Courses
Technical Analyst
Readers who want to describe charts, indicators and structure precisely, and check their own reading.
Describe trend, structure, volume and indicators with stated rules, avoid double counting, and write a technical memo with alternatives.
- 26 lessons
- 106 min of reading
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
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What a moving average actually tells you
A moving average summarises recent prices with a chosen weighting. Compare SMA, EMA and WMA weights, their lag and what the line can tell you.
In the app: Drawing and indicators (in development)
Foundations
- 1
Timeframes: zoom in without losing the plot
Timeframe choice comes before any other reading
- Beginner
- Explainer
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 2
Linear vs log scale: when the y-axis misleads
Scale choice changes how every move looks
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 3
Trends, ranges and the moments between
Trend, range and transition are the base vocabulary
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 4
Support and resistance: zones, not lines
Support and resistance as zones underpin later levels
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 5
Swing highs and lows: the skeleton of price
Swing points are the skeleton for structure and Fibonacci
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 6
Volume basics: the participation behind a move
Volume adds participation to every price reading
- Beginner
- Explainer
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 7
Your first chart walkthrough: describe, don't predict
First full walkthrough: describe before you interpret
- Beginner
- Case study
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 8
Chart reading cheat sheet
One-page reference for the chart-reading basics
- Beginner
- Cheat sheet
- 2 min
- Coming soon
- 9
The eight indicator families on one map
Map of the eight indicator families
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 10
What a moving average actually tells you
Moving averages feed many later indicators
- Beginner
- Indicator playbook
- 4 min
- 11
RSI playbook: momentum on a 0–100 scale
RSI as the reference momentum oscillator
- Beginner
- Indicator playbook
- 4 min
- Coming soon
- 12
ATR playbook: volatility as distance
ATR gives volatility as a comparable distance
- Beginner
- Indicator playbook
- 4 min
- Coming soon
Core
- 13
Market structure: higher highs, lower lows, breaks
Market structure turns swings into a trend definition
- Intermediate
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 14
Breakouts and false breakouts: define the event
Defines breakout events before judging them
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 15
Pullbacks and retracements: measuring the pause
Measures pullbacks; needed for retracement tools
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 16
Multi-timeframe analysis without contradiction
Combines timeframes without contradictions
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 17
Three indicators agreeing can be one opinion
Shows when agreeing indicators are one opinion
- Intermediate
- Myth vs measurement
- 4 min
- Coming soon
- 18
Settings and lookbacks: defaults are just defaults
Settings and lookbacks are choices to record
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 19
Build a non-redundant indicator panel
Builds a non-redundant indicator panel
- Intermediate
- Research recipe
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 20
Fibonacci retracements: the anchors decide
Fibonacci levels as arithmetic on chosen anchors
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 21
Volume profile: where trading happened
Volume by price complements volume by time
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 22
How an order book works
Order book basics behind the bars
- Intermediate
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
Advanced
- 23
Confirmation lag: price action without hindsight
Confirmation lag keeps hindsight out of reading
- Advanced
- Explainer
- 6 min
- Coming soon
- 24
Trend, range or transition? A 10-chart challenge
Check trend-versus-range judgement on ten charts
- Beginner
- Quiz or challenge
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 25
Confluence without double counting
Confluence counted only from independent evidence
- Advanced
- Explainer
- 6 min
- Coming soon
- 26Capstone
A technical research memo, start to finish
Capstone: write a full technical research memo
- Advanced
- Case study
- 6 min
- Coming soon
Optional reading: 9
- Dow Theory in plain language
- Fibonacci level calculator
- Advanced frameworks cheat sheet
- Which indicator is this? A 12-panel quiz
- RSI step by step: watch the formula work
- Trend quality: slope, efficiency and persistence
- Test Fibonacci confluence before believing it
- Volatility squeezes: bands inside channels
- What a screener does: filters, not picks
In the app
The Analess features these lessons use most. Availability is shown on each feature’s page.