Trader Mentoring · Technical Analysis
Technical Analysis
Level I · 16 live sessions · 90 minutes each
Build the ability to read price, structure, trend and market conditions, then use that analysis to construct conditional trading scenarios.
Fee
US$1,600
Payment for every course is 40% at enrolment, 30% after session 4, and 30% after session 8.
US$640 at enrolment · US$480 after session 4 · US$480 after session 8
Cancel before session 4: refund of 50% of the deposit.
Designed for
Beginners and developing traders who want to learn how to read markets systematically rather than rely on isolated indicators or chart patterns.
Prerequisites
Basic chart literacy. Trading Foundations recommended, but not required.
Curriculum
16 live sessions
Each session includes a learning objective, practical work, and a competency demonstration. Session titles below are the full syllabus.
01What Technical Analysis Is - and Isn't
What you learn. Understand the purpose and limitations of technical analysis. Distinguish observation, interpretation, hypothesis and prediction, and understand why technical analysis is a framework for decision-making rather than a forecasting machine.
Practical work. Take an unfamiliar chart and separate objective observations from assumptions and predictions.
Competency. Explain what the chart objectively shows, what you infer from it, and what you cannot know from the chart alone.
02Reading Price: Candles, Bars & Gaps
What you learn. Understand open, high, low and close; candle structure, range, body, wicks, close location, gaps and sequences of price bars.
Practical work. Analyze historical price sequences and identify changes in buying/selling pressure without using indicators.
Competency. Read an unfamiliar price sequence and explain what the price action is communicating without relying on hindsight.
03Swing Structure & Price Action
What you learn. Identify swing highs/lows, impulse moves, corrections, higher highs/lows, lower highs/lows and structural breaks.
Practical work. Mark market structure across several instruments and timeframes.
Competency. Identify the current structural condition and explain what price would need to do to confirm or invalidate your interpretation.
04Support, Resistance & Key Price Levels
What you learn. Understand horizontal levels, zones, prior highs/lows, psychological levels, moving averages and confluence. Learn why levels are areas of potential reaction rather than guaranteed turning points.
Practical work. Build a level map for several instruments and identify potential reactions and invalidation points.
Competency. Construct a level map and explain which levels actually matter, why they matter and what would make them irrelevant.
05Trend, Range & Transition
What you learn. Distinguish trending, range-bound and transitional markets. Understand trend quality, trend maturity, compression and structural deterioration.
Practical work. Classify historical markets and identify transitions between conditions.
Competency. Given an unfamiliar chart, identify the prevailing condition and explain why a particular trading approach may or may not be appropriate.
06Breakouts, Acceptance & Failed Breakouts
What you learn. Understand penetration versus acceptance, rejection, retests, continuation and failed breakouts. Learn why a price crossing a level does not automatically constitute a breakout.
Practical work. Compare successful and failed breakouts and identify the evidence available before the outcome was known.
Competency. Develop conditional scenarios around a breakout and define confirmation, invalidation and no-trade conditions.
07Pullbacks, Continuations & Reversals
What you learn. Distinguish normal corrections from structural deterioration and potential reversals. Understand momentum loss, failed continuation and changes in swing structure.
Practical work. Analyze historical pullbacks and reversals and identify the evidence available at each decision point.
Competency. Construct continuation and reversal scenarios with explicit confirmation and invalidation criteria.
08Chart Patterns & Price Formations
What you learn. Understand bases, flags, triangles, channels, double tops/bottoms and other common formations, but treat them as hypotheses rather than predictions.
Practical work. Identify patterns before revealing subsequent price action and define what would confirm or invalidate each setup.
Competency. Analyze a pattern without relying on hindsight and produce a conditional trading scenario.
09Moving Averages, MACD & Trend Tools
What you learn. Understand moving-average construction, slope, alignment, crossovers, dynamic support/resistance and lag. Learn MACD as a trend-and-momentum tool derived from moving averages: MACD line, signal line, histogram, zero-line crosses, and why MACD inherits the same lag and noise problems as its underlying averages. Learn when these tools add information and when they become redundant with price structure.
Practical work. Compare price structure with different moving-average configurations and with MACD line, signal and histogram readings across trending and ranging markets.
Competency. Explain how moving averages and MACD change your interpretation of a market without treating either as a standalone buy/sell signal.
10Momentum & Divergence
What you learn. Understand momentum, RSI, rate of change and divergence — including divergence on RSI and on the MACD histogram already introduced with trend tools. Learn what momentum indicators measure, what they cannot tell you, and why divergence can persist without producing a reversal.
Practical work. Analyze historical momentum signals on RSI, rate of change and MACD and compare them with subsequent price behavior.
Competency. Use momentum evidence as part of a broader thesis and explain when the evidence is insufficient to justify a trade.
11Volume & Market Participation
What you learn. Understand volume, relative volume, volume expansion/contraction and price-volume relationships. Discuss limitations arising from different market structures and data sources.
Practical work. Compare price and volume behavior during breakouts, trends, reversals and ranges.
Competency. Use volume as supporting evidence, rather than treating it as a standalone signal.
12Volatility & Range Analysis
What you learn. Understand volatility as a market condition. Use ATR and Bollinger Bands to identify contraction, expansion and changing trading ranges.
Practical work. Identify volatility contraction and expansion and evaluate how changing volatility affects potential trade setups and risk.
Competency. Explain how volatility changes your interpretation of a setup and how it should influence trade selection and risk.
13Market Regime Context
What you learn. Understand why technical setups behave differently under different market regimes. Learn to use Regime Intelligence as context for risk and market conditions, not as a standalone trading signal.
Practical work. Analyze identical technical setups across different regime conditions and compare their context.
Competency. Explain how regime context changes the interpretation and risk of a technical setup.
14Multi-Timeframe Analysis
What you learn. Understand the relationship between higher- and lower-timeframe structure. Learn to identify alignment, conflict, dominant structure and timeframe-specific noise.
Practical work. Analyze a market across multiple timeframes and construct a top-down technical view.
Competency. Produce a multi-timeframe analysis that identifies the dominant structure, actionable timeframe, conflicting evidence and conditions that would change the view.
15From Technical Analysis to a Trading Thesis
What you learn. Bring the course together. Learn how to move from observation to structure to evidence to scenario to trigger to invalidation to risk.
Practical work. Analyze a live or historical market and construct a complete technical trading thesis.
Competency. Defend a technical thesis in which every major conclusion is supported by observable evidence and includes clear confirmation, invalidation and no-trade conditions.
16Integration & Final Demonstration
What you learn. Integrate price action, structure, levels, trend, patterns, indicators, volume, volatility, regime and multi-timeframe analysis into one coherent analytical process.
Practical work. Analyze an unfamiliar market without preparation and present the complete technical assessment.
Competency. Independently produce and defend a technical analysis that answers what is happening, why you believe it, what could happen next, what would confirm it, what would invalidate it, what you would do, and when you would do nothing.
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