Chart reference · Indicators

Momentum & Oscillators

Momentum indicators do not tell you where price is. They tell you how hard it is moving and whether that effort is still increasing, which is a different question and usually the one asked second.

The Chart page — every one of these 77 opens a strip of its own below the price — the live page, with each part numbered — 1The momentum chip 2The stacked panes
The Chart page — every one of these 77 opens a strip of its own below the price — captured from the live page. Hover a number to see what it is.

What

What this page is

Momentum is the largest category in the catalog with 77 entries, and it is the only one in which every single indicator draws in a pane of its own. That is not a styling choice: a momentum reading is a ratio, a percentage or a count, and putting a number that lives between 0 and 100 on the price scale of a rupee 500 stock would flatten it against the bottom of the screen.

Because they are all pane indicators, all 77 have a Calculate on row at the top of their Inputs tab. That is where the stacking happens. Any of them can be computed over the open, high, low, the bar midpoint, the typical price or the four-price average instead of the close, and any of them can be computed over a single-line moving average that is already on your chart.

They fall into eleven families. The RSI family measures gains against losses. The stochastics measure where the close sits inside a recent range. The MACD family measures the gap between two averages. Rate of change measures the plain distance covered. Directional movement grades trend strength. The efficiency gauges ask how straight the path was. One family measures distance from an average, another measures the strength of individual bars, another filters price down to its cycle, and the last is composites and squeezes.

Most of them are far more alike than their names suggest. An RSI, a Net Momentum Oscillator and a Stochastic on the same chart will turn at nearly the same bars. The genuine differences are between families, not within them, which is how this page is arranged.

Why

Why it helps you

If you trade

Days to weeks · you care about timing and the crowd.

One momentum indicator is enough. Six of them agreeing is one opinion counted six times, and it feels far more like confirmation than it is.
Divergence is the reading these were built for: price making a higher high while the oscillator makes a lower one. It is a warning that the effort behind the move is fading, not a signal to reverse.
In a strong trend an oscillator sits pinned at an extreme for days. That is the trend working, not an imminent reversal, which is why a trend reading belongs on the chart before a momentum one.
The Squeeze entries are the most actionable here, because they answer a question with a yes or a no: is volatility currently coiled, and has it just released.

If you invest

Months to years · you care about quality and price paid.

Almost nothing here operates at your horizon, with three exceptions. The Long-Term Momentum Curve was designed for monthly data and its turn up from below zero is a genuinely long-cycle signal. Special K sums cycles out to two years. Know Sure Thing blends four horizons at once.
On a weekly chart the Average Directional Index is worth watching for one thing only: whether a stock has stopped trending. A long position that made sense in a trend is a different position in a range.
Everything else on this page moves faster than you make decisions. Reading it will mostly manufacture reasons to trade.

When · Where

When to use it, and where to find it

After a trend reading, never before one. Whether an overbought oscillator is a warning or a normal feature of a strong move depends entirely on which regime you are in.
When a move is extending and you want to know whether it is still gaining strength. Momentum peaking before price is the classic early sign of a move running out.
When price is going sideways and you want to know if anything is building underneath. The Squeeze entries and the efficiency gauges are the ones that answer that.

How to

Try it — a short walkthrough

1
Filter the catalog to momentum
Open fx and click the momentum chip. It is the largest category, so the counter reads 83 of 276. Every row carries a pane badge; there are no overlays in this category.
2
Add an RSI and read its band
Add Relative Strength Index. It opens a pane below the chart with a shaded region across 70 and 30. Hover across the candles and the legend value tracks your cursor.
3
Move the band to fit the stock
Open the gear and scroll to the Bands section. On a stock that regularly runs to 80 the default 70 marks nothing useful; set the upper level to 80 and the shading moves with it.
4
Smooth the oscillator instead of lengthening it
In the same dialog, set the Smoothing length to 5. A moving average of the RSI itself is drawn on top of it, in the same pane. Set it back to 0 and that plot disappears entirely.
5
Compute it over something other than price
Add a 20 period EMA to the chart, then set the RSI Calculate on row to it. You are now reading the momentum of the average rather than of the candles, which is far steadier and far slower.
6
Look for divergence rather than for a level
Find a spot where price made a higher high and compare the oscillator peak beside it with the previous one. A lower peak against a higher price is the reading this whole category exists to produce.

In detail

Every part, up close

The Chart page — every one of these 77 opens a strip of its own below the price. Each part with a close-up of the real screen; the numbers match the dots on the picture.

The momentum chip

Click momentum in fx and the counter reads 83 of 276, the largest category, with a pane badge on every single row.

The stacked panes

Each one you add opens another strip under the candles with its own vertical scale, because a reading that lives between 0 and 100 cannot share an axis with a rupee price.

The catalogue

Every indicator in this category

Grouped into families, in the order they are explained. Each preview is the indicator computed on real NABIL daily bars by the same engine the chart runs — click one for a full-size picture and a line-by-line description of what it draws.

83 indicators

The RSI family10

Ten entries built on the same idea: compare the size of recent gains with the size of recent losses. All pane indicators, and most carry a shaded overbought and oversold band you can move.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
1	RSI	pane	By J. Welles Wilder Jr. · New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, 1978 · source Recent gains against recent losses on a 0 to 100 scale, with 70 and 30 as the conventional stretched readings. Period 14
2	StochRSI	pane	By Tushar Chande & Stanley Kroll · The New Technical Trader, 1994 · source The stochastic formula applied to the RSI itself, so it reaches both extremes far more often than the RSI does. 4 parameters
3	CRSI	pane	By Larry Connors, Cesar Alvarez & Matt Radtke · published as ConnorsRSI · Connors Research, 2014 · source Blends a very short RSI, an RSI of the up-or-down streak length, and where the latest one-bar return ranks in the last hundred. 3 parameters
4	RMI	pane	By Roger Altman · S&C, February 1993 · source An RSI measured against the close several bars back rather than the previous one, which makes it steadier inside a trend. Period 14, Momentum Period 5
5	IMI	pane	By Tushar Chande · The New Technical Trader, 1994 · source An RSI built from open to close rather than close to close, so it reads the body of each candle instead of the gaps between them. Period 14
6	VW-RSI	pane	By Trading community · variant of Wilder's RSI An RSI whose gains and losses are scaled by the volume behind them, so a rally on thin trade counts for less. Period 14
7	4S-RSI	pane	By John F. Ehlers · published as Laguerre RSI · Rocket Science for Traders, 2001 · Cybernetic Analysis, 2004 · source An RSI computed over a recursive filter instead of over price; it reaches its extremes far sooner than a 14 period RSI, which is the point of it. Gamma 0.5
8	QQE	pane	By Roman Ignatov · QQE v1, 2006 · source A smoothed RSI with a volatility-scaled trailing stop drawn on it, so a crossing is a considered event rather than the noise a raw RSI cross is. 3 parameters
9	TDI	pane	By Dean Malone · Compass FX, 2006 · source An RSI with a fast and a slow average of itself for direction, sitting inside bands taken over the RSI for volatility. Trend, momentum and volatility read from one pane. 5 parameters
10	MFI	pane	By Gene Quong & Avrum Soudack · S&C, March 1989 · source An RSI weighted by the money that actually changed hands, with the stretched levels conventionally at 80 and 20 rather than 70 and 30. Period 14

Stochastics and range oscillators7

Seven entries that ask where the close finished inside the recent high-low range, rather than how big the moves were.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
11	Stoch	pane	By George C. Lane · Lane's Stochastics, S&C 1984 · method from the 1950s · source Where the close sits inside the range of the lookback, as a percentage, with a signal line; the crossing near an extreme is the classic read. %K Period 14, %D Period 3
12	StochF	pane	By George C. Lane · Lane's Stochastics, S&C 1984 · method from the 1950s · source The same without the slowing stage, so it turns earlier and whipsaws more. Fast %K 5, Fast %D 3, %D MA Type 0
13	KDJ	pane	By East Asian charting tradition · no single attributable originator · source The stochastic as it is drawn in Asian markets, with a third J line that deliberately overshoots the 0 to 100 range at an extreme. Length 9, Signal Smoothing 3
14	SMI	pane	By William Blau · S&C, January 1993 · source Measures the close against the middle of the range rather than its bottom, so it is centred on zero and considerably less jumpy. Period 14, Smoothing 3, Signal Period 3
15	%R	pane	By Larry Williams · published as Williams %R · How I Made One Million Dollars…, 1973 · source The distance of the close below the recent high, on a -100 to 0 scale; the stochastic inverted and unsmoothed. Period 14
16	DRI	pane	By Thomas R. DeMark · published as DeMarker (DeM) · The New Science of Technical Analysis, 1994 · source Compares new highs against new lows on a 0 to 1 scale, counting only the part of each bar that extended beyond the last. Period 14
17	PSL	pane	By East Asian charting tradition · no single attributable originator The percentage of the last N bars that closed up. It counts direction only and ignores size entirely, which is what separates it from an RSI. Length 12

The MACD family and price oscillators8

Eight entries that subtract a slow average from a fast one and read the gap. Each swings around zero, so they get a bare zero line rather than a shaded band.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
18	MACD	pane	By Gerald Appel · The MACD Trading Method, 1979 · source The gap between a fast and a slow average, with a signal line and a histogram of the difference between the two. 5 parameters
19	MACDEXT	pane	By Gerald Appel · The MACD Trading Method, 1979 · source The same with the average type chosen separately for the fast leg, the slow leg and the signal. 6 parameters
20	MACDFIX	pane	By Gerald Appel · The MACD Trading Method, 1979 · source MACD with the two lengths locked at 12 and 26, so only the signal smoothing is tunable. Signal Period 9
21	PPO	pane	By Gerald Appel · The MACD Trading Method, 1979 · source MACD stated as a percentage of the slow average, which makes the reading comparable between stocks at very different prices. 3 parameters
22	APO	pane	By Gerald Appel · The MACD Trading Method, 1979 · source The gap between a fast and a slow average in rupees, with a selectable average type. Fast Period 12, Slow Period 26, MA Type 0
23	ImpulseMACD	pane	By LazyBear · open-source Pine script, TradingView · source A zero-lag average measured against a smoothed high-low channel and pinned flat at zero while price sits inside it. The flat stretch is the point: it reads only when the move leaves the range. MA Length 34, Signal Length 9
24	MAOsc	pane	By Classical technical analysis A fast average minus a slow one in price units, which is the two-average crossover expressed as one line through zero. Fast 10, Slow 20
25	PVO	pane	By Classical technical analysis The PPO calculation applied to volume, so it shows whether participation is rising or falling rather than price. 3 parameters

Rate of change and raw momentum11

Eleven entries measuring the plain distance covered over a fixed number of bars. The first five differ only in units.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
26	MOM	pane	By Classical technical analysis The difference between the close now and the close N bars ago, in rupees. Period 10
27	ROC	pane	By Classical technical analysis The same difference as a percentage, which is the version that compares across stocks. Period 9
28	ROCP	pane	By Classical technical analysis The same change expressed as a fraction rather than as a percentage. Period 10
29	ROCR	pane	By Classical technical analysis Price now divided by price N bars ago, so 1.0 means unchanged. Period 10
30	ROCR100	pane	By Classical technical analysis The same ratio scaled so 100 means unchanged. Period 10
31	SROC	pane	By Martin J. Pring · S&C, September 1992 · source A rate of change taken on a smoothed price, which removes most of the single-bar spikes. EMA Smooth 13, ROC Period 21
32	EMom	pane	By Colin Twiggs · published as Twiggs Momentum · Incredible Charts — Twiggs Momentum · source The percentage change of a smoothed price against its own value the same distance back. EMA Period 20
33	KST	pane	By Martin J. Pring · S&C, September 1992 · source Four rates of change over different horizons, smoothed and weighted into one line with a signal; built to show short and long cycles together. 5 parameters
34	LT Momentum	pane	By Edwin Sedgwick Coppock · published as Coppock Curve · Barron's, 1962 · source A slow, heavily smoothed momentum reading designed for monthly data, where a turn up from below zero is the classic long-horizon buy. ROC 1 14, ROC 2 11, WMA Period 10
35	SpecialK	pane	By Martin J. Pring · source Twelve smoothed rates of change from four bars out to two years, summed into a single line so short, intermediate and long cycles show at once. Period Scale 1
36	TRIX	pane	By Jack K. Hutson · S&C, July/August 1983 · source The rate of change of a triple-smoothed average, which filters out nearly everything short-term; the zero crossing is the signal. Period 15

Directional movement5

Five entries from one system. The Average Directional Index grades trend strength without direction; the four around it are the parts it is assembled from, offered separately.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
37	ADX	pane	By J. Welles Wilder Jr. · New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, 1978 · source How strong the trend is regardless of which way it points, drawn with the two directional lines that say which way. Above roughly 25 is the usual threshold for trending. Period 14
38	+DI	pane	By J. Welles Wilder Jr. · New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, 1978 · source The upward half of the directional movement system on its own. Period 14
39	-DI	pane	By J. Welles Wilder Jr. · New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, 1978 · source The downward half on its own; the two crossing is the direction signal that the Average Directional Index grades. Period 14
40	+DM	pane	By J. Welles Wilder Jr. · New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, 1978 · source The raw upward movement before it is turned into +DI. Period 14
41	-DM	pane	By J. Welles Wilder Jr. · New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, 1978 · source The raw downward movement behind -DI. Period 14

Trend strength and efficiency7

Seven entries that ask how straight the path was rather than how far it went. They are direction-blind by design, which makes them regime filters rather than signals.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
42	ER	pane	By Perry J. Kaufman · Smarter Trading, 1995 · source Net distance travelled divided by total distance covered, from 0 to 1. Near 1 the move is a straight line; near 0 it is churn. Period 10
43	VHF	pane	By Adam White · Futures magazine, August 1991 · source The range of the period against the sum of the bar-to-bar moves inside it; rising means trending, falling means ranging. Period 28
44	RWI	pane	By E. Michael Poulos · S&C, February 1991 · source How far the move exceeds what an aimless drift of the same volatility would have produced. Period 14
45	TII	pane	By M.H. Pee · S&C, June 2002 · source What share of the recent bars sit above their own average baseline, as a percentage. Period 30
46	CTI	pane	By John F. Ehlers · Rocket Science for Traders, 2001 · Cybernetic Analysis, 2004 · source How closely the last N closes track a straight rising line, from -1 to +1. A pure trendiness measure that says nothing about scale. Length 12
47	TTF	pane	By M.H. Pee · S&C, December 2004 · source Compares the buying power of the recent half of the window against the selling power of the older half. Period 15
48	HiLo	pane	By Robert Krausz, after W.D. Gann · published as Gann HiLo Activator · S&C, February 1998 · source A line that switches between an average of the lows and an average of the highs as price closes through it, giving a simple trend state. Period 10

Distance from an average7

Seven entries that measure how far price has stretched from its own centre, which is the mean-reversion question.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
49	CCI	pane	By Donald Lambert · Commodities, October 1980 · source How far price has strayed from its own statistical mean. Unbounded, but conventionally read at plus and minus 100. Period 20
50	DPO	pane	By Classical technical analysis Price with the trend of the window subtracted out, leaving the cycle. Useful for measuring the length of a rhythm rather than for signals. Period 20
51	BIAS	pane	By East Asian charting tradition · no single attributable originator · source How far price has stretched from its own moving average, as a percentage. The simplest mean-reversion gauge on the page. Length 26
52	DIX	pane	By Commonly attributed to Steve Nison · Beyond Candlesticks, 1994 · source The same gap measured against an exponential average, so it responds faster than Bias does. Length 14
53	PGO	pane	By Mark Johnson · no primary publication verified · source The distance of the close from its average divided by typical range, so the stretch is measured in units of volatility rather than rupees. Period 14
54	FO	pane	By Tushar Chande · The New Technical Trader, 1994 · source The percentage gap between the actual close and what a trailing regression predicted for it. Period 14
55	PZO	pane	By Walid Khalil & David Steckler · S&C, June 2011 · source A bounded reading of how one-sided recent closes have been, with plus and minus 40 as the trend thresholds. Length 14

Bar strength and pressure7

Seven entries that read the anatomy of individual bars — where the close finished against the open, the range or the volume — rather than the distance between them.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
56	BOP	pane	By Igor Livshin · S&C, August 2001 · source Where the close finished relative to the open as a share of the bar range; positive means buyers ended the bar in control. Smoothing 14
57	Qstick	pane	By Tushar Chande · The New Technical Trader, 1994 · source An average of close minus open, so a persistent run of bullish candle bodies pushes it up. Period 10
58	RVI	pane	By John F. Ehlers · Rocket Science for Traders, 2001 · Cybernetic Analysis, 2004 · source The candle body measured against the candle range and smoothed, with a signal line. It asks whether closes are finishing strong. SMA Period 4
59	Bull/Bear	pane	By Dr. Alexander Elder · published as Elder-Ray Index · Trading for a Living, 1993 · source How far the high sits above a moving average and how far the low sits below it, plotted as two separate readings. EMA Period 13
60	FI	pane	By Dr. Alexander Elder · Trading for a Living, 1993 · source Price change multiplied by the volume behind it, which separates a move on real participation from a drift on none. Period 13
61	AO	pane	By Bill Williams · Trading Chaos, 1995 · source The gap between a fast and a slow average of the bar midpoint, drawn as a histogram around zero. Fast Period 5, Slow Period 34
62	AC	pane	By Bill Williams · Trading Chaos, 1995 · source The Awesome Oscillator minus its own average, which is momentum measured a second time and turns before the AO does. Fast Length 5, Slow Length 34, AO Smoothing 5

Cycle and filter oscillators5

Five entries that strip price down to its rhythm before measuring anything, so they turn far earlier than a conventional oscillator and are correspondingly less forgiving.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
63	Cycle	pane	By John F. Ehlers · published as Cyber Cycle · Rocket Science for Traders, 2001 · Cybernetic Analysis, 2004 · source The cyclic part of price once the trend is removed, with a trigger line one bar behind it. Crossings mark cycle turns and the region between the two is shaded to show which side of a turn you are on. 3 parameters
64	EBSW	pane	By John F. Ehlers · Rocket Science for Traders, 2001 · Cybernetic Analysis, 2004 · source Filtered price normalised by its own power, so it swings roughly between -1 and +1 whatever the instrument. High-Pass Period 40, Smoothing Period 10
65	CG	pane	By John F. Ehlers · Rocket Science for Traders, 2001 · Cybernetic Analysis, 2004 · source The centre of mass of the last N prices, as an offset from the middle of the window. It turns with essentially no lag. Length 10
66	Roofing	pane	By John F. Ehlers · Rocket Science for Traders, 2001 · Cybernetic Analysis, 2004 · source Strips the trend and then the noise, leaving the band of movement most oscillators should be fed instead of raw price. High-Pass Period 48, Low-Pass Period 10
67	NPT	pane	By John F. Ehlers · published as Fisher Transform · S&C, November 2002 · source Reshapes price into a sharper-tailed distribution, which makes turning points stand out more clearly than they do on raw price. Period 10

Squeeze and composite readings5

Five entries that combine more than one measurement into a single pane.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
68	SQZ	pane	By John F. Carter; Pine version by LazyBear · Mastering the Trade, 2005 · source A momentum histogram plus a squeeze flag reading 1 while volatility is coiled and 0 when it breaks back out. The flag is a state rather than a price, so read it from the legend; on the histogram scale it sits flat against zero. 4 parameters
69	SQZPRO	pane	By John F. Carter · Mastering the Trade, 2005 · source The same test graded from 0 to 3 against wide, normal and narrow channels rather than simply on or off. Like the plain squeeze, read the level from the legend. 6 parameters
70	STC	pane	By Doug Schaff · published as Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) · FX Strategy, 1999 · source A MACD put through two rounds of stochastic smoothing and clamped to 0 to 100, turning a slow signal into a fast bounded one. Fast EMA 23, Slow EMA 50, Cycle Period 10
71	WT	pane	By LazyBear · open-source Pine script, TradingView, 2014 · source A typical price normalised by its own average deviation and then smoothed. Reads like a CCI with far less whipsaw. 3 parameters
72	INERTIA	pane	By Donald Dorsey · S&C, September 1995 · source A volatility index put through a regression. Above 50 the market has upward inertia, below 50 downward. Regression Length 20, RVI Length 14

The remaining five5

Entries that do not sit inside any of the families above.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
73	NMO	pane	By Tushar Chande · published as Chande Momentum Oscillator (CMO) · The New Technical Trader, 1994 · source Up moves minus down moves over their total, on a -100 to +100 scale. An RSI without the smoothing. Period 9
74	UO	pane	By Larry Williams · S&C, July/August 1985 · source Buying pressure measured over three lookbacks at once and blended, so the reading does not depend on picking a single length. Period 1 7, Period 2 14, Period 3 28
75	TSI	pane	By William Blau · S&C, May 1992 · source Double-smoothed momentum against double-smoothed absolute momentum. A very clean line for how one-sided a move has been. Long EMA 25, Short EMA 13
76	BRAR	pane	By East Asian charting tradition · no single attributable originator Two sentiment ratios from the Chinese markets. One compares the distance above the open with the distance below it; the other does the same against the previous close. Length 26
77	HLV	pane	By Marc Chaikin · published as Chaikin Volatility · A/D Line, Oscillator and Money Flow — 1970s–80s · source The percentage change of a smoothed high-low spread against its own value N bars ago. The catalog files it under momentum although what it measures is volatility, so look for it here rather than on the volatility page. Period 10

The in-house momentum pack5

Five oscillators written for this app rather than taken from the standard catalogue. Four of them are the RSI reworked; the fifth reads the candles themselves.

SN	Short name	Draws	What it measures
78	e_rsi	pane	By TradingView community script, adapted · based on J. Welles Wilder Jr.'s RSI, 1978 — original script author still being identified An in-house, extra-smoothed version of the RSI bought-too-hard and sold-too-hard gauge. Length 14, Smooth 3, Amp 1
79	marsi	pane	By Classical technical analysis A smoothed average of the RSI, which makes turns in momentum easier to read. Length 20, MA Type 0
80	rsi_amp	pane	By TradingView community script, adapted · based on J. Welles Wilder Jr.'s RSI, 1978 — original script author still being identified The same RSI momentum gauge, with its swings magnified so they are easier to see. Period 14, Amp 1
81	rsi_double	pane	By Classical technical analysis Two RSI momentum gauges together, one fast and one slow, to spot turns early. Fast 7, Slow 14, Smooth 3, Range 100, Amp 1
82	pait	pane	By Amrit Shrestha — NChart Pro An in-house indicator that scores how each candle behaved, not just where it closed. Period 10

Relative rotation1

One entry that measures a stock against a benchmark, not against its own past.

SN	Preview	Indicator	Short name	Draws	What it measures
83			RS-Ratio	pane	By Julius de Kempenaer (Relative Rotation Graphs), public approximation · RRG Research — the exact JdK formula is unpublished; this is an approximation The two lines of a Relative Rotation Graph, both centred on 100. It must be given a stock price divided by a benchmark price, such as the NEPSE index; on a plain price chart the numbers mean nothing. RS-Ratio above 100 means the stock is doing better than the benchmark. RS-Momentum above 100 means that lead is growing faster than it has been on average lately. 4 parameters

Honest limits

What it does not do

A momentum indicator cannot tell you what price will do next. It describes the effort behind moves that have already happened, and effort fading is not the same as direction changing.
Overbought does not mean sell. In a strong trend an oscillator can sit above 70 for weeks while price keeps rising, and acting on the level alone is the most common way this category loses money.
Divergence fails often. It is a reason to tighten a stop or wait for a second signal, not a reversal trade on its own.
Several entries are best-effort implementations of indicators whose published formula is ambiguous, and they say so in their own catalog description: Trend Trigger Factor, Random Walk Index, Composite RSI and Exponential Momentum. Treat their shape as meaningful and their exact values as approximate.
Squeeze Momentum and Squeeze Pro plot a flag rather than a price. On the histogram scale that flag sits flat against zero and looks broken; it is not, and the legend shows its real value.
High-Low Range Volatility is categorised as momentum in this catalog even though it measures volatility. That is where the catalog puts it, so that is where the chart shows it.

FAQ

Questions people ask

RSI or Stochastic?

They answer slightly different questions. RSI compares the size of gains with the size of losses, so it reads the force of a move. The Stochastic asks where the close finished inside the recent range, so it reads position. In a range they will agree most of the time; in a trend the RSI stays stretched while the Stochastic resets more often.

What period should I use?

Start with the default and change the timeframe rather than the period. A 14 period RSI covers three and a half hours on a fifteen minute chart and about three trading weeks on a daily one, which is a far bigger change than moving 14 to 21.

Why do some of these have a shaded band and others only a dashed line at zero?

Bounded oscillators get the band, and the levels are the conventional ones for that specific indicator: 70 and 30 for the RSI, 80 and 20 for the Money Flow Index. Oscillators that swing around zero get a zero line instead. An oscillator whose thresholds are genuinely a matter of taste is left bare rather than given an invented level.

Can I put an RSI on an RSI?

Not directly, because a source has to be a single-line overlay and an RSI is a pane indicator. What you can do is compute an RSI over a moving average that is on the chart, which is the same idea and is what the Calculate on row is for. Stochastic RSI is the built-in version of this pattern.

Why are there five entries that are all rate of change?

They differ only in units — rupees, percentage, fraction, ratio and ratio times a hundred. Which you want depends on what you are comparing against, and having all five means you never have to convert by hand.