The vocabulary every trader needs before anything else — what a chart shows, what a candle is, what trends look like.
Time on the bottom, price on the side, bars in between. What a timeframe is and why the same chart looks different at different timeframes.
Open, high, low, close — the four prices in every candle. Green means close > open, red means close < open. One candle's color doesn't set the trend.
Higher highs + higher lows = uptrend. Lower highs + lower lows = downtrend. Sideways = no staircase. Pauses don't break trends — only broken lows (or highs) do.
A support level is a price floor where buyers keep stepping in. A resistance level is a ceiling where sellers keep stepping in. Zones, not lines.
The turning points that define the staircase. Swing high ≠ higher high — know the difference before the next stage.
When price CLOSES past a support or resistance level, the barrier is gone. Closes matter, wicks are fakeouts.
