A pair is two currencies. When the euro is the strongest major and the dollar the weakest, EURUSD moves further than either leg alone. How to rank currencies, and why strongest against weakest trends cleanest.
The dollar is on one side of 88% of all FX trades, and every major pair has it as a leg. Most of what a major does is the dollar doing it. What the dollar index measures, and how to tell a euro move from a dollar move.
When the daily, the 4-hour and the 1-hour point the same way a trade has more behind it — if the reasons are independent. How to count confluence honestly, and why two indicators on one chart are one reason.
Direction from the higher chart, the setup on the trading chart, the trigger from the lower one — and why the order is the whole method. Level 2 of the technical analysis course starts here.
The lower chart is falling while the higher one is rising. Most of the time that is a pullback — the setup you were waiting for. Occasionally it is the higher trend ending. How to tell which, with the structure test.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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