Technical Analysis Educational Archive
Technical analysis, which involves
the evaluation of stocks based on historical market statistics
and chart patterns, has become extremely popular in recent
years. However, with literally hundreds of different
technical indicators in existence and a wide variety of terms to
sort through, it is by no means a simple subject.
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| In the following archive of technical
analysis lessons, our goal is to provide you with complete,
thorough descriptions of nearly every major technical analysis
topic -- ranging from the most basic to the most complex. You
may want to refer to this page in the future, so we'd urge you
review the lessons listed below and to bookmark this page for
future reference. |
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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
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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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