Pick the horizon
Match the interval to your holding period — 1D and 1W for swings, 1H and below only for timing inside an existing plan. The same stack reads very differently across horizons.
Moving average chart and SMA EMA ladder
The Moving Average Chart compares a stock's price with the available simple and exponential moving averages, their percentage gaps and other technical context. It helps locate price within its trend and inspect nearby reference levels.
Check the candle interval and lookback: a 20-period average on an intraday chart is different from a 20-day average. Moving averages lag prices and may be crossed repeatedly during ranges. A crossover or proximity to an average does not guarantee that the level will hold as support or resistance.
Related JustTicks tools: Market Strength Map, Relative Strength
Trend anatomySMA · EMA · 20–200
Moving Average Chart
One ladder for price structure: spot against the 52-week range and the 20/50/100/200 moving-average stack — with crossover state, momentum context and level proximity on a single research screen.
Sign in to work the ladderThe Moving Average Chart is part of the JustTicks research desk
How to work the ladderThe sequence this tool enforces
Educational analytics · define your own riskRead the ladder
Sort levels by proximity to spot. The nearest moving average or 52W boundary is where price reacts first; tight clusters of levels act as stronger magnets than any single line.
Confirm with context
A ladder level only matters when momentum agrees: check crossover state, RSI, ADX, MFI and the MACD delta together. Crossovers inside the 0.05% dead zone are flat, not signals.
Plan the trade
Use gaps and zones to frame entries, stops and targets — then apply liquidity, volatility and event-risk checks. Moving averages describe structure; they do not time executions.
Ladder methodology
What the Moving Average Chart is designed to find
The ladder collapses trend structure into one picture: where spot sits inside the 52-week range, and how far it trades from the 20/50/100/200 SMA or EMA stack on the selected interval. SMA windows average closes evenly and show structural support; EMA windows weight recent bars and turn first. The alignment score converts the stack into a single 0–100 read — each window contributes a distance-weighted vote (15/20/25/30, halved in either direction) plus a ±10 bonus when the full stack is ordered bullish or bearish. Crossovers carry a 0.05% dead zone so noise prints as flat instead of flip-flopping signals, and the indicator snapshot (RSI, ADX, MFI, MACD delta) frames whether the nearest level is likely to hold or break.
5 intervalsSMA + EMA stack52-week ladderIndicator contextSortable + CSV
How to read the level tableMeaning of every column
Sort by gap to find the levels in play right now, then check whether momentum context supports a reaction there — a cluster of nearby levels matters more than any single line.
LevelThe plotted reference: 52-week extremes plus the selected SMA or EMA windows (20/50/100/200).
ValueLatest moving-average value or range extreme for the chosen interval, in rupees.
Gap / Gap %Distance from spot to the level, absolute and in percent. Small gaps mean the level is in play right now.
ZoneLevels below spot act as support; levels above act as resistance. Spot itself is the pivot row.
Risk noteMoving averages are lagging descriptors of past prices, not predictions. Levels derived from them can fail on gaps, events and regime shifts — combine the ladder with liquidity, volatility and event-risk checks before committing capital.