https://barechart.com/ Recent content on BareChart Hugo en-us https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/candlestick-basics/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/candlestick-basics/ How to read a single candlestick — open, high, low, close, and what the body and wicks tell you. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/emotion-and-trading/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/emotion-and-trading/ Why the emotional reaction to a trade often matters more than the setup itself. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/history-of-trading/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/history-of-trading/ How trading evolved from open-outcry pits and paper tickets to today's markets. https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/position-sizing/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/position-sizing/ How to size a position from your stop distance and account risk, not a gut feeling. https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/price-action-vs-indicators/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/price-action-vs-indicators/ Why some traders read raw price instead of indicators, and what each approach trades off. https://barechart.com/learn/execution/trading-plan/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/execution/trading-plan/ What belongs in a trading plan, and why trading without one is really just guessing with extra steps. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/what-is-market-structure/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/what-is-market-structure/ Highs, lows, and the framework for reading whether a market is trending or ranging. https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/candlestick-patterns/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/candlestick-patterns/ The candlestick patterns worth knowing, and what they actually tell you about who's in control. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/fear-greed-and-fomo/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/fear-greed-and-fomo/ The three emotional states that derail more trades than any bad setup. https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/how-to-trade-trendline-breaks/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/how-to-trade-trendline-breaks/ What separates a genuine trendline break from a wick that snaps straight back. https://barechart.com/learn/execution/session-preparation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/execution/session-preparation/ What to check before the session opens, so you're reacting to price, not the news. https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/stop-loss-placement/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/stop-loss-placement/ Where a stop belongs based on structure, not a fixed number of pips. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/supply-and-demand/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/supply-and-demand/ How to mark the zones where imbalance between buyers and sellers previously moved price. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/evolution-to-digital-trading/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/evolution-to-digital-trading/ How electronic execution, retail platforms, and the internet reshaped who can trade and how. https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/breakouts-and-fakeouts/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/breakouts-and-fakeouts/ How to tell a breakout that continues from one that reverses straight back. https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/chart-types-and-timeframes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/chart-types-and-timeframes/ Line, bar, and candlestick charts, and how choice of timeframe changes what you see. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/discipline-and-rules/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/discipline-and-rules/ Why a system only works if you follow it on the trades you don't want to take. https://barechart.com/learn/execution/pre-session-checklist/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/execution/pre-session-checklist/ A short list to run through before every session, so nothing gets skipped under pressure. https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/risk-to-reward-ratio/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/risk-to-reward-ratio/ Why risk-to-reward matters more than win rate, and how to calculate it properly. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/supply-demand-flips/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/supply-demand-flips/ What happens when an old supply zone becomes demand, or vice versa, and why it matters. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/what-are-markets/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/what-are-markets/ What a market actually is, and how buyers and sellers set a price. https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/daily-loss-limits/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/daily-loss-limits/ Why a hard stop for the day protects you from the trade that undoes every good one before it. https://barechart.com/learn/execution/entry-execution/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/execution/entry-execution/ Getting into a trade at the level you planned, not the level emotion talks you into. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/fair-value-gaps/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/fair-value-gaps/ What a fair value gap is, how to identify and mark one on a chart, and what to look for when price returns to the zone. https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/inside-bars-and-compression/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/inside-bars-and-compression/ What tightening range before a move tells you, and how to trade the release. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/patience-sitting-on-your-hands/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/patience-sitting-on-your-hands/ Why doing nothing is a position, and often the correct one. https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/support-and-resistance/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/support-and-resistance/ How to identify the levels where price has reacted before, and why they matter again. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/who-controls-markets/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/who-controls-markets/ Central banks, regulators, institutions, and retail traders — who actually moves price. https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/account-management/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/account-management/ Managing equity, drawdown, and exposure across an account, not just a single trade. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/consistency/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/consistency/ Why repeating the same process matters more than any single result. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/impulse-and-corrective-waves/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/impulse-and-corrective-waves/ Telling the difference between a move that's driving the trend and one that's just correcting it. https://barechart.com/learn/execution/managing-the-trade/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/execution/managing-the-trade/ What to actually do once you're in — and how much of it should already be decided. https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/pullbacks-and-entries/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/pullbacks-and-entries/ Why waiting for a pullback usually beats chasing the initial move. https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/trendlines/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/trendlines/ How to draw a trendline that means something, and when a break is real. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/types-of-markets/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/types-of-markets/ Forex, indices, commodities, stocks, and crypto — how the major market types differ. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/elliott-waves/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/elliott-waves/ The five-wave impulse and three-wave correction structure, and how to use it without overfitting. https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/failed-breakouts/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/failed-breakouts/ What a failed breakout signals about who's actually in control, and how to trade the reversal. https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/intro-to-indicators/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/intro-to-indicators/ What indicators actually calculate, and where they help versus get in the way. https://barechart.com/learn/execution/post-session-review/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/execution/post-session-review/ Reviewing a session properly, win or lose, so the next one is better informed. https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/prop-firm-risk-rules/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/prop-firm-risk-rules/ How daily loss, max drawdown, and profit target rules interact — and where traders get caught out. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/revenge-trading/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/revenge-trading/ How trying to win back a loss immediately turns one bad trade into three. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/trading-instruments-and-cfds/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/trading-instruments-and-cfds/ What a CFD is, how it differs from owning the underlying asset, and why most retail traders use them. https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/compounding/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/risk-management/compounding/ How small, consistent gains compound over time, and why blowing up resets the clock. https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/confluence/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/price-action/confluence/ Why one signal alone is rarely enough, and how to stack factors that agree. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/market-opens-and-closes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/market-opens-and-closes/ Why markets have open and close times, and what happens at the edges of the trading day. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/order-blocks/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/order-blocks/ The last opposing candle before an impulsive move, and why price often returns to test it. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/overtrading/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/overtrading/ Why more trades isn't more opportunity, and how to recognise you're forcing it. https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/volume/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/reading-charts/volume/ What volume tells you about conviction behind a move, and its limits on CFD markets. https://barechart.com/learn/execution/when-to-stop-trading/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/execution/when-to-stop-trading/ Recognising the signs that today isn't the day, before the account tells you. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/burnout/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/burnout/ Recognising when screen time is costing more than it's earning. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/liquidity-and-stop-hunts/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/liquidity-and-stop-hunts/ Where liquidity sits above and below the market, and why price is drawn to it. https://barechart.com/learn/execution/trade-journaling/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/execution/trade-journaling/ What to log after every trade, and how a journal actually changes behaviour over time. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/trading-sessions/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/trading-sessions/ Asian, London, and New York sessions — when they overlap and why it matters. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/accumulation-and-distribution/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/accumulation-and-distribution/ How ranging precedes big moves, and how to tell which phase a market is in. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/dealing-with-losses/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/dealing-with-losses/ Losses are part of the process — how to take one without it changing your next decision. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/pips-and-points/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/pips-and-points/ What a pip and a point actually measure, and how to read price movement in either unit. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/brokers-and-spreads/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/brokers-and-spreads/ How brokers make money, what a spread is, and what to look for when choosing one. https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/building-a-trading-routine/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/psychology/building-a-trading-routine/ Why a repeatable routine around the session matters as much as the strategy itself. https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/multiple-timeframes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/market-structure/multiple-timeframes/ Using a higher timeframe for bias and a lower one for entry, without conflicting signals. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/leverage/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/leverage/ How leverage changes position size, risk, and margin — and why it cuts both ways. https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/demo-vs-live-trading/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://barechart.com/learn/foundations/demo-vs-live-trading/ What a demo account can and can't prepare you for before trading live. https://barechart.com/blog/2026-07-08-the-importance-of-targets/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200 https://barechart.com/blog/2026-07-08-the-importance-of-targets/ Results could always be better — but often the problem isn't the entry, it's the exit. Here's what happens when you don't have a target. https://barechart.com/blog/2026-06-24-buy-the-dips-sell-the-rallies/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://barechart.com/blog/2026-06-24-buy-the-dips-sell-the-rallies/ An outline of the two setups I trade on the London Session — Accelerated Correction and Level Flip — with a trade example. https://barechart.com/blog/2025-08-13-interview-dan/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0200 https://barechart.com/blog/2025-08-13-interview-dan/ The first in a trader interview series — a standard set of questions covering background, psychology, strategy, and lessons learned. This one's from Dan, who runs this site. https://barechart.com/blog/2025-06-05-interview-kiwi/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0200 https://barechart.com/blog/2025-06-05-interview-kiwi/ Nearly full time trader, but with a farm and a deli business to run too — the latest in our trader interview series. https://barechart.com/blog/2025-05-29-interview-pete/ Thu, 29 May 2025 19:00:00 +0200 https://barechart.com/blog/2025-05-29-interview-pete/ Well, what to say — just a simple Dutch foody guy. 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