Practical Technical Analysis with Trading Strategies

Explore fundamental analysis across stocks, cryptos, and forex, examining financial records, management, and industry health. Assess macro indicators, valuation metrics, debt, and tokenomics to gauge value and growth.

Draw and adjust trend lines from swing highs and swing lows to identify trends, detect trend changes, and time trade entries and exits.

Explore time frames as lenses for market analysis, from one second to daily candles, and connect them to scalping, intraday, swing, and positional trading, with multi-time-frame analysis introduced.

Explore candlestick, bar, and heikin-ashi charts in TradingView to learn the most used chart types for practical technical analysis.

Learn how Heikin-ashi charts smooth price action by averaging current and prior candles to reveal trends. Use these charts for trend confirmation, not entries, and note difference from ohlc prices.

Explore inverted hammer and shooting star candlesticks, with wick size at least twice the body, in downtrends and uptrends, and learn confirmation signals alongside hammer and hanging man patterns.

Explore bullish and bearish harami inside bar candlestick patterns, noting how a downtrend or uptrend precedes reversals, and distinguish harami from inside bar by body engulfment versus highs and lows.

Master drawing support and resistance by using close values or highs and lows, with horizontal and area tools. See how price reacts at confluence across charts to identify probable reversals.

Apply technical analysis to trading by studying price action, candlestick patterns, trendlines, volume, chart patterns, and indicators like moving averages, MACD, RSI, Bollinger bands, VWAP, and pivot points.

Learn to identify rounding tops and bottoms as rare long-term reversal patterns on higher time frames, and evaluate breakouts with arc visualization, support and resistance, and volume.

Identify rising and falling wedges as key reversal patterns with contracting swings and trend-line breaks signaling reversals. Learn to estimate targets from swing heights across stocks, crypto, forex, and metals.

Explore technical indicators derived from price and volume data to forecast moves, identify trading opportunities, and confirm trends with moving averages, RSI, MACD, VWAP, OBV, alongside price action.

Rely on moving averages in strong trends, not sideways markets, because they lag and can generate whipsaw signals. Use averages with price action, monitor slope, and tailor periods to volatility.

Learn how the relative strength index (RSI) functions as a momentum oscillator, measuring gains and losses to identify overbought and oversold conditions, divergences, and trend strength, with caveats.

Master the rate of change (ROC) momentum indicator, measuring percentage price change over a set period to reveal trend strength, divergences, and signals alongside RSI and MACD.

Learn how the VWAP (volume weighted average price) blends price and volume to reveal intraday trends, act as dynamic support and resistance, and guide breakout and mean reversion trades.

Explore Bollinger bands, a volatility tool using a 20-period simple moving average and two standard deviations to identify breakouts, mean reversion, and overbought or oversold conditions.

Pivot points define support and resistance from prior day action to guide entries, exits, and stops. Compare standard, Fibonacci, and camarilla pivots for intraday range and breakout strategies.

Explore how Fibonacci retracements and extensions illuminate Elliott waves, identifying corrective levels and trend targets to guide entry points and profit targets on charts.

Explore market, limit, stop loss, and trailing orders to understand instant execution, price precision, slippage risk, and how trailing stops lock profits.

Discover how to set stop losses using strategy-based rules, volatility-based ATR, and market-structure cues like swing highs/lows and supports/resistances, with execution at market price.

Learn to master position sizing by allocating capital per trade according to risk per trade and stop loss, ensuring losses stay within a set percentage of capital.

Understand leverage as margin, borrowing funds to control larger positions, amplifying gains and losses, and avoid high leverage as a beginner to preserve capital.

Learn the open high, low with vwap (ohlv) intraday strategy for five- and 15-minute charts, with long and short setups, swing lows, and a 1:2 risk-reward.