Plain-English guides to technical indicators, settings, chart behavior, and practical trading rules for trend following and breakout strategies.
A stock rallies for three days on rising volume, pulls back for two days on thin volume, then pushes higher again on even bigger volume than the first rally. Standard…
You are watching a stock trade in a tight range for three weeks. The bands contract, the channel narrows, and every volatility tool on your chart is quietly agreeing: something…
A stock rallies 2% on heavy volume. The next day it rallies another 1% on even heavier volume, but the bar is half the size and the close is in…
SPY dropped from $653.18 to $631.97 over four sessions in late March 2026. That is a 3.2% slide in under a week. But the damage under the surface started before…
The Supertrend was green. RSI was reading 58. The 50-day moving average was still pointing up. Then the stock dropped 11% in two weeks and stopped everyone out. None of…
NVDA pulls back to $132.06 on 31 October 2024 after rallying from $115.74 at the start of the month. You draw a trendline, but it only captures one edge of…
You are watching NVDA push $181 in the first ninety minutes of the session. The stock opened at $177.10, gapped up, and keeps grinding higher. Buyers everywhere. The question is…
SPY closed at $558.12 on April 2, 2025. The next day it dropped to $530.62. The day after that, $499.55. Then on April 9 it ripped back to $542.40 in…
AAPL pulled back from $214.29 on 17 March 2025 to $209.06 the same day, found its footing, and then spent the next two weeks climbing to $224.04 by 26 March.…
SPY pushed to a new high on 19 February 2025, closing at $604.17. The index looked healthy. But under the surface, something was wrong. Fewer and fewer stocks were participating…