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Oct 26, 2026 9 min read

Candlestick Patterns Explained: Doji, Engulfing, Hammer, Pin Bar, Head and Shoulders, Double Tops, Flags, Wedges and Triangles

Candlestick patterns are the market's shorthand for who won the fight inside one or a few candles; chart patterns are the same story over weeks. This guide covers the nine that traders actually use, the doji, engulfing candle, hammer and pin bar, head and shoulders, double top and bottom, bull flag, wedge and triangle, with what each one measures, where it is worth trading and where it is noise, and the one rule that makes all of them work: location first, pattern second.

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Oct 19 5 min read

How to Identify Support and Resistance Zones on Forex Charts

Support and resistance in forex are zones, not lines, and most of the ones traders draw are not worth drawing. This guide gives the rules that separate a zone that will react from a level that merely looks tidy: how it was formed, how often it has been tested, what it coincides with, and whether the liquidity behind it has already been taken. It covers role reversal, the sweep that fakes a break, and how to turn a zone into a stop and a target.

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Oct 19 6 min read

Forex Technical Analysis: A Practical Guide to Reading Price Charts

Forex technical analysis is the discipline of reading what price has already done to decide what is worth doing next. This guide strips it to the four readings that matter on a currency chart: trend by swing points, the levels where price has reacted, the state of the current range, and momentum as a tie-breaker. It works top-down from the daily chart to the hourly, with a worked EUR/USD read and the habits that stop chart reading from becoming pattern hunting.

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Oct 13 6 min read

Gold Technical Analysis: How to Read XAUUSD Market Structure

Gold moves differently from a currency pair — larger ranges, sharper sweeps, and a habit of trending for months. This guide is gold technical analysis built on market structure: how to mark swings on XAUUSD, read breaks of structure and changes of character across the daily, 4-hour and hourly charts, and turn that into a bias with a level, a target and an invalidation.

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