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===Overlays=== Overlays are generally superimposed over the main price chart. * [[Bollinger bands]]{{spaced ndash}}a range of price volatility * [[Price channels|Channel]]{{spaced ndash}}a pair of parallel trend lines * [[Ichimoku]] kinko hyo{{spaced ndash}}a moving average-based system that factors in time and the average point between a candle's high and low * [[Moving average]]{{spaced ndash}}an average over a window of time before and after a given time point that is repeated at each time point in the given chart. A moving average can be thought of as a kind of dynamic trend-line. * [[Parabolic SAR]]{{spaced ndash}}Wilder's [[Stop loss order|trailing stop]] based on [[prices]] tending to stay within a [[Parabola|parabolic]] curve during a strong trend * [[Pivot point (stock market)|Pivot point]]{{spaced ndash}}derived by calculating the numerical average of a particular currency's or stock's high, low and closing prices * [[Resistance (technical analysis)|Resistance]]{{spaced ndash}}a price level that may act as a ceiling above price * [[Support (technical analysis)|Support]]{{spaced ndash}}a price level that may act as a floor below price * [[Trend lines (technical analysis)|Trend line]]{{spaced ndash}}a sloping line described by at least two peaks or two troughs * Zig Zag{{spaced ndash}}This chart overlay that shows filtered price movements that are greater than a given percentage.
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