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Technical indicators are chart analysis tools that can help currency market operators to understand and act on price movements, that is a stock analysis tool that serves to study the future evolution of the prices of an asset financial. Therefore, they help to interpret whether the prices of an asset are in a situation of overbought or oversold in order to make the right investment decision.

The stochastic oscillator was developed in the late 1950s by George Lane. As designed by Lane, the stochastic oscillator presents the location of the closing price of a stock in relation to the high and low range of the price of a stock over a period of time, typically a 14-day period. Lane, over the course of numerous interviews, has said that the stochastic oscillator does not follow price or volume or anything similar. He indicates that the oscillator follows the speed or momentum of Price.

The Average True Range Indicator (ATR Indicator) was developed by Welles Wilder as an instrument for determining market volatility. The indicator tries to appreciate the interest of the market in the price movement, since sudden movements and changes in the trend are usually accompanied by wide ranges [1]. So, ATR can help day traders confirm when they might want to initiate a trade, and it can be used to determine the placement of a stop-loss order.

MACD (Moving Average Convergence / Divergence) is a technical indicator that measures the strength of the price movement. It is made up of two MACD and Signal Lines and a Histogram. The author did it thinking about the daily charts, so he decided that they were 12 and 26 which is approximately the Moving Average of half a month and a month of stock trading days. As it is of the Oscillator type, it allows us to measure the momentum of trends, in addition to detecting overbought or oversold states, that is, when the trend has gone too far and is ready for a short- term consolidation [1].

Momentum trading is a technique where traders buy and sell financial assets after being influenced by recent price trends. They look to take advantage of upward or downward trends within the financial markets until the trend starts to fade.

MACD (Moving Average Convergence / Divergence) is a technical indicator that measures the strength of the price movement. It is made up of two MACD and Signal Lines and a Histogram. The author did it thinking about the daily charts, so he decided that they were 12 and 26 which is approximately the Moving Average of half a month and a month of stock trading days.