Trading education & analysis tools

Learn technical analysis. Trade with defined risk.

In-depth guides to candlestick patterns, chart analysis and risk management, plus eleven free calculators and a stock market simulator. Every guide gives you the setup, the level that invalidates it, and how to size the position.

  • Every pattern with its own chart, entry rules and stop placement
  • Calculators run in your browser, and nothing you enter is stored
  • No account, no paywall, no email required
A simulated candlestick chart: a decline, a hammer reversal, and a recovery that keeps forming new candles. 90.00
Simulated tape Price rejects the lows, then confirms. Learn to read this, and to place a stop that survives it.

Core guides

The mechanics of trading, how to read a chart, and the risk arithmetic that decides whether a strategy survives a losing streak.

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Candlestick patterns

Each guide covers the same ground: the identification rules, the order flow that produces the shape, what makes it fail, and where the stop belongs.

See the complete pattern reference →

From the blog

What the writers learned the expensive way, and what they do differently now.

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Free trading calculators

Position sizing, risk/reward, options payoff, dividends and a stock market simulator. Everything runs in your browser, and the numbers you enter never leave it.

How we cover this

Where each method breaks

Most pattern guides list shapes and let you assume they're signals. Every guide here spends as long on what breaks a pattern as on the pattern itself, because that's where positions are lost.

No signals, picks or subscriptions

We don't publish trade ideas, run a chat room, or take broker affiliate commissions in exchange for recommendations. The site covers method. The decisions stay yours.

Risk before entries

Position sizing, R multiples and expectancy get more coverage here than entry signals do, because over a few hundred trades they account for more of the result.

New to this?

Start here

Read these three in order. Between them they cover the shape, the context and the arithmetic, which is most of what you need before risking real money.

  1. The complete candlestick pattern referenceWhat each shape means, and when it doesn't matter.
  2. Risk management from first principlesWhy sizing decides your results more than analysis does.
  3. The position size calculatorTurn a stop level into the number of shares to buy.