If you’ve ever looked at a trading platform and seen a chart filled with rectangles and vertical lines, you’ve already encountered a candlestick chart — even if you didn’t realize it. These colorful ...

Stella Osoba is the Senior Editor of trading and investing at Investopedia. She co-founded and chaired Women in Technical Analysis. She has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer and technical ...

You can read Bitcoin candlestick charts with zero experience — here’s how to understand patterns, spot trends, and start making smarter crypto moves. Bitcoin candlesticks are a popular tool among ...

The relative strength index (RSI) is a momentum indicator that measures the magnitude of recent price changes to analyze overbought or oversold conditions.

Understanding a Bitcoin liquidation map is imperative in dealing with the inherent volatility of the crypto market. The visual tool showcases probable liquidation levels, indicating where large orders ...

We recently updated our Intern’s Guide to the Market Structure Galaxy. Today, we graduate to how trading works. In our guide to market structure, we talked about who trades and how quotes across the ...

Starting a trading career doesn’t require a huge bank account. Many successful traders began with just a small amount of money. This guide will show you how to enter the trading space even if your ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andrew Menaker, a psychologist and a day trading coach based in San Francisco. It has been edited for length and clarity. First of all, I had ...