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Chart Academy

Master chart reading, candlesticks, and technical indicators.

12 lessons · about 54 minutes

  1. Reading a price chartTime, price, and what the line is telling you.
  2. Understanding candlestick chartsOpen, high, low, and close in a single bar.
  3. Single-candle patternsDoji, hammer, shooting star, and their cousins.
  4. Two- and three-candle patternsEngulfing patterns and morning and evening stars.
  5. Volume and relative volumeHow much trading is behind a move.
  6. Support and resistancePrice levels traders watch, and why they're imperfect.
  7. Trends and moving averagesSmoothing out the noise to see the direction.
  8. What is RSI?A 0–100 momentum reading and how to read it carefully.
  9. What is MACD?Two moving averages, a signal line, and a histogram.
  10. Bollinger BandsA moving average with a band that widens and narrows with volatility.
  11. Stochastic and VWAPWhere price sits in its recent range, and the volume-weighted average price.
  12. Gaps and the 52-week rangeOvernight jumps and where a stock sits in its year.