KOBIPC Analysis
Open 259.0
DayLow: 258.0
DayHigh: 261.615
52 Week Low: 162.62
52 Week High: 265.72
50 Days Average: 233.0018
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The Ichimoku Cloud
The Ichimoku Cloud is a technical analysis tool used to gauge market trends, momentum, and potential support/resistance levels in trading. It consists of five lines that create a "cloud" on a price chart, helping traders make decisions. Here's a simple breakdown:- Tenkan-Sen (Conversion Line): A short-term trend indicator, calculated as the average of the highest high and lowest low over the past 9 periods.
- Kijun-Sen (Base Line): A medium-term trend indicator, calculated as the average of the highest high and lowest low over the past 26 periods.
- Senkou Span A (Leading Span A): Forms one edge of the cloud, calculated as the average of the Tenkan-Sen and Kijun-Sen, plotted 26 periods ahead.
- Senkou Span B (Leading Span B): Forms the other edge of the cloud, calculated as the average of the highest high and lowest low over the past 52 periods, plotted 26 periods ahead.
- Chikou Span (Lagging Span): The current closing price plotted 26 periods behind, showing potential support/resistance.
- Price Above the Cloud: Indicates an uptrend.
- Price Below the Cloud: Indicates a downtrend.
- Price Inside the Cloud: Suggests consolidation or indecision.
- Cloud Thickness: A thicker cloud indicates stronger support/resistance, while a thinner cloud suggests weaker levels.
International Business Machines Ichimoku Cloud
The Moving Average
The Moving Average (MA) is a widely used technical analysis tool that helps traders and investors identify trends and potential support/resistance levels by smoothing out price data over a specific period. It is a lagging indicator, meaning it is based on past prices, and is used to analyze the direction and strength of a trend:- Simple Moving Average (SMA): The SMA is calculated by taking the average of a set of prices over a specific number of periods. Example: A 10-day SMA adds up the closing prices of the last 10 days and divides by 10.
- Exponential Moving Average (EMA): The EMA gives more weight to recent prices, making it more responsive to new information compared to the SMA. Example: A 10-day EMA places more emphasis on the most recent prices than the SMA.
- Weighted Moving Average (WMA): The WMA assigns a heavier weighting to more recent data points, similar to the EMA, but the weighting decreases linearly.
- Price Above the MA: Indicates an uptrend.
- Price Below the MA: Indicates a downtrend.
- Price oscillates around the MA: Suggests consolidation or indecision.
- Moving averages can act as dynamic support (in an uptrend) or resistance (in a downtrend).