Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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Commodity Channel Index — how far price has deviated from its own average, expressed in units of mean deviation.
Unbounded, so ±100 are conventions rather than limits. Its better use is spotting the start of a strong move as it crosses +100 from below.
Horizontal levels at 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8% and 78.6% of a prior swing.
Works mainly because enough traders place orders there. That is a real reason, not a mystical one.
Cover paying a prescribed sum on death or disablement, required alongside a motor policy for the owner-driver subject to conditions.
Commonly duplicated across several policies without anyone noticing, because it arrives attached to something else rather than being bought deliberately.
The proportion 0.618, which consecutive Fibonacci ratios converge on, and the source of the 61.8% retracement level.
No mathematical constant governs a share price. The level works because a great many traders and algorithms place orders there — a genuine reason, simply not a mystical one.
Buying a temporary decline within an established uptrend, at a moving average or Fibonacci retracement, on a bullish reversal candle.
The best risk-reward of the common templates, because the stop sits just under a nearby low. Skip it when the pullback arrives on heavier volume than the advance — that is distribution.
The risk that a borrower in a portfolio fails to pay.
Sudden and usually permanent. This is the risk that has caused real Indian debt fund accidents.
The condition in which several indicators appear to confirm one another while being different arrangements of the same underlying price data.
RSI, Stochastic, Williams %R, CCI and the MACD histogram all agreeing is one opinion reported five times. New information has to come from a different input — volume, breadth, relative strength.
A position constructed so that its outcome depends on the relationship between two instruments rather than on the direction of the market.
Neutral only while both legs are held at equal rupee exposure. Size by share count instead and you have taken a directional bet by accident.