Charts & Technical Analysis

Doji Candlesticks – Identifying a Doji Chart Pattern on Candlestick Charts

Learn how to identify and profit from one of the most reliable and powerful reversal patterns on a candlestick chart: the doji.

Identifying a Head-and-Shoulders Chart Pattern

The head-and-shoulders chart pattern is very accurate, but many traders jump the gun by not waiting for all the criteria to be met. Don't be one of them.

Technical Analysis vs. Fundamental Analysis? The Answer to the Age-old Question

Investors often argue the merits of fundamentals versus technicals. I'll put that debate to bed.

Use Trendlines to Predict the Market’s Next Move

When charting stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), futures, commodities, currencies or the market, identifying trendlines is where it all begins.

Internal Markets vs. External Markets – Why Watching the News Can Hurt Your Trading

The reason most individual investors lose money is because they invest in stocks, or withdraw from the market, based on what they hear in the news, which is backward.

Chart Analysis 101: Buying Pressure

Find out how buying pressing can help you to identify potential long positions.

Stock Chart Patterns – Triple-Top Signal Points to Downtrend

Learn how to identify and trade a triple-top pattern.

The Art of Technical Analysis

Learn how technical analysis differs from fundamental analysis, and see what technicians focus on when analyzing stocks.

Using the Relative Strength Index to Sell at the Right Time

The Relative Strength Index is one of the most helpful, widely used indicators employed by chartists today.

How Moving Averages Work

Learn how to use moving averages to identify trends, and why these 'imaginary lines' are stronger support and resistance levels than ever before.

Chart Analysis: Head-and-Shoulders Bottom

Expert explains how to identify a head-and-shoulders bottom, which indicates a possible reversal of a downtrend into a new uptrend.

Double-Bottom and Double-Top

Expert explains two of the classic longer-term patterns used in technical analysis, and why they should be approached with caution by investors.

Technical Analysis 101: Double-Bottom and Double-Top

Expert explains two of the classic longer-term patterns used in technical analysis and why they should be approached with caution by investors.

Start ‘Charting’ Your Path to Profits With the 50% Retracement Rule

How can you tell how much a stock is going to retreat before its next advance? Learn how to uncover fantastic buying opportunities by finding retracements.

10 Tips to Getting Started With Technical Analysis

In this market, traders need to use every tool available to make sure they grab profits where and when they arrive. The methodology to make successive triple-digit-percentage returns over the years is technical analysis.

Technical Analysis 101: Triangles

Expert explains the four main categories of triangles used in technical analysis: ascending, descending, contracting and expanding.

What the Bleep is a Fibonacci?

Learn how you can apply Fibonacci numbers to your trading.

Chart Pattern Recognition

Technical analysis helps us distinguish between what is real and what we think is real.

Using Bollinger Bands to Improve Your Trading

Bollinger bands are one of the go-to indicators used by technical analysts, and can be used to help you to identify risk and trends.