Dictionary
- Chaikin Oscillator
- Oscillator created by subtracting a 10-day from a 3-day EMA of accumulation/distribution line.
- Channel
- In charting, a price channel contains prices throughout a trend. There are three basic ways to draw channels: parallel, rounded and channels that connect lows (bear trend) or highs (bull trend).
- Chaos Theory
- Describes the behavior of nonlinear systems. A subset of nonlinear dynamics analysis, chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focusing on irregular and complex behavior that has an underlying order. In the stock market, chaos theory seeks to forecast the future path of stock prices, including sudden changes that occur during periods of intense market activity.
- Chart
- A display or picture of a security that plots price and/or volume.
- Chartist
- An individual who studies graphs and charts of historic data to find trends and predict trend reversals which include the observance of certain patterns and characteristics of the charts.