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Data & methodology

Everything is recalculated from the returned price candles for your ticker and chosen window.

The data

Yahoo Finance provides quotes and OHLCV candles. This free feed can be delayed or unavailable; real-time delivery is unverified. The header is the regular-session quote, while the chart uses its last candle, so they can differ during extended hours. Every response includes its retrieval time and quote timestamp.

Company logos & asset identities

Verified company-hosted logos are used where available. Additional company, fund and selected crypto images come from Financial Modeling Prep. Images are cached by Terminal AP; coverage varies. An unavailable image becomes a ticker badge. Logos identify an asset and do not imply affiliation or endorsement.

Bundled original marks: Apple, Microsoft and Tesla. Indices, commodities and currency pairs use text badges, not invented company logos.

Support & resistance

A swing point needs three candles on each side. Nearby swing prices are grouped using 0.38 × ATR (with a minimum 0.15% price tolerance). Each zone shows separate touches and distance from the chart's last close. One-touch zones are tentative; repeated touches are evidence, not a strength guarantee. Zones outside the visible zoom still use the full selected window.

Trend lines

Lines connect recent confirmed swing lows or highs at least six bars apart. A line is omitted if later prices break it beyond the volatility tolerance. Two-anchor lines are guides, not confirmed forecasts. Zooming does not recalculate the analysis window.

Indicators & scenarios

EMA uses a simple-average seed. RSI and ATR use Wilder smoothing over 14 periods. MACD uses 12/26 EMAs and a 9-period signal. Indicators use the last complete candle, with up to 300 earlier bars for warm-up. Relative volume compares one complete bar with the previous 20; intraday session effects can distort it.

Scenario triggers use the nearest mapped zone boundaries. A breakout or breakdown needs a candle close and further confirmation; a wick is insufficient. No win probabilities or guaranteed targets are implied.

Trade planner & timeframe check

The long-position planner converts each price unit into GBP. London prices in pence use £0.01 per penny. Other currencies use a timestamped Yahoo FX quote or your manual rate. The planner defaults to a 0.15% FX fee on the purchase value and 0.15% on the sale value. The total budget includes the buy fee. Net profit, downside and reward/risk include both fees; percentages use the cash outlay including the buy fee. The sell fee is calculated separately at the target and invalidation prices. Break-even includes both conversions. Turn fees off when no conversion applies. The FX rate is held constant and other fees and taxes are excluded. Fractional shares use the full budget; whole shares leave unspent cash. The planner does not place orders, and actual losses can exceed your invalidation level. Inputs remain in this tab.

The optional timeframe check compares 1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 4h, daily, weekly and monthly candles in their stated history windows. Intraday views follow your extended-hours setting; daily and longer views use the regular session. Unavailable and stale views are excluded from confluence. Short-term, intraday, swing and long-term groups require at least two-thirds of their views. Agreement is descriptive, not a probability of success.

Timeframes & limitations

2-hour and 4-hour bars combine hourly candles within each trading day. Daily and longer candles use the provider's session data. Extended hours apply to intraday views where supplied. Non-trading time is compressed. Corporate actions can change historical prices, and gaps can cross multiple levels.

Your quick tickers and custom levels are saved in this browser. This tool is for chart research, not trade execution.

AP Score, strength and patterns

AP Score uses separate intraday, swing and long-term evidence with asset-specific weights. See the expandable AP Score panel for weights, coverage and equations. It is not a backtested return predictor. Level strength gives up to 6 points for separated touches (1.5 each), 1.5 for proximity to EMA 50, 1.25 for both swing-high and swing-low roles, and 1.25 for elevated volume on swing bars. It is a heuristic out of 10, not a probability. Pattern confidence measures deterministic geometric rule fit and is not empirically calibrated.

AP Technical Score

The selected-timeframe score is separate from the selected Overall AP Score. Structure contributes 25%, moving averages 25%, momentum 20%, level reaction 10%, volume 10%, volatility 5% and optional multi-timeframe alignment 5%. Missing inputs reduce coverage and the available weights are normalised; at least 50 complete candles and 60% coverage are required. Full equations and current evidence are available in Technicals. This is an explainable heuristic, not a calibrated probability or investment recommendation.

Advanced chart studies

EMA 9/20/50/100/200 use simple-average seeds. SMA and Bollinger Bands use 20 closes; bands use two population standard deviations. Session VWAP uses the volume-weighted typical price (high + low + close)/3 and resets by exchange calendar date; extended hours are included if selected. Anchored VWAP starts at your chosen candle, or the first selected-window candle by default. It is unavailable if the anchor is earlier than returned history. Daily bars do not provide a true session VWAP. ADX uses Wilder-smoothed directional movement over 14 candles and measures strength, not direction. Slow Stochastic uses 14/3/3 periods. OBV starts at zero and adds or subtracts reported volume by close direction. Volume Profile allocates candle volume to close-price bins in the visible chart; it is an approximation, not tick-level volume at price. Volume-based studies are unavailable when usable reported volume is missing.

AP Investments provides informational market analysis and does not provide regulated financial advice. No FCA authorisation is claimed. Data and calculated outputs can contain errors or delays; verify original sources.

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