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Written guides on technical indicators, range and volatility, and market structure. Each piece stands on its own — start wherever the gap is. No background assumed, and nothing that expires.

41 published  •  Glossary →

Indicators: the families 7 published

  1. 01What a technical indicator is, and what it isn't
  2. 02Lagging and leading: why most indicators follow price
  3. 03Overlays and oscillators, and where each sits on a chart
  4. 04Trend indicators: what a moving average smooths away
  5. 05Momentum indicators: RSI, stochastics, rate of change
  6. 06Volatility indicators: ATR, Bollinger Bands, Keltner channels
  7. 07Volume indicators: VWAP, on-balance volume, volume profile

Indicators in practice 6 published

  1. 01Why stacking five indicators still gives you one read
  2. 02Correlated indicators and the illusion of confirmation
  3. 03Settings and periods: why a default is just a default
  4. 04Repainting, and how to check whether an indicator does it
  5. 05Curve fitting: making anything look good in hindsight
  6. 06What an indicator cannot see

Reading a chart 6 published

  1. 01Reading a candle
  2. 02Timeframes, and what changes between them
  3. 03What volume does and doesn't tell you
  4. 04Regular hours, overnight, and why the open matters
  5. 05Bar types: time, tick, range, and volume
  6. 06Glossary: the terms, in plain language

Range and volatility 4 published

  1. 01What true range actually measures
  2. 02Extension: when a move has stretched past its own normal
  3. 03Compression, and what tight ranges tend to precede
  4. 04Gaps, and how they interact with range

Market structure 4 published

  1. 01How support and resistance levels get built
  2. 02Naming a trend without guessing at it
  3. 03Prior day high and low, and why they get respected
  4. 04Opening range, and what the first hour sets up

Using the suite 5 published

  1. 01Installing True Range Research on TradeStation
  2. 02The inputs, and why there's nothing to tune
  3. 03Reading what invalidates a setup
  4. 04The workspace, and why not to rebuild it
  5. 05What each mark on the chart means

Choosing instruments 4 published

  1. 01Futures models and equities models: why they differ
  2. 02Tick size, contract months, and rollover
  3. 03Liquidity and spread, and why some tickers read poorly
  4. 04Picking your two instruments

Process and discipline 5 published

  1. 01Position sizing: the arithmetic, not the advice
  2. 02Drawdown limits and how prop firm rules work
  3. 03Keeping a trade journal that's worth rereading
  4. 04Why the same setup behaves differently in different regimes
  5. 05Reading a backtest skeptically, including ours