YAL Academy
Reading the chart
The technical module and the search engine of the academy. Chart types, structure, levels, patterns and indicators, each taught as a description of past prices and each closed with the conditions under which it fails.
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IntermediateModule 7 of 10
20 lessons, about 161 min
- AssumesWhen the market moves
- UnlocksMacro and the calendar
The lessons
What this module covers
Builds visual literacy before interpretation: how a chart is drawn, what a timeframe changes, what one candle contains. Then market structure, then the levels every later lesson refers back to, then patterns as context. Indicators arrive only after the reader can read raw price, are framed by the leading and lagging distinction, and are taught one per lesson with their failure conditions attached. Closes on multi timeframe workflow and an honest appendix on the systems with the weakest evidence.
Lesson 01
How to read a price chart
Line, bar and candlestick charts, what each discards, and why the choice changes what you notice.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 9 min
Lesson 02
What a timeframe changes
The same price history at three resolutions, and what each one hides.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 9 min
Lesson 03
Anatomy of a candlestick
Body, wick, open and close, and the precise claim a single candle can support.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
Lesson 04
Trends and ranges
Two descriptions of past price behaviour, how each is identified, and why the label is always retrospective.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 9 min
Lesson 05
Swing highs and swing lows
The turning points that every level, line and pattern in this module is built from.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 06
What support and resistance are
The pillar lesson of this module: price levels where activity has previously clustered, and the honest limits of that observation.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 10 min
Lesson 07
Trend lines and channels
Drawing a line through swing points, and how much the drawing decision changes the picture.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 08
Candlestick patterns and what they describe
The named single, double and triple candle formations, taught as context and never as instructions.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 9 min
Lesson 09
Chart patterns and what they describe
Multi swing formations, how each is constructed, and what a completed pattern actually establishes.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 9 min
Lesson 10
What a moving average is
An average of past closes, recalculated each period, and the lag that definition guarantees.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
Lesson 11
Leading and lagging indicators
The frame for every indicator that follows, and why the labels promise less than they sound like they do.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 12
What RSI is
A normalised comparison of recent gains to recent losses, what its bounded scale means, and what oversold does not mean.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
Lesson 13
What MACD is
The difference between two moving averages, its own average, and the histogram that plots the gap.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
Lesson 14
What the stochastic oscillator is
Where the close sits within a recent range, expressed as a percentage, and why that is all it says.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 15
What Bollinger Bands are
A moving average with a volatility envelope, and what touching an edge does and does not describe.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
Lesson 16
What ATR is
An average of recent range including gaps, and the one indicator this curriculum uses later for sizing.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 17
What ADX is
A measure of how directional recent movement has been, with no statement about which direction.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 18
What the Ichimoku cloud is
Five plotted lines, three of them shifted in time, and exactly what the shift does.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
Lesson 19
Multiple timeframe analysis
A top down workflow from the widest view to the narrowest, and the contradictions it will surface.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
Lesson 20
What Elliott Wave and harmonic patterns claim
An honest appendix on the systems with the weakest evidence, because readers will meet them anyway.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
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