About Stock Trader’s Handbook

Stock Trader’s Handbook is a free educational library for investors who want to master technical analysis and understand how stock trading really works. It is built around three goals:

1. Learn: Teach traders technical analysis from beginner to advanced.
2. Recognize: Show real historical examples of winning and losing stocks.
3. Apply: Help traders use that knowledge to evaluate actual trading opportunities and manage risk.

What you’ll find here

• Learn: the basics of the market, orders, brokers and trading vocabulary.
• Technical analysis: an encyclopedia of chart reading, candlestick and chart patterns, indicators, volume and trend.
• Trading strategies: breakouts, momentum, swing and day trading, with risk management in every lesson.
• The Model Book: historical winners and failed breakouts, studied chart by chart.
• Market studies, trading tools and advanced trading: the bigger picture, free calculators and deeper techniques.

How the lessons are written

• Education, not advice. Lessons explain how tools and patterns work and where they fail. They never tell you what to buy or sell.
• No invented numbers. Statistics appear only with a named, checkable source. Worked examples use round, made-up numbers and say so.
• Illustrations are labeled. Pattern diagrams are drawn with made-up prices so the shape is easy to see. Real historical examples live in the Model Book and use real price history.
• Kept current. Lessons are updated when something changes instead of being replaced by new dated posts. Spotted an error? Tell us.

Not investment advice

Nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Read the full disclaimer.