<p>Markets don’t move randomly — they respect levels where buyers or sellers have previously stepped in aggressively. These are <strong>support</strong> (price floor) and <strong>resistance</strong> (price ceiling).</p>
<p>Charles Dow, the father of technical analysis, laid down three foundational truths in the late 1800s. They remain as relevant today as they were over a century ago:</p>
<table> <thead> <tr><th>Category</th><th>Example</th><th>What it tells you</th><th>Best for</th></tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td>Trend Following</td><td>MACD, ADX</td><td>Strength and direction of trend</td><td>Catching sustained moves</td></tr> <tr><td>Oscillators</td><td>RSI, Stochastic</td><td>Overbought / oversold conditions</td><td>Range-bound markets / reversals</td></tr> <tr><td>Volatility</td><td>Bollinger Bands, ATR</td><td>Expansion or contraction of price</td><td>Breakout strategies, stop placement</td></tr> <tr><td>Volume</td><td>OBV, Volume Profile</td><td>Conviction behind price move</td><td>Confirming breakouts / divergences</td></tr> </tbody> </table>
<ul> <li><strong>Uptrend:</strong> Higher highs + higher lows → Buy on pullbacks.</li> <li><strong>Downtrend:</strong> Lower highs + lower lows → Sell on rallies.</li> <li><strong>Sideways (range):</strong> No clear direction → Fade extremes or wait.</li> </ul>
<p><strong>The 1% rule:</strong> Never risk more than 1% of your total account on a single trade.<br/> <strong>Risk/Reward:</strong> Aim for at least 1:2. For every $1 risked, expect $2 in profit.</p>
<ul> <li><strong>The market discounts everything.</strong> News, earnings, geopolitical events — all of it is already baked into the current price. The chart is the final scoreboard.</li> <li><strong>Prices move in trends.</strong> A trend in motion is more likely to continue than reverse. Your job is to identify the trend, not fight it.</li> <li><strong>History tends to repeat itself.</strong> Human psychology — fear, greed, hope — doesn’t change. That’s why patterns like head-and-shoulders or double bottoms recur.</li> </ul>
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<p>Every day, millions of traders look at the same price charts but see entirely different opportunities. Some see random noise. Others see patterns, cycles, and the fingerprints of human emotion. Technical analysis sits at the intersection of art and science — a discipline that assumes <strong>history rhymes, crowd behavior repeats, and price reflects all known information</strong>.</p>
