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Free interactive course

Read stock charts like a language.

ChartFluent teaches you to read candlestick charts in short daily exercises: candles, patterns, support and resistance, trends, volume, indicators and, above all, risk. You practise recognising what is on the chart and managing risk, not predicting the market.

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The path

  1. 1
    Read a candleWhat one candle tells you: open, close, high, low, and who won the period.
  2. 2
    Candle patternsThe one-, two- and three-candle shapes traders name, and why context decides what they mean.
  3. 3
    Chart patternsShapes drawn by many candles: tops, bottoms, flags, triangles and cups.
  4. 4
    Support and resistancePrice levels where buying or selling keeps showing up, and how to use them to place risk.
  5. 5
    TrendsHigher highs, higher lows and the lines that show them.
  6. 6
    VolumeHow many shares traded, and what it adds to the price story.
  7. 7
    IndicatorsMoving averages, RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands: what they compute, and why they lag.
  8. 8
    RiskThe part that decides whether you stay in the game: risk per trade, stops, size and the math of losing streaks.
  9. 9
    ReplayPractise on a chart that unfolds bar by bar. You are graded on following your plan, never on guessing the future.

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Practise one pattern

Each pattern page gives the exact rule this site uses, a live exercise on a simulated chart and the lesson that goes with it.

Candlestick patterns

Chart patterns

Risk calculators

Risk comes first: size every position from the amount you accept to lose. The formulas are shown on each page.

Position size calculatorShares or lots from your account size, risk % and stop.Risk/reward calculatorRatio, break-even win rate and a losing-streak table.Pip calculatorPip value in dollars for 1, 0.1 and 0.01 lot.

Guides

How to read candlestick chartsOpen, high, low, close: read any candle in five seconds.Support and resistanceWhere falls kept stopping and rises kept stalling.Candlestick patterns cheat sheetOne printable page: every candle pattern, its rule and its meaning.Chart patterns cheat sheetOne printable page: every chart pattern, its trigger and where it fails.

Frequently asked questions

Is ChartFluent free?

Yes. Every lesson, exercise and calculator is free and works without an account. Your progress is saved in your browser.

Does ChartFluent tell me what to buy?

No. It teaches you to read charts and manage risk. It never recommends a stock, a trade, a broker or a product, and it never grades a guess about the future.

Are the charts real?

No. Exercise charts are generated from seeded random walks, so each one can be checked by code and has exactly one right answer. The methodology page explains how.