Price Gaps Explained: Breakaway, Runaway and Exhaustion
Breakaway, runaway, and exhaustion gaps explained for traders and investors. Learn how gaps form, how to trade them, and why the gap-fill myth is misleading.
Technical Analysis
Short-Term Mean Reversion With RSI(2): How the Setup Works
How the RSI(2) mean reversion setup works: entry and exit rules, why backtests overstate results, and how traders and investors should size risk.
Multiple Timeframe Analysis: Aligning Weekly, Daily and Intraday Charts
How to align weekly, daily and intraday charts in a top-down workflow, resolve timeframe conflicts, and separate trader from investor horizons.
Relative Strength vs. the Market: Finding Leaders Early
Learn how relative strength lines compare a stock to its index or sector, how to read RS trends, and where the method fails for traders and investors.
VWAP and Volume Profile: Where Institutions Trade
VWAP and volume profile show where institutions trade. Learn how intraday and swing traders read both tools, their limits, and how to combine them.
Head and Shoulders, Double Tops and Flags: Reading Charts
Head and shoulders, double tops and flags explained for traders and investors: recognition, confirmation, price targets and false breakouts.
Fibonacci Retracements: What They Can and Cannot Tell You
Fibonacci retracements show where a pullback may pause, not where price must turn. Learn their real limits and how to combine them with market structure.
Bollinger Bands: Squeeze Setups and Band Walks Explained
Learn how Bollinger Bands squeeze setups and band walks work, the signals they give, and the risks traders and investors should weigh before acting.
Pullback Trading in Uptrends: Entries at Moving Averages
A rule-based pullback trading setup for uptrends: entries at the 20 and 50 moving averages, defined stops, targets, and the conditions that void the trade.
Reading Volume: What Trading Volume Confirms and What It Doesn’t
Volume confirms participation, not direction. Learn how to read volume on breakouts, trend confirmation, and false signals without overtrusting it.