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Junior Analyst
First steps in technical, price-action, volume and fundamental analysis.
- 30 lessons
- 5 modules
- ≈ 3 h 15 min reading
Technical Analysis Foundations
13 lessonsWhat Is Technical Analysis
Technical analysis studies past price and volume in probabilities, not certainties: the toolbox, a real if/then read, and honest failure modes.
6 min read
The Three Core Principles of Technical Analysis
Technical analysis rests on three Dow ideas: the market discounts everything, prices move in trends, and history repeats. What each assumes, gives, and where it breaks.
7 min read
Dow Theory
Dow Theory is the century-old framework behind technical analysis: six tenets, three trends, three phases, and what still holds up today.
7 min read
What Is a Price Chart
A price chart is a market's past prices laid out over time: what each mark compresses, why the picture reads faster than numbers, and what a chart can never tell you.
6 min read
Chart Types
Line, bar, and candlestick charts show the same data with different detail: what each plots, what each hides, and which one to use for which job.
6 min read
How to Read a Candlestick
Every candle reports four numbers: what the body says about the result, what the wicks say about rejection, and how proportion turns a shape into a sentence.
8 min read
Timeframes on a Chart
A timeframe is how much real time one candle holds: why the same market looks different at each zoom level, and how to pick the one your schedule can serve.
6 min read
What Is a Trend in Trading
A trend is defined by the pattern of its highs and lows, not a feeling: what uptrends, downtrends, and ranges look like, and what breaks them.
7 min read
Support and Resistance Explained
Support and resistance are zones, not lines: why they form, how roles swap after a break, and why heavily tested levels are the closest to failing.
6 min read
What Is a Trendline in Trading
A trendline is a straight line across a trend's swing points: how to draw one, what the angle says, and what makes it valid instead of decorative.
7 min read
Chart Patterns
Chart patterns are recurring shapes built from levels: the two big families, why they ever work, what the evidence says, and how to hold them loosely.
6 min read
Technical Analysis vs Fundamental Analysis
Two camps, two kinds of evidence: what each analysis style assumes, the data it reads, how its holders trade, and where the two approaches finally meet.
7 min read
How Psychology Drives Price
Prices move on aggregated fear and greed: the emotional cycle of a big move, why levels are shared memory, and how to keep the crowd from being you.
7 min read
Price Action Foundations
6 lessonsWhat Is Price Action in Trading
Price action is reading the raw record of candles, swings, and levels instead of computed indicators: what it tells you, what it cannot, and how to practice.
6 min read
Price Action vs Indicators
Price action reads the raw chart, indicators read a transformed summary of it: the lag, the clarity, and the division of labor between the two.
6 min read
How to Read Market Structure
Market structure is the pattern of swing highs and lows, read like footprints: the three structures, the break that matters, and why structure beats indicators.
7 min read
What Is Momentum in Price
Momentum is the speed and strength of a price change, not its direction: what strong and fading momentum look like and why fading changes your sizing.
6 min read
What Is a Candlestick Pattern
A candlestick pattern is a recurring arrangement of candles describing a fight between buyers and sellers: reading beats naming, and location is everything.
6 min read
Bullish vs Bearish Candles Patterns
Bullish and bearish candles describe who won each period: the pin bar, the engulfing candle, and the inside bar read as behavior, not names to memorize.
6 min read
Volume Analysis Foundations
2 lessonsWhat Is Volume and Why It Matters
Volume is the count of units traded and the conviction behind a move: what high and low volume really say, and the four price-volume combinations to read.
7 min read
Volume as Confirmation of Price Moves
Volume is the lie detector for price moves: what confirmation looks like, what divergence warns, and why volume is a filter, never a signal.
7 min read
Fundamental Analysis Foundations
6 lessonsWhat Is Fundamental Analysis
Fundamental analysis judges what an asset is worth from earnings, rates, and growth: the inputs, top-down vs bottom-up, and its honest limits.
6 min read
Technical vs Fundamental Analysis
Technical analysis reads what price is doing, fundamental analysis reads what it is worth: the same events through both lenses, and when each one wins.
7 min read
What Are Economic Indicators
Economic indicators are scheduled statistics on inflation, jobs, and growth: why markets move on the surprise, not the headline number itself.
6 min read
What Is a Financial Statement
The standardized documents every public company publishes: what each one reports, why the format is fixed, and what they can never tell you.
7 min read
Earnings Reports Explained
An earnings report is a company's quarterly scorecard: revenue, EPS, and guidance, and why the gap against expectations moves the price more than the numbers.
6 min read
How News Events Affect Price, Explained
Price is positioned on the expectation, so only the surprise trades. The three levers that size every news move, and the worst classroom in the market.
7 min read
Mindset & Method
3 lessonsWhy Combining Analysis Types Works
Every analysis method has a blind spot: what technical and fundamental analysis each miss, and how two independent reasons filter bad trades.
6 min read
Why Context Matters in Analysis
The same chart signal can mean opposite things in different surroundings: what context is, its three layers, and what skipping it costs you.
6 min read
How to Think Like an Analyst
Thinking like an analyst means if-then process over prediction: observe, add context, hypothesize with numbers, and define what proves you wrong.
7 min read
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