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Technical Analysis Learning Modules

Complete curriculum · 15 modules · Beginner to advanced

Explore the complete course structure. Select any module to review its core topics.

Structured progression
01 How Markets Really Work — The Foundation

Core topics

  • What technical analysis is — and what it is not
  • The difference between investing and trading, and why it matters for every decision
  • Dow’s six core tenets and their relevance to modern markets
  • How supply and demand create price movement
  • Why price is the ultimate truth and other information lags behind it
  • How charts encode collective human emotion into visual patterns
  • The efficient market hypothesis debate and the technical perspective
  • Setting realistic performance expectations before making a trade
02 Building the Chart — Construction, Scale & Timeframe

Core topics

  • Line charts, bar charts and candlestick charts — what each reveals and conceals
  • Arithmetic scale versus logarithmic scale
  • Daily, weekly and monthly chart interpretation
  • Choosing a timeframe for position, swing and intraday trading
  • How zoom level changes the market narrative
  • Building clean, disciplined charting habits
  • Data quality and the consequences of unreliable market data
03 The Trader’s Mind — Behavioural Finance & Market Psychology

Core topics

  • Fear and greed as primary market drivers
  • Crowd psychology at major market turning points
  • Reading sentiment through price behaviour, volume and breadth
  • Contrarian thinking and timing around sentiment extremes
  • Anchoring, confirmation bias and loss aversion
  • Developing emotional discipline and a process-driven approach
  • Institutional and retail market behaviour
  • Building a pre-trade checklist to override emotional impulses
04 The Price Story — Reading Bars, Candles & Pure Price Action

Core topics

  • Anatomy of the OHLC bar and what each price reveals
  • Candlestick bodies, upper shadows and lower shadows
  • Doji candles and indecision at critical levels
  • Wide-range and narrow-range bars as measures of momentum
  • The significance of a bar’s closing position
  • Inside bars, outside bars, compression and range expansion
  • Spikes, rejection wicks and shooting tails
  • Reading a sequence of bars as a continuous market narrative
05 Market Structure — Trends, Zones & Turning Points

Core topics

  • The three market states: uptrend, downtrend and range
  • Higher highs, higher lows, lower highs and lower lows
  • Support, resistance and the memory of price
  • Drawing and validating trendlines
  • Channels, envelopes and target zones
  • Double tops, double bottoms, head and shoulders, and triangles
  • Trading and analysing sideways markets
  • Aligning entries through multi-timeframe analysis
  • Recognising and responding to false breakouts
06 High-Probability Candlestick Setups

Core topics

  • Bullish and bearish engulfing patterns and their underlying psychology
  • The Hammer and Inverted Hammer
  • The Shooting Star and exhaustion at market highs
  • Morning Star and Evening Star reversal sequences
  • The Harami and Inside Bar formation
  • The Pin Bar and rejection-based price action
  • Tweezer Tops and Tweezer Bottoms
  • Dragonfly Doji and Gravestone Doji
  • Continuation patterns versus reversal patterns
  • Combining candlestick patterns with support and resistance
07 Volume–Price Confluence — The Smart Money Approach

Core topics

  • The role of volume in understanding participation and conviction
  • Volume confirmation and volume contradiction
  • Recognising accumulation
  • Recognising distribution
  • Buying climaxes and selling climaxes
  • Stopping volume and topping-out volume
  • Volume at Price and institutional density zones
  • High-volume versus low-volume breakouts
  • Applying volume–price analysis across stocks, forex and futures
08 Momentum, Velocity & Dynamic Indicator Systems

Core topics

  • Simple, exponential and weighted moving averages
  • The 20, 50 and 200 EMAs as dynamic reference levels
  • The Golden Cross and Death Cross
  • RSI: overbought, oversold and divergence applications
  • MACD crossovers, histogram interpretation and divergence
  • Fast and slow Stochastics with price-action timing
  • Bollinger Bands, volatility contraction and squeeze setups
  • Average True Range and volatility-based stop placement
  • The risks of indicator overload
  • Building a simple, repeatable indicator framework
09 Divergence Mastery

Core topics

  • Understanding disagreement between price and momentum
  • Regular divergence and trend exhaustion
  • Hidden divergence as a trend-continuation signal
  • Divergence across RSI, MACD and Stochastics
  • Single, double and triple divergence
  • Combining divergence with support and resistance
  • Why divergence fails in trending and low-volume conditions
  • Building a multi-timeframe divergence-scanning routine
10 Price Gaps — Exploiting the Market’s Strongest Moves

Core topics

  • What price gaps reveal about institutional intent
  • Breakaway, Runaway, Exhaustion and Common gaps
  • Identifying and analysing Breakaway gaps
  • Using Runaway gaps to estimate trend progression
  • Recognising Exhaustion gaps before a potential reversal
  • Evaluating the “gaps always fill” assumption
  • Rising and falling windows in Japanese candlestick analysis
  • Volume confirmation for gap analysis
  • Statistical analysis of gap returns across market conditions
  • Gap-analysis rules using prior movement, moving averages and market direction
11 Fibonacci & Elliott Wave — Advanced Structural Theory

Core topics

  • The Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio
  • Fibonacci retracement levels and pullback zones
  • Fibonacci extensions and price projections
  • Fibonacci time targets
  • Elliott Wave impulse and corrective structures
  • The rule of alternation and Wave 4 as a reference area
  • Combining Elliott Wave counts with Fibonacci confluence
  • Practical applications and the limits of subjective interpretation
12 Market Breadth & Internals — Reading the Whole Market

Core topics

  • Why a single chart does not tell the whole market story
  • The Advance–Decline Line
  • Index and Advance–Decline Line divergence
  • New Highs versus New Lows
  • Up-volume, down-volume and the Arms Index (TRIN)
  • Percentage of stocks above their moving average
  • Using breadth to confirm or question price action
13 Seasonality & Time Cycles — When Matters as Much as What

Core topics

  • Market cycles and cyclic behaviour on charts
  • Recurring monthly and quarterly seasonal tendencies
  • Election-year patterns
  • Identifying dominant market cycles
  • Left and right translation within a cycle
  • Combining cycle analysis with trend and momentum
  • The limitations of shifting and disappearing cycles
14 Risk & Money Management — Protecting Capital Like a Professional

Core topics

  • Risk management versus prediction accuracy
  • Fixed-fractional and percentage-risk position sizing
  • Volatility-based stop-loss placement using ATR
  • Reward-to-risk ratios and expectancy
  • Protective, trailing and time-based stops
  • Scaling into and out of positions
  • Responding to winning and losing streaks
  • Maximum drawdown rules and trading suspension criteria
  • Diversification across instruments and timeframes
15 Trading Psychology in Execution — Discipline Under Fire

Core topics

  • The gap between knowing a strategy and executing it under pressure
  • Managing fear of loss and fear of missing out during an open position
  • Recognising and stopping revenge trading
  • Trade journaling and data-led self-improvement
  • Decision fatigue and deterioration in trade quality
  • Building routines that reduce in-the-moment decision-making
  • Maintaining a sound process through a sequence of losses
  • Avoiding overconfidence after a sequence of wins

Fundamental Analysis

Complete syllabus · 12 modules · Beginner to advanced

  1. Capital Markets, Ownership & Analytical Foundations
  2. Financial Statements & Annual Report Interpretation
  3. Business Model, Industry Economics & Competitive Positioning
  4. Financial Ratio Analysis & Operating Performance
  5. Competitive Advantage, Management Quality & Capital Allocation
  6. Earnings Quality & Forensic Financial Analysis
  7. Sector-Specific Fundamental Analysis
  8. Time Value of Money, Cost of Capital & Economic Value Creation
  9. Equity Valuation, Scenario Analysis & Margin of Safety
  10. Company Research & Evidence-Based Thesis Development
  11. Portfolio Construction, Review Discipline & Research Process
  12. Integrated Equity Research Capstone

Options Trading

Complete syllabus · 15 modules · Beginner to advanced

  1. Foundations of Derivatives & Options
  2. Option Mechanics, Definitions & Pricing Factors
  3. Option Pricing Theory
  4. Historical, Realised & Implied Volatility
  5. Option Greeks & Exposure Measurement
  6. Core Options Strategy Frameworks
  7. Vertical Spreads & Defined-Risk Structures
  8. Calendar, Diagonal & Ratio Structures
  9. Non-Directional & Range-Based Structures
  10. Volatility Skew, Term Structure & Surface
  11. Portfolio & Position Hedging
  12. The Insurance-Business Framework
  13. Position Sizing, Capital Protection & Margin
  14. Strategy & Trade Selection Framework
  15. Building a Trading Plan & Discipline
Open Learning

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Structured learning paths designed to build clear market knowledge from foundational concepts to practical analysis.

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Technical Analysis

Build a disciplined approach to price, market structure, chart patterns, support and resistance, and commonly used analytical tools.

Candlestick Patterns Chart Patterns RSI & MACD Support & Resistance Smart Money Concepts Price Action
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Fundamental Analysis

Learn how to read financial statements, understand core ratios and evaluate companies through a structured research framework.

Financial Statements P/E & Valuation ROE & ROCE Debt Analysis Business Model Sector Analysis
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Options Trading

Understand calls, puts, Option Greeks, Iron Condor, Straddle, and advanced F&O strategies for the Indian market.

Calls & Puts Option Greeks Iron Condor Straddle & Strangle Hedging Risk Management
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T.I.G’s Research & Insights

Articles on companies,
industries, markets and more

Explore T.I.G’s articles on selected stocks, companies, industries, financial concepts, market developments, economic themes and other relevant subjects. Content may include explainers, observations, research notes, educational commentary and independent perspectives.

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Stocks & Companies

Articles covering selected businesses, financial performance, valuations and competitive positioning

Industries & Market Themes

Views on sectors, emerging trends, structural changes and developments shaping the market

News & Current Developments

Thoughtful commentary on important news, economic events and their possible market relevance

Industry Article

Indian Banking: Growth Is Only Half the Story

Loan growth can look attractive, but the quality of that growth matters more. A stronger review also considers deposit growth, funding costs, net interest margins and whether asset quality remains stable through the credit cycle.

What to watch: Deposit growth, credit costs, margins and stressed assets.
Sector Article

Renewable Energy: Opportunity Across the Value Chain

The theme extends beyond power producers. Equipment makers, transmission businesses, storage providers and project financiers may benefit differently. Order books matter, but execution, leverage and cash conversion separate durable businesses from attractive narratives.

What to watch: Execution, debt, policy dependence and return on capital.
Company Article

Reading a Quarterly Result Beyond Headline Profit

A profit increase does not automatically mean the underlying business improved. Revenue quality, operating margins, exceptional items, working capital and management commentary help reveal whether performance is repeatable or temporary.

What to watch: Cash flow, one-off gains, margins and forward guidance.
Market Article

Market News: Separate the Event From Its Impact

Not every major headline creates a lasting investment consequence. The useful question is how an event changes earnings, cash flows, risk or valuation—and whether the market reaction already reflects that change.

What to watch: Materiality, duration, expectations and valuation impact.
Market News

Follow the market with context

Recent market headlines from selected financial publications, cached and presented for educational awareness rather than trading decisions.

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