T.I.G instructor-led programme
Technical Analysis Course: Beginner to Advanced
A structured beginner-to-advanced curriculum covering market foundations, price action, market structure, volume, indicators, advanced structural tools, risk and disciplined execution.
15 learning modules
Beginner to advanced
Instructor-led sessions
No live trading
Learning Modules
Explore what you will learn in each module and how it can support practical chart analysis, structured risk management and disciplined decision-making. The curriculum progresses from market foundations to advanced technical analysis and execution psychology.
01How Markets Really Work — The Foundation
What you’ll learn
- What technical analysis can and cannot do, so you use charts to assess probability rather than expect certainty.
- How investing and trading differ, helping you choose an approach suited to your capital, time and risk appetite.
- How Dow Theory provides a logical framework for interpreting market trends and future course concepts.
- Why price reflects known information and how supply, demand and market psychology shape chart behaviour.
- How realistic expectations can reduce beginner errors such as over-leveraging after wins or abandoning a process after losses.
02Building the Chart — Construction, Scale & Timeframe
What you’ll learn
- How line, bar and candlestick charts present different levels of price information.
- When to use arithmetic or logarithmic scale so long-term charts and trendlines are interpreted correctly.
- How to select daily, weekly, monthly or intraday timeframes that match your intended trading style.
- How to create a clean, practical chart setup that reduces clutter and makes relevant market structure easier to identify.
- How data-quality problems, corporate actions and unreliable feeds can create misleading chart signals.
03The Trader’s Mind — Behavioural Finance & Market Psychology
What you’ll learn
- How fear, greed and crowd psychology can influence market turning points.
- How price, volume and market breadth can be used to assess sentiment rather than relying on price alone.
- How anchoring, confirmation bias and loss aversion can distort entry and exit decisions.
- How a pre-trade checklist turns emotional reactions into a more repeatable decision process.
- How institutional and retail behaviour can differ, and why common breakout and momentum traps occur.
04The Price Story — Reading Bars, Candles & Pure Price Action
What you’ll learn
- How OHLC bars, candlestick bodies and shadows reveal the interaction between buyers and sellers.
- How wicks, rejection and closing position can provide context for possible reversals or continuation.
- How doji and other indecision candles can help you avoid poorly timed entries.
- How inside bars, outside bars, compression and range expansion describe changing momentum.
- How to read sequences of bars as a developing price narrative rather than treating each candle in isolation.
05Market Structure — Trends, Zones & Turning Points
What you’ll learn
- How to distinguish uptrends, downtrends and ranges using highs, lows and broader market structure.
- How support and resistance zones can guide entry, exit and stop-loss planning.
- How to draw and validate trendlines, channels and potential target zones.
- How reversal and continuation structures—including double tops, head and shoulders and triangles—are interpreted.
- How multi-timeframe analysis and false-breakout recognition can reduce contradictory or weak trade ideas.
06High-Probability Candlestick Setups
What you’ll learn
- How to identify engulfing, hammer, shooting-star, morning-star, evening-star, harami and pin-bar formations.
- How to distinguish candlestick patterns associated with reversal from those associated with continuation.
- How tweezer formations and specialised doji candles can add context around potential turning points.
- Why candlestick signals become more meaningful when combined with support, resistance and prevailing trend.
07Volume–Price Confluence — The Smart Money Approach
What you’ll learn
- How volume can confirm or contradict price movement and help distinguish stronger breakouts from weaker ones.
- How accumulation and distribution may indicate sustained participation before a move becomes obvious.
- How buying, selling and stopping-volume climaxes can signal exhaustion or changing control.
- How Volume at Price highlights areas of concentrated activity and potential institutional interest.
- How to apply volume–price confluence across different charts and market conditions.
08Momentum, Velocity & Dynamic Indicator Systems
What you’ll learn
- How moving averages and commonly watched EMAs can help assess trend direction and dynamic reference levels.
- How RSI, MACD and Stochastics can support momentum analysis and entry timing.
- How Bollinger Bands and volatility contractions can highlight changing market conditions.
- How Average True Range can inform volatility-aware stop placement rather than arbitrary distances.
- How to avoid indicator overload and build a cleaner, repeatable indicator framework.
09Divergence Mastery
What you’ll learn
- How disagreement between price and momentum can provide early context for trend exhaustion.
- How regular and hidden divergence differ in reversal and trend-continuation analysis.
- How to compare divergence signals across RSI, MACD and Stochastics.
- Why divergence can fail during strong trends or weak-volume conditions and should not be used alone.
- How to build a repeatable, multi-timeframe divergence-scanning routine for a watchlist.
10Price Gaps — Exploiting the Market’s Strongest Moves
What you’ll learn
- How to classify breakaway, runaway, exhaustion and common gaps and interpret their market context.
- How gaps may reflect strong participation or institutional intent without assuming every gap must fill.
- How rising and falling windows relate to gap analysis in Japanese charting.
- How price context and volume confirmation help determine whether a gap warrants action or further confirmation.
- How structured gap-analysis rules can bring discipline to high-emotion overnight moves.
11Fibonacci & Elliott Wave — Advanced Structural Theory
What you’ll learn
- How Fibonacci retracements can define objective pullback zones for structured entry planning.
- How Fibonacci extensions and time targets can support scenario-based price objectives.
- The foundations of Elliott Wave impulse and corrective structures for broader trend context.
- How Fibonacci and Elliott Wave confluence can identify zones where multiple analytical techniques agree.
- Why Elliott Wave interpretation is subjective and should remain one input within a broader framework.
12Market Breadth & Internals — Reading the Whole Market
What you’ll learn
- How market breadth indicates whether an index move is broad-based or driven by relatively few securities.
- How the Advance–Decline Line and its divergence from an index can provide early context on internal strength.
- How New Highs versus New Lows, up-volume, down-volume and TRIN contribute to market-internals analysis.
- How the percentage of stocks above a moving average can help frame broader market participation.
- How breadth can confirm or challenge conclusions drawn from price action alone.
13Seasonality & Time Cycles — When Matters as Much as What
What you’ll learn
- How recurring monthly, quarterly and election-year tendencies can provide historical context rather than certainty.
- How to identify dominant cycles and understand left and right translation within a cycle.
- How cycle analysis adds a time-based perspective to trend and momentum analysis.
- How seasonal evidence may influence whether a market environment is approached more aggressively or cautiously.
- Why cycles shift or disappear and must be treated as one probabilistic input among many.
14Risk & Money Management — Protecting Capital Like a Professional
What you’ll learn
- How fixed-fractional and percentage-risk position sizing can limit the impact of any single trade.
- How ATR and market volatility can inform stop placement that is neither arbitrarily tight nor excessively loose.
- How reward-to-risk ratio and expectancy help evaluate a process across many trades rather than a few outcomes.
- How protective, trailing and time-based stops and scaling techniques can support active position management.
- How drawdown limits, trading-suspension criteria and diversification can protect capital during difficult periods.
15Trading Psychology in Execution — Discipline Under Fire
What you’ll learn
- How execution pressure, fear of loss and fear of missing out can disrupt an otherwise sound strategy.
- How to recognise revenge-trading patterns before one loss develops into a larger emotional cycle.
- How trade journaling, routines and pre-defined rules support data-led self-improvement and plan adherence.
- How decision fatigue, drawdowns and winning streaks can affect judgement in different ways.
- Why consistent discipline and process—not certainty or prediction—are central to sustainable market participation.