Reading a chart
A price chart is a record of what buyers and sellers have already agreed. These lessons explain how that record is drawn, what a single day's candle says, and how to spot the prices a share has struggled to pass.
Each candle packs a whole day of trading into one shape.
Beginner · 1 min
· 2 tutorials
Prices where a share has repeatedly stopped falling, or stopped rising.
Beginner · 1 min
· 1 tutorial
A share in a trend keeps making higher highs, or lower lows — and most of the time it is doing neither.
Beginner · 2 min
· 2 tutorials
Some prices matter more than the rest, and a share that clears one is telling you something.
Intermediate · 4 min
· 2 tutorials
Three lows, the middle one deepest, and a line across the bounces between them that the price has to close above.
Intermediate · 5 min
When trading in a share dries up to almost nothing, the quiet itself is information.
Intermediate · 3 min
· 2 tutorials
KDJ reacts to every wobble, so most of its crosses are noise — here is how people decide which ones to ignore.
Intermediate · 3 min
· 3 tutorials
A small body on a long lower wick, after a fall — and why one candle is never the whole story.
Intermediate · 3 min
· 2 tutorials
Three single-day shapes that show buyers losing control near a high — and the rule that confirms any of them.
Intermediate · 1 min
· 3 tutorials