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Chart Analysis
Learn about charts—what they are, how to pick timeframes, how charts are formed, and the different types of price scaling.
Understand support and resistance, where they are established, and the methods used to establish them.
What are trend lines, how are they used, and why are they important? You'll find answers to these questions, plus information about scale settings, validation, and angles.
Explore gaps (areas on price charts where no trades occur) and what they imply regarding the fundamentals or mass psychology surrounding a stock.
An overview of chart patterns and how you can recognize them.
What Is a Broadening Top?
Explore the Double Top Reversal chart pattern and learn to identify, interpret, and trade this common bearish reversal pattern.
Learn about the Double Bottom Reversal pattern in this comprehensive guide from StockCharts ChartSchool.
Discover how to recognize and interpret the Head and Shoulders Top pattern.
Discover how to recognize and interpret the Head and Shoulders Bottom reversal pattern.
What is a Falling Wedge Pattern?
The Rising Wedge is a bearish pattern that begins wide at the bottom and contracts as prices move higher and the trading range narrows.
The Rounding Bottom is a long-term reversal pattern best suited for weekly charts. It is also referred to as a saucer bottom.
The Triple Top Reversal is a bearish reversal pattern typically found on bar charts, line charts and candlestick charts.
The Triple Bottom Reversal is a bullish reversal pattern typically found on bar charts, line charts and candlestick charts.
As the name implies, the Bump and Run Reversal (BARR) is a reversal pattern that forms after excessive speculation drives prices up too far
What Are Flag and Pennant Chart Patterns?
The symmetrical triangle, which can also be referred to as a coil, usually forms during a trend as a continuation pattern.
What Is an Ascending Triangle Pattern?
What Is a Descending Triangle?
A Rectangle is a continuation pattern that forms during a pause in the trend. It is easily identifiable by two comparable highs and two comparable lows
A price channel is a continuation pattern that slopes up or down and is bound by an upper and lower trend line. The upper trend line marks resistance
The Measured Move is a three-part formation that begins as a reversal pattern and resumes as a continuation pattern.
The Measured Move is a three-part formation that begins as a reversal pattern and resumes as a continuation pattern.
What Is the Cup With Handle Pattern?
A price chart that merges traditional candlesticks with EquiVolume boxe
A price chart that merges traditional candlesticks with volume.
A charting system developed by Alexander Elder that colors price bars based on simple technical signals.
Price boxes that are sized based on their trading volume.
A candlestick method that uses price data from two periods instead of one.
A Japanese charting method based on volatility and reversal amounts.
A Japanese charting method where boxes rise and fall in 45-degree patterns.
A Japanese charting method that ignores time and only represents change in terms of price movements.
A charting tool used to visually scan large groups of securities.
A visualization tool for relative strength and momentum analysis.
A unique StockCharts tool for identifying monthly seasonal patterns.
A visualization tool using bond yields to analyze market conditions and the economic cycle.
History and formation of Candlesticks
In addition to their own merits as a charting system, Japanese candlesticks can function as confirmation for signals generated by other technical analysis techniques.
This list contains candlesticks and candlestick patterns that can be used with support levels.
This list contains candlesticks and candlestick patterns that can be used to identify or confirm resistance levels.
A bullish reversal candlestick pattern signals a potential change from a downtrend to an uptrend. It's a hint that the market's sentiment might be shifting from selling to buying.
A bearish reversal candlestick pattern is a sequence of price actions or a pattern that signals a potential change from uptrend to downtrend. It's a hint that the market sentiment may be shifting from buying to selling.
Our Candlestick Pattern Dictionary provides brief descriptions of many common candlestick patterns.
Point & Figure charts consist of columns of X's and O's that represent filtered price movements. X-Columns represent rising prices and O-Columns represent falling prices.
Even though intraday charts are normally associated with short-term analysis
Understanding P&F Trend Lines
Bullish Breakouts in P&F Charts: An Introduction
Bearish Breakdowns in P&F Charts: An Introduction
P&F Signal Reversed: The Basics
What Are P&F Catapults?
What Are P&F Triangles?
What Are P&F Bull & Bear Traps?
StockCharts automates Point & Figure price objectives using the Breakout Method and the Reversal Method.
Using Horizontal Counts for P&F Price Objectives
Point & Figure (P&F) price objectives can be determined using the vertical count method, which is based on the length of an important column.
Chartists can apply moving averages, Bollinger Bands, and Volume-by-Price to Point & Figure (P&F) charts.
Whenever common chart patterns appear on the right side of our Point & Figure charts, we will display an “alert” with the name of that pattern near the top of the chart. Members can also create custom scans that find stocks with these patterns.
We illustrate how to draw, adjust and interpret this trend channel tool.
We present the steps to finding cycles and using the Cycle Lines Tool.
We define Fibonacci retracements and show how to use them to identify reversal zones.
We show how Fibonacci Arcs can be used to find reversals.
We explain what Fibonacci Fans are and how they can be used.
We describe what Fibonacci Time Zones are and how they can be used.
We define Quadrant Lines and show how they can be used to find future support and resistance zones.
We examine this channel tool based on two equidistant trend lines on either side of a linear regression.
We present how these retracement-based trend lines are used on charts.