Primary trend
The dominant long-term movement in a market, typically one year or more — bull, bear or sideways.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- RSIA momentum oscillator scaled 0 to 100 that measures the speed and size of recent price changes — conventionally read as overbought above 70 and oversold below 30.
- Support and resistancePrice levels where a move tends to pause or reverse — support where demand concentrates and forms a floor, resistance where supply concentrates and forms a ceiling.
- Technical analysisForecasting price direction from past price and volume alone, on the assumption that everything worth knowing about a company is already in its price.
Where this is taught
Free preparation for NISM Series XVRelated terms
- Support and resistancePrice levels where a move tends to pause or reverse — support where demand concentrates and forms a floor, resistance where supply concentrates and forms a ceiling.
- Moving averageThe average price of a share over a rolling window, recalculated each session — it smooths away daily noise so that the underlying trend, and changes in it, become visible.
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