Technical Analysis

From reading your first chart to building and testing a trading system, in 28 short lessons.

Getting Started with Charts

  1. 01What Technical Analysis Is (and Isn't)
  2. 02Reading a Chart Without Getting Lost
  3. 03The Candlestick: The Story in One Bar
  4. 04Timeframes, Log Scales and Misleading Charts

Market Structure & Levels

  1. 05Dow Theory: The Idea Behind Every Chart
  2. 06The Trend and When It Bends
  3. 07Support and Resistance: Where Price Remembers
  4. 08Channels, Ranges and Breakouts
  5. 09Fibonacci: A Map for Pullbacks

Candlestick Patterns

  1. 10Single Candles That Hint at a Turn
  2. 11Two- and Three-Candle Patterns
  3. 12Why a Pattern Only Matters in Context

Chart Patterns

  1. 13Tops and Bottoms: Head and Shoulders, Double and Triple Tops and Bottoms
  2. 14Pauses, Not Reversals: Flags, Pennants, Triangles and Rectangles
  3. 15Gaps: Common, Breakaway, Runaway and Exhaustion

Indicators

  1. 16Moving averages
  2. 17RSI and momentum oscillators
  3. 18MACD: trend and momentum in one
  4. 19Bollinger Bands, ATR and volatility
  5. 20Volume indicators: OBV, MFI and money flow
  6. 21Trend strength: ADX, DMI and Aroon
  7. 22Tools on price: Supertrend, Parabolic SAR and Ichimoku
  8. 23Combining indicators without fooling yourself
  9. 24The wider indicator toolbox: a categorized overview

From Analysis to Action

  1. 25Top-Down Multiple-Timeframe Analysis
  2. 26From Setup to System: Rules, Backtesting and Avoiding Overfitting
  3. 27Risk First: Position Sizing and Stops
  4. 28Psychology, Discipline, the Trading Journal and What's Next