- RSI
- Relative Strength Index: momentum gauge scaling recent gains versus losses from 0 to 100.
- MACD
- Difference between a fast and slow exponential moving average, used to spot trend changes.
- Bollinger Bands
- Standard-deviation bands around a moving average that reveal volatility expansion and contraction.
- Dominance
- One coin's share (usually BTC) of total crypto market capitalisation.
- Liquidation
- Forced closure of a leveraged position by the exchange when margin runs out.
- Open interest
- Total derivative contracts still open — a proxy for how much leverage is in the system.
- Kimchi premium
- How far Korean exchange prices sit above global prices; negative means a reverse premium.
- Fear & Greed index
- Composite sentiment score from 0 (extreme fear) to 100 (extreme greed).
- On-chain data
- Public ledger data such as wallet movements and exchange inflows recorded on the blockchain.
- Halving
- Protocol event that cuts Bitcoin mining rewards in half roughly every four years.
- Market depth
- Thickness of resting bids and asks in the order book; indicates likely slippage.
- Taker buy ratio
- Share of aggressive market orders that were buys — a measure of urgent demand.
- Ichimoku Cloud
- A Japanese indicator using conversion and base lines, leading spans, a lagging span and the cloud to show trend and support/resistance at a glance.
- Sanyaku kōten
- In Ichimoku, all three bullish conditions at once: conversion > base line, lagging span > past price, price > cloud. The opposite is sanyaku gyakuten.
- Volume profile
- Horizontal bars showing how much volume traded at each price. The price with the most volume is the point of control (POC).
- Fibonacci retracement
- Lines at 23.6, 38.2, 50, 61.8 and 78.6% between a swing high and low, used to estimate where a pullback may stall.
- Funding rate
- A periodic payment between longs and shorts that keeps perpetual futures near the spot price. When positive, longs pay shorts.
- Long/short ratio
- The ratio of accounts (or volume) positioned long versus short. Above 1 means more longs.
- Golden cross / death cross
- A short-term moving average crossing above a long-term one is a golden cross; crossing below is a death cross.
- Divergence
- Price makes a new high (or low) while an indicator such as RSI does not, read as the trend losing strength.
- Bollinger squeeze
- Bollinger Bands narrower than usual. Low volatility often precedes a large move in one direction.