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Technical Analysis

From your first candlestick to full price-action trading. Every lesson teaches on real-looking charts, then makes you draw the trendline, spot the pattern, and place the trade yourself — on a simulator, with zero risk.

8 stages · 91 lessons · interactive
Stage 114 lessons

Chart Reading Foundations

Master candlestick patterns, support/resistance, and volume basics.

  1. What Is a Price Chart
  2. Anatomy of a Candlestick
  3. Anatomy of a Trend
  4. Rising Trendlines & the 3-Touch Rule
  5. Falling Trendlines & the Full Toolkit
  6. Breaks, Retests & Redrawing Discipline
  7. Channels — The Full Trend Envelope
  8. Bullish Flags — The Shape of a Healthy Pullback
  9. Drawing Horizontal Levels & Why They Hold
  10. Breaks & Retests — The Role-Reversal Play
  11. Zones, Confluence & Level Strength
  12. Bullish Candlestick Patterns
  13. Bearish Signals & Indecision Candles
  14. Pattern Recognition Challenge
Stage 213 lessons

Chart Patterns

Identify and trade classical chart patterns.

  1. Why Patterns Form — The Psychology Behind Them
  2. Double Tops and Double Bottoms
  3. Head and Shoulders (and Inverse)
  4. Triple Tops and Bottoms
  5. Cup and Handle
  6. Ascending and Descending Triangles
  7. Symmetrical Triangles
  8. Flags and Pennants
  9. Wedges (Rising and Falling)
  10. Rectangles and Ranges
  11. Pattern Confirmation and Failure — When to Trust a Breakout
  12. Pattern Spotting Challenge
Stage 310 lessons

Moving Averages & Trend Analysis

Use moving averages to identify and trade trends.

  1. Simple Moving Average (SMA) — Construction and Meaning
  2. Exponential Moving Average (EMA) — Why It Reacts Faster
  3. Choosing MA Periods (20, 50, 100, 200)
  4. Moving Average Crossovers (Golden Cross, Death Cross)
  5. MAs as Dynamic Support and Resistance
  6. Moving Average Ribbons
  7. Trend Identification — Higher Highs/Lows, Lower Highs/Lows
  8. Trend Strength Assessment
  9. Trading With the Trend vs Against It
  10. Trend Trading Challenge
Stage 412 lessons

Oscillators & Momentum Indicators

Master RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, and other key indicators.

  1. What Oscillators Measure and Why They Exist
  2. RSI Deep Dive — Overbought/Oversold, Centerline, Failure Swings
  3. RSI Divergence — Bullish and Bearish
  4. MACD — Signal Line, Histogram, Zero Line
  5. MACD Divergence and Crossover Strategies
  6. Stochastic Oscillator — %K, %D, Overbought/Oversold
  7. Bollinger Bands — Squeeze, Walk the Bands, Mean Reversion
  8. ATR (Average True Range) — Measuring Volatility
  9. CCI (Commodity Channel Index)
  10. Williams %R
  11. Combining Oscillators — What Works Together, What's Redundant
  12. Indicator Challenge
Stage 510 lessons

Volume Analysis

Read volume to confirm moves and spot reversals.

  1. Why Volume Matters More Than Most Traders Think
  2. Volume and Price Confirmation
  3. Volume Spikes — What They Signal
  4. On-Balance Volume (OBV)
  5. VWAP — Volume Weighted Average Price
  6. Volume Profile — Point of Control, Value Area
  7. Accumulation/Distribution Line
  8. Chaikin Money Flow
  9. Volume at Breakouts — Real vs Fake
  10. Volume-Based Trading Challenge
Stage 612 lessons

Advanced TA Concepts

Fibonacci, Wyckoff, Elliott Wave, supply/demand zones, and market structure.

  1. Fibonacci Retracements — Origin, Key Levels (38.2%, 50%, 61.8%)
  2. Fibonacci Extensions — Projecting Targets
  3. Pivot Points — Daily, Weekly, Monthly
  4. Supply and Demand Zones vs Support/Resistance
  5. Order Blocks — What Institutional Traders Leave Behind
  6. Liquidity Concepts — Where Stops Cluster and Why Price Hunts Them
  7. Fair Value Gaps / Imbalances
  8. Market Structure — Break of Structure (BOS), Change of Character (CHoCH)
  9. Wyckoff Method — Accumulation, Distribution, Markup, Markdown
  10. Elliott Wave Basics — Impulse and Corrective Waves
  11. Ichimoku Cloud — All Five Components Explained
  12. Advanced Concept Challenge
Stage 710 lessons

Price Action Trading

Trade with naked charts using pure price action.

  1. What Price Action Trading Is — Trading Naked Charts
  2. Key Levels — How to Identify the Levels That Actually Matter
  3. Pin Bars, Inside Bars, Outside Bars as Trade Signals
  4. Engulfing Patterns at Key Levels
  5. Breakout and Retest Trading
  6. Fakeouts and Trap Patterns (Bull Traps, Bear Traps)
  7. Range Trading — Identifying and Trading Ranges
  8. Trend Continuation Entries — Pullbacks and Flags
  9. Trading the Open — First 30 Minutes Price Action
  10. Price Action Challenge
Stage 810 lessons

Building a Trading System

Design, backtest, and validate your own trading system.

  1. What a Trading System Is and Why You Need One
  2. Choosing Your Timeframe and Market
  3. Defining Entry Rules — What Needs to Be True to Enter
  4. Defining Exit Rules — Stop Loss, Take Profit, Trailing Stops
  5. Confluence — When Multiple Signals Align
  6. Backtesting Your Strategy — Manual and Conceptual
  7. Forward Testing / Paper Trading Protocol
  8. Optimization vs Curve Fitting — The Trap
  9. When Your System Stops Working and What to Do
  10. Build-Your-Own-System Challenge

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