Reading price action, indicators, and chart patterns.
Resistance is the mirror image of support: a price area where rising prices have repeatedly tended to stall and turn back down, because selling interest keeps emerging there. This article explains why resistance forms (profit-taking, trapped buyers wanting to break even, round numbers, prior lows), the polarity principle where broken resistance becomes support, how to gauge a level's strength, and why — like support — resistance describes behaviour rather than predicting it.
A doji is a candle whose open and close are almost equal, leaving little or no body — a snapshot of indecision, where buyers and sellers finished a period in balance. This article first explains candlestick anatomy (body, wicks, open/close/high/low), then covers the doji and its variants (long-legged, dragonfly, gravestone), what they mean, why context and confirmation are everything, and why a single candle describes one period's tug-of-war rather than predicting the next.
A moving average smooths price by averaging it over a rolling window, turning a jagged chart into a cleaner line that reveals trend direction. This article explains the simple and exponential moving average and how they differ, the common 20/50/200 periods, how moving averages are used (trend direction, dynamic support and resistance, and crossovers like the golden and death cross), the inescapable lag that comes with smoothing, and why a crossover describes the past rather than predicting the future.
Support is a price area where falling prices have repeatedly tended to stop and turn back up, because buying interest keeps emerging there. This article explains why support forms (memory, resting orders, round numbers, prior highs flipping role), why it is a zone rather than a precise line, how to judge its significance, what it means when support gives way — and, crucially, why support describes past behaviour and is never a guarantee.
A trendline is sloping support or resistance: a straight line drawn along a market's rising lows (an uptrend line, acting as dynamic support) or falling highs (a downtrend line, acting as dynamic resistance). This article explains how trendlines are drawn and confirmed, why two points define a line but a third validates it, what slope and steepness signal, how parallel lines form channels, and the discipline needed to avoid drawing the lines you wish were there.
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