# Glossary
{% hint style="info" %} Whether you decide to work from home or from a co-working space, we value the balance between private and professional life. {% endhint %} * **Indicator:** Mathematical tools that traders and investors use to assess past and future price movements on stock charts. These can be based on price, volume, or other market metrics. * **Trend:** Reflects the predominant direction in which an asset is moving. They are mainly classified as: * **Bullish:** When the asset price is moving upward. * **Bearish:** When the asset price is moving downward. * **Sideways:** When the price moves horizontally without a clear upward or downward direction. * **Volume:** Represents the total amount of an asset traded in a specified time period. It is a key indicator of asset liquidity and demand. * **Support:** A price level where an asset has historically had difficulty falling below. It denotes an area where buying pressure tends to be greater than selling pressure. * **Resistance:** A price level where an asset has historically had difficulty surpassing. It indicates an area where selling pressure could outweigh buying pressure. * **Candlestick:** A chart that shows the price movement of an asset during a specific period. It represents the opening, closing, high, and low prices during that interval. * **Oscillator:** A type of indicator that varies over time within a specified range. Common examples include RSI and Stochastic. * **Divergence:** Occurs when the price of an asset and an indicator move in opposite directions. For example, if the price reaches a new high but the indicator does not, it can be a signal of an impending reversal. * **Breakout:** When the price moves out of an established range, either above resistance or below support. * **Trendlines:** Lines drawn on a chart to represent potential support or resistance levels. * **Overbought & Oversold:** Terms describing market conditions in which an asset has been subject to excessive buying or selling. They are often used with oscillators like RSI. * **Stop-loss:** An order placed to sell an asset when it reaches a specific price, usually set to limit a loss in a position. * **Take-profit:** An order placed to sell an asset when it reaches a specific price, used to secure profits. * **Spread:** The difference between the buying and selling price of an asset. * **Accumulation/Distribution:** An indicator that provides information about the flow of money into an asset, identifying whether it is accumulating (being bought) or distributing (being sold). * **ATR (Average True Range):** Measures the volatility of an asset by calculating the difference between highs and lows over a specified period. * **Beta:** A coefficient that measures an asset's volatility relative to the overall market. * **Bollinger Bands:** Consist of a moving average with two outer bands representing the price's standard deviation. They help identify volatility and potential reversal points. * **Cross:** When two lines on a chart, often moving averages with different periods, intersect. * **Exponential Moving Average (EMA):** A type of moving average that gives more weight to recent prices. It is more sensitive to recent changes compared to a simple moving average. * **Fibonacci Retracements:** A tool that uses horizontal levels to indicate support or resistance areas at key Fibonacci levels. * **Gap:** A sudden jump in an asset's price on the chart, due to buying or selling forces. It can be bullish or bearish. * **Golden Cross & Death Cross:** Refers to the crossing of two moving averages. A Golden Cross occurs when a short-term moving average crosses above a long-term moving average, while a Death Cross is the opposite. * **Head and Shoulders:** A chart pattern indicating a trend reversal. It can be bullish (inverted) or bearish. * **Ichimoku Cloud:** A set of lines forming a "cloud" on the chart, providing support, resistance, and trend direction. * **Leverage:** Financing a position with debt, which amplifies both gains and losses. * **MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence):** A momentum indicator showing the relationship between two moving averages. * **Margin Call:** A requirement from the broker to add more funds to an account because open positions are approaching insufficient margin. * **Pivot Points:** A tool that calculates support and resistance levels based on the previous day's high, low, and close prices.