Technical Analysis
Master chart patterns, indicators, and trading signals.
MACD Explained: A Full Guide for Beginners
MACD for absolute beginners — what the two lines and the histogram actually mean, how the 12, 26, 9 settings are built from moving averages, the crossover and divergence signals, and why MACD whipsaws in sideways markets.
Market Structure: HH, HL, LH and LL Explained
Higher highs, higher lows, lower highs, lower lows — the four building blocks of every trend. A beginner's guide to reading market structure on NSE and BSE charts, and knowing the moment a trend quietly breaks.
ADX Indicator: Measuring Trend Strength
ADX explained for beginners with Indian-market examples. What the 25 line means, +DI and -DI crossovers, and why ADX measures strength, not direction.
Bollinger Bands: Full Guide for Beginners
Bollinger Bands for absolute beginners. Three chart lines that read recent volatility, the squeeze setup, the band walk, and why upper or lower band touches are not automatic buy or sell signals.
Breakout vs Fakeout: How to Tell Them Apart
Breakout vs fakeout explained for absolute beginners. The five tests — candle close, volume, retest, broader market, timeframe — that separate a real NSE breakout from a trap that fools early buyers.
Cup and Handle Pattern: A Beginner's Guide
The cup and handle is a bullish continuation pattern. Learn the four parts that define it, how to confirm the breakout with volume, where to place the stop, and how beginners avoid fakeouts.
Double Top and Double Bottom Patterns: A Beginner's Guide
Learn to spot the M and W chart shapes that flag a trend reversal. A beginner-friendly guide to drawing, trading and stress-testing double top and double bottom patterns on Indian markets.
Fibonacci Extensions for Targets
Fibonacci extensions project where a trend's next leg may finish. The 127.2, 161.8 and 261.8 percent levels, how to plot them on NSE charts, and use them as targets.
Fibonacci Retracement Levels Explained for Beginners
Fibonacci retracement levels explained for beginners. The 38.2, 50 and 61.8 percent zones, how to draw them on NSE charts, and where most traders get it wrong.
Flags and Pennants: A Beginner's Guide
Flags and pennants are short pause patterns inside a strong trend. How to spot them, set entries, stops, and targets on NSE charts in plain language.
Gap Up and Gap Down: Types, Meaning and Trading Rules
Gap up and gap down explained for Indian traders. The four types you see on Nifty, what each one means, and the probability-based rules for trading them without getting trapped at the 9:15 open.
Ichimoku Cloud: Full Guide for Beginners
Ichimoku Cloud explained for Indian traders. The five lines, the 9-26-52 default, the cloud, and how to read trend and support on Nifty and large-cap charts.
Moving Averages: SMA, EMA & WMA Explained
Moving averages explained in plain English: learn SMA, EMA and WMA, how traders use them, and when these lines fail in sideways markets.
Price Action Trading: Read Charts Without Indicators
Price action trading explained for absolute beginners. How to read bare candles, swing structure, support and resistance and volume on Indian charts without any lagging indicators.
RSI Explained: Overbought, Oversold & Divergence Trap
RSI explained in simple terms: learn the 70/30 levels, the 50-line, the divergence trap, and why beginners should wait for price to confirm before acting.
Stochastic Oscillator Explained for Beginners
The Stochastic Oscillator explained in plain English with Indian-market examples. What %K and %D mean, when to use it, how it differs from RSI, and how professional traders actually use it on Nifty and large-caps.
Supertrend Indicator: Settings, Formula and Trading Guide
Supertrend explained for Indian traders. How the indicator works, the 10-period factor-3 default, when it whips, and how to filter signals on Nifty stocks.
Support and Resistance: The Foundation
Support and resistance explained for beginners. How price floors and ceilings form on Indian charts, how to draw them, and the rules most new traders miss.
How to Draw Trendlines Correctly
Learn to draw trendlines correctly on Nifty and Indian stocks: use swing highs and lows, draw from the wicks, confirm with a third touch, and tell a real break from a fakeout using volume and the retest.
Triangle Patterns: Ascending, Descending, Symmetrical
Ascending, descending and symmetrical triangle patterns are the three squeeze shapes every Indian trader sees. How to spot them, trade them, avoid the fakes.
Volume Analysis in Stock Trading: A Beginner's Guide
Volume analysis for Indian beginners. What volume on NSE really shows, the four price-volume setups every trader must know, and the mistakes that drain accounts.
VWAP Indicator: The Intraday Workhorse Explained
VWAP for Indian intraday traders. What the volume-weighted average price is, how institutions read it, and the simple rule retail traders keep getting wrong.
Wedge Patterns: Rising and Falling
Rising and falling wedge patterns explained for Indian traders. How to spot them on Nifty and large-caps, with entry, stop and target rules in plain language.
How to Backtest Any Strategy for Free in TradingView
The complete walk-through of backtesting a strategy on TradingView — the six metrics that matter, the three faults to look for, and how to fix them. Free plan, no coding.
Real trading, explained simply.
Daily videos showing how trading actually works in real life — walked through step by step, in plain language, by VRD Rao.