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Kijun-sen

The Ichimoku baseline, the midpoint of the highest high and lowest low over the last twenty-six periods, treated as the medium-term equilibrium.

The kijun-sen is the system's anchor. Price above it is considered constructive, and its flat sections mark price levels where the market has been in balance, which often act as magnets when price extends away from them.

A cross of the tenkan-sen above the kijun-sen is the classic bullish trigger, roughly analogous to a moving-average-crossover but computed from range midpoints instead of closes.

Traders also use distance from the kijun-sen as an extension measure: price far above it is stretched and has historically tended to revert toward it, though as with all mean-reversion observations, strong trends can stay stretched for a long time.

Related: ichimoku-kinko-hyo, tenkan-sen, moving-average-crossover, mean-reversion, kumo-cloud

See it drawn

Original diagrams for the ideas on this page. Illustrative, not real market data.

A fast and a slow moving average crossingA jagged price line with two smoother average lines through it; the fast average dips below the slow one on the left and cuts back above it in the middle, where a circle marks the crossing.pricefast averageslow averagefast crosses belowfast crosses abovethe slow averageAverages of recent closes; the fast one reacts sooner than the slow one.
Fast and slow moving averages crossing. A moving average is the average of the last few closing prices, redrawn each period. An average over fewer periods turns sooner than one over many, so the two lines cross whenever the recent pace of the market changes.

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