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ADX: Trend Strength and Directional Movement
Separate ADX from +DI and −DI, calculate a directional-movement example, and understand smoothing delays and zero-denominator cases.
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Anchored VWAP: Start Points and Hindsight
Understand anchored VWAP with an original calculation, compare event anchors, and document start-point choices without introducing hindsight bias.
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Average True Range: Gaps, Smoothing and Units
Calculate true range and ATR with a gap example, convert the result into price units correctly, and separate historical volatility from stop-loss risk.
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Bollinger Bands: Mean, Deviation and Width
Calculate Bollinger Bands from a small price sample, distinguish population and sample deviation, and understand the limits of band-based probabilities.
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CCI: Typical Price and Mean Deviation
Calculate CCI with an original example, distinguish mean absolute deviation from standard deviation, and understand its unbounded scale.
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Cup and Handle: Convention and Failure Cases
Identify a cup-and-handle drawing with explicit endpoints, measure its depth and handle, and distinguish a candidate formation from a confirmed outcome.
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Double Tops and Bottoms: Tolerance and Failure
Define double-top and double-bottom pivots, neckline and tolerance with a worked example, while keeping candidate shapes separate from confirmed outcomes.
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Fair Value Gap: A Three-Candle Convention
Define bullish and bearish fair value gaps with explicit candle boundaries, compare mitigation rules, and separate the pattern from institutional-flow claims.
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Fibonacci Retracement: Ratios and Anchors
Calculate retracement levels from declared endpoints, distinguish retracement from extension, and avoid anchor selection and log-scale confusion.
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Flags and Pennants: Shapes and Failure Cases
Distinguish a flag’s parallel consolidation from a pennant’s converging boundaries, and document the preceding move and breakout without hindsight.
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Head and Shoulders: Necklines and Confirmation
Map a head-and-shoulders pattern from explicit swings, calculate a sloping neckline, and distinguish retrospective recognition from a live signal.
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Heikin-Ashi: Synthetic Candles and Real Prices
Calculate Heikin-Ashi OHLC, see how a synthetic open can lie outside the real bar, and distinguish visual smoothing from executable market prices.
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Ichimoku Cloud: Midpoints and Time Alignment
Calculate Ichimoku’s midpoint lines and displaced spans, work through an example, and avoid treating forward plotting as future information.
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Keltner Channels: EMA and ATR Envelopes
Build a modern Keltner Channel, compare range and ATR variants, and see how its width differs from a standard-deviation price envelope.
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Liquidity Sweeps: Price Events and Inferred Orders
Define a price sweep beyond a prior extreme, distinguish observable candles from inferred stop orders, and document confirmation and failure cases.
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MACD: Line, Signal and Histogram Explained
Separate the MACD line, signal average and histogram with a worked example, and compare zero crossings, signal crossings and platform conventions.
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Market Profile vs Volume Profile: Time and Volume
Compare TPO Market Profile with volume-by-price using original examples, value-area rules, data checks and a practical reconciliation workflow.
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Money Flow Index: Price and Volume Classification
Calculate MFI from positive and negative raw money flow, handle zero denominators, and understand why it is not a verified fund-flow account.
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Moving Average Crossover: Rules and Whipsaw Tests
Calculate an SMA crossover, compare EMA weighting, define signal timing and test whipsaw, cost and parameter sensitivity with reproducible examples.
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OHLC Candlesticks: Read the Bar Without Inventing the Price Path
Read open, high, low and close, calculate candle body and wicks, and understand why a bar cannot determine the order of stop and target touches.
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On-Balance Volume: Cumulative Signed Volume
Build an OBV sequence, understand its arbitrary starting value and unchanged-close rule, and distinguish signed volume from actual net capital flows.
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Opening Range Breakout: Rules and Honest Testing
Define an opening range breakout with session-aware rules, a worked risk example, false-break handling and a reproducible test that includes costs.
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Order Blocks: Chart Rules and Evidence Limits
Define an order-block zone with explicit candle and confirmation rules, compare body and wick boundaries, and avoid unsupported institutional-inventory claims.
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Parabolic SAR: Acceleration and Reversals
Work through a Parabolic SAR update, distinguish extreme points and acceleration from executable stops, and inspect reversal and clamp conventions.
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