Trading emotions
FOMO: chasing the move you already missed
The setup came and went without you. Then price runs, and entering late feels urgent. Why chased entries carry the worst risk-reward on the chart.
5 min read
Research / Tag
Market structure
Reading what price is actually doing — levels, swings, breaks and pullbacks.
14 articles
Tagged “Market structure”
Market structure
Breakouts and false breakouts: why most breaks fail
The break of a level is the most-watched event on any chart and the least reliable. What separates a break that holds from one that traps you.
7 min read
Market structure
Trading timeframes explained: which chart should you use?
The 5-minute and the daily chart show the same market and can look completely different. This guide explains what a timeframe is, how to pick one, and why traders use two together.
7 min read
Chart patterns
Head and shoulders, double tops and double bottoms
The reversal patterns everyone knows, explained through the structure that actually produces them — and the neckline that decides whether they mean anything.
7 min read
Market structure
Pullbacks and retracements: where trend entries belong
Buying a trend at its high is the most common way to be right about direction and lose money anyway. Why the entry price changes everything.
7 min read
Candlesticks
How to read a price chart: candlesticks explained simply
Line, bar and candlestick charts show the same data three ways. This guide explains what each one records, what a candle's body and wick mean, and why candlesticks became the standard.
7 min read
Market structure
Swing highs and lows: reading market structure
The skeleton beneath every chart pattern. How to spot the turning points mechanically, and how their order tells you when a trend has actually ended rather than paused.
7 min read
Support & resistance
Support and resistance explained for beginners
The most useful lines on any chart, and the most commonly drawn wrong. What these levels actually are, how to draw them as zones, and why a broken support becomes resistance.
8 min read
Trend
Trend or range? How to tell what a market is doing
Before any indicator or pattern, answer one question: is this market going somewhere or going sideways? Getting it wrong means every tool you use afterwards is the wrong tool.
7 min read
Support & resistance
How to draw trendlines and channels correctly
A trendline is support and resistance that moves. This guide shows how to draw one that is defensible, why two touches are not enough, and what a channel adds.
7 min read
Chart patterns
Triangles, wedges and rectangles: patterns of compression
Four shapes that all describe the same thing — a market narrowing toward a decision. What each one's slope tells you, and why the breakout direction is not as predetermined as textbooks suggest.
6 min read
Beginner
What is technical analysis? A beginner's guide
A price chart is a record of what buyers and sellers actually did. This guide explains what technical analysis is, what it can and cannot tell you, and how to read your first chart — starting from zero.
8 min read
Market structure
How to trade gold CFDs: a framework for XAUUSD
What actually moves gold, how the XAUUSD contract works, the sessions that matter, and a sizing approach that respects the metal's volatility.
7 min read
Stop-loss
Stop losses: placement is the decision, not presence
Having a stop is table stakes. Where it sits determines whether it protects the account or simply donates to the market on schedule.
6 min read
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