What is market breadth, and how to read it for an index
How many stocks join a move, and what advancers, decliners, moving-average shares and new highs say about an index.
Guides to reading the market.
Plain-English guides to the measures behind Chart in Motion: how wide a move is, what a valuation assumes, how a results season is going, what a chart signal means and how to build a screen. They explain; they do not advise.
Market breadth
The market breadth panel shows these for every index.
Bullish Percent Index explained
What the share of stocks with bullish chart patterns tells you, and how to read high and low readings.
Valuation
See PE, PEG and implied growth for whole indices in index valuation.
PEG ratio explained, with Indian examples
How PEG sets a P/E next to earnings growth, worked through with made-up rupee examples.
Implied growth: what a PE ratio says about expected earnings
Turn a PE into the yearly earnings growth the price assumes, and compare it with what companies deliver.
Forward vs trailing P/E: which earnings does the price use?
How a P/E on reported earnings differs from one on forecasts, and how the app blends 2 fiscal years.
EPS revisions: what changing forecasts tell you
How far analysts’ earnings forecasts moved over 6 months, and how fiscal-year labels work.
Earnings season
Growth so far for each index sits in index valuation; Free accounts and guests can read Company Insights for 5 companies a month, Pro for 10, and Pro+ for every company.
The results-season tally: profit growth across an index
Add up an index’s profits and sales as companies report, and read the total against the median.
How to read an AI earnings review
What the verdict, key numbers and guidance mean, and what to check yourself.
Chart signals
Each stock gets one of these labels, or No signal; see trendline signals.
Trendline breakout vs breakdown: how to read a channel
How price channels are drawn, and what it means when price closes above or below one.
Why trend lines change on a stock chart
Lines are drawn from past prices, so new prices can move them. What that does to a pattern and its label.
Support and rejection signals explained
What it means when price holds a channel’s lower line or stalls under its upper line.
Ranking and screening
Try IR and screens in the stock screener; the app’s Sectors panel ranks sectors.
Information Ratio (IR) for stocks
How IR measures steady outperformance, and how to read 3- and 12-month IR ranks.
How to screen stocks by momentum and margins
Build a screen that pairs price momentum with profit margins, step by step.
Sector rotation: how to see which sectors lead
Read sector strength, its 1-month change and today’s move to see leadership shift.
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