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title: Technical Analysis
description: Technical analysis is the framework used to evaluate investments and identify trading opportunities by analyzing statistical trends. You will understand how to use price action, volume, and mathematical indicators like moving averages to forecast future market movements.
category: finance-economics
subcategory: investing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/technical-analysis
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# Technical Analysis

Technical analysis is the framework used to evaluate investments and identify trading opportunities by analyzing statistical trends. You will understand how to use price action, volume, and mathematical indicators like moving averages to forecast future market movements.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. StockCharts ChartSchool

StockCharts' free reference library of technical analysis, with articles on chart types, trend lines, support and resistance, chart patterns and dozens of technical indicators, each explaining the calculation, interpretation and typical trading signals, plus overview essays on market analysis.

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

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

**Tags:** technical-analysis, technical-indicators, chart-patterns, trading

### 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. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

**Author:** John J. Murphy

The standard reference text on technical analysis, used in CMT exam preparation, covering Dow theory, chart construction, trends, reversal and continuation patterns, volume and open interest, moving averages, oscillators, Elliott wave and intermarket relationships, so readers can interpret price charts systematically.

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

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735200653?tag=edmonddante07-20

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

### 2. Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques

**Author:** Steve Nison

The book that introduced Japanese candlestick charting to Western traders, explaining how to construct candlesticks and read single, double and multi-candle reversal and continuation patterns, then combine them with Western tools such as trend lines, moving averages and oscillators.

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

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0139316507?tag=edmonddante07-20

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

### 3. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

**Author:** Thomas N. Bulkowski

Statistical catalogue of dozens of chart patterns, each with identification guidelines, measured failure rates, average rise or decline and throwback frequencies drawn from thousands of historical stock charts, so readers can judge which patterns have tested predictive value.

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

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471295256?tag=edmonddante07-20

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

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