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title: Chart Reading
description: Chart reading is the practice of analyzing historical price charts to identify market trends. You will understand how to interpret line, bar, and candlestick charts, recognize support and resistance levels, and use basic indicators to make informed trading decisions.
category: finance-economics
subcategory: investing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/chart-reading
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# Chart Reading

Chart reading is the practice of analyzing historical price charts to identify market trends. You will understand how to interpret line, bar, and candlestick charts, recognize support and resistance levels, and use basic indicators to make informed trading decisions.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. StockCharts ChartSchool

StockCharts' free reference library on technical analysis, with articles on chart types, trend lines, support and resistance, chart patterns and dozens of indicators. Each entry explains how a tool is calculated and how analysts read it on a price chart.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://school.stockcharts.com/doku.php?id=overview%3Aintroduction_to_chart_reading

**Tags:** technical-analysis, chart-patterns, technical-indicators, candlestick-charts

### 2. tradingview.com

TradingView is a comprehensive charting and social platform for traders (stocks, forex, crypto) offering real-time market data, interactive charts, and a suite of technical indicators and Pine Script tools. It also hosts a community where users publish trading ideas, tutorials, and educational content to learn day trading basics.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://tradingview.com

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, trading

### 3. stockcharts.com

StockCharts.com is a charting and technical-analysis platform offering real-time and delayed stock charts, a wide array of indicators, and chart patterns. It also includes powerful scanning tools and an extensive educational library (ChartSchool) to learn day trading basics and technical analysis concepts.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://chartschool.stockcharts.com/

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, trading

## Courses

### 1. School of Pipsology

Free, graded forex curriculum running from preschool to graduation levels, covering how currency pairs and pips work, brokers and leverage, chart types, support and resistance, indicators, fundamental analysis, trading psychology and risk management. Readers learn to assemble and evaluate a basic trading plan.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.babypips.com/learn/forex

**Tags:** forex, currency-trading, technical-analysis, risk-management, trading-basics

## Books

### 1. Charting and Technical Analysis

**Author:** Fred McAllen

A self-published introduction to reading stock charts, covering candlesticks, volume, support and resistance, trends and moving averages. It gives newcomers the vocabulary to interpret price action on a daily chart and follow basic technical setups used by retail swing traders.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1456468693?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, trading

### 2. How to Make Money in Stocks

**Author:** William J. O'Neil

Investor's Business Daily founder William O'Neil explains his CAN SLIM method, which combines earnings growth screens with chart analysis. Readers learn to recognize bases such as the cup-with-handle, time buy points on breakouts, and apply strict loss-cutting sell rules.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0070480176?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, trading

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