Technical Analysis
Reading charts, support/resistance, trends, and price action
43 articles in this category
How to Read Stock Charts: A Complete Beginner's Guide
Stock charts are the trader's primary tool. Learn how to read candlesticks, volume, timeframes, and basic patterns in this comprehensive starter guide.
Support and Resistance: How to Identify Key Price Levels
Support and resistance are the most fundamental concepts in technical analysis. Learn how to draw and trade these critical price levels.
Trend Lines: How to Draw & Trade Them Correctly
Trend lines connect swing points to visualize market direction. Learn the right way to draw them and how to trade bounces and breakouts.
Volume Analysis: What Volume Tells You About a Stock's Move
Volume confirms price action. Learn how to read volume bars, spot climactic volume, identify accumulation and distribution, and filter false breakouts.
Bullish & Bearish Divergence: How to Spot Trend Reversals Early
Divergence between price and indicators signals weakening trends. Learn to spot bullish and bearish divergence for early reversal warnings.
Breakout Trading: How to Trade Price Breakouts Profitably
Breakout trading catches big moves when price breaks through key levels. Learn entry strategies, volume confirmation, and false breakout avoidance.
Price Action Trading: Reading the Market Without Indicators
Price action trading relies on raw candlestick data and chart structure instead of indicators. Learn this clean, direct approach to reading markets.
Gap Trading: How to Trade Gap Ups & Gap Downs
Stock gaps create opportunities for fast profits. Learn the four types of gaps, which ones fill and which run, and strategies for trading each type.
Relative Volume (RVOL): Why It's a Day Trader's Best Filter
Relative volume tells you whether a stock is trading more or less than usual. Learn why RVOL is the single best filter for finding stocks in play.
Multiple Time Frame Analysis: How Top Traders Use It
Top traders use multiple timeframes to get the full picture. Learn how to combine higher and lower timeframes for higher-probability trades.
Chart Timeframes Explained: Which One Should You Use?
Choosing the right chart timeframe is essential for your trading style. Learn the pros and cons of each timeframe from 1-minute to monthly charts.
Technical vs Fundamental Analysis: Which Is Better for Trading?
Should you use charts or financials to make trading decisions? Learn the key differences between technical and fundamental analysis and when to use each.
Stock Chart Patterns: The Complete Guide to 30+ Patterns
This definitive guide covers 30+ chart patterns every trader should know — from simple flags and triangles to advanced harmonic setups and candlestick combos.
What Is Volume in Stocks? Why It's the Most Underrated Indicator
Volume is the number of shares traded and one of the most overlooked indicators. Learn why volume matters and how it confirms (or invalidates) price moves.
Wyckoff Trading Method: Reading the Market Like a Composite Man
The Wyckoff trading method teaches you to think like the Composite Man — the collective force of smart money. Learn to read schematics and trade setups.
Candlestick Cheat Sheet: All 35 Patterns on One Page
Save this candlestick cheat sheet for quick reference. All 35 major patterns organized by type — bullish reversal, bearish reversal, and continuation.
Relative Strength: How to Find Stocks Outperforming the Market
Relative strength comparison helps you find the strongest stocks in the market. Learn how to measure, interpret, and use it to pick winning trades.
Renko Charts: Noise-Free Price Action for Trend Traders
Renko charts ignore time and only print bricks when price moves a set amount. The result is clean, noise-free trends.
Point and Figure Charts: The Classic Method for Filtering Noise
Point and figure charts are over 100 years old and still effective. They plot Xs for rising prices and Os for falling.
Tick Charts: Time-Free Charts for Scalpers & Day Traders
Tick charts plot one bar per N trades — not per time interval. During fast markets, they show detail that time charts miss.
Channel Trading: How to Draw & Trade Price Channels
Price channels are parallel trend lines that contain price movement. Buy at the bottom, sell at the top — until the channel breaks.
Mean Reversion Trading: Strategies for Buying the Dip
Prices stretched too far from the mean tend to snap back. Mean reversion strategies profit from that rubber-band effect.
Backtesting: How to Test a Trading Strategy Before Risking Money
Before risking real money, test your strategy on historical data. Backtesting shows what would have happened.
Market Profile & Footprint Charts: Institutional Volume Analysis
Market Profile shows where the market spent the most time and volume. Footprint charts reveal buyer vs seller aggression at each price.
Technical Analysis: The Complete Guide for Active Traders
Technical analysis studies price and volume to predict future moves. This guide covers everything from charts to indicators to setups.
What Is a Trend? Uptrends, Downtrends & Sideways Markets
Trends define the market's direction. Learn to identify uptrends, downtrends, and sideways ranges on any chart.
Accumulation & Distribution: How Smart Money Moves the Market
Institutions accumulate shares before a rally and distribute before a decline. Learn to read the signs.
Consolidation: What It Means & How to Trade the Breakout
Consolidation signals indecision before a big move. Learn to spot it and trade the breakout.
Pullbacks & Throwbacks: Buying Dips in an Uptrend
Pullbacks give you a second chance to enter a trending stock at a better price. Learn to time them.
Reversal Patterns: How to Spot a Trend Change Early
Reversals end existing trends. Learn the signals — from candlestick patterns to divergence — that warn you early.
Entry & Exit Points: How to Time Your Trades
Good entries and exits make or break a trade. Learn the signals and techniques for timing both.
Market Noise: How to Filter Out Random Price Fluctuations
Not every tick matters. Learn to separate meaningful price moves from random noise that leads to bad trades.
Whipsaw: When the Market Fakes You Out
Whipsaws are rapid reversals that trap traders on the wrong side. Learn why they happen and how to survive them.
Trading Zones: Why Support & Resistance Are Ranges, Not Lines
Support and resistance are areas, not exact lines. Learn why zones lead to better trades than precise price levels.
Dow Theory: The Foundation of Technical Analysis
Dow Theory laid the groundwork for all technical analysis. Learn the six tenets and why they still matter today.
Random Walk Theory: Can You Really Beat the Market?
Random walk theory says price changes are random and unpredictable. Learn the argument and the counterarguments from active traders.
Irrational Exuberance: How Market Bubbles Form & Why They Pop
Irrational exuberance pushes markets into bubble territory. Learn how bubbles form, the psychology behind them, and the warning signs.
How to Read Stock Charts: The Ultimate Visual Guide
Learn to read stock charts from scratch. This guide covers candlesticks, volume, indicators, patterns, and timeframes.
Historical Volatility: Measuring Past Price Movement
Historical volatility measures actual past price movement. Implied volatility measures expected future movement.
How to Read Stock Charts
Every successful trader shares one skill: reading stock charts — compressing thousands of data points into a visual story about supply and demand.
What Is Relative Volume?
Relative volume (RVOL) compares a stock's current trading volume to its average, answering whether a stock is trading more or less actively than usual.
Volume Analysis: How to Read Volume in Trading
Volume is the number of shares exchanged in a time period — the fuel that drives price movement and provides context that price alone cannot.
What Is Volume in Stock Trading?
Volume is the total number of shares traded for a security during a period — price tells you what happened, volume tells you how much conviction was behind it.