Learn technical analysis in order: mark support and resistance, compare candle patterns, then read triangles, channels, and range breaks with worked examples.
A pattern gets its meaning from the trend and nearby levels. Start with read your first candlestick chart.
Browse all subjects →Work from the wider price structure to the individual signal. These guides separate what a chart shows, what would confirm an interpretation, and what would contradict it; naming a pattern does not establish that a trade will be profitable.
Start with the surrounding swings, not the latest candle. Mark a price area before naming the signal that appears there.
Separate a useful area from an exact-price prediction.
Describe swing direction, overlap, and uncertain transitions.
Use the relevant prices and the preceding structure. A large candle or a narrowing shape is not enough to identify a setup.
Check open and close before including the wicks.
Follow both boundaries and locate a close relative to the line.
Once the basics are familiar, follow a sequence of completed candles. Distinguish an approach to a boundary from a break through it.
Compare a fast move, an orderly channel, and successive ranges.
Separate pressure near an edge from confirmation beyond it.
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Compare a hammer and shooting star with measured candle examples. Learn which wick matters, how the prior move changes the name, and why color alone is insufficient.
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Use visible swing reactions to mark support and resistance, distinguish a touch from a rejection, and define when a level has failed.
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Distinguish directional progress from repeated overlap, recognize a transition, and choose a method that fits the current market structure.
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Identify a complex pullback, compare it with a simple correction or reversal, and read ABC legs, confirmation levels, and remaining reward versus risk.
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Distinguish contracting and expanding price structures, identify their actual boundaries, and read the confirmed breakout without guessing from the outline.
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Recognize double tops and double bottoms, distinguish a second test from a completed reversal, and locate the neckline that confirms the direction.
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Identify head-and-shoulders tops and bottoms through their pivots and neckline, then distinguish the completed reversal from an unfinished outline.
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Count nested inside bars and inside-outside-inside sequences, mark their inner and outer boundaries, and connect a breakout to the surrounding trend.
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Identify inside and outside bars using complete highs and lows, distinguish them from body engulfing, and use context to choose a directional setup.
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Calculate range-height, equal-leg, and head-height projections with clear starting points, then compare each target with the nearest visible obstacle.
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Distinguish a fast impulse followed by a channel from a trend built through successive ranges, and recognize when directional progress starts to weaken.
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Identify rising and falling channels, distinguish trend lines from channel lines, and use shallow or deep pullbacks to judge the strength of a move.
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Identify rising and falling wedges, count three pushes with intervening pullbacks, and distinguish a confirmed reversal from a failed reversal attempt.
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Identify bullish and bearish engulfing patterns by comparing two candle bodies, then use location, confirmation, and invalidation to read the next move.
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Choose a bullish or bearish bias from the trend, signal location, and completed pattern, then define the trigger and the price that changes your view.
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Use doji and spinning tops to read a pause within a trend, identify reversal warnings at key levels, and follow the break that establishes direction.
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Recognize dragonfly and gravestone doji from their wicks and closing prices, then apply their bullish and bearish readings at support and resistance.
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Recognize a hammer or hanging man from its body, lower wick, and trend position, then learn the bullish and bearish triggers for each setup.
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Identify long-upper-wick candles and distinguish a bearish shooting star at resistance from a bullish inverted-hammer setup after a decline.
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Recognize the three candles of a morning or evening star, check the final close, and apply the bullish or bearish reversal method.
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Recognize these two-candle reversal signals using the body midpoint, then apply a bullish piercing pattern or bearish dark cloud cover at the right level.
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Identify a candle body reclaiming an earlier wick, distinguish a full reclaim from a brief touch, and use the completed pair to read trend continuation.
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Identify the five candles of rising and falling three methods, check the pullback boundaries, and use the final close to read bullish or bearish continuation.
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Recognize a push, contained pullback, and renewed push, then use green-red-green or red-green-red sequences to read bullish or bearish continuation.
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Identify three white soldiers and three black crows from their bodies, opens, and closes, then use the sequence to read bullish or bearish pressure.
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