The stock market rarely moves in a straight line. Periods of strong, directional trend are invariably followed by moments of rest, consolidation, and quiet deliberation. For the keen-eyed technical ...

In the previous lesson, we started looking at ways to identify a trend, examining price and moving averages. In this lesson, we look at two more methods to identify and measure trends: relative ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Patterns are the distinctive formations created by the movements of security ...

USD/CHF clears the May low (0.8186) after failing to push above the 50-Day SMA (0.8368), with the exchange rate carving a series of lower highs and lows as it extends the decline ...

We’ve looked at reversal patterns (head and shoulders pattern and inverse head and shoulders pattern). In this lesson, we cover continuation patterns, specifically the symmetrical triangle pattern.

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated ...

Price Action Trading is one of the most popular ways to analyze financial markets, favoured by many traders due to the raw price movement without any lagging indicators. This technique essentially ...