Technical Analysis: Foundations
A twenty-part beginner course in reading price charts. Starts from what a candlestick actually records and builds to the indicators inside InnoMP Market Watcher. Every part is written for someone who has never opened a chart, with diagrams at each step.
Foundations 20 of 20 parts
Level 1 of 3. Start here — no prior knowledge assumed. Intermediate and Professional levels follow.
Foundations
- What is technical analysis? A beginner's guide
- How to read a price chart: candlesticks explained simply
- Trading timeframes explained: which chart should you use?
- Trend or range? How to tell what a market is doing
Market structure
- Support and resistance explained for beginners
- How to draw trendlines and channels correctly
- Swing highs and lows: reading market structure
- Breakouts and false breakouts: why most breaks fail
- Pullbacks and retracements: where trend entries belong
Candlestick reading
- Candlestick anatomy: what one candle tells you
- Candlestick reversal patterns that are worth knowing
- Continuation patterns: when a pause is not a reversal
Chart patterns
- Head and shoulders, double tops and double bottoms
- Triangles, wedges and rectangles: patterns of compression
- Measuring moves: turning a pattern into a target
Indicators