Charting

How can you spot a market trend? Try several trend-following technical indicators. Three of the more popular ones are moving averages, MACD, and Parabolic SAR.

When trading options, you’ll need to look at price and time. Consider applying Fibonacci Time Series and retracement levels.

The volume-weighted average price (VWAP) indicates the average price of an intraday period weighted by volume. The value is calculated during the trading day, from open to close, making it a real-time dynamic indicator.

Following trendlines, pennant patterns, and other chart patterns can help you identify potential places to enter and exit trades.

Instead of jumping into a stock everyone is piling into, consider following a methodical approach to trade momentum stocks.

Learn how to use the Volume Profile indicator on the thinkorswim® platform to help identify potential support and resistance levels.

Candlestick chart patterns may be helpful in identifying potential trend continuations and reversals. Some patterns involve a single candle; others are made up of a group of candles.

A stochastic oscillator is designed to identify overbought or oversold stock. The indicator can be used to help identify potentially overbought and oversold conditions, divergences, and trend direction.

Whether you first started charting stocks on paper, software, or a smartphone, you’re likely to make the same charting errors. Here’s how to avoid falling into typical charting traps.

Looking to make sense of markets and money? Trading and investing pros from TD Ameritrade weigh in on their favorite financial books.

Learn how investors can use seasonality charts to potentially identify stock trends.

You may not know what the market will do next. But you can identify probable outcomes with these three thinkorswim® probability analysis tools.

Will the stock market trend continue or reverse? These three chart patterns can indicate a potential trend continuation: bull flags, ascending triangles, and pennants.

Volume is an important technical indicator to pay attention to. Understanding the relationship between price and volume can be a useful skill for both day traders and long-term investors.

Understand how the Hull Moving Average works and how traders can apply it to their trading strategies.

Starting the new year fresh can be a great idea. Despite the drop and pop we saw last year, it may still be a good time to think about resetting your trading strategies and get a fresh start.

The McClellan oscillator, NYSE advance/decline line, and NYSE Tick Index can be used together to measure the market’s breadth.

Candlestick charts have become the preferred chart form for many traders using technical analysis. Learn to identify candlestick patterns with this introduction.

Our chief market strategist breaks down the day's top business stories and offers insight on how they might impact your trading and investing.

thinkorswimWeb is a browser based trading platform that offers traders a streamlined experience for trading stocks, futures, forex, and options.

Options data can be difficult to understand, especially if you’re a newbie. But a feature on the thinkorswim® platform from TD Ameritrade allows you to chart options prices to visualize if premium is expensive, cheap, or fair.

Looking for a top-down approach to analyzing the stock markets before jumping into a trade? Consider looking at market internals such as NYSE advances versus declines, the advance-decline (A/D) line, and the number of S&P 500 stocks that are moving above a specific moving average.

thinkorswim Web is the TD Ameritrade streamlined, web-based options trading platform that lets you trade wherever you have an internet connection.

With so many technical indicators to choose from, it can be tough to choose the ones to use in your stock trading. Consider a top-down approach to help you decide whether to use stock momentum indicators, trend indicators, or consolidating indicators.

Too many indicators can lead to indecision. Check out this stock analysis tool from TD Ameritrade that can help you make decisions about stock trades.

The success of every trade involves three elements: the entry, the exit, and what happens in between. Here’s a look at the trade life cycle.

Explore trading multiple time frames to avoid chart head-fakes that might throw you off your strategy. Plus, identify trade entries and exits even as you ride out long-term trends.

Once you know charting basics, try four alternative indicators: on-balance volume (OBV), average true range (ATR), plus Thermo Mode and Monkey Bars from thinkorswim® by TD Ameritrade.

Yearning for a chart indicator that doesn't exist yet? Why not write it yourself? All it takes is knowing your thinkScript® ABCs.

Learn how to identify stock market trends using moving averages to help add context, support decision making, and complement other forms of analysis.

Using stock charts and buy-sell indicators can bring a modicum of probability with which to make trading decisions. Here are three that are worthy of attention — the Standard Deviation Channel, Schaff Trend Cycle, and Simple Cloud.

You’ll never miss a tick in the market with the TD Ameritrade Mobile Trader investment app.

Learn about the three basic trading chart types and their advantages: line charts, bar charts, and candlestick charts.

New advanced time frame tools and extended data for charts may help traders and investors get an edge in the markets.

Learn how new drawing tools on thinkorswim can make custom drawing and annotation simple and easily accessible.

TD Ameritrade is giving you the ability to create your very own candlestick pattern in their latest thinkorswim platform release.

The S&P 500 finished August with one of its smallest monthly trading ranges. Learn how the Market Forecast indicator might help you make sense of these ranges

Technical analysis and drawing trendlines can keep you informed about the trends unfolding in your investments and may even support your decision making.

Earnings—a quarterly company check-up— are one of the most important “known” events that allow traders to align a strategy on the thinkorswim platform.

Fundamental analysis for momentum traders is easy with thinkorswim’s new Fundamental page.

When calculating risk, you can use all kinds of tools to compare a stock's current volatility to its past volatility. However, one of our favorites is fast beta.

Trading earnings announcements can be a fool's game. When volatility is high, trends can break after a company announces. Consider a few volatility tricks.