Beginner Technical Analysis 101 - Support and Resistance.
When you are first learning to trade, the charts can seem very daunting. I wanted to share with you a quick lesson in market structure that will help you understand a few things.
You know how you don't see any nice cars around until you buy a nice car, and then they are everywhere? Actually they were there all along, but your brain wasn't programmed to see them. I won't get into the way the RAS works in your head but basically you didn't know what to look for so why would you see it? Trading is the same and I'm going to show you something here that will make you see charts totally differently forever - promise.
This is a basic concept of technical analysis in trading and one of the first things I do when I look at sizing up any trade. It's called Support and Resistance.
The concept is simple, prices of assets and contracts have particular levels that they react to. They may rise to a level and then (seemingly miraculously turn and fall back down. As a trader this is disheartening if you don't know whats happening. In fact, its a very simple concept.
When price hits a certain point and turn back down, we call this resistance. When a price falls and then turns back up, we call this support.
The really interesting thing is this - Resistance, once broken, becomes support. Support once broken, becomes resistance. It's one of the most basic, yet most powerful principles in trading and professional traders would never enter ANY trade without knowing their Sup and Res levels.
I've drawn a chart (don't judge me I'm not an artist I'm a trader) to highlight this point. Now you know a secret of the market. You know something most people will never know and next time you see a change in a stock price, think to yourself - "I wonder if it hit resistance" - because it probably did
If you want to learn more about trading and do some real education, I'm happy to recommend books and courses.
Happy trading and good luck!
When you are first learning to trade, the charts can seem very daunting. I wanted to share with you a quick lesson in market structure that will help you understand a few things.
You know how you don't see any nice cars around until you buy a nice car, and then they are everywhere? Actually they were there all along, but your brain wasn't programmed to see them. I won't get into the way the RAS works in your head but basically you didn't know what to look for so why would you see it? Trading is the same and I'm going to show you something here that will make you see charts totally differently forever - promise.
This is a basic concept of technical analysis in trading and one of the first things I do when I look at sizing up any trade. It's called Support and Resistance.
The concept is simple, prices of assets and contracts have particular levels that they react to. They may rise to a level and then (seemingly miraculously turn and fall back down. As a trader this is disheartening if you don't know whats happening. In fact, its a very simple concept.
When price hits a certain point and turn back down, we call this resistance. When a price falls and then turns back up, we call this support.
The really interesting thing is this - Resistance, once broken, becomes support. Support once broken, becomes resistance. It's one of the most basic, yet most powerful principles in trading and professional traders would never enter ANY trade without knowing their Sup and Res levels.
I've drawn a chart (don't judge me I'm not an artist I'm a trader) to highlight this point. Now you know a secret of the market. You know something most people will never know and next time you see a change in a stock price, think to yourself - "I wonder if it hit resistance" - because it probably did
If you want to learn more about trading and do some real education, I'm happy to recommend books and courses.
Happy trading and good luck!