Candlesticks
Continuation patterns: when a pause is not a reversal
Inside bars, flags and pennants. How to tell a trend catching its breath from a trend running out of it — and why the two look similar for the first few candles.
6 min read
Tagged “Trend”
Indicators
Moving averages: the indicator everything else is built on
A smoothed line of past prices, and the four honest uses it has. Why crossovers lag, and what a moving average genuinely tells you that price alone does not.
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
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
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
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