Updated January 9, 2025 – Written by Ross Cameron Table of Contents What Are the Most Important Trading Indicators? Candlestick Charts Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) Moving Averages (MAs) Volume Bars How To Start Learning Technical Analysis Understand the Basics Focus on Core Indicators Study Historical Charts Use a Trading Simulator Continuously Learn Develop Discipline […]
Table of Contents What Is Gap Trading? Why Do Gaps Happen? The Gap Fill Strategy What Are Windows in Trading? How To Combine Gap Trading and Pullbacks Real-Life Trading Gap Examples Example 1: Gap Fill in Action Example 2: Trading a Window What Are Common Common Gap Trading Mistakes? What Are Other Tips to Succeed […]
Most of the mainstream trading literature is chock full of references to patterns with funny names, like the megaphone pattern. To novices looking to learn the ropes, this can come off as a practice in reading tea leaves or moon cycles. And while the trading world admittedly has its fair share of quacks, the purpose […]
A pivot point is a crucial turning point in the price of a stock or security that a lot of traders tend to trade around. It’s basically a price at which the stock stops going up or down and reverses in the opposite direction. It’s the price at the foremost extreme of a rally. Pivot […]
A candlestick shadow represents the extremes of where the price visited during the life of a candlestick on a chart before closing at its ultimate price. On a bullish candlestick, the shadows represent the difference between the closing price and the high price (upper shadow), and on a bearish candlestick the shadow represents the difference […]
The Chaikin Money Flow is a technical analysis indicator that is used to measure the buying and selling pressure in a stock over a period of time. Intro In the world of trading, huge market movements are usually triggered by the actions of giant hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, brokers, and other whales that trade the […]
The trend is an important feature of trading that traders use to help them read the market movement better, so they can execute their trading strategies at the perfect moment. Trend strength simply refers to the level of influence buyers or sellers have over the market over a particular time. In a weak downtrend, the […]
Technical trading is such a diverse method of trading that you really can’t pigeonhole it. There’s trend traders, mean reversion traders, breakout traders, and pullback traders. You can trade support and resistance levels, forecast volume and volatility, or even do technical analysis on the VIX or the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet (maybe that’s not a […]
The Island Reversal Pattern is a chart pattern that involves a gap in price, consolidation and then another gap in the opposite direction (creating an island of candles as you’ll see in the below charts). Intro In their attempt to understand the movement of prices in different financial markets, pioneers of technical analysis techniques have […]
A mountain and a hill both have ups and downs, but the slopes of a hill are likely to be less steep compared to those of a mountain. If you are hiking and using a street map as your guide, it might be challenge to determine the steepness of the slopes. You may need […]
