Technical Analysis: Technical Analysis Like the Pros!

Explore the trading view platform, its basic versus full charts, and how to customize time frames, candlesticks, drawing tools, and the data window with prices and volume.

Continue the TradingView tutorial, exploring fibonacci and gann patterns, retracements, drawing tools, moving averages, indicators, templates, and watch lists for stocks and forex.

Explore the types, advantages, and pitfalls of technical indicators, including trend following moving averages, momentum indicators like MACD, and price oscillators, with examples on trend, range, and momentum signals.

Learn how moving averages are calculated from price data and explore simple moving averages, exponential moving average, adaptive moving average, and whole moving average, plus smooth variants.

Learn how MACD uses 12 and 26 EMAs to form the MACD line, a 9-period signal line, and a histogram to analyze convergence, divergence, crossovers, and momentum for trades.

Learn how Bollinger bands determine volatility and mean reversion to forecast price movements, calculate with a 20-bar moving average and two standard deviations, and spot overbought or oversold trades.

Learn how to calculate and interpret the Keltner channel, using a 20-bar EMA and ATR to form bands that signal bullish or bearish bias and guide entries and exits.

Explore momentum indicators, including absolute price change and rate of change; learn to calculate, read charts, interpret signals, and combine with moving averages to generate entries and exits.

Discover how the average directional index (adx) measures trend strength, not direction. Learn how adx uses positive dmi, negative dmi, highs, lows, and true range to gauge momentum on charts.

Explore how the volume profiler reads volume by price level rather than time to reveal support and resistance, using up and down volume and the profiler line on forex charts.

Learn how oscillators indicate market conditions, identify overbought and oversold zones, and guide range trading in sideways markets using RSI and stochastic signals and moving-average crossovers.

Master the RSI oscillator by understanding its calculation, overbought and oversold signals, and how to apply moving averages for range and trend trades.

Learn how to calculate and read the stochastic oscillator, including percentage k and d, 14-bar range, and 3-bar smoothing, to identify overbought and oversold conditions and guide trading decisions.

Money flow index (MFI) integrates volume into its 14-bar calculation, reads chart data to signal overbought and oversold zones for better trading decisions.

Explore the Chaikin oscillator, which integrates volume and a zero-line scale to read momentum shifts above and below zero and guide trading decisions with other indicators.

Learn the Klinger oscillator, a volume-driven indicator using highs, lows, closes and volume to form a volume force, plotted against a zero line with a 13-bar signal line guiding trades.

Explore the percentage price oscillator (ppo) calculated from 12- and 26-period moving averages, with zero line, signal line, and histogram. Learn to read crossovers, slope, and divergence for trading decisions.

Identify and interpret price action patterns using bar data—high, open, low, close—based on the current bar to inform entry and exit decisions across timeframes, not indicators.

Identify and interpret price pivot patterns to spot turning points and guide trading decisions, using pivot highs and lows, basic and extended pivots, and moving-average context.

Explore inside and outside bar patterns, learn how to identify them on charts, interpret their signaling of volatility and potential breakouts, and use them with other indicators for trading decisions.

Identify price gaps, including filled gaps, runaway gaps, and abandoned baby, by comparing the current bar’s open with the prior bar’s close, then use market context to guide trading decisions.

Identify consecutive highs and lows on a chart, interpret up and down patterns, and use them with volume and a moving average to inform entry and exit decisions.

Key reversal patterns indicate potential reversals in the current trend on price charts by comparing the prior bar’s range to the current bar’s body, guiding entries with volume and indicators.

Identify chart patterns and distinguish them from price action patterns to see the market's big picture. Interpret support, resistance, and trend lines across timeframes to gauge market bias.

Identify and interpret support and resistance on price charts, recognizing price floors and ceilings and how repeated points strengthen these levels for potential reversals or breakouts to guide trading decisions.

Explore how trend lines define uptrends and downtrends by connecting price pivots with slope. Learn to identify, interpret, and use them across time frames for breakout and reversal signals.

Identify price channels as two parallel lines bounding price on a chart, and learn how breakouts align with the major trend and how horizontal channels indicate range trading.

Identify triangle price patterns—symmetric, ascending, and descending—and interpret their converging lines and apex. Use insights to guide trading decisions with potential breakouts, noting price pressure directions and time frame variability.

Identify the head and shoulders reversal pattern (and inverted form) on price charts, interpret its implications for trend reversals, and time breakouts or breakdowns using the neckline.

Analyze double top and double bottom reversal patterns to identify trend reversals on price charts, use necklines for entry signals, and combine with other indicators to guide traders' decisions.

Learn how flag patterns form after a strong move, identify flag patterns as channels or triangles, and use them with other indicators to guide trading decisions.

Learn Fibonacci retracement, using 23.6, 38.2, 61.8, and 78.6% levels as support and resistance to inform trading decisions, reversals, and breakouts.

Identify convergence and divergence on price charts using macd and three pivot points to anticipate breakouts. Learn how traders apply these signals with other indicators across multiple time frames.

Apply multiple time frames on price charts, such as daily and 60-minute, to form market bias, optimize timing, and decide on short or long trades.

Learn to determine the prevailing market bias using a larger time frame and a trend-following indicator like a moving average, then adjust long or short setups on smaller time frames.

Learn how to combine market bias with technical indicators to time entry points, using moving averages, MACD, and Bollinger bands, and refine timing with price action patterns to optimize trades.

Dynamic indicators adjust with market conditions to optimize trading strategies and set adaptive stop losses and profit targets using percentage-based calculations.

Master risk and money management to protect capital and pursue consistent profits. Learn position sizing, setting stops, adding to winning trades, and maintaining realistic expectations amid market swings.