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Reading Price Charts
Candlesticks, timeframes, trends, support and resistance, patterns and indicators. Learn to read what the market is telling you before you act on it.
10 lessons · 80 minutes · Free
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Get your certificateCharts are the trader’s main source of information, but a cluttered chart with no method is hard to read. This course builds a method, one layer at a time.
You will finish with a chart routine you can run in a few minutes before any trade. Take the lessons in order; each builds on the last.
Lessons
- 1Chart typesLine, bar and candlestick charts show the same prices in different ways. Learn what each shows and why candlesticks won.
- 2Candlestick anatomyEvery candle tells a short story about a fight between buyers and sellers. Learn to read the body, the wicks and the shapes that matter.
- 3TimeframesThe same prices look completely different on a 15-minute and a 4-hour chart. Learn how timeframes nest and how to choose one.
- 4TrendsHigher highs and higher lows, lower highs and lower lows. Learn the one definition of a trend that works, and how to spot it quickly.
- 5Support and resistanceThe two most useful lines on any chart. Learn to find them, draw them as zones, and use them for entries and stops.
- 6Chart patternsSix shapes that appear on every chart, what each one usually means, and the rule that stops you seeing patterns that are not there.
- 7Indicators 101Moving averages, RSI and MACD, what each one actually calculates, and how to use them without being fooled.
- 8Multi-timeframe analysisRead the big picture first, then zoom in for the entry. A simple top-down method that stops you trading against the tide.
- 9Building a chart routineTurn everything in this course into a five-minute routine you run the same way every time, before every trade.
- 10Course check: test yourselfFlashcards for every chart term, and ten mixed questions across candles, trends, levels, patterns and indicators.