Relative Strength

Relative strength is a ratio of a stock price to a market average. It is used in technical analysis.

It is not to be confused with Relative Strength Index.

Technical analysis
Concepts
  • Support and resistance
  • Trend line
  • Breakout
  • Market trend
  • Dead cat bounce
  • Elliott wave principle
  • Fibonacci retracements
  • Pivot point
  • Dow theory
Charts
  • Candlestick chart
  • OHLC chart
  • Line chart
  • Point and figure chart
  • Kagi chart
Patterns
Chart
  • Head and shoulders
  • Cup and handle
  • Double top and double bottom
  • Triple top and triple bottom
  • Broadening top
  • Price channels
  • Wedge pattern
  • Triangle
  • Flag and pennant
  • Island reversal
  • Gap
Candlestick
Simple
  • Doji
  • Hammer
  • Hanging man
  • Inverted hammer
  • Shooting star
  • Marubozu
  • Spinning top
Complex
  • Three white soldiers
  • Three Black Crows
  • Morning star
  • Hikkake pattern
Indicators
Trend
  • Average directional index (ADX)
  • Ichimoku Kinkō Hyō
  • Moving average convergence/divergence (MACD)
  • Mass index
  • Moving average (MA)
  • Parabolic SAR (SAR)
  • Smart money index (SMI)
  • Trix
  • Vortex Indicator (VI)
  • Know sure thing oscillator (KST)
Momentum
  • Relative strength index (RSI)
  • Stochastic oscillator
  • True strength index (TSI)
  • Williams %R (%R)
Volume
  • Accumulation/Distribution index
  • Money flow index (MFI)
  • On-balance volume (OBV)
  • Volume–price trend (VPT)
  • Force index (FI)
  • Negative volume index (NVI)
  • Ease of movement
  • Put/call ratio (PCR)
Volatility
  • Average true range (ATR)
  • Bollinger Bands (BB)
  • Donchian channel
  • Standard deviation (σ)
Other
  • Advance–decline line (ADL)
  • Arms index (TRIN)
  • Commodity channel index (CCI)
  • Coppock curve
  • Keltner channel
  • McClellan oscillator
  • Ulcer Index
  • Ultimate oscillator
Financial markets
Types of stocks
  • Common stock
  • Golden share
  • Preferred stock
  • Restricted stock
  • Tracking stock
Share capital
  • Authorised capital
  • Issued shares
  • Shares outstanding
  • Treasury stock
Participants
  • Broker-dealer
  • Floor broker
  • Floor trader
  • Investor
  • Market maker
  • Proprietary trader
  • Quantitative analyst
  • Stock trader
Exchanges
  • Electronic communication network
  • Stock exchange opening times
  • Over-the-counter
  • List of stock exchanges
  • Multilateral trading facility
Stock valuation
  • Alpha
  • Arbitrage pricing theory
  • Beta
  • Book value
  • Capital asset pricing model
  • Dividend yield
  • Earnings per share
  • Earnings yield
  • Dividend discount model
  • Security characteristic line
  • Security market line
  • T-Model
Trading theories
and strategies
  • Algorithmic trading
  • Buy and hold
  • Concentrated stock
  • Contrarian investing
  • Day trading
  • Efficient-market hypothesis
  • Fundamental analysis
  • Growth stock
  • Market timing
  • Modern portfolio theory
  • Momentum investing
  • Mosaic theory
  • Pairs trade
  • Post-modern portfolio theory
  • Random walk hypothesis
  • Style investing
  • Swing trading
  • Technical analysis
  • Trend following
Related terms
  • Block trade
  • Cross listing
  • Dark liquidity
  • Dividend
  • Dual-listed company
  • DuPont analysis
  • Flight-to-quality
  • Haircut
  • Initial public offering
  • Margin
  • Market anomaly
  • Market capitalization
  • Market depth
  • Market manipulation
  • Market trend
  • Mean reversion
  • Momentum
  • Open outcry
  • Public float
  • Public offering
  • Rally
  • Reverse stock split
  • Returns-based style analysis
  • Short selling
  • Slippage
  • Speculation
  • Stock dilution
  • Stock split
  • Trade
  • Uptick rule
  • Volatility
  • Voting interest
  • Stock market index

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