VWAP
Technical analysisVolume Weighted Average Price — the session’s average price weighted by volume traded at each level.
In plain terms
What the average participant paid today. Institutions benchmark their fills against it.
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Glossary
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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Anchored VWAP
Technical analysisVWAP computed from a chosen starting bar rather than from the session open.
In plain terms
The average price everyone has paid since an event. Above it, they are in profit; below it, they are not.