Technical Analysis Fundamentals
A grounded progression through core chart-based indicators — what each measures, how to read it, and how to avoid common misreadings.
Who it's for: People who want to understand technical indicators as research tools, not a source of trading signals.
12 steps · ~83 min of guided reading, plus research and tool steps
What you'll learn
- • Explain what technical analysis studies and its real limitations.
- • Read SMA, EMA, RSI, and MACD, and explain what each one measures.
- • Understand overbought/oversold conditions and divergence without over-reading either as a guaranteed signal.
- • Explain why trend-following tools lag by construction, and why faster-reacting oscillators make a different trade-off.
- • Use ATR and Bollinger Bands to reason about volatility, separate from trend direction.
- • Combine a lagging and a faster-reacting indicator deliberately, rather than relying on either alone.
- 1Guide
6 min read
Technical Analysis Basics for Crypto
Start with what technical analysis studies, and its explicit limitations.
- 2Article
7 min read
Simple Moving Average (SMA)
Learn the simplest trend-following building block.
- 3Article
7 min read
Exponential Moving Average (EMA)
See how weighting recent prices changes the trade-off.
- 4Article
9 min read
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Learn the most widely referenced momentum oscillator.
- 5Article
7 min read
Understanding Overbought and Oversold Conditions
Understand the concept RSI's thresholds rely on, and why it isn't an automatic reversal signal.
- 6Article
9 min read
MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)
Learn how two EMAs combine into a widely used trend-and-momentum tool.
- 7Article
7 min read
Understanding Indicator Divergence
Learn to read a disagreement between price and an indicator, and its real limits.
- 8Article
8 min read
Average True Range (ATR)
Learn to measure volatility directly, separate from trend or momentum.
- 9Article
9 min read
Bollinger Bands
See how a volatility-adaptive envelope is built and read.
- 10Article
7 min read
Leading vs. Lagging Indicators
Understand the structural trade-off behind why these tools are commonly combined.
- 11Guide
7 min read
How to Build a Technical Analysis Workflow
Now that you've learned each tool individually, learn how to actually pick a small set and read them together as a workflow.
- 12Tool
Position Size Calculator
Apply the risk-management side of what volatility measures like ATR inform.