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Free, plain-English guides to the concepts behind every Ticker Coach read. Educational — not investment advice.
Getting Started
How Ticker Coach works, and how to invest well around a full-time job.
#01
How to Use Ticker Coach: A Practical Tour
From first watchlist to a tested plan, in five steps
beginner · 10 min
#02
Investing With a Full-Time Job: A Realistic System
You can't watch the market — here's why that can be fine
beginner · 11 min
Technical Analysis
How to read charts: what price is telling you, and the signals the pros watch.
#01
What is Technical Analysis?
Your first step to reading charts
beginner · 10 min
#02
Candlestick Charts Explained
A 300-year-old way to read market psychology
beginner · 12 min
#03
Support & Resistance Explained
The price levels where trends pause, turn, or accelerate
beginner · 12 min
#04
Moving Averages Explained: Reading the Trend
The 50-day, the 200-day, and what crosses really mean
beginner · 12 min
#05
RSI Explained: The Momentum Indicator
Reading momentum, exhaustion, and divergence
beginner · 15 min
#06
MACD Explained: Trend & Momentum
How Gerald Appel's classic indicator reads trend strength
beginner · 15 min
#07
Bollinger Bands Explained: Reading Volatility
Squeezes, band walks, and what volatility cycles tell you
intermediate · 14 min
#08
Volume Explained: The Market's Conviction Meter
Confirmation, climaxes, and what participation reveals
intermediate · 14 min
Chart Patterns
The classic shapes — what forms them, what confirms them, and how often they fail.
#01
Cup & Handle Pattern Explained
The rounded base, the shakeout, and what makes it studied
beginner · 11 min
#02
Head & Shoulders Pattern Explained
The most famous reversal shape — and its honest hit rate
beginner · 11 min
#03
Double Tops & Double Bottoms Explained
Why the second test matters more than the first
beginner · 10 min
#04
Flags & Triangles Explained: Continuation Patterns
How trends rest — and what a healthy pause looks like
intermediate · 12 min
Fundamentals
The business behind the ticker: price vs. value, and what the financial statements reveal.
Market History
The great traders' stories — told honestly, endings and all. History and lessons, never methods to copy.
#01
Jesse Livermore: Lessons From the Boy Plunger
A famous trading story — including its ending
beginner · 13 min
#02
Nicolas Darvas: The Dancer Who Traded by Telegram
Boxes, distance, and the discipline of doing less
beginner · 12 min
Investing Basics
How the market's plumbing works: sentiment AI, backtests, filings, and the data behind the headlines.
#01
What Is a 13F? Following the Smart Money, Carefully
What institutional filings reveal — and what they hide
beginner · 11 min
#02
How AI Stock Sentiment Analysis Works
What the machines actually read — and where they're blind
beginner · 12 min
#03
What Is Backtesting? A Plain-English Guide
Testing rules against history — and the traps that make results lie
beginner · 12 min
Case Studies
Anatomy-of-a-setup walkthroughs of real market history — including the versions that fail. Educational, never predictions.
#01
Anatomy of a Breakout: From Quiet Base to Follow-Through
A walkthrough of one classic setup — and the version that fails
beginner · 12 min
#02
Anatomy of a Squeeze: NVIDIA, Autumn 2022
What compression told you before the AI rally — and what it didn't
intermediate · 11 min
#03
Anatomy of a Capitulation: March 2020
The fastest crash in history, and what climax volume really marks
intermediate · 12 min
#04
Anatomy of a Blow-off Top: AMC, June 2021
When record volume marks a crescendo — seen clearly only afterward
intermediate · 11 min
#05
Anatomy of a W Bottom: Meta, 2022–2023
A 77% decline, a double bottom, and the catalyst behind the chart
intermediate · 11 min
#06
Anatomy of a Death Cross: 2022 vs. 2020
The same signal, two years apart — one worked, one whipsawed
beginner · 11 min
#07
Anatomy of a Bear-Market Rally: 2022
Four convincing rallies, three failures — and the one that was the bottom
intermediate · 12 min
#08
Anatomy of an Earnings Gap: NVIDIA, May 2023
When price teleports — and why 'gaps always fill' is a myth
beginner · 11 min
#09
Anatomy of a Correction: The 2018 Christmas Eve Low
Twenty percent in three months, then a V — and the retest that never came
beginner · 11 min
#10
Anatomy of a Parabolic Trend: Tesla, 2020
A parabola with an engine — and what separates it from a mania
intermediate · 12 min
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