Training

The single candle — open, high, low, close, body and wicks — and what long bodies vs. long wicks reveal about who controlled the session. The foundation every later lesson assumes.

The key one-candle patterns — doji, hammer and inverted hammer, shooting star and hanging man, marubozu — what each shows about order flow, and where it matters vs. where it's noise.

Two-candle patterns: bullish/bearish engulfing, harami, and tweezer tops/bottoms — the psychology behind each, plus the confirmation rule: wait for the next candle to validate.

Three-candle reversals — morning/evening star, three white soldiers, three black crows — how they map to a complete shift in control, what volume should look like, and their reliability vs. shorter signals.

Context separates pattern-spotters from traders: the same hammer means everything at support and nothing mid-range. The three filters before trusting any pattern — location, trend, and volume.

Identifying horizontal levels and supply/demand zones where price reacts, line vs. zone, role reversal (broken resistance becomes support), and the rule of diminishing touches.

Reading trend from structure — higher highs/lows vs. lower highs/lows — how a break of structure signals a reversal, and the four market phases (accumulation, markup, distribution, markdown).

Volume as the truth-teller: rising volume confirming trends, declining volume warning of exhaustion, climax spikes, why weak-volume breakouts fail, and using relative volume (RVOL) to find stocks in play.

How the same stock tells different stories across daily, hourly and 5-minute charts, and the top-down workflow — bias on the higher timeframe, entry on the lower — plus the conflicting-timeframe trap.

The four gap types — common, breakaway, runaway, exhaustion — why each forms, gap-fill behavior and statistics, and how gaps create the day-trading setups in Module 4.