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Measure the Move
Four indicators from Wilder's 1978 toolkit, each with a different job and honest limit. The companion guide keeps every claim inside the film's reviewed BRIEF.md fact boundary.
Chapters
What the film explains
Does RSI above 70 automatically mean sell?
No. RSI can remain above 70 during a strong trend; treat it as context.
Does ATR say price direction?
No. ATR measures volatility only.
What does ADX measure?
Trend strength. +DI and −DI carry directional information.
Is the 125-share ATR example Wilder's entry rule?
No. It is a modern risk-sizing example, not an original Wilder entry rule.
Read the illustrated guide
English · ไทย · 日本語. The guide includes definitions, all twelve teaching diagrams, sources and honest limits.
Lyrics and English subtitles
| English | English | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Nineteen thirty-five, Norris, Tennessee | 1935 — Norris, Tennessee | |
| Eleventh of June, John Welles Wilder Junior | June 11 — John Welles Wilder Jr. | |
| Before he ever read a chart, he learned to measure | Before charts, he learned to measure | |
| Four tools from one book — and the book held more | Four tools from one book — it held more | |
| Nineteen sixty-two, North Carolina State | 1962 — North Carolina State | |
| A mechanical engineer, keeping every line straight | A mechanical engineer, every line straight | |
| Seven years at engineering, the way he tells it | Seven years in engineering, as he tells it | |
| On the weekends, a mobile-home park — he built it | Weekends: a mobile-home park — he built it | |
| Then real estate and land, two partners at his side | Then real estate — two partners beside him | |
| One thousand thirty-five apartments, five cities wide | 1,035 apartments across five cities | |
| North Carolina, Virginia — that's the count he gave | NC and Virginia — his own count | |
| At thirty-eight he sold his share and turned the page | At 38 he sold his share, turned the page | |
| Then commodities called him, the pits and the tape | Then he studied commodity trading | |
| Early to mid-seventies, the charts began to take shape | By the mid-'70s: technical charts | |
| Nineteen seventy-eight, Greensboro, he printed it himself | 1978, Greensboro — he self-published it | |
| New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, on the shelf | New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems | |
| RSI fourteen, seventy and thirty | RSI(14): 70 and 30 | |
| ATR fourteen, how far, not which way | ATR(14): how far — not which way | |
| ADX over twenty-five, a trend; under twenty, range all day | ADX: over 25 trend, under 20 range | |
| SAR steps point oh two, capped at point two oh | SAR steps 0.02, capped at 0.20 | |
| Measure the move before the move measures you | Measure the move before it measures you | |
| Each close against the last: up is a gain, down is a loss | Each close vs the last: up gain, down loss | |
| Add the first fourteen, divide by fourteen, straight across | First 14: add them up, divide by 14 | |
| Then thirteen times the old, plus today, all over fourteen | Then (13 × old + today) ÷ 14 | |
| So each new day moves it just one-fourteenth, calm and lean | Each day moves it just one-fourteenth | |
| RS: the average gain over the average loss | RS = average gain ÷ average loss | |
| A hundred minus a hundred over one plus RS | RSI = 100 − 100 ÷ (1 + RS) | |
| Seventy overbought, thirty oversold, fifty the middle road | 70 overbought, 30 oversold, 50 midline | |
| But it's a zone, not a sell — in a strong trend it can hold | A zone, not a sell — strong trends hold it | |
| Failure swing up top: over seventy, it dips | Top failure swing: above 70, a dip | |
| A lower high, then it breaks the low between — that's the slip | Lower high, then it breaks the low between | |
| Bottom's the mirror: under thirty, higher low, break the high | Bottom: under 30, higher low, break high | |
| Price a higher high, RSI a lower — a bearish warning sign | Higher high, RSI lower: bearish warning | |
| Price a lower low, RSI a higher — a bullish warning sign | Lower low, RSI higher: bullish warning | |
| RSI fourteen, seventy and thirty | RSI(14): 70 and 30 | |
| ATR fourteen, how far, not which way | ATR(14): how far — not which way | |
| ADX over twenty-five, a trend; under twenty, range all day | ADX: over 25 trend, under 20 range | |
| SAR steps point oh two, capped at point two oh | SAR steps 0.02, capped at 0.20 | |
| Measure the move before the move measures you | Measure the move before it measures you | |
| True Range: take the biggest of three | True Range: the biggest of three | |
| High to low, high to last close, low to last close, you see | High−low, high−prev close, low−prev close | |
| High one-oh-five, low one-oh-one, last close ninety-nine | High 105, low 101, prev close 99 | |
| Four, six and two — the true range is six this time | 4, 6, 2 → True Range = 6 | |
| Seed the ATR: fourteen ranges, take the mean | Seed ATR: mean of the first 14 TRs | |
| Then thirteen old, one new, over fourteen, clean | Then (13 × old ATR + TR) ÷ 14 | |
| Four before, a six arrives: fifty-eight over fourteen | Old 4.00, TR 6 → 58 ÷ 14 | |
| Four point one four — how far, but never which way it's leaning | = 4.14 — how far, never which way | |
| ATR two dollars: two times is four, three times is six | ATR $2: 2× = $4, 3× = $6 | |
| Long, the stop goes under entry; short, above — that's the fix | Long: stop below entry. Short: above | |
| Risk five hundred dollars, four a share at two times ATR | Risk $500; 2× ATR = $4 per share | |
| One hundred twenty-five shares, rounded down, that's how far | 500 ÷ 4 = 125 shares, rounded down | |
| A modern worked example — not a promise, not his rule | Modern example — not a promise or his rule | |
| His book used seven days as well; fourteen's not the only tool | His book also used a 7-day ATR | |
| Plus DI on top, it's up; minus on top, it's down | +DI on top: up. −DI on top: down | |
| ADX, fourteen smoothed, is strength — it never says which way round | ADX (14): strength — never which way | |
| Twenty to twenty-five, no call — a rule of thumb, not law | 20–25: no call. A rule of thumb, not law | |
| Parabolic dots: below guard the long, above guard the short, that's all | SAR dots: below guard longs, above shorts | |
| Next dot: the old, plus AF times the gap to the best price seen | Next SAR = SAR + AF × (EP − SAR) | |
| AF starts at point oh two, adds point oh two each new extreme | AF 0.02, +0.02 at each new extreme | |
| Capped at point two oh — in a range it whips you clean | Capped at 0.20 — in ranges it whipsaws | |
| RSI fourteen, seventy and thirty | RSI(14): 70 and 30 | |
| ATR fourteen, how far, not which way | ATR(14): how far — not which way | |
| ADX over twenty-five, a trend; under twenty, range all day | ADX: over 25 trend, under 20 range | |
| SAR steps point oh two, capped at point two oh | SAR steps 0.02, capped at 0.20 | |
| Measure the move before the move measures you | Measure the move before it measures you | |
| None of these can see tomorrow — ADX lags behind | None of these predicts — ADX lags behind | |
| Read the structure, test your rules, set the risk ahead of time | Structure, tested rules, risk set ahead | |
| Measure the move before the move measures you | Measure the move before it measures you |
How it was made
- Song — “Measure the Move”, English, male vocal.
- Diagrams — twelve coded teaching diagrams from the film package.
- Player — reviewed phone MP4 now;
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Educational content, not financial advice. See Disclosure.