How To Combine Fundamentals And Technicals
As traders we're all probably guilty at some point of ignoring the big picture, letting our ego get in the way, and in the process letting a solid trade sli (more)

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How To Time Individual Stocks Using Fibonacci Price Analysis
Carolyn Boroden
A question I am often asked is whether or not my 'Fibonacci work' is valid or valuable when applied to individual stocks. The answer to this question is YES, as long as there is adequate data with well-defined swing points. (more)

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How To Find Stocks With Intraday Momentum In A 'Momentumless' Market
Duke Heberlein
In this lesson I will show you a systematic plan of attack that I use for finding hidden gems when the market is lacking momentum. (more)

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Key Intraday Moving Average Setups In The QQQ
Don Miller
For those who like a little spice to go along with their trading, MAs can be considered downright boring. Yet I continue to find MAs among the more important weapons in the trader's arsenal as a result of their ability to provide benefits beyond mere trend documentation. (more)

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In Trending Markets, Use These Candlestick Continuation Patterns
Tsutae Kamada
Continuation candlesticks -- such as the Rising Three and Falling Three Methods -- can help detect when strong or weak stocks are taking a rest. (more)

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Capturing Moves Using Advanced Point And Figure
Daniel Beighley
In keeping with the Point and Figure tradition of simplicity, this lesson will go through four effective patterns used to interpret this charting system. (more)

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Fibonacci For The Intermediate-Term Trader
Carolyn Boroden and Loren Fleckenstein
Fibonacci clusters can help the intermediate-term trader confirming pivotal points used in pattern breakouts. (more)

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How I Stalk And Pounce On Evening Star Formations
Carolyn Lueck
In this lesson, I'd like to share a candlestick pattern that I watch for quite frequently in my trading: the Evening Star formation. (more)

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Point And Figure: Use It To Filter The Noise
Daniel Beighley
Point and Figure charts are the oldest form of Western technical analysis and can be a tool to keep your judgment clear of the 'noise' that builds up from constant analysis. (more)

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Hammer And Hanging Man: Two Guys You Want On Your Side
Tsutae Kamada
In this lesson, I show you how effectively "Hammer" and "Hanging Man" candlestick formations can be at providing us with reversal signals -- especially when they appear in important price areas. (more)

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Tails Seldom Fail -- Thoughts On One Of My Favorite Patterns
Goran Yordanoff
As Japanese candlestick method puts great significance on the relationship between opening price and closing price, the tail is an extremely important occurrence when analyzing charts because it reveals an area of price that was visited during the time frame under analysis, but was unsustainable (more)

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Clarifying The Long-Term Outlook Using Candlestick Charts
Tsutae Kamada
Traders can be so busy looking for daytrading opportunities that they become trapped in short-term frames. A bigger picture can be a great help in focusing on your destination. (more)

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Advanced Bow Tie Trading Methods
Dave Landry
With picking stocks using discretionary patterns, it's more important to choose those that fit the concept and designer's intent rather than those that fit the exact rules. (more)

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Pinpointing Buys And Sells Using The TradingMarkets Indicator Page And Candlestick Patterns 
Tsutae Kamada
Certain price and chart patterns are useful indicators of a stock's potential movement. In this lesson, I show you how to use TradingMarkets.com Indicator Page and candlestick chart patterns to pick buys and sells. (more)

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Entry Patterns At Alert Zones
Kevin Haggerty
The primary purpose of this lesson is to give you something to keep on your desk which illustrates the most common Reversal Bar Patterns that most often precede a move in the opposite direction. (more)

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Using Whisper Numbers In Combination With Price And Volume Patterns
Daniel Beighley
Once considered as sensitive information only certain Wall Street analysts were privileged to, whisper numbers have now taken the form of the Internet and can be an effective way to measure the sentiment of a stock. (more)

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Using Inverted Cup-With-Handles To Identify Shorting Setups
Loren Fleckenstein
Traders have long known that many buy-side chart patterns can be inverted to time short entries. For even better results, we've also learned to turn the fundamental picture on its head as well: weak or deteriorating corporate performance for shorts vs. strong or improving fundamentals for longs. (more)

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The Power Of Gaps
Goran Yordanoff
We review a recent swing trade that utilized the "hidden" message of gaps (more)

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Haggerty Describes A Recent QQQ Trade From Beginning To End
Marc Dupée
Master Puzzler Kevin pieces together the big-picture Fibonacci background, "volatility bands," and intraday patterns to identify high-probability trade setups. (more)

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Anatomy Of A Trade Using Fibonacci Price Analysis
Carolyn Boroden
Fibonacci price analysis can be an extremely powerful trading tool, if used correctly. In this lesson, we are going to focus on how we choose the appropriate levels to execute a trade against. (more)

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How To Use Inverted Long Patterns To Find Shorting Setups
Dave Landry
If you want to make a long-term living trading stocks on a short-term basis you must learn how to play both sides of the market. In this lesson, I'll show how patterns that I use on the long side work, in reverse, on the short side. (more)

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How I Use Fibonacci to Identify Key Support and Resistance Levels
Carolyn Boroden
The definition of synchronicity is meaningful coincidence. In the methodology I use to trade, I look for the “meaningful coincidence” of price parameters and time parameters that are projected using the ratios derived from the Fibonacci number series. (more)

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The Psychology Of Chart Patterns
Loren Fleckenstein
More than once, finance profs have told me that chart patterns don't work. After all, why should the market obey a chart pattern? (more)

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Intraday Ascending Triangles: Where I Enter, Where I Place My Stop
David Baker
When people look for ascending triangles, descending triangles, and cups-with-handles, they often think that they have to be used for huge multiple-day moves. Why not use these patterns for daytrades? (more)

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My Favorite Warning Signs of Climax Tops
Loren Fleckenstein
You don't need to be an options trader to take advantage of extremes in crowd sentiment. The climax run represents a critical selling stage where the trader can sidestep steep losses and lock in a rare windfall before a highflier breaks apart. (more)

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Swing Traders: Find More Reliable Tops And Bottoms Using Bow Ties
Dave Landry
Picking tops and bottoms can be costly, as markets are prone to long-term continuation moves and false reversals. On the other hand, blindly jumping on an established trend can also be costly, as these markets are prone to correct. In this lesson we will look at "Bow Ties," a swing trade setup which attempts to solve for the above by utilizing multiple moving averages and a countertrend correction. (more)

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Subtle But Important Characteristics I Look For In Handles
Greg Kuhn
When it comes to identifying a proper cup-with-handle basing pattern, getting a handle on the "handle" can be the trickiest part. (more)

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The Five Traits Of Flat Bases That Explode
Loren Fleckenstein
Some of the most explosive share price advances launch from tight, range-bound structures rather than deep correction-recovery patterns such as the cup-with-handle. (more)

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Trade Logic
Kevin Haggerty
The first in a series of lessons to help you identify high-probability trading opportunities using specific trade logic. (more)

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Using Ascending Triangles In Daytrading
David Baker
An "ascending-triangle" pattern can form over several days or weeks, when a specific resistance level is tested a minimum of three (ideally five) times. Each price bar following the intial test shows a higher low than the last, indicating that traders are willing to pay a higher price on each pullback to open a position. (more)

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How To Find Ascending Bases That Lead To Powerful Advances
Loren Fleckenstein
In a choppy market, leadership stocks sometimes act like runners on base. The player leads off, is forced back when the pitcher throws to first, then steals second and leads off again. When the next batter up blasts one for the fences, the man at second explodes, rounding third base, then slides home. (more)

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Retracements: What They Are And The Most Reliable Ones To Use
Dave Landry
Prices often pullback or retrace a portion of their previous trend before resuming that trend. These retracements can be measured in terms of the prior trend. Below we will look at how to calculate commonly used 38.2%, 50% and 61.8% retracement levels. We'll also look at ways to incorporate these levels into your trading. (more)

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Characteristics Traders Should Look For In Double-Bottom Bases
Loren Fleckenstein
One trick to buying off correction-recovery patterns is spotting the point where new buyers have overcome the so-called weak holders. Long, flat bases wear out the weak holders. Cup-with-handle bases scare and wear them out. Double-bottom bases lull the weak holders into optimism, then take them out and shoot them. (more)

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Using Weekly Charts To Detect Stealth Buying
Loren Fleckenstein
Pretend that you run a mutual fund with $1 billion in assets. You want to put just 1% of that money to work in the stock of a publicly traded company. That amounts to $10 million worth of stock. (more)

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Capturing Sharp Moves Using Volatility And Structure
Dave Landry
In general, volatile stocks have the potential to make the largest moves. However, you can’t just randomly buy or sell short a stock just because it is volatile. You have to have some sort of combination of momentum, pattern or setup -- what I refer to as "structure." In this Trading Lesson, I will review how to measure volatility and more importantly, how to combine it with structure to help capture explosive moves. (more)

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From Signals To Buy Triggers: The Criteria That Need To Fall Into Place
David Baker
Learn several techniques for finding consistently successful entry and exit points in daytrading. (more)

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Sell 'Em Short: Three Patterns For Bears
Loren Fleckenstein
I am going to show you examples of both reversal patterns and continuation patterns (more)

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Trade What You See, Not What You Hear
Kevin Haggerty
In today's lesson, we will look at the most recent Nasdaq extreme and point out some indications of pending trouble. (more)

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How To Use TradingMarkets.com's 'Stock Building A Base' Screen
Kevin N. Marder
Successful traders realize the importance of buying a stock as it emerges from a base-building period. Kevin N. Marder shows how he uses the "Stocks Building A Base" screen to search for potential buy candidates. (more)

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A Profitable Trade Using Multiple Patterns -- From Beginning To End
Kevin Haggerty
Profitable trading is, in essence, based on price relationships that put you in high-probability situations. In this Trading Lesson, I show you why I selected Nokia as a pattern setup in my March 2 commentary. (more)

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Why Short-Term Traders Should Use Long-Term Charts
Mark Boucher
Many short-term and position traders ignore some of the most valuable uses of longer-term charts to enhance their trading. (more)

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The Technician's Basic Tool: The Price Chart
Mark Etzkorn
New to technical analysis? Here, we review the different kinds of price charts and explain how they depict price behavior, and lay the foundation for basic chart pattern analysis. (more)

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First, Recognize The Intraday Trend, Then Find The Right Stock
Kevin Haggerty
As a daytrader, you must be aware of intraday trends in the big averages that repeat themselves. Kevin Haggerty shows you not only how to recognize the big trend, but also how to select individual stocks that will most benefit from a trend that's in place. (more)

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How To Determine Directional Strength With Short-term Patterns
David Landry
Short-term patterns like gaps, spikes and reversal bars usually accompany extreme price moves. We'll show you what to look out for when you're trying to gauge market direction with these patterns. (more)

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Chart Classics: Reversal And Continuation Patterns
Mark Etzkorn
Here's a look at some of the best-known chart patterns--triangles, flags, pennants, double tops and bottoms, among others--that make up the foundation of any chartist's repertoire. Find out why chart analysis isn't as complicated as some people would have you believe, and the basic trading principles you should keep in mind when using these patterns. (more)

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Trading Flip Top Openings
Kevin Haggerty
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The Characteristics Of Opening Reversals
Kevin Haggerty
Many traders wonder if they should trade on the opening, or if there are specific strategies that exploit market activity unique to the opening. Here is one proven approach. (more)

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Daytrade Risk, Big-Trade Reward
Mark Boucher
There’s nothing better than a trade opportunity that allows you to enter the market with short-term risk and the potential for long-term profit. This week, trader Mark Boucher explains a pattern that allows you to do just that. (more)

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A Strategy For Playing Large-Range Days
Larry Connors
Chart analysis is a subjective game, and many commonly accepted interpretations of patterns fail to hold up to detailed analysis. We'll explain the realities of large-range days and the kind of market behavior they foreshadow. (more)

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Cup-and-Handle Trading Techniques For Swing Traders
Dave Landry
The cup-and-handle is a reversal pattern that frequently precedes big rallies. Here, we show you how this pattern is formed, as well as how to enter trades and limit your risk in these situations. (more)

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