Best of Tradeciety
Over the past 10 years, we've published nearly 500 trading articles on the Tradeciety blog. Here, we've curated a collection of our most popular and valuable articles, organized by category to help you easily find the insights you need.
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Trading Basics
A beginner's guide to Forex trading, covering essential concepts such as currency pairs, pips, and market hours.
An introduction to stock trading, explaining how stock markets work, different types of stocks, and the key factors influencing share prices.
Learn the must-know terminology for trading, from “bullish” and “bearish” to “spread” and “liquidity.”
Why you need a trading journal
Discover the benefits of maintaining a trading journal, which helps you track your trades, analyze performance, and develop better trading discipline over time.
Understand how to calculate position sizes based on your account balance and risk tolerance. This guide teaches risk management techniques to protect your capital.
Trading styles: day trading, swing trading, scalping
Explore the different trading styles and decide which approach aligns with your goals and personality.
Learn the basics of margin and leverage, two key concepts in trading that allow traders to increase their buying power.
Survive your first year as a trader (9 tips)
Practical advice for new traders on navigating the challenges of their first year, from risk management to emotional control, with nine essential tips for building resilience and consistency
9 daily resources for Forex traders
A collection of useful websites, news sources, and tools for Forex traders to stay informed and make better decisions. This list is tailored for day-to-day market tracking and analysis.
Discover 10 habits that successful traders cultivate to improve discipline, strategy, and mindset. This guide helps traders develop routines that support consistent performance.
Learn 10 key financial habits that can help traders manage their capital, avoid unnecessary risk, and build wealth over time.
Become a profitable trader in 12 steps
A comprehensive 12-step guide to developing the skills, strategies, and mindset needed to achieve profitability as a trader. Ideal for those looking to take their trading to the next level.
A curated list of 11 must-watch movies that capture the excitement, risks, and lessons of trading. These films offer inspiration and insights for traders at any level.
10 books on trading psychology
A list of 10 essential reads on trading psychology to help traders manage emotions, overcome biases, and develop mental resilience in challenging markets.
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Price Action
Learn the basics of trend lines and how to use them to identify the direction and strength of a trend in your trading.
Understand how to draw and interpret trend line channels, which can help you identify potential entry and exit points within trending markets.
Drawing Support and Resistance
The essentials of drawing support and resistance levels, which are critical areas on the chart where price is likely to react.
Drawing Support and Resistance II
A deeper dive into support and resistance techniques, covering advanced concepts to help refine your chart analysis and improve trade accuracy.
Explore the concept of supply and demand zones, which represent areas where buying and selling pressures influence price movements.
Discover how to recognize the Pinbar candlestick pattern, a powerful reversal signal that indicates potential price turning points.
Evening Star Candlestock Pattern
This article teaches the Evening Star pattern, a three-candle formation that signals bearish reversals. Learn to identify and use it for timing entries in downtrends.
Learn about the Engulfing pattern, a two-candle formation signaling strong price movements for trends and reversals.
A comprehensive overview of 13 essential candlestick patterns, this article serves as a quick reference guide for traders to recognize important price action signals.
Gain insights into reading and interpreting candlestick patterns, helping you better understand market sentiment and make more informed trading decisions.
Understand how to read price action directly from charts without relying on indicators. This guide will enhance your ability to interpret price movements and anticipate market behavior.
8 Price Action Secrets Traders Have to Know
Uncover key insights and tips that seasoned traders use when reading price action.
Heiken Ashi Candlestick Charts
An introduction to Heiken Ashi charts, which smooth out price data for clearer trend analysis.
Explore the fundamentals of Elliott Wave Theory, a popular technique that helps traders understand and predict market cycles through wave patterns.
Learn the basics of Wyckoff's trend analysis approach, focusing on understanding price cycles and market psychology to identify trend reversals and continuations.
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Chart Patterns
Learn how to identify the Cup and Handle pattern, a bullish continuation pattern that signals a potential breakout for trend-following traders.
Discover the Head and Shoulders pattern, one of the most reliable reversal patterns, indicating potential trend reversals.
Understand how to recognize Bull and Bear Flag patterns, which indicate trend continuation.
This article covers various Triangle patterns—ascending, descending, and symmetrical—and their implications for price breakouts.
Dive into the world of Harmonic patterns, complex formations that predict potential reversals. This guide explores popular patterns like Gartley and Butterfly, along with trading techniques.
Explore the Wolfe Wave pattern, a unique formation that predicts price targets and potential reversals.
Chart Pattern Mastery: All You Need to Know
A comprehensive guide to mastering different types of chart patterns, from basic to advanced.
9 of the Best Classic Chart Patterns
An overview of nine essential chart patterns that every trader should know. This article provides insights into each pattern’s structure, implications, and strategies for successful trading.
Pattern Trading Course (Free Video)
A free video course that covers the basics of pattern trading, offering practical examples and insights for beginners and experienced traders alike.
The Best Trend Continuation Patterns
This article highlights top trend continuation patterns, helping traders capitalize on existing market momentum.
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Indicator Trading
A comprehensive guide to Moving Averages, one of the most popular and powerful indicators for trend identification.
Learn how to use the RSI indicator, a momentum oscillator that measures overbought and oversold conditions.
Explore the Bollinger Bands indicator, which uses volatility bands to help identify breakout opportunities and potential price reversals.
Understand the ATR indicator, which measures market volatility and helps set realistic stop-loss levels.
Discover the MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) indicator, a popular tool for trend and momentum analysis.
This guide covers the Stochastic Oscillator, which measures the momentum of price relative to its range and is a powerful trend-following tool.
Learn how to use pivot points, a tool that provides potential support and resistance levels for intraday and swing trading.
Explore the Awesome Oscillator, an indicator that measures market momentum and helps identify trend strength and potential reversals.
Fractals, Alligator and Chaos Theory
An introduction to Bill Williams' Fractals and Alligator indicators, based on Chaos Theory. This guide covers how these tools help traders identify trend direction and key reversal points.
Discover the Money Flow Index, a volume-weighted RSI that highlights buying and selling pressure.
Learn about the Average Directional Index (ADX), a tool for measuring trend strength rather than direction.
Understand the Parabolic SAR, a trend-following indicator that signals potential reversals. This guide explains how to use the SAR dots to set stop-losses and trail profitable trades.
Explore the Ichimoku Cloud, a comprehensive indicator that provides support, resistance, trend, and momentum data in a single glance.
A guide to trading divergences, where price and indicators move in opposite directions. Learn how divergence signals potential reversals and how to use them with indicators like MACD and RSI.
Learn how to use Keltner Channels, which use ATR-based bands around an EMA to identify breakout and trend continuation opportunities.
Discover the Donchian Channel, an indicator that tracks the highest and lowest prices over a specified period. This article explains how to use it for breakout strategies and trend-following.
Understand the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP), a key indicator used in intraday trading to measure average price levels based on volume.
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Trading Psychology
Trading psychology crash course
An essential guide to understanding and mastering the psychological aspects of trading. This crash course covers the mental skills needed to handle market stress, manage emotions, and maintain discipline.
24 surprising statistics why traders lose money
A look at 24 surprising statistics that reveal why many traders struggle with profitability. This article highlights common pitfalls and mistakes, helping traders understand how to avoid them.
An overview of 17 cognitive biases that can cloud traders' judgment, from confirmation bias to loss aversion. This guide helps traders recognize and overcome these biases for clearer decision-making.
Learn about six common emotions that traders experience, such as fear, greed, and impatience. This article provides insights into managing these emotions to make more rational trading decisions.
14 lessons from "Losing One Million Dollars"
Key takeaways from the book Losing One Million Dollars, sharing lessons on risk, humility, and the importance of discipline in trading. These insights help traders avoid costly mistakes.
A checklist to help traders distinguish between disciplined trading and gambling. This article covers essential questions and practices to ensure you’re trading with a structured approach.
An introduction to adopting a process-oriented mindset, focusing on consistent execution rather than outcomes. This guide helps traders build sustainable habits that lead to long-term success.
A toolkit for new and experienced traders alike, with resources and strategies for surviving the ups and downs of trading. This article covers everything from mental resilience to practical trading tools.
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