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Technical Analysis: Intermediate

Level 2 of the technical analysis course. Foundations taught the pieces — structure, levels, candles, patterns, indicators. This level puts them together: reading three timeframes in order, what volume can and cannot tell you in a CFD market, how the trading day is structured, which instruments move together, and how the pieces become a setup you can test. Assumes the Foundations course.

Intermediate 18 of 18 parts

Level 2 of 3. Assumes the Foundations course — structure, patterns and the core indicators — and puts the pieces together into a setup you can repeat.

InnoMP Research cover art — a price line turning at the same two horizontal levels
Multi-timeframe analysis
  1. Top-down analysis: reading three timeframes in a fixed order
  2. Higher-timeframe levels: carrying the daily chart down to the hourly
  3. Multi-timeframe confluence: what agreement between charts is worth
  4. When timeframes disagree: pullback, or the start of a reversal?
Volume and participation
  1. Tick volume in forex and CFDs: what it measures and what it cannot
  2. Volume at breakouts and climaxes: confirmation or exhaustion?
  3. Effort versus result: when heavy volume moves price very little
Session behaviour
  1. Session opens and the Asian range: how a trading day is structured
  2. Session reference levels: yesterday's high and low, the daily open and the week
  3. Daily candles and server time: why your chart differs from someone else's
Correlation between instruments
  1. Correlation between instruments: what moves together, and for how long
  2. The dollar leg: why the major pairs are often one trade
  3. Relative strength across pairs: choosing the pair by comparing its legs
  4. Correlated positions: when two trades are one
Building a repeatable setup
  1. Anatomy of a trading setup: context, trigger, invalidation, target
  2. Entry triggers: close, retest or limit — and what each one costs
  3. Managing the open trade: partials, break-even and trailing, priced honestly
  4. Testing a setup by hand: sample size, the record, and what works means