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Charting

Charts are a record of what buyers and sellers did. Learn to read candlesticks, find the levels that matter and use popular indicators without over-trusting them.

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Charting

How to Read Candlestick Charts: A Beginner’s Guide

Learn what each part of a candlestick means — open, high, low, close, body and wicks — plus the patterns traders watch most and how timeframes change the picture.

Charting

What Is the RSI Indicator? How to Read RSI 70 and 30

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) measures the speed of price moves on a 0–100 scale. Learn how RSI is calculated, what overbought and oversold mean, and the mistakes to avoid.

Charting

Support and Resistance Explained: How to Find Key Price Levels

Support is a price level where buying tends to stop a fall; resistance is where selling tends to stop a rise. Learn how to draw them, why they flip, and how traders use them.

Charting

Moving Averages Explained: SMA vs EMA and the 50/200 Golden Cross

A moving average smooths price to show the trend. Learn the difference between simple (SMA) and exponential (EMA) moving averages, popular settings, and golden and death crosses.

Charting

What Is MACD? How to Read the MACD Line, Signal Line and Histogram

MACD shows trend and momentum using the gap between two exponential moving averages. Learn the 12, 26, 9 settings, crossovers, the zero line, the histogram and divergence.

Charting

Fibonacci Retracement Explained: 38.2%, 50% and 61.8% Levels

Fibonacci retracements mark where a pullback might pause within a trend. Learn how to draw them, what the 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8% and 78.6% levels mean, and their limits.

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Forex basics

Pips, lots, spreads, leverage, currency pairs and market hours — the building blocks of trading currencies.

Gold & silver

Gold and silver lot sizes, ounces and grams, trading hours and the forces that move precious-metal prices.

Economic data

NFP, CPI, Fed decisions and how to read an economic calendar — the scheduled events that move markets.

Risk

Position sizing, the 1% rule, risk–reward ratios and leverage — how traders keep losses small.

Crypto

Perpetual futures, funding rates and liquidations — how leveraged crypto trading works.

Indices

US30, S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and the VIX — what stock indices are and how they are traded.