When to buy and sell on forex is really a question about time: which hours of the day the market actually moves, and which hours it mostly sits still. We …
A propulsion block ICT setup is an order block that forms inside an earlier order block and then launches price away. This guide settles three things: what the pattern looks …
ICC vs ICT trading is a question about two very different things: ICC is a three-step entry pattern, while ICT is a whole vocabulary of price ideas. ICC stands for …
The volume footprint TradingView chart type splits every candle into price rows and prints how much volume traded at each row, divided into a buy side and a sell side. …
A volume candlestick chart draws each candle with a width that grows with the volume traded in that bar, so price and activity sit in one picture. This guide settles …
The zigzag formula is simple: a new swing starts only after price turns back by a set amount from the last high or low. This guide settles three things. First, …
Is Semafor left or right when it repaints? The answer is right. A Semafor dot can move, vanish or reappear only on the newest bars at the right edge of …
EURUSD technical analysis is a structured read of the euro-dollar chart: where price sits against its averages, its recent highs and lows, and its normal daily range. This guide settles …
This candlestick quiz uses six real charts and six short definition questions to test whether you can name a pattern when it appears on a live chart. Each answer sits …
The best volume indicator day trading choice depends on the question you ask the chart, because each tool answers a different one. In spot forex there is no central tape, …
The best forex pair for swing trading is not one fixed symbol, and anyone who names a single winner is skipping the trade-offs. So we measured instead. We took eight …
The MACD zero line is the level where the MACD line changes sign, because the 12-period EMA has crossed the 26-period EMA. This guide settles one question with data: does …
The 3 bar reversal pattern TradingView users mark is a three-candle turn: a push, a new extreme, then a close back through that extreme. This guide settles three things. First, …
Renko trading means reading price from bricks of a fixed size instead of from time-based candles. A new brick prints only when price moves a set distance, so quiet hours …
IPDA ICT is the label ICT traders use for the 20, 40 and 60-day look-back ranges they mark on a daily chart. This guide settles two things. First, what the …
ICT standard deviation is a way to project price targets by stacking copies of a reference range above and below it, usually at 1, 2, 2.5 and 4 times its …
A breakaway gap ICT traders talk about is a fair value gap that price never comes back to fill. This guide settles three things. First, what the term means in …
A supply and demand strategy trades the price areas where a fast move started, on the idea that unfilled orders still wait there. This guide turns that idea into one …
TradingView market replay is the Bar Replay tool: it hides every bar after a date you pick, then plays the chart forward one update at a time. This guide shows …
This guide covers how to use long position tool TradingView drawings to plan a trade before you take it. You get the toolbar location, every field in the settings dialog, …
A Fibonacci time zone is a set of vertical lines that runs forward from one swing on a chart, spaced at Fibonacci multiples of a chosen gap. The claim behind …
A trend pullback strategy buys a dip inside an uptrend, or sells a bounce inside a downtrend, and then rides the trend’s next leg. We wrote one version as an …
An ADX crossover is the moment the +DI line crosses the -DI line on the Directional Movement study, usually read with the ADX line as a strength filter. This guide …
The RSI based MA is the second line that TradingView draws inside its built-in RSI pane: a 14-bar simple moving average of the RSI itself, shown in yellow on our …
The know sure thing indicator (KST) blends four rate-of-change readings into one slow momentum line, then adds a signal line for crossovers. This guide settles three things. First, how the …
What is CE in trading ICT? CE stands for consequent encroachment, and it is simply the 50% midpoint of a fair value gap or of a long wick. This guide …
Momentum scalping means jumping on a short, fast burst of price and riding it for a few minutes. We wanted to know if that idea holds up once you write …
A high wave candlestick is a candle with a small body and long wicks on both sides, and this guide settles what it really tells a forex trader. We counted …
This trading indicators cheat sheet puts 20 common chart tools on two printable pages: what each one measures, its formula, and its default settings on TradingView and MetaTrader 4. Below, …
ICT daily profiles are templates for where a trading day prints its high and its low, and in which session each one forms. This guide settles one plain question: do …
High resistance liquidity is the ICT name for a price path so crowded with recent trading that a move through it tends to stall. This guide settles three things. First, …
The repaint meaning in trading is simple: an indicator repaints when a signal or line it already drew on a closed bar later moves, changes or vanishes. So the chart …
What is KDJ indicator? It is a stochastic oscillator with a third line, J, that stretches the gap between the two classic lines and can run past 0 and 100. …
A hollow candlestick chart draws each candle with two answers instead of one: the fill tells you how price moved inside the bar, and the colour tells you how the …
A gravestone candlestick is a doji whose open and close sit at the low of the bar, with a long upper wick above them. Textbooks call it a bearish reversal …
The best EMA for intraday trading is the question this guide answers with data rather than opinion. We measured five common lengths (9, 20, 50, 100 and 200) on 15-minute …
A moving average crossover strategy buys when a fast average crosses above a slow one and sells when it crosses back below. We ran three popular pairs of averages on …
Forex trading on the weekend is not possible in the spot market, because the interbank market shuts at the Friday close and only reopens on Sunday evening, UTC. So the …
ICT terms are the shorthand that Inner Circle Trader and Smart Money Concepts traders use to name liquidity, gaps, structure, zones and time windows on a chart. This glossary settles …
A Keltner channel strategy trades closes outside a volatility band drawn around a 20-period EMA. Some traders buy a close above the upper band as a breakout. Others fade it …
The FVG meaning in trading is simple: a fair value gap is a three-candle imbalance, a slice of price that one fast candle skipped. This guide settles three things. First, …
Japanese candlestick charting techniques are more than a list of shapes to memorise, and this guide is about the part most lists skip. A hammer or a tweezer top means …
TradingView real time data is free for some markets and late for others, and the chart tells you which one you have if you know where to look. This guide …
TradingView Dow Jones futures sit under a handful of symbols, and the right one depends on what you want to see. This guide settles which symbol to load, what one …
Liquidity in trading has two meanings, and most confusion comes from mixing them up. The first is market liquidity: how easily you can trade size without moving the price. The …
This Japanese candlestick cheat sheet covers 11 common patterns, each with the exact rule we used to count it and what price did 1, 3 and 5 days later. We …
A forex trading bot is a program that reads the chart and places trades on your account without you clicking a button. On MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 it is …
An evening star candlestick chart pattern is three candles that are said to mark the end of a rally: a strong up candle, a small pause candle, then a strong …
