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Resources
Other websites and materials that are a useful source for anyone interested in markets.
Ordered alphabetically.
Bollinger’s market timing chart packs
Bollinger’s market timing chart packs – Chart packs of legacy index funds plotting metrics that can be used for market timing and judging the macro conditions of the markets. The reports are not archived on the website, you are meant to subscribe to the email and archive it yourself.
Bulkowski’s Pattern Site
Bulkowski’s Pattern Site – Legacy trader who documents and evaluates patterns used in technical analysis. Bulkowski usually documents at least roughly how much success rate you get from trading on each pattern.
Classic technical-analysis books
- John J. Murphy – Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
- Martin J. Pring – Technical Analysis Explained
- Thomas Bulkowski – Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns
- Steve Nison – Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques
- William J. O’Neil – How to Make Money in Stocks
These are widely considered foundational “old school” texts for chart-based trading and pattern recognition.
Steidlmayer’s market profile lectures and texts
- Steidlmayer’s market profile technique video lectures – Market profile is a technique that combines statistics with technical analysis. It is a way to visualise if a market is ranging or trending.
- Steidlmayer on Markets: Trading with Market Profile – Book-length treatment of Market Profile and intraday value-area analysis.
ThisMatter
ThisMatter – Resourceful website that uses simple examples to explain even complex concepts such as options, personal finance, and general investment topics.
IG Academy – basics of technical analysis
IG Academy – The Basics of Technical Analysis – Free structured course covering chart reading, trend identification, and pattern basics, aimed at retail traders who want a systematic introduction rather than social-media content.
CME / CBOT legacy material on Market Profile
- Market Profile on Wikipedia – Historical overview of how Steidlmayer developed Market Profile at the CBOT, including the original definition in terms of intraday value and bell curves.
- Various archived primers and PDFs based on Steidlmayer’s original CBOT educational material, often mirrored by brokers and trading education sites.
Old-school trading education sites
- Trading Academy – Long-running trading-education provider with a focus on risk management, chart-based strategies, and capital preservation rather than purely speculative hype.
- Broker education sections (e.g., IG Academy again) – many older brokers maintain archives of technical-analysis primers and webinars that are better structured than a lot of current retail-trading marketing.