TA Notes

Dow Theory — Foundation Charles Dow is the grandfather of technical analysis. He co-founded the D...

Dow Theory Tenet 2: The Market Has Three Trends The market moves in three distinct types of trend...

Dow Theory Tenet 4: The Trend Is Your Friend A trend will persist until its reversal is indicated...

Dow Theory Tenet 6: Volume Must Confirm the Trend Volume is just the total number of shares/coins...

What Is RSI? The Relative Strength Index is a price momentum indicator — it measures price moment...

Understanding Fibonacci The Fibonacci sequence — 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89… — is a ...

What Type of Trader Are You? Before diving into candlesticks, you need to know which timeframe su...

Dow Theory Tenet 5: The Averages Must Confirm One Another For a market trend to be valid, both th...

Dow Theory Tenet 1: The Averages Discount Everything All available information — economic, politi...

Why Risk Management Matters Effective risk management combined with TA is what separates consiste...

End-of-term session combining everything from the 10-week course into practical application. The...

Recap: Regular Divergence Fundamentals RSI is a price momentum indicator. Most people (90%) use i...

Regular vs Hidden Divergence Regular Divergence Hidden Divergence Signals Potential rever...

What Is Directionally Aligned Slope Divergence? Regular divergence = price and RSI going in oppos...

The Core Rule: Match the Right Divergence to the Right Pattern Pattern Type Divergence to Look...

Moving Averages, SMA & EMA Moving averages is a line that smooths out the price and can help gau...

General info Stands for Moving Average Convergence Divergence The MACD is a momentum indicato...

Gaps Why Gaps Occur Good/bad earning announcements that differ from market expectations News / g...

Overview Find potential highs or lows in the general market Divergence is a key way to spot m...

Why Is Sentiment Important? Sentiment reflects the collective emotions of market participants whi...

Purpose: To set price targets & support/resistance levels. While Fib retracements measure where p...

Advanced Fibonacci Clusters In Term 1, you learned clusters from multiple retracements on differe...

The Course Architecture — What's Non-Negotiable vs Complementary Term 1 Weeks 1-6: THE NON-NEGOTI...

General When an initial pump then dump happens, how do you know if its a 1-2 or A-B? You must...

if the wave 1 is very powerful, it's likely the next waves won't be as big - wave 3 cant be the ...

Predictive vs Reactive TA Everything learned previously (market structure, S/R, divergence, volum...

One of the impulse waves (1, 3, or 5) is almost always significantly longer than the other two. T...

The second type of motive wave. Unlike impulses, diagonals allow wave 4 to overlap wave 1 — the o...

Moving from the motive phase to the corrective phase. Corrections are where Elliott Wave gets har...

The second type of correction. Where zigzags are sharp and fast, flats are sideways and time-cons...

The third type of correction. Five-wave sideways pattern labelled A-B-C-D-E. Triangles only appea...

When simple corrections aren't enough, the market combines them. A double three is two simple cor...

The most complex corrective pattern. Three simple corrections joined by two connector waves. This...

Combining predictive Elliott Wave analysis with reactive TA (divergence, volume, market structure...

Elliott Wave patterns are a visual representation of collective human emotion — fear, greed, opti...