Directional Movement Index - DMI

An indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder for identifying when a definable trend is present in an instrument. That is, the DMI tells whether an instrument is trending or not.


The scale for the DMI is from 0-100. The Average Directional Movement Index (ADX) is a moving average of the DMI.



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