Technical Analysis Basics
Trading Mastery
8 min read
Learn to read the market without news using price, volume, and chart structure as your primary information source.
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8 min read
Learn to read the market without news using price, volume, and chart structure as your primary information source.
Technical analysis is the language of charts.
While fundamentals explain why something should move, technical analysis (TA) shows you how it’s moving—right now. It helps traders:
In this post, you’ll learn the building blocks of TA:
This is your visual toolkit as a trader.
Candlesticks show what price did during a specific time period.
Each candle contains:
Think of candles as visual footprints of trader behavior.
Volume shows how many contracts/shares/coins were traded in a candle.
Why it matters:
Combine volume with price:
Trendlines help define directional bias:
They’re not perfect lines—but visual guides.
Think of them as slope indicators: Is the market climbing or sliding?
Price bounced from here before → possible bounce again
Price was rejected here → may struggle to break again
These levels often:
They work because traders remember them—and act on them.
Technical analysis doesn’t predict the future—it tells you the current context.
Used properly, it lets you: