Chart Analysis
A comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing financial charts.
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A comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing financial charts.
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This section describes the different types of financial charts found at StockCharts.com. It covers the construction of various chart types and how they can be used to make informed investing decisions.
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.
How many chart patterns are there? Here, you'll find a detailed explanation of the common chart patterns.
A price chart that merges traditional candlesticks with EquiVolume boxes.
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.
We present an overview of candlesticks, including history, formation and key patterns.
We discuss how to use candlesticks with moving averages, volume and chart patterns.
We examine how candlestick chart patterns can mark support levels.
We examine how candlestick chart patterns can mark resistance levels.
We describe common bullish reversal candlestick patterns in detail.
We describe common bearish reversal candlestick patterns in detail.
We present a comprehensive list of common candlestick patterns.
We discuss how to use and interpret Point and Figure Charts.
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.
