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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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Renko

Technical analysis

A chart type that draws a new brick only when price moves a fixed amount, discarding the time axis entirely.

In plain terms

The brick size is the whole chart. A ₹5 brick and a ₹20 brick on the same stock produce opposite signals, and adjusting it until the chart agrees with you is curve-fitting with extra steps.

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Point and figure

Technical analysis

A chart type that plots columns of rising and falling boxes, ignoring time entirely and recording only price moves larger than a chosen box size.

In plain terms

Clean very-long-term structure and unambiguous breakouts, at the cost of the same box-size arbitrariness as Renko. Little used now.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya