Reading the Market
Indicators and chart concepts explained as learning material.
Start here · Essential guide
What technical analysis is, the assumptions it rests on, how it is applied to crypto charts, and the main criticisms every beginner should know before relying on it.
A beginner glossary of common chart indicators, what each one measures, and where to find them on charting tools, with honest notes on their limits.
How Bollinger Bands are built from a moving average and standard deviation, a worked example, what band width shows, and common ways the bands are misread.
How backtesting checks a technical idea against past crypto data, the pitfalls that make results misleading, and why no test can promise future profits.
How trend indicators such as moving averages, trend lines and the ADX describe direction, plus why they lag and when they produce misleading readings.
Learn what support and resistance mean on a chart, how volume is read alongside them, and why these concepts are for study rather than a recipe for results.
How simple and exponential moving averages are calculated, with a worked example, how period length changes the line, and why every average lags behind price.
What momentum oscillators such as RSI, MACD and the stochastic show about the speed of price moves, and what they cannot tell you about direction or timing.
The RSI formula step by step, with worked numbers, plus the most common misreadings of overbought and oversold levels and the limits of this popular indicator.
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