Every page on this site assumes one skill: you can look at a chart and describe, in plain words, what the market did. Not predict — describe. Who was in control, where the fight happened, whether the crowd showed up. This course builds that skill from zero in six modules, and it's deliberately the first rung of the Technicals ladder: everything from indicators to breakouts stands on it.
No prerequisites. If you've never looked at a candlestick chart in your life, start at Module 1.
I The language
Modules 1–2 — what you're looking at LIVE
- 1What a chart shows — price, time, and the four numbers in every bar; timeframes; why the same market looks different on different charts.
- 2The candlestick language — bodies, wicks, and what a candle's shape says about the fight inside it; the rice-trader origin story, told honestly.
II The structure
Modules 3–5 — reading the story LIVE
- 3Trend and structure — higher highs, lower lows, and Dow's three movements: the oldest framework in Western technical analysis, from the 1922 source text.
- 4Support and resistance — why prices remember; levels as places where the auction previously found interest.
- 5Volume and gaps — the conviction dimension: was anyone actually there? Plus the four kinds of holes in a chart.
III The skill
Module 6 — capstone LIVE
- ★Reading a chart cold — the five-question routine for describing any chart in plain words, and the honest limits of what chart reading can claim.
Sources (credited, verified)
Public-domain primary: Hamilton, The Stock Market Barometer (1922) — quoted directly. · Anchor books (credited, taught in our own words): Murphy, Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets; Nison, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques. · Reference layer: the Library's sourced concept pages, linked from each module. The Homma/Sakata history is tradition more than record and is flagged as such where told.