Glossary

Average true range

also: atr · normal daily range · true range

The average size of a session's full range over the past fourteen sessions, including any gap from the previous close. It is this desk's unit of distance: saying a level is 1.2 ATR away means the market has to travel about one and a fifth ordinary days to reach it, which compares across indices and across a decade in a way that a number of points does not.