Reading Market Data
Lessons in this path
- 1Price and OHLC
Four numbers per bar — open, high, low, close — and the tug-of-war story each candle tells.
8 min read
- 2Reading Volume
Volume measures participation — how many hands a move passed through, not which way it points.
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- 3Market Cap as a Reading Lens
Indexes are cap-weighted — which means 'the market' you watch is mostly its few biggest members.
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- 4Moving Averages
The market with its noise averaged out — a trend lens that is always right about the past and always late.
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- 5RSI: Beyond Overbought and Oversold
"Above 70, sell" is the most repeated — and most misleading — rule in technical analysis.
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- 6MACD
Two moving averages arguing — MACD measures the gap between them, and the gap measures momentum.
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- 9Candlesticks
Each candle is a compact record of range, direction and rejection within one interval.
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- 10Support & Resistance
Price zones mark where supply and demand previously changed the auction.
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- 12Momentum Indicator
Momentum measures the speed of price change and often turns before trend structure does.
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- 13Volatility Indicators
ATR and volatility bands translate recent movement into range-based context.
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- 14Relative Strength
Relative strength asks which asset is leading after both are measured on the same basis.
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- 15Market Breadth
Breadth asks how many securities participate in an index move, not just how far the index moved.
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- 16Signal Confirmation
Confirmation combines independent evidence while avoiding duplicate versions of the same price input.
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