Ichimoku Kinko Hyo is a technical trend trading charting system that has been used by Japanese commodity and stock market traders for decades and is gaining increasing popularity amongst western stock market traders, being commonly referred to as Ichimoku Cloud charts.

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, which translates to "equilibrium at a glance chart", was developed to allow a trader to quickly and easily appraise the trend, momentum, and support and resistance levels of an asset, from a single chart.

The system does include signals but these should never be considered in isolation.  It is a visual technical analysis system and the charts are designed to be considered in their entirety to gain a perspective on the overall direction of the stock or index and distinguish higher probability opportunities from lower probability ones.

Help: See Ichimoku Elements and Ichimoku Signals for a brief summary of the Ichimoku Kinko Hyo system.  Click on the quick reference items to the left or the signal markers in the charts or signal names in the right hand panel for help on just those items.

IchimokuTrader.com shows free Ichimoku Kinko Hyo charts of shares & stock market indices, along with the most recent of each of the five kinds of signal for each ticker.

The left hand panel below the chart shows a list of indices or shares, with the date and type of the most recent signal for each entry.  Use the buttons at the top left to select different lists.  Clicking on the name of the index or share in the list will view the chart for it.  The list can be sorted by clicking the graphics at the top of each column.

The right hand panel below the chart shows details of the currently viewed index or stock and the most recent of each of the five kinds of signal for it.

Greyed information in the left or right hand panels indicates that the market has closed since the last data available for the index or share, and you should come back at a later time for updated information.

Watchlist: to view charts for shares you must add them to your watchlist by using the panel immediately below the Watchlist button, top left.

If you are not a registered user, or you are but are not logged in, your watchlist will not be retained.  To maintain a permanent watchlist, please register or login using the Login/Register button.