Charting Foundations
How to read a chart before reading anything into it.
Lessons
- What Technical Analysis Really ClaimsThe three assumptions TA rests on — and an honest look at where it helps and where it fools you.
- Line, Bar & Candlestick ChartsThree ways to draw the same prices, and why candles became the trader’s default.
- How to Read a Single CandleBody, wick, colour — one candle already tells you who won the battle that period.
- Timeframes: The Same Stock, Many StoriesA stock can be falling on the 5-minute and rising on the weekly. Both are true.
- Price Plus VolumePrice tells you what happened; volume tells you how much to believe it.
- Log vs Linear ScaleA scaling choice that completely changes how long-term charts look — and which to trust.