Trading Strategies
Breakout Trading: When and How to Enter
A breakout happens when price punches through a resistance level or breaks down through a support level that has held the stock for weeks.…
Trading Strategies
Beginner's Path
How to Build a Watchlist
A watchlist is the bench between research and execution. It holds the names you've already studied, sized in your head, and decided you'll trade…
Trading Strategies
Momentum Trading: Riding the Trend
Momentum trading is the simplest sentence on a trading desk and one of the hardest jobs on a screen: buy what is going up,…
Chart Patterns
Bull and Bear Flag Patterns
NVDA, August 2023. The stock had ripped from 420 to 480 in eight sessions on the back of the Q2 print. Then it stopped.…
Chart Patterns
Triangle Patterns in Stock Trading
Triangles are coiling patterns. Price gets squeezed between two trendlines that converge on each other, volume bleeds out of the tape, and at some…
Chart Patterns
Cup and Handle Pattern
NFLX, spring 2021. Fourteen-week cup off the post-earnings flush, handle forming clean in the upper third, volume drying up the way it's supposed to.…
Technical Analysis
Support and Resistance
Support and resistance are the oldest ideas in technical analysis and still the two I lean on hardest after eighteen years on a screen.…