Indicators that matter
6 min read · Educational content, not financial advice
A moving average smooths price over a chosen period (e.g. 20 or 50 candles), making the underlying trend easier to read than raw price alone. When shorter-period averages cross above longer-period ones, some traders read that as strengthening momentum, and vice versa.
RSI (Relative Strength Index) measures the speed and size of recent price changes on a 0–100 scale, commonly used to gauge whether a move looks 'overbought' (often above 70) or 'oversold' (often below 30) relative to its own recent history — not a prediction, but a measure of recent momentum.
MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) tracks the relationship between two moving averages, helping visualize when momentum is accelerating or fading. Like all indicators, it lags price — it describes what has already happened, and is best combined with structure (support/resistance, trend) rather than used in isolation.
Our Market Analysis page computes SMA, RSI and support/resistance directly from chart data, so you can see these concepts applied rather than just defined.