Book
Technical Analysis
Twelve chapters that teach charts the way a researcher would: what each claim actually is, what the evidence supports, and the control you would need to believe it. Structure, levels, moving averages, oscillators, volatility, volume, candlestick patterns, Smart Money Concepts assessed honestly, and a full methodology for testing a rule without fooling yourself.
Written to be usable by someone trading their own money and defensible in a quantitative interview. Every claim carries its evidence position, and every chapter names the control.
CHAPTER 1
What technical analysis actually claims
Three premises, only two of which are defensible. Start here, because knowing which part of this discipline has evidence behind it is what separates a practitioner from a believer.
CHAPTER 2
Reading a chart: price, time and the candle
Four numbers per bar, and every decision you make about how to display them changes what you will conclude.
CHAPTER 3
Trend and market structure
Higher highs and higher lows, and the uncomfortable fact that the whole labelling depends on a lookback parameter you chose arbitrarily.
CHAPTER 4
Support, resistance and supply-demand zones
Why some levels genuinely matter, why most drawn ones do not, and the control that separates the two.
CHAPTER 5
Moving averages and trend following
The oldest indicator, the one with the best evidence behind it, and a trade-off between lag and noise that no setting can escape.
CHAPTER 6
Oscillators: RSI, MACD and the overbought fallacy
How they are built, what divergence really is, and why the most common way people use RSI is the reverse of what the indicator supports.
CHAPTER 7
Volatility: ATR, Bollinger, and the family that actually earns its keep
The least glamorous indicators and the most useful, because position sizing is where returns are actually determined.
CHAPTER 8
Volume, open interest and order flow
The only input that is not price. Also the one where India gives you information that most markets do not.
CHAPTER 9
Candlestick patterns: which ones survive a test
The most taught and least evidenced part of the discipline — and a worked method for finding out which parts are real.
CHAPTER 10
Smart Money Concepts, assessed honestly
Order blocks, fair value gaps and liquidity sweeps. A framework with a real idea inside it and a story wrapped around it — and the two are separable.
CHAPTER 11
Testing a technical strategy without fooling yourself
The methodology chapter. If you internalise only this one, you will be ahead of almost everyone who trades on charts.
CHAPTER 12
From a rule to a system
Entry is the part everyone works on and the part that matters least. Here is where the expectancy actually lives.