Nearly every technical tool reads price. Volume reads participation - how many people showed up to push price where it went. This post covers volume on its own terms, then VWAP, the intraday line institutions are graded against.
Fibonacci levels are not magic and not useless. They work because enough traders watch the same lines and place orders there. Here is how to draw them, use confluence, and read the regime.
Two traders run the exact same strategy. One doubles their account, the other slowly bleeds it away. Same rules, same instrument, same discipline. The difference is not skill or luck. It is the market regime each of them happened to be trading in.
Moving averages, RSI, and chart patterns all read direction. Bollinger Bands and ATR measure something different: how much a security is actually moving, and how to size stops around it.
MACD measures the distance between two moving averages and whether it is growing or shrinking. Here is how to read the line, signal, and histogram without misinterpreting the signals.
The Greeks explain why an option costs what it costs and how that price changes when the stock moves, time passes, and volatility shifts. Delta, Gamma, Theta, and Vega, made accessible.
Chart patterns are the most recognizable part of technical analysis and the most misunderstood. Most fail or break out the wrong way before reversing. This guide covers head and shoulders, double tops and bottoms, triangles, and flags — with realistic reliability, target measurement, and false-breakout confirmation.
A risk-reward ratio compares how much you stand to lose on a trade to how much you stand to gain. It is arguably the most important number in your trading plan, because it determines whether your strategy can survive a normal losing streak.
The Relative Strength Index is one of the most popular indicators in trading. It is also one of the most misused. Understanding what RSI actually measures, and what it does not, is the difference between a useful tool and an expensive distraction.
Moving averages are probably the most widely used indicator in trading. They appear on nearly every chart, in every asset class, across every timeframe. At their core, moving averages smooth out price data to reveal the underlying trend.
A candlestick chart is the default view on almost every trading platform for a reason. Each candle packs four data points into a single visual shape that tells you what buyers and sellers did during that time period.
Support and resistance is the most fundamental concept in technical analysis. Every chart pattern, every indicator, every trading strategy ultimately comes back to the question: where is price likely to stall or reverse?