Trading & market glossary
What MarketWall's signals actually mean, how each one is calculated, and how it's typically used — every entry paired with a symbol matching that exact condition right now, not a made-up illustration. See the Data Sources & Methodology page for the full picture of what feeds the engine.
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Technical Indicators
Technical Indicator
RSI Divergence
When price and the Relative Strength Index disagree about direction — a classic early momentum-shift signal.
Technical Indicator
Bollinger Band Squeeze & Breakout
A move outside a symbol's own volatility-adjusted price band — up through the top (breakout) or down through the bottom (breakdown).
Technical Indicator
200-Day SMA Touch
How close a symbol is currently trading to its 200-day simple moving average — a widely watched long-term trend line.
Technical Indicator
Support & Resistance
The price zones a symbol keeps bouncing off (support) or getting rejected at (resistance), based on its own trading history.
Technical Indicator
Volume Spike
A trading day with well-above-average volume — often the first sign that something has changed before price fully reflects it.
Insider Trading
Insider Trading
Insider Cluster Buying
Multiple different company insiders buying open-market shares of the same stock within a short window.
Insider Trading
What Is a Form 4 Filing?
The SEC filing that discloses when a company insider buys or sells shares — usually within two business days of the trade.
Insider Trading
Is Insider Selling a Red Flag?
Usually not by itself — most insider sales are routine. Context (size, timing, and whether it's part of a pre-scheduled plan) is what actually matters.
Fundamentals
Fundamental
Revenue-Price Divergence
Stocks where quarterly revenue is growing year-over-year while the share price has been sliding over the same span.
Fundamental
P/E Ratio (Trailing)
How many dollars investors are currently paying for each dollar of a company's trailing twelve-month earnings.
Fundamental
Forward P/E
Price divided by analysts' estimated earnings for the next twelve months, instead of the last twelve — the market's forward-looking version of the P/E ratio.
Fundamental
EPS (Earnings Per Share)
A company's net profit divided by its number of outstanding shares — the per-share building block behind the P/E ratio.
Fundamental
Dividend Yield
Annual dividend payments as a percentage of the current share price — the cash-income return of holding a stock, separate from any price change.
Fundamental
Beta
How much a stock has tended to move relative to the overall market — above 1 means historically more volatile than the market, below 1 means less.
Fundamental
52-Week High/Low
The highest and lowest price a stock has traded at over the past year — a quick read on where today's price sits within its own recent range.
Fundamental
Market Cap
A company's total stock market value — share price multiplied by total shares outstanding — and the standard way companies get grouped by size.
Fundamental
Analyst Price Target
The average price Wall Street analysts covering a stock expect it to reach — plus the spread between the most bullish and most bearish estimate.
Fundamental
EBITDA
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization — an operating-profitability measure that strips out financing and accounting choices to make companies more comparable.
Fundamental
EV/EBITDA
Enterprise value divided by EBITDA — a valuation ratio that, unlike P/E, accounts for a company's debt and cash, making it useful for comparing companies with different capital structures.
Fundamental
PEG Ratio
The P/E ratio divided by expected earnings growth — a way of asking whether a stock's valuation is reasonable given how fast it's actually expected to grow.
Fundamental
Free Cash Flow
The cash a company generates from its operations after paying for the capital expenditures needed to maintain and grow the business — what's actually left over to return to shareholders, pay down debt, or reinvest.
Fundamental
Debt-to-Equity Ratio
Total debt compared to shareholder equity — a core measure of how much of a company's financing comes from borrowing versus its own capital.
Fundamental
ROE (Return on Equity)
Net income as a percentage of shareholder equity — how efficiently a company turns the capital shareholders have put in (or left in) into profit.
Fundamental
Enterprise Value
What it would actually cost to acquire a company outright — market cap plus total debt, minus cash on hand — a fuller measure of company value than market cap alone.