Indicators
Beginner5 min read
ATR Indicator Guide: The Most Useful Number in Risk Management
ATR does not tell you direction. It tells you how much an instrument typically moves, which is what determines stop distance and position size.
17 in-depth guides
Technical Indicators and Trading Signals, Explained From Scratch
Indicators are not predictions. They are compressions of price and volume history. These guides show the maths in plain English, then turn each indicator into testable rules.
Beginner guides
No prior knowledge assumed. Start here.
Indicators
Beginner5 min read
MACD Indicator Strategy: What It Really Shows
MACD is the difference between two moving averages. Understanding that makes its signals obvious and its limitations unavoidable.
Indicators
Beginner6 min read
Moving Average Crossover Strategy: Complete Rules and Testing
The crossover is the most tested rule in trading. It works modestly, in the right conditions, with the right portfolio around it.
Indicators
Beginner5 min read
Moving Averages Explained: SMA, EMA, and How to Use Them
Moving averages are the most useful and most misused indicator. Their real value is as a regime filter, not as a source of entry signals.
Indicators
Beginner5 min read
RSI Indicator Strategy: Beyond Overbought and Oversold
RSI measures the ratio of recent gains to recent losses. Treating extremes as reversal signals without a trend filter is the most common way to lose money with it.
Indicators
Beginner5 min read
Supertrend Indicator: A Simple ATR Trailing Stop
Supertrend is an ATR trailing stop that flips direction. Understanding that removes the mystery and clarifies exactly what it can and cannot do.
Indicators
Beginner5 min read
Technical Indicators Explained: What They Measure and What They Cannot
Every indicator is a transformation of price and volume. None contains new information. Knowing what each one measures prevents most indicator mistakes.
Intermediate guides
Assumes you know order types, charts, and basic risk sizing.
Indicators
Intermediate5 min read
ADX Indicator Guide: Measuring Whether a Trend Exists
ADX answers the question most indicators cannot: is there a trend at all? That makes it a filter rather than a signal.
Indicators
Intermediate5 min read
Bollinger Bands Strategy: Volatility Bands That Adapt
Bollinger Bands measure how far price has moved relative to its own recent volatility. A band touch is a measurement, not a signal.
Indicators
Intermediate5 min read
Donchian Channel Strategy: The Original Breakout System
A Donchian channel is the highest high and lowest low of the last N bars. It is the simplest possible trend definition and remains one of the most robust.
Indicators
Intermediate5 min read
Fibonacci Retracements: What They Are and What the Evidence Says
Fibonacci levels are popular, easy to draw, and difficult to test, because the choice of swing points determines the answer.
Indicators
Intermediate5 min read
Ichimoku Cloud Guide: A Complete System in One Overlay
Ichimoku packages trend, support, and momentum into one overlay. Its strength is completeness; its weakness is that five correlated lines look like five confirmations.
Indicators
Intermediate4 min read
Keltner Channels: ATR Bands and the Squeeze Setup
Keltner Channels use ATR rather than standard deviation, which makes them smoother and better suited to trend riding than to reversion.
Indicators
Intermediate5 min read
Pivot Points Guide: Mechanical Levels That Everyone Sees
Pivot points are computed from yesterday and never move. That objectivity is their main advantage over hand-drawn levels.
Indicators
Intermediate4 min read
Stochastic Oscillator Guide: Position Within the Range
The stochastic measures where price closed within its recent range. In a trend it pins at an extreme, which is information about strength, not exhaustion.
Indicators
Intermediate6 min read
Volume Indicators Guide: Reading Participation Honestly
Volume measures participation, not direction. Every trade has a buyer and a seller, which rules out most of what volume indicators are claimed to show.
Indicators
Intermediate5 min read
VWAP Trading Strategy: The Institutional Benchmark
VWAP is the average price weighted by volume. It matters because large institutional orders are benchmarked against it, which makes it a genuine reference point.
Every guide in this category
- ADX Indicator Guide: Measuring Whether a Trend Exists
- ATR Indicator Guide: The Most Useful Number in Risk Management
- Bollinger Bands Strategy: Volatility Bands That Adapt
- Donchian Channel Strategy: The Original Breakout System
- Fibonacci Retracements: What They Are and What the Evidence Says
- Ichimoku Cloud Guide: A Complete System in One Overlay
- Keltner Channels: ATR Bands and the Squeeze Setup
- MACD Indicator Strategy: What It Really Shows
- Moving Average Crossover Strategy: Complete Rules and Testing
- Moving Averages Explained: SMA, EMA, and How to Use Them
- Pivot Points Guide: Mechanical Levels That Everyone Sees
- RSI Indicator Strategy: Beyond Overbought and Oversold
- Stochastic Oscillator Guide: Position Within the Range
- Supertrend Indicator: A Simple ATR Trailing Stop
- Technical Indicators Explained: What They Measure and What They Cannot
- Volume Indicators Guide: Reading Participation Honestly
- VWAP Trading Strategy: The Institutional Benchmark
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Trading Foundations
Plain-English foundations for new traders: what a trading strategy is, how markets work, order types, timeframes, and how to build a first rule-based plan.
Trading Strategy Types
In-depth guides to every major trading strategy type, from trend following and mean reversion to pairs trading, arbitrage, market making, and event-driven trading.
Chart Patterns & Price Action
Candlestick patterns, classical chart patterns, support and resistance, and price action structure, each with objective definitions you can actually code and backtest.
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The strategies that actually fit each market: stocks, ETFs, options, futures, forex, crypto, commodities, bonds, and index products, with costs, hours, and leverage compared.
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Position sizing, stop losses, drawdown control, correlation risk, and the maths of ruin, explained so you can size trades with a formula instead of a feeling.
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How to turn a discretionary idea into code: signal design, factor models, execution algorithms, data pipelines, machine learning pitfalls, and production monitoring.
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Backtesting methodology that survives contact with live markets: look-ahead bias, survivorship bias, walk-forward analysis, Monte Carlo testing, and realistic cost modelling.
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Order books, matching engines, order types, spreads, slippage, market makers, settlement, and the trading session structure that decides what your fill really costs.
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The behavioural side of trading: loss aversion, revenge trading, overconfidence, journaling, routine design, and the process controls that keep rules intact under stress.