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Intermediate3 weeks · 9 sessions

Reading Price, Volume and Structure

How to read a chart the way a professional does — trend, structure, and the handful of patterns worth knowing.

Prerequisites: Market Mechanics track, or equivalent working knowledge.

Identify trend structure using swing highs and lows, not indicator crossovers

Mark support and resistance zones that other traders are also watching

Read a candlestick for what it actually says about buyer/seller control

Use volume to separate a real breakout from a trap

Session by session

What's covered in class

1

Candlestick anatomy

50 min

Body, wicks, and what each is telling you about the session's fight.

2

Trend structure: HH-HL and LH-LL

60 min

Defining an uptrend and downtrend without a single indicator.

3

Support and resistance that matters

55 min

Why round numbers, prior highs, and volume nodes act as memory for the market.

4

Breakouts, retests and traps

60 min

The retest is the entry most beginners skip — and pay for.

5

Volume confirmation

50 min

Reading volume alongside price to judge conviction behind a move.

6

Moving averages, used correctly

50 min

20/50/200 EMA as dynamic support/resistance, not a signal generator.

7

The five chart patterns worth knowing

60 min

Flag, wedge, double top/bottom, head and shoulders, and cup and handle.

8

Multi-timeframe reading

50 min

Why your daily-chart entry should agree with the weekly trend.

9

Building your own checklist

55 min

Turning everything above into a repeatable, boring pre-trade checklist.

Sample lesson — Breakouts, retests and traps

A breakout on its own is not an entry signal — it's an alert. The stock has broken a level enough traders were watching that volume should visibly expand. If it doesn't, you're likely looking at a low-conviction move that reverses within a session or two.

The retest is what most beginners skip, chasing the breakout candle instead. Price often returns to test the broken level as new support before continuing — that retest, holding on lower volume than the breakout itself, is usually the better risk-to-reward entry.

A trap looks identical to a real breakout for the first 15–30 minutes. The tell is what happens on the retest: a real breakout holds the level; a trap breaks back below it, often on rising volume, and that's your signal to stay out or exit.

This is taught in our offline classroom

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