TSLA 2024 — Heikin-Ashi + Ichimoku + VWAP

🔍 One of the major goals of market analysis is to understand how prices move and how trends/cycles emerge over time.

But explaining these dynamics is tricky—even for practitioners. As any trader will tell you: sometimes, explaining risk management to a newcomer is harder than placing the trades themselves! 😅

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📉 The Reality Behind Price Action

Markets don’t move in straight lines. They trend, consolidate, and revert—these are the rhythms of price cycles.

Understanding these movements helps to:

• anticipate momentum shifts,
• design robust trading/hedging rules, and
• make more informed portfolio decisions.

I illustrated this by analyzing Tesla (TSLA) in 2024 with a different toolkit:

• Heikin-Ashi (smoothed candles)
• Ichimoku (Tenkan/Kijun + Kumo Cloud)
• Anchored VWAP (volume-weighted mean price)
• Stochastic %K/%D (momentum oscillator)
• OBV & Volume (M) (flow/participation)

📊 Visualization

Legend:

• Heikin-Ashi: Smoothed price candles
• Tenkan (9) / Kijun (26): Ichimoku baselines
• Kumo Cloud: Span A/B volatility cloud
• VWAP: Anchored volume-weighted average price
• %K/%D: Stochastic oscillator
• OBV / Volume (M): On-Balance Volume & traded volume

🧰 Methodology & Data

• Period: 2024-01-01 → 2024-12-31
• Data source: Yahoo Finance via yfinance
• Indicators: Heikin-Ashi, Ichimoku, VWAP, Stoch %K/%D, OBV, Volume
• Tools used: Python (pandas, plotly)

🧠 Why It Matters

Whether in cooking, medicine, or markets—precision matters.

• In cooking: a wrong dose can ruin the dish.
• In medicine: a milligram too much can have serious consequences.
• In trading: misreading a signal or reacting late can deepen drawdowns or miss opportunities.

📚 Suggested Readings

• Hosoda, G. — Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
• Murphy, J. (1999) — Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

🏷️ Tags

#TSLA, #Ichimoku, #HeikinAshi, #VWAP, #Stochastic, #OBV, #TechnicalAnalysis, #Plotly, #Python, #yfinance