Technical Analysis
Reading charts and market indicators.
TradingView Review (2026): The Industry-Standard Charts, Examined
An honest review of TradingView — the charting platform used across crypto and traditional markets. Its free tier, paid plans, and who actually needs to pay.
Bitcoin Dominance and Market Structure
Zoom out from a single coin to the whole market. Bitcoin dominance, total market cap, and how capital rotates between BTC, large caps, and altcoins are the big-picture lenses analysts use to read the cycle.
Market Sentiment Indicators: Reading the Crowd
Crypto's short-term moves are driven by emotion. Sentiment indicators — the Fear & Greed Index, funding, social data — let you gauge the crowd and, often, lean against it.
Reading Derivatives Data: Funding, Open Interest, and Liquidations
Derivatives markets reveal leverage and positioning that spot prices hide. Funding rates, open interest, and liquidations are the analyst's window into how crowded and fragile a move really is.
Trade Execution and Slippage
A good trade idea executed badly still loses money. Order types, the spread, slippage, and liquidity decide what price you actually get — often very different from the one on the screen.
Trading Psychology and Discipline
Most traders don't fail at analysis — they fail at psychology. FOMO, revenge trading, and holding losers blow up more accounts than bad chart reading ever will.
Dow Theory and Identifying Trends
Long before crypto, Dow Theory laid out how to define a trend, when it's intact, and when it's reversing. Its principles — higher highs, trend confirmation, the role of volume — still underpin serious technical analysis.
Intermarket and Macro Analysis for Crypto
Crypto doesn't trade in a vacuum. Liquidity, interest rates, the dollar, and stock-market risk appetite all shape its moves. Reading the macro backdrop adds context that price charts alone can't provide.
Chart Patterns Explained: Head & Shoulders, Triangles, and More
The high-probability chart patterns traders watch — head and shoulders, triangles, flags, and double tops/bottoms — and how to read them without fooling yourself.
Elliott Wave Theory Explained (and Its Limits)
Elliott Wave theory says markets move in repeating wave patterns driven by crowd psychology. Here's the structure — impulse and corrective waves — and why it's so hard to use.
Price Action Trading: Reading the Market Without Indicators
Price action is the foundation of technical analysis — reading raw candles and market structure instead of lagging indicators. Here's how it works.
Trading Risk Management: Stop-Losses, Risk/Reward, and the 1% Rule
The skills that actually keep traders alive — stop-losses, take-profits, risk/reward ratios, and the 1% rule. The unglamorous math that beats any chart pattern.
The Wyckoff Method: Reading Accumulation and Distribution
The Wyckoff method maps the market into phases — accumulation, markup, distribution, markdown — to read what large players are doing. Here's the framework.
Common Crypto Trading Indicators Explained (RSI, MACD, Moving Averages)
A plain-English tour of the indicators you'll see everywhere — moving averages, RSI, MACD, and volume — what they show and how not to misuse them.
On-Chain Analysis Basics
An introduction to on-chain analysis, the public blockchain data behind it, common metrics like active addresses and exchange flows, and why it is only one input among many.
Support and Resistance Explained for Crypto Traders
Support and resistance are the foundation of chart reading. Here's what they are, why they form, and how traders use them — without pretending they're magic.
Reading Crypto Charts: A Practical Guide to Technical Analysis
Technical analysis reads price charts to weigh probabilities, not certainties. Learn support, resistance, trend, volume, and core indicators the honest way.
Candlestick Patterns Basics: Reading Price Action with Confidence
Learn what a candlestick actually shows, how to read a few common patterns like the doji, hammer, and engulfing, and why these signals are probabilities, not promises.