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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On Indian exchanges, the volume-weighted average price of the final thirty minutes of the session — not the last trade.
Designed so that one late trade cannot set the close, which makes manipulation substantially harder. It is also why a close beyond a level counts for more than a touch.
The average closing price over roughly one trading year.
The market’s shared definition of "long-term trend". Best used as an on/off regime switch.
The formula price at which a failed delivery is settled in cash when the auction finds no seller — the higher of the highest traded price from the trade day to the auction day, and the auction-day closing price plus 20%.
Written to sit above the market so that failing to deliver is never the cheaper option. In an illiquid stock, where auctions most often find nobody, the penal 20% is usually the binding term.
A chart that plots closing prices only, joined into a single continuous line.
It discards the open, high and low, which is the point. Good for overall shape and for comparing several stocks at once; useless for reading who won the session.
The average of the last N closing prices, plotted as a line.
Smoothing. Smoother always means slower — that trade-off has no escape.
A short window after the regular session in which orders may be entered at the closing price once that price has been determined.
The honest answer to "can I actually trade the close". It needs your broker to offer it and somebody on the other side, which in a thin name often means nobody is.
A change in the prevailing direction of price.
Judge it on closing prices, not on wicks. Intraday probes through obvious levels are routine.