Technical Analysis Basic Education

An introduction to technical analysis, a method of tracking chart patterns to discern price and volume trends, evaluate investments and identify trading opportunities.
Paper Trade
Whaওt Is a Paper Trade? Definition, Meaning, and How to Trade
A trader uses a laptop to examine technical trading patterns shown on a candlestick chart.
Using Bullish Candlestick Patterns to Buy Stocks
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Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio
New York Stock Exchange Announces Merger With Deutsche Borse
Notional Value vs. Market Value: What's the Difference?
Exponential Moving Average (EMAV)
How Is the Exponen﷽tial Moving Average (EMA♔) Formula Calculated?
Arithmetic Mean
Arithmetic Mean: Definiti🐼onꦛ, Limitations, and Alternatives
Average True Range
Av𝕴erage True Range (ATR) Formula, Wh📖at It Means, and How to Use It
Bullish Engulfing Pattern
Bullish Engulfing Pattern: Def♛inition, E💖xample, and What It Means
Candlestick
Candlestick Chart Definition and Basics Explained
What is EMA? How to Use E🔜xponential Moving Average With Form🍃ula
Fibonacci Retracement Levels
What Are Fi♐bonacci Retracement Levels, and What Do They Tell You?
Head and Shoulders Pattern
What Is aဣ Head and Shouldersꦬ Chart Pattern in Technical Analysis?
Ichimoku Cloud
What Is the Ichimoku Cloud Technical A🐻nalysis Indicator?
MACD
What Is MACD?
Moving Average
Movi🌞ng 🗹Average (MA): Purpose, Uses, Formula, and Examples
On Balance Volume (OBV)
On-Balance Volume (OBV): D🐻efinition, Formula, and Uses As Indicator
Relative Strength Index (RSI) Indicator
Rel💛ative Strength Index (RSI) Indicator Explained With Formula
Simple Moving Average (SMA): The average of a selected range of prices, usually closing prices, by the number of periods in that range.
Simple Moꦗving Average (SMA): What It Is and the Formula
Stochastic Oscillator: A momentum indicator comparing a particular closing price of a security to a range of its prices over a certain period of time.
Stochastic Osc🌳illator: What It Is, How It Works, How To Calculate
Trendline
Trendline: What It Is, How 𒐪To Use It in Inve൲sting, With Examples
A trader uses a laptop showing a stock chart to identify price points showing support and resistance levels on the stock.
Support and Resistance Basics
Bear Trap: When a security or index appears to be in decline but is actually about to rise in value.
Bear Traps: What They Are and🐼 How to Avoid Them in Trading
Capitulation
Ca𝓀pitulation: What It Is in Finance and Investing, With Examples
Dead Cat Bounce
Dead Cat Bounce: What It Means in Inves🥀ting, With𓂃 Examples
Death Cross
Death Cross Definition: How and When It Happens
Goldencross
Golden Cross Patte🐈rn Explained With Examples and Charts
Price Target: An analyst's projection of a security's future price.
Price Target: How ♌to Understand and Calculate Pluဣs Accuracy
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How to Calculate the Beta of a Private Company
A stock trader on the stock exchange floor watching trades on a computer
RSI Indicator: Buy and Sell Signals
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How to Draw Fibonacci Levels
Bid and ask chart on digital screen
How to Calculate the Bid-Ask Spread
Retracement vs. Reversal: What's the Difference?
Bull and bear, by sculptor Reinhard Dachlauer, in front of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Relative Strength Index vs. Stochastic Oscillator: What's the Difference?
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⭕Mov🌼ing Average, Weighted Moving Average, and Exponential Moving Average
52-W😼eek High/Low: Definition, Role in Trading, an💞d Example
Backtesting: Evaluating the effectiveness of a trading strategy by running it against historical data.
Backtesting: Definit⭕🅰ion, How It Works, and Downsides
Darvas Box Theory: A trading strategy that favors buying into stocks that are trading at new highs on correspondingly high volumes.
Darvas Box Theory: Deve💧lopment, Definition,🐬 and the Insights of Nicolas Darvas
Descending Triangle: What It Is, What Iꦉt🦄 Indicates, Examples
Trader looking at charts on laptop and mobile device
What Is Market Seꦐntiment? Definition, Indicator Types, and Example
Money Flow Index
Money Flow Index (MFI): Definition and Uses
Momentum Investme🐻nt: Meaning, Formula, Controversy
Pivot Point
Pi♚vot Point: Defini𓂃tion, Formulas, and How to Calculate
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Rate of Change (ROC) Indicator: Definition and𓃲 Formula
Resistance: What It Is and How It’s Affected
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Unpacking the ♉Smart Beta Strategy: What Inꦍvestors Need to Know
Stochastic RSI
Stochastic R🧸SI (StochRSI) Definition, Examples, and Real-World 🍸Uses
An investor reads financial data on a monitor after using software to chart the support level of a stock they follow.
What Is the Support Le🥀vel of a Stock, ꦉand How Do You Trade It?
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T♌hree Black Crows Definition an🐈d How to Use the Pattern
A investor places an order with their broker after spotting a stock that is breaking out above resistance.
What Is💦 a Triꦜple Bottom Chart in Technical Analysis?
Japanese candlesticks chart with parabolic SAR and bollinger band included.
Introduction to the Parabolic SAR
Time Value of Money: Determini꧟ng Your Future Worth
Futures traders on the floor of an Exchange.
How To Profit From the Bollinger Squeeze
The Difference Between Fast and Slow Stochastics
Trading Divergence and Understanding Momentum
Peak-and-Trough Analysis
Woman checking stocks trading data via trading application on mobile phone
Logarithmic Price Scale vs. Linear Price Scale: What's the Difference?
Are We in a Bull Market or a Bear Market?
How to Avoid Getting Creamed By a Falling Stock Market
What Is a Falling Knife and How Do Investors and Trade🤪🐠rs Use It?
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Range Bar Charts: A Different View of the Markets
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Sideways Trend: Definition, How Traders Profit, and🌳 Exampl🍨e