10 chapters covering the discipline of trading from the chart alone — no indicators required. Learn to read a single bar, then three, then the whole story. Bar patterns, candlesticks, chart patterns, then the strategies that turn pattern recognition into actual repeatable trades.
Read cover-to-cover, or dive into any chapter that matches what you're trying to solve today. Every chapter is standalone; every chapter cross-links to the related material elsewhere on the site.
What price action actually is — and what it isn't
The definition, the origin, the markets that work best, and the essential concepts every price action trader needs before touching a chart.
Learn to read a single bar, then three bars, then the story
The building blocks. What one bar tells you, what three consecutive bars tell you, and how to combine them into a narrative about buyer and seller intent.
The single-bar and short-sequence patterns that actually work
Reversal bar, Key Reversal, Exhaustion bar, Pin bar (Pinocchio), Two-bar reversal, Three-bar reversal, Three-bar pullback, Inside bar, Outside bar, NR7 — each with an entry template, stop, and failure mode.
The Japanese candlestick vocabulary — used correctly
Doji, Marubozu, Harami, Engulfing, Piercing/Dark Cloud, Hammer/Hanging Man, Inverted Hammer/Shooting Star, Morning/Evening Star, Three Soldiers/Crows, Hikkake. Cross-linked with the TA candlestick chapter for the pure-pattern view.
Multi-bar formations — read as structural intent, not templates
Head & Shoulders, Double / Triple Top and Bottom, Rounding, Island Reversal, Rectangle, Wedge, Triangle, Flag, Cup & Handle. Emphasis on how to trade them as a price-action reader, not as a pattern-matcher.
Context, setup, and exit — the three pillars of a real strategy
Every price pattern is just a fragment. A trading strategy is Market Bias + Setup + Exit Plan. This is how you turn pattern recognition into an actual repeatable system.
Levels are the map; everything else is the vehicle
What S/R levels really are, how to find them (swing highs/lows, moving averages, round numbers, prior day high/low), and how they upgrade any price-action trigger from noise to signal.
Trend, reversal, range, breakout — one drawing, four playbooks
A channel is the most versatile tool in price action. Same two parallel lines, four totally different trades depending on how price behaves inside them.
The single habit that separates the surviving 5% from the rest
How to log a discretionary trade so that six months from now you can review it honestly — the ex-ante vs ex-post distinction, what to record, what to ignore.
Where PA fits alongside indicators, options, and system trading
Price action isn't a religion. It combines cleanly with select indicators (volume, ATR, EMA regime), fits into option-selling strategies (short strangle strike selection), and can be codified into a mechanical system.
The Technical Analysis path covers indicators, chart patterns, and volume as a systematic toolkit. This Price Action path covers the same terrain from a different angle — trading purely from the price bars, using indicators sparingly (if at all). Reading both gives you the fullest picture; pick either as your primary and reference the other for depth.