribution over a specific period.
3. Buy and Sell Signals
Strong Buy: A strong recommendation to purchase the stock, indicating that it is expected to perform exceptionally well in the short term.
Buy: A recommendation to purchase a stock, indicating that it is expected to perform well.
Moderate Buy: A cautious recommendation to buy a stock, suggesting that while the stock is expected to perform positively, there are some risks involved.
Hold: A neutral position, recommending neither buying nor selling the stock, implying that the stock is expected to perform in line with the market or sector.
Moderate Sell: A cautious recommendation to sell a stock, suggesting that the stock might underperform, but there are some uncertainties.
Sell: A recommendation to sell a stock, indicating that it is expected to underperform or decrease in value.
Strong Sell: An indication to sell a stock with high confidence, suggesting that the stock is expected to perform very poorly in the short term.
4. Asset Pricing
Close: The closing price of a stock represents the last price at which a stock traded during a regular trading session on a particular day.
Price Projection: An estimate of a stock’s future price based on current trends and historical data. Often differentiated as short-term, mid-term, and long-term projections.
Price Index: A numerical value intended to represent the stock's current position based on its historical price performance, typically calculated for different time frames such as short-term, mid-term, and long-term.