Full Indicator List
The 40+ built-in indicators are organized into categories based on what aspect of price action they measure. You can stack multiple indicators on a single chart to build a comprehensive view of any stock or crypto asset.
Trend Indicators
Trend indicators help you determine the direction and strength of the prevailing move. They smooth out price noise and make it easier to identify whether a stock is trending up, down, or moving sideways.
- SMA (Simple Moving Average) — calculates the arithmetic mean of closing prices over a specified number of periods. Common settings include 20, 50, and 200-day SMAs.
- EMA (Exponential Moving Average) — similar to SMA but gives more weight to recent prices, making it more responsive to new information. Popular for short-term trading signals.
- WMA (Weighted Moving Average) — applies linearly increasing weights to more recent data points, offering a middle ground between SMA and EMA responsiveness.
- TSMA (Time Series Moving Average) — a linear-regression-based moving average that fits a regression line to each lookback window, hugging the trend more closely than a conventional average.
- VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) — the average price weighted by volume, anchored to session, week, month, or year. Institutional traders use VWAP as a benchmark for execution quality.
- Supertrend — a trend-following overlay that plots above or below price depending on the current trend direction. Flips color when the trend reverses, providing clear buy/sell signals.
- Ichimoku Cloud — a comprehensive indicator that shows support/resistance zones, trend direction, and momentum in a single overlay. Includes Tenkan-sen, Kijun-sen, Senkou Span A/B, and Chikou Span — each with its own color and visibility controls, so you can show just the cloud or the full system.
- Alligator Pro — the classic three-line Alligator (jaw, teeth, lips) built from smoothed, forward-shifted moving averages. When the lines intertwine the market is sleeping; when they fan apart, a trend is feeding.
Momentum Indicators
Momentum indicators measure the speed and magnitude of price movements. They are especially useful for identifying overbought or oversold conditions and potential trend reversals.
- MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) — tracks the relationship between two EMAs (typically 12 and 26 period). The MACD line, signal line, and histogram together reveal momentum shifts and potential crossover signals.
- Smart MACD — an enhanced MACD with alertable histogram crosses, so you can be notified the moment momentum flips instead of watching the pane all day.
- RSI (Relative Strength Index) — oscillates between 0 and 100, measuring the magnitude of recent gains versus losses. Readings above 70 suggest overbought conditions; below 30 suggest oversold.
- Stochastic Oscillator — compares a stock's closing price to its price range over a given period. The %K and %D lines generate crossover signals, and readings above 80 or below 20 flag extremes.
- ADX (Average Directional Index) — measures trend strength on a 0-100 scale regardless of direction. Values above 25 indicate a strong trend; below 20 suggest a ranging market.
- CCI (Commodity Channel Index) — measures deviation from the statistical mean, helping identify cyclical turns. Readings above +100 or below -100 signal potential trend entries.
- WaveTrend Oscillator — a smoothed momentum oscillator popular with crypto traders. Its two-line crosses in overbought/oversold territory produce cleaner reversal signals than raw RSI on volatile assets.
Volatility Indicators
Volatility indicators quantify how much price is fluctuating. They help you set stop-losses, identify breakout potential, and gauge market uncertainty.
- Bollinger Bands — plots two standard deviation bands above and below a moving average. When bands squeeze tight, a breakout is likely. When price touches the outer bands, it may be overextended.
- ATR (Average True Range) — measures average price range over a period, accounting for gaps. Higher ATR means higher volatility. Commonly used to set dynamic stop-loss levels.
- Keltner Channels — similar to Bollinger Bands but uses ATR instead of standard deviation for the channel width. Often combined with Bollinger Bands to identify "squeeze" setups.
Volume Indicators
Volume indicators confirm whether price moves are supported by trading activity. Strong moves on high volume are more likely to continue than moves on thin volume.
- OBV (On-Balance Volume) — a cumulative volume indicator that adds volume on up days and subtracts it on down days. Divergences between OBV and price can signal upcoming reversals.
- Volume Analysis — color-coded volume bars that highlight above-average activity. Volume spikes often coincide with significant price events like breakouts, breakdowns, or reversals.
- Volume Profile Visible Range (VRVP) — a Premium indicator showing how volume is distributed across price levels in the visible range, with Point of Control and value-area lines. Covered in detail below.
- Fixed Range Volume Profile — a drawing-tool counterpart to VRVP: drag it over any specific range of bars (a base, a rally, a distribution zone) and see the volume-by-price histogram for exactly that window, unaffected by scrolling.
Liquidity and Price Action
- Liquidity Sweep Pro — detects wick rejections through key highs and lows, flagging the moments when price sweeps resting liquidity beyond a level and snaps back. These sweeps often mark stop-hunts that precede reversals.
Master Pattern Suite
Beyond the core indicators, ChartingLens includes the Master Pattern Suite — 10 advanced indicators that automate the pattern-based analysis professionals do by hand. Each one plots its findings directly on the chart and updates as new candles form.
- Smart Trend & Pullback — identifies the prevailing trend and highlights pullbacks within it, so you can time entries in the direction of the larger move.
- Fractal Zones Pro — plots fractal-based swing zones that act as high-probability reaction areas.
- Candlestick Pro — detects and labels candlestick patterns (engulfing, hammers, dojis, and more) as they form.
- Master S/R Zones — automatically maps support and resistance zones from historical price reactions, drawn as zones rather than single lines.
- Market Structure Pro — tracks swing highs and lows to label market structure shifts, breaks of structure, and changes of character.
- Premium Divergence — scans for regular and hidden divergences between price and momentum oscillators and draws the divergence lines for you.
- Trendline Pro — automatically detects and draws significant trendlines from swing pivots, keeping them updated as price evolves.
- Master Elliott Waves — identifies and labels Elliott Wave counts on the chart automatically.
- Master Harmonic Patterns — detects harmonic formations such as Gartley, Bat, Butterfly, and Crab patterns, complete with ratio validation.
- Master Chart Patterns — recognizes classical chart patterns like triangles, wedges, and double tops/bottoms and outlines them on the chart.
Custom AI Indicators
Premium users are not limited to the built-in library. Describe any indicator in plain English — "a 20-period moving average of the high minus a 20-period moving average of the low, shaded as a band" — and the AI builds it and renders it natively on your chart, exactly like a built-in indicator.
- Plain-English creation — no coding required. Describe the logic, the AI writes it, and the indicator appears on the chart seconds later.
- Built to your exact rules — the implementation is generated, run against your actual chart data, and self-corrected before you see the Apply button, so every threshold, condition, and color you specify is honored — including conditional line colors that change bar by bar ("red above 70, green below 30").
- Signal alerts — any custom indicator that draws buy/sell markers gets a bell icon in its legend; arm it to be notified the moment a new signal prints on a closed bar, with on-screen, sound, or email (Premium) delivery.
- Pine Script conversion — already have an indicator written in Pine Script? Paste the source and ChartingLens converts it into a live native indicator that runs directly on your chart.
- Cloud-synced personal library — every custom indicator you create is saved to the "Saved" category in the indicators menu, synced to your account and available on any device.
- Live updates — AI-built indicators recalculate in real time as new candles form, just like built-in indicators. They are not static snapshots.
- Editable inputs — each custom indicator exposes its input parameters through a gear icon in the legend, so you can tune periods and thresholds without regenerating it.
Your Ideas, Rendered Natively
Custom AI indicators are first-class citizens: they draw with the same rendering engine as the built-in library, respect your chart theme, appear in the legend with the eye icon and settings gear, and stay in your Saved library forever. If you can describe it, you can chart it.
How Key Indicators Work
Understanding what each indicator measures — and its limitations — is essential for using them effectively. Here is a brief explanation of the most commonly used indicators.
SMA vs EMA
The Simple Moving Average treats all data points equally, which makes it smoother but slower to react. The Exponential Moving Average weights recent prices more heavily, so it turns faster when momentum shifts. Most traders use EMA for short-term signals (9 or 21 period) and SMA for longer-term trend identification (50 or 200 period). A common strategy is watching for a shorter-period moving average to cross above or below a longer one — known as a golden cross (bullish) or death cross (bearish).
MACD Crossovers
The MACD generates signals when its fast line crosses above or below the signal line. A bullish crossover below zero is considered a strong buy signal because it suggests that downward momentum is exhausting and the trend may reverse. The histogram visualizes the distance between the two lines — shrinking histogram bars often precede a crossover, giving you an early warning. With Smart MACD you can turn those histogram crosses into alerts, and MACD, Smart MACD, Stochastic, and ADX all support numeric level alerts — get notified when the indicator itself crosses a value you choose, the same way price alerts notify you about price levels.
RSI Overbought and Oversold
RSI above 70 does not automatically mean "sell," nor does RSI below 30 mean "buy." In strong trends, RSI can stay overbought or oversold for extended periods. The most reliable RSI signals come from divergences — when price makes a new high but RSI does not, it suggests momentum is weakening and a pullback may follow. ChartingLens makes it easy to spot these divergences visually.
Bollinger Bands Squeeze
When Bollinger Bands contract to their narrowest width in several weeks, it signals that volatility is compressing — and a significant move is likely coming. The direction of the breakout is not predicted by the squeeze itself, but traders watch for the first candle to close outside the bands as a directional signal. Combining a Bollinger squeeze with volume confirmation dramatically improves reliability.
Configurable Parameters
Every indicator in ChartingLens allows you to adjust its key parameters to match your trading style and timeframe. Click the settings gear icon next to any active indicator to open its settings modal, which is organized into three tabs: Inputs for calculation parameters, Style for colors and line appearance, and Visibility for per-component show/hide toggles.
- Period lengths — change the lookback period for moving averages, RSI, ATR, and other indicators. A shorter period makes the indicator more responsive; a longer period smooths out noise.
- Source data — choose whether the indicator calculates from close, open, high, low, or HL2/HLC3/OHLC4 average prices.
- Per-component styling — customize the color, thickness, and opacity of each component independently — the MACD line separately from its signal line and histogram, each Ichimoku span on its own — so you can distinguish everything at a glance.
- Per-component visibility — toggle individual components on or off from the Visibility tab. Show only the Ichimoku cloud, or only the MACD histogram, without removing the rest of the indicator's configuration.
- Band multipliers — for Bollinger Bands and Keltner Channels, adjust the standard deviation or ATR multiplier to widen or narrow the bands.
- VWAP anchoring — choose whether VWAP resets at the start of each session, week, month, or year depending on your trading horizon.
Eye Icon Toggle
Every active indicator has an eye icon next to its name in the indicator legend. Click it to temporarily hide the indicator from the chart without deleting it or losing your configuration. Click again to show it. This is useful when your chart gets crowded and you want to focus on price action or a specific subset of indicators.
Auto Pattern Recognition
Premium users get access to ChartingLens's AI-powered pattern recognition engine. When enabled, the AI continuously scans your chart for classical chart patterns and automatically draws them with annotations.
- Chart patterns detected — head and shoulders, double tops/bottoms, ascending/descending triangles, flags, pennants, wedges, and cup-and-handle formations
- Automatic trendlines — the AI identifies significant swing highs and lows and draws trendlines connecting them, highlighting support and resistance levels you might have missed
- Pattern annotations — each detected pattern is labeled with its name, projected target based on the pattern's measured move, and a confidence percentage
Auto Pattern Recognition works alongside your manual drawings and indicators. You can dismiss any pattern the AI draws if you disagree with it, and the AI learns to improve its detection over time.
AI + Human Analysis
Pattern recognition is a starting point, not a trading signal. The AI highlights patterns that meet textbook criteria so you can then apply your own judgment — checking volume, indicator confirmation, and market context — before making a decision. Think of it as a second set of eyes that never gets tired.
Volume Profile (VRVP)
Premium users get access to the Visible Range Volume Profile — a professional-grade indicator that shows how trading volume is distributed across price levels within the visible chart range.
- Dynamic recalculation — the Volume Profile automatically updates as you scroll and zoom, always reflecting the currently visible data
- Point of Control (POC) — a yellow dashed line marks the price level with the highest traded volume, a key magnet for price action
- Value Area — blue dashed lines mark the Value Area High and Low, encompassing 70% of total volume. Price tends to gravitate within this zone
- Multi-chart support — add VRVP to any or all charts in a multi-chart layout, each calculating independently for its own visible range
- Fixed Range companion tool — when you want a profile locked to a specific move instead of the visible range, the Fixed Range volume profile drawing tool lets you drag over any span of bars and keep that profile pinned in place as you scroll
Volume Profile is an essential tool for identifying support/resistance levels based on actual traded volume rather than arbitrary horizontal lines. It's used by institutional and professional traders to find high-probability entries and exits.