Stock Trading: Proven Technical Analysis Strategies (2026)

Learn to draw horizontal support and resistance lines, use repeated touches to gauge strength, and apply these levels to guide entries, exits, and price action across timeframes.

Apply fibonacci retracement from the move bottom to top to identify key support at 0.382, 0.5, and 0.618, and use extensions like 1.272 and 1.618 as targets in uptrends.

Use pivot points to identify intraday resistance and support on daily charts, then apply them on a five-minute chart for scalping, swings, and profit targets.

Explore Elliott wave theory to identify market cycles with five impulse waves, an ABC correction, and a safe entry at waves 2 and 4, using retracements and wave length targets.

Use exponential moving averages to identify trend signals with 12 and 26 crossovers; 12 above 26 is bullish, below bearish, with the 200 moving average as a divider.

Explore Parabolic SAR, shown as blue dots indicating trend. Signals indicate buys at the bottom and sells at the top, with caution for false signals and stop losses.

Use the MACD indicator with 12/26 moving averages and a 9-period signal to identify bullish and bearish crossovers, supported by price action and divergences; higher timeframes boost signal significance.

Analyze the Know Sure Thing (KST) indicator built from moving averages and four rate-of-change periods. Confirm signals with price action and divergences across timeframes, not in isolation.

Discover Ichimoku clouds: bullish signals arise when price sits above a green cloud and the blue line crosses the red baseline; bearish signals occur under the cloud.

Learn to use Bollinger Bands—the upper, middle, and lower lines—to spot overbought and oversold conditions and gauge big moves via band squeeze and expansion.

The lecture explains how the Keltner channel uses average true range around a 20-day EMA to identify trend changes, breakouts, and reversals, with guidance for intraday and longer-term trading.

Donchian channels gauge market volatility by plotting the highest high and lowest low over a 20-period window with a median line, signaling bullish or bearish moves when price crosses.

Learn how to use the RSI to identify overbought and oversold conditions, and combine trend lines and divergences with price patterns to time entries.

Explore the stochastic oscillator and stochastic RSI, compare their signals to price action, and trade with the bigger trend using oversold in bull trends and overbought in bear trends.

Discover how the Chaikin money flow CMF measures volume-based buying and selling pressure over 20 bars, using ±0.05 thresholds to complement price action and RSI.

Explore the money flow index, a price and volume oscillator that signals buying and selling pressure and identifies oversold or overbought conditions, with divergences and timeframes to avoid false signals.

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Learn to read stock charts, apply indicators and oscillators, and interpret patterns and candlesticks to forecast trends, with support and resistance guiding entry and exit points.

Learn to read stock charts using line, bar, and candlestick formats and study open, high, low, and close across daily to hourly time frames. Identify uptrends, consolidation patterns, and downtrends.

Identify and apply support and resistance levels—major and minor across time frames—to signal breakouts and reversals, guiding buy and sell decisions.

Use exponential moving averages to identify support and resistance, generate buy and sell signals with single or dual EMAs, and recognize golden and death cross patterns.

Explore the MACD indicator, combining 12- and 26-day EMAs with a 9-day signal line and zero line to signal bullish or bearish crossovers, divergences, and potential trend changes.

Learn to use the relative strength index (RSI) for stock trading, applying 14-day calculations, overbought and oversold signals, divergences, and RSI with support and resistance to time entries and exits.

Explore double top and double bottom reversal patterns, signaling trend reversals after testing resistance and support. See how breakouts trigger selling or shorting as bulls fade and bears gain control.

Explore head and shoulders reversal patterns in uptrends, including neckline breaks and psychology, with examples of long and short trades and stop placement.

Explore continuation patterns in stock charts, including triangles, flags, and pennants, that signal buy and sell opportunities in uptrends and downtrends using support, resistance, and exponential moving averages.

Study the cup and handle pattern, including the cup lip resistance, the flag-like handle, and the break signaling a buy, illustrated with an AMD chart example.

Thank you for completing the stock trading technical analysis course and exploring a variety of technical indicators and chart analysis tools to improve trading profitability.

Learn fast how to start with value investing, evaluate companies, and pick value stocks using three steps, margin of safety, and seven golden principles.

Learn how value investing identifies undervalued stocks by comparing market price to intrinsic value, and how to buy on bad news and sell on good news for profit.

Identify fundamentally strong, undervalued stocks with consistent growth in earnings, dividends, and cash flows; buy low, sell high as stock prices rebound through buybacks, splits, and mergers and acquisitions.

Differentiate price from value to identify undervalued stocks using relative, absolute, and perceived value, with financial ratios, intrinsic valuation, and qualitative insights.

Apply the margin of safety by comparing intrinsic value to market price to reduce risk. Aim for a margin of safety around 25–40 percent.

Master value investing by understanding what you buy and why, evaluating a company's business, competitors, risks, and intrinsic value, then stay updated and re-evaluate to minimize risk.

Invest in a cash rich business by prioritizing firms with abundant funds after debts and expenses, liquid assets, and a long dividend history, while evaluating management's use of cash.

Identify stocks with low debt and strong repayment capacity by analyzing liquidity and solvency ratios, comparing with peers, and ensuring cash flow covers short-term and long-term obligations.

Assess management quality, experience, and forward thinking, using efficiency ratios, to ensure a sustained competitive advantage and growth that rewards long-term shareholders.

Prioritize avoiding losses over gains by applying margin of safety, intrinsic value, and an entry and exit strategy with stop losses to minimize risk.

Invest for the long term by focusing on intrinsic value and operational performance. Resist daily price noise, buy at a discount, and patiently wait for price to reflect value.

Know when to sell stocks by weighing intrinsic value against market price, earnings surprises, news-driven moves, volatility, and dividend cuts to time selling and repurchasing.

Identify and measure a company's economic moat, understand its width, and why it protects cash flow; compare profitability and efficiency ratios to competitors and industry averages to reveal long-term winners.

Explore how Warren Buffett’s economic moat concept protects long-term profitability by building sustainable competitive advantages; learn indicators of wide moats, including cost advantage, network effects, and switching costs.

Larger firms gain a size advantage through economies of scale, lowering costs and building an economic moat. They deter rivals and grow via acquisitions, as Apple demonstrates with Beats.

Explore how unique intangible assets like patents, brand names, copyrights, and licenses create economic moats, enabling premium pricing and protected products while assessing brand profitability for investors.

Explore how the network effect drives growth and competitive advantage by expanding the user base, increasing product value, and creating durable moats for platforms like Facebook.

Learn how companies build lasting competitive advantage by embedding high switching costs into their operations and marketing, boosting customer retention, pricing power, and long-term profitability.

Learn a complete value investing roadmap: assess financially strong companies, estimate intrinsic value with discounted cash flow, apply margin of safety, and time buys and sells with technical analysis.

Learn how compound interest and long-term investing grow wealth, with practical strategies like the 90/10 rule and value stocks to turn small monthly investments into substantial returns.

Discover four streams of passive income by investing in exchange-traded funds, value stocks, dividend stocks, and real estate investment trusts to grow wealth with a diversified, long-term portfolio.

Learn to choose reliable stockbrokers and powerful trading platforms, set up two accounts for low fees, and apply a moving average crossover strategy (60/180 day) using thinkorswim to identify uptrends.