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Price Channel

TrendOverlays price

A corridor of the prior N bars' highs and lows, shifted one bar.

What it looks like

Drawn by running the real calculation over one sample series. Open a symbol and it is recalculated on that symbol's bars.

How to read it

Close to a Donchian channel but measured excluding the current bar, so you can see whether today's bar has passed the line without the line including today.

Where it misleads

Because it is shifted, today's high or low can sit outside the corridor — that is expected.

Default settings

Length20

You can change these on the chart. These are the values it starts with.

In SQMATE

One tap to add

Open a symbol, tap the name in the indicator list and it is drawn straight away. You can stack several copies of the same indicator with different settings.

Recalculated per timeframe

Switch between minute, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly bars and it is recalculated on that timeframe. The maths runs over every bar loaded, so zooming never moves the line.

Use it as a search condition

Some indicators can also be used as an axis when searching for symbols — for example, keeping only symbols above a given reading, scanned every night.

Related indicators

Every indicator is an observation computed from past bars. It does not tell you future prices and it is not investment advice.

Price Channel — what it means and how to read it | SQMATE