Technical Analysis Educational Archive

Introductory Materials for Beginning Traders

An Introduction to Technical Analysis and Swing Trading   
The Power of Trendlines    
A Swing Trader's Support and Resistance Secrets   
Swing Trading by Candlelight    
The 11 Commandments of Swing Trading   
How Traders Can Make Best Use of My Weekly Swing Trading Newsletter 
How I trade and track the market.

Specific Technical Analysis Lessons Organized By Topic

200-Day Moving Average

A
Advance/Decline Line -- Arms Index -- Ascending Triangle

B
Basing Pattern -- Bollinger Bands -- Broadening Top Pattern -- "Buy On Stop" Orders -- "Buy On Stop With A Limit" Orders

C
Channel Lines -- Confirming Averages

D
Dark Cloud Cover Candle -- DecisionPoint -- Doji Candlesticks -- Dow Theory -- Dow Theory Divergence

E
Engulfing Candlesticks -- Evening Star Candle 

F
Flag Formation -- Four-Month Rule -- Free Website Tools

G
Gaps -- Exhaustion and Runaway Gaps -- Gaps from a Japanese Candlestick Viewpoint

H
Hammer and Hangman Candles -- Harami Candle -- Head and Shoulders Pattern -- Head and Shoulders Bottom -- High Wave Candle

I
Inverted Hammer Candle -- Investor's Intelligence Survey  

M
MACD -- MACD Histogram -- MACD and Momentum Divergence -- MACD Zero Line -- Marubozu Candle -- McClellan Oscillator -- McClellan Oscillator Summation Index -- Measuring Principle -- Moving Averages -- Multiple Moving Averages -- Simple vs. Exponential Moving Averages

N
New Highs / New Lows 

O
On Balance Volume -- Options as Equity Surrogates -- Overall Market Indicators 

P
Parabolic SAR -- Piercing Candle -- Price/Volume Analysis -- Put/Call Ratio

R
Rectangle Formation -- Relative Strength -- Retracement Levels -- RSI -- RSI Divergence -- RSI Failure Swing -- RSI Filter -- RSI Limitations -- RSI Patterns -- RSI Trendlines

S
Semiconductor Index ($SOX) -- Short Selling -- Secondary Corrections -- Setting Stop Loss Orders -- Shooting Star Candle -- Spinning Top Candle -- Springs and Upthrusts -- Stage IV Decline -- Stalled Pattern -- StockCharts.com Candleglance -- Streaming Charts

T
Technical versus Fundamental Analysis -- Three Black Crows Candlestick Formation -- Three White Soldiers Candlestick Formation -- Triple-Bottom Formation -- Tweezers Candles

V
Volatility Index (VIX) -- Volume Analysis -- Bearish Volume Spikes -- Climactic Downside Volume -- Volume Should Expand on Breakouts -- Volume on the Break of Important Support

W
Welles Wilder's RSI, ADX and SAR

The educational materials above were written by Dr. Melvin Pasternak -- editor of StreetAuthority.com's weekly trading newsletter -- the StreetAuthority Swing Trader.  Dr. Pasternak comes to us with more than 40 years of investing experience, having made his first trade in 1961. Along the way, he has spent more than a decade teaching classes in technical analysis for TD Waterhouse and has designed and taught stock market classes at the college level. On the educational and journalistic front, Melvin holds both Ph D. and MBA degrees and has previously written regular financial columns for a leading international publisher.

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