Glossary
Higher high
A swing high that sits above the previous swing high, one of the two building blocks of an uptrend.
A higher high forms when price turns down from a peak that is above the peak before it. On its own it shows that buyers pushed further than last time.
On Chartora’s charts the comparison uses confirmed swing highs: daily closes higher than the four closes on each side. Because of that rule, a new higher high is only confirmed four sessions after it happens.
Paired with higher lows, higher highs describe an uptrend. A higher high without a higher low is a mixed picture, and Chartora reads that combination as a range.
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