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What is an 'Indicator'?

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Indicator

Indicators are statistics used to measure current conditions as well as to forecast financial or economic trends.

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Leading indicators help investors to predict and react to where the market is headed, although they are imperfect and subject to random macro events.

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Purchasing Managers' Index

The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is an indicator of economic health for the manufacturing and service sectors.

NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index

The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index is based on a monthly survey of members belonging to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) that is designed to measure sentiment for the U.S. single-family housing market.

Moving Average Convergence Divergence

Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is defined as a trend-following momentum indicator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of a security's price.

Relative Strength Index

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum indicator that measures the magnitude of recent price changes to analyze overbought or oversold conditions.