Conduct technical analysis on advanced charts

When you upgrade your Yahoo Finance experience with select subscription plans, you can add technical analysis and corporate event indicators to our interactive stock charts to help you identify trading opportunities. Our partner Trading Central’s patented pattern recognition technology is paired with a broad range of technical indicators to apply technical analysis to virtually every financial instrument. We have automated the detection and analysis of events to help investors find, validate, and time trades. Select from multiple technical and corporate events to plot onto your charts for trend analysis.

Indicators

Indicators are based on moving average calculations:

  • Price Cross Moving Average
  • Double Moving Average Crossover
  • Triple Moving Average Crossover

Oscillators

Oscillators are based on mathematical formulas that incorporate historical or recent prices of the stock. Examples include:

  • Momentum
  • Bollinger Bands
  • Intermediate-term KST
  • Relative Strength Index (RSI)
  • Commodity Channel Index (CCI)

Technical Patterns

Corporate Events

Corporate events are identified by our partner LSEG Data & Analytics.

  • Reference: An event that does not cleanly fall within another category
  • Financing: News of corporate financing agreements
  • Products: Product or service-related news
  • Special Events: News pertaining to holidays, political events, etc.
  • Environmental: News related to severe weather and related events
  • Corporate Deals: Announcement of corporate partnership deals
  • Ownership/Control: News of corporate acquisition or significant change in equity ownership
  • Accounting Issues: Announcement of new accounting standards, audit activity, etc.
  • Litigation/Regulatory: Legal news about large mergers, antitrust activity, litigation, etc.
  • Expansion/New Markets/New Units: Announcement of new offices, headquarters, or expansion to new markets and related headcount
  • Restructuring/Reorganization/Related: News about change in corporate leadership or board of directors, layoffs, restructuring, etc.

Classic Chart Patterns

A group of patterns that typically have a longer time horizon (greater than 12 days) and which have distinct price swings such as the price swings form distinctive patterns. The names of classic patterns often reflect the shape of the formation. Examples include:

  • Double Top
  • Double Bottom
  • Rounded bottom
  • Ascending Triangle
  • Head and shoulders bottom

Short Term Chart Patterns

Patterns that are based on the shape and relationship of the candlesticks or price bars representing one or multiple consecutive trading days. This includes patterns such as the Hanging Man and the Gap Up. Short-term patterns are often considered supplementary information and may support the possible price movement suggested by classic patterns. Examples include:

  • Inside Bar
  • Island Top
  • Gravestone
  • Engulfing Line
  • Exhaustion Bar

View events on Yahoo Finance

  1. Go to Yahoo Finance.
  2. Enter a company name or ticker symbol in the Search bar.
  3. Select a quote from the search list.
  4. Click Advanced Chart above the graph.
  5. To plot technical events, select outlook duration:
    • All - all events, all outlook durations
    • Short Term - 2 to 6week outlook
    • Mid Term - 6 week to 9 month outlook
    • Long Term - 9 month or more outlook
  6. To plot corporate events, click Events and select one or more corporate events.
  7. Mouse over an event to view details.