Course Description
This certificate course provides a practical foundation in trading and technical analysis. It introduces participants to price action, chart reading, candlestick patterns, trendlines, chart patterns, breakouts, retracements, moving averages, volume, momentum indicators, Fibonacci retracement, trading strategies, and basic risk management. The course intentionally gives greater emphasis to chart-based application and trading decision-making while retaining essential theoretical concepts needed to understand the limitations and proper use of technical analysis.
Course Objectives
- Understand the basic principles and limitations of technical analysis.
- Read and interpret price charts, candlesticks, trends, support/resistance and common chart patterns.
- Use major technical indicators—including moving averages, volume, RSI, stochastic oscillator and MACD—to support trading decisions.
- Identify and evaluate breakouts, pullbacks, retracements and potential reversal/continuation signals.
- Develop simple, rule-based trading setups using technical tools.
- Apply basic entry, exit, stop-loss, take-profit and position-sizing concepts.
- Practice market analysis using real or historical price charts.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the core principles of technical analysis and distinguish technical from fundamental analysis.
- Identify and interpret common chart and candlestick patterns.
- Draw and use trendlines, channels, support/resistance and breakout levels.
- Apply selected technical indicators and interpret their signals.
- Construct simple trading setups using multiple confirming signals.
- Apply basic risk-management and trade-management rules.
- Perform a structured technical analysis of a selected security or market chart.
Class 1 : Introduction toTechnical Analysis & Price Action
What is Technical Analysis?
Basic principles of technical analysis
Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis
Supply and Demand Model
Price Action Concepts
Why Technical Analysis Works and Why It Can Go Wrong
Brief introduction to market psychology
Dow Theory (practical overview)
Class 2 : Charts, Candlesticks & Trendlines
Types of charts
How charts are formed
Candlestick charts
Long/short bodies and shadows
Marubozu, Spinning Tops and Doji
Hammer and Hanging Man
Piercing and Dark Cloud patterns
Bullish and Bearish Engulfing Patterns
Trendlines and the 3 keys to drawing effective trendlines
Class 3 : Chart Patterns, Support/Resistance & Market Structures
Continuation patterns: Flags, Pennants and Symmetrical Triangles
Head and Shoulders continuation pattern
Major reversal patterns: Head and Shoulders, Double/Triple Tops and Bottoms Ascending and Descending Triangles
Rectangles, Rising/Falling Wedges and V formations
Trendlines and Channels
Failed signals: Bull Trap and Bear Trap
Class 4 : Breakouts, Retracements & Trade Entries/Exits
What is a breakout?
Methods for confirming and filtering breakouts
Support and resistance around breakouts
Retracements, Pullbacks and Throwbacks
Entry and exit points
Basic stop-loss and take-profit concepts
Introduction to trade setup and trade planning
Class 5 : Moving Averages & Volume Analysis
Simple, Exponential and Weighted Moving Averages
Calculating and interpreting moving averages
Moving averages for trend identification and signals
Basic moving-average crossover concepts
Volume analysis
Volume as an indicator of trend strength
Selected volume indicators
Combining price, moving average and volume signals
Class 6 : Momentum Indicators: RSI, Stochastic & MACD
Understanding momentum
RSI: interpretation and trading application
Overbought, Oversold and Divergence
Stochastic Oscillator: interpretation and application
MACD components and signals
MACD Histogram
Using momentum indicators for trend confirmation
Combining indicators without overloading a trading setup
Class 7 : Fibonacci, Volatility & Practical Trading Setups
Fibonacci Retracement: key levels and practical use
How to draw Fibonacci Retracement correctly
Average True Range (ATR) and ATR-based stops
ATR Bands and ATR Trailing Stops
Bollinger BandWidth and %B (basic application)
Bollinger Band Squeeze
Simple multi-indicator trading setup
Class 8 : Trading Strategy, Risk Management & Practical Market Analysis
Gap Trading Strategies
CCI Correction and selected simple trading strategies
Swing Charting (basic concept)
Trade Management
Entry/exit stops and stop-losses
Take-profit points
Position sizing and money management
Behavioral Finance and Market Sentiment (practical overview)
Using sentiment indicators such as VIX and open interest (introductory)
Integrated market-analysis exercise
Class 9 : End of the course assessment and course wrap-up (In-person for all participants)
Written test covering major concepts and practical applications from Classes 1–8. The assessment will emphasize interpretation, application and basic trading decisions rather than extensive theoretical memorization.
Approximately 90 minutes test
Question types: MCQ/short questions, chart interpretation and short practical/problem-based questions
Emphasis: practical application of technical-analysis tools and basic risk management
