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ScanTickers Platform Guides

How ScanTickers helps users scan, filter, compare, and review markets more efficiently.

Platform

Trading Strategies and Risk Management

Practical strategy frameworks for mean reversion, short selling, trader behavior, and position/risk discipline.

Strategy
Trading PsychologyRisk Management12 min read

Market Wizards and Their Trading Techniques

A practical summary of legendary traders from Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards books, covering trend following, macro, growth breakouts, options, risk control, psychology, and position sizing.

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Trading Concepts5 min readMean Reversion

Mean Reversion Trading: When Price Moves Too Far, Too Fast

Understand mean reversion, overextension, pullbacks, risk control, and why not every sharp drop is a bargain.

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Technical Analysis5 min readVCP

What Is a Volatility Contraction Pattern — VCP?

Learn how VCP setups form, why volatility contraction matters, and how traders use tightening price action to identify potential breakout candidates.

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Technical Analysis7 min readBreakout Bases

What Is a Cup and Handle Pattern?

Learn how cup-and-handle bases form, why handles matter, and how Livermore, Darvas, O’Neil, Wyckoff, Weinstein, and Minervini connect to breakout-base logic.

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High Tight FlagMomentum8 min read

High Tight Flag Pattern

Learn what a high tight flag pattern is, how it forms after a sharp price advance, what traders look for in the flag, and why risk control matters.

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VCPCup Handle9 min read

VCP vs Cup and Handle vs High Tight Flag

Compare VCP, cup-and-handle, and high tight flag patterns. Learn how each setup forms, what they have in common, and where traders can get fooled.

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Price Action6 min readBreakout Setups

Pocket Pivots, Tight Right Sides, and Inside Bars

A practical guide to pocket pivots, tight right sides, 9/21/34 moving-average alignment, low-volume compression, and inside bars before breakouts.

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Short SellingRisk Management10 min read

How to Short Stocks

Learn practical short-selling frameworks: extension shorts, trend-following shorts, failed breakouts, breakdowns, borrow risk, squeeze risk, and position sizing.

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Risk ManagementPosition Sizing10 min read

Risk Management in Trading

Learn how risk management varies across trading philosophies, including tight stops, mental stops, no-stop investing, position sizing, portfolio exposure, and drawdown control.

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Trend, Relative Strength, Volume, and Levels

Core technical-analysis tools for reading market leadership, trend quality, support, resistance, volume, and moving-average structure. Base structures, compression patterns, breakout setups, and price-action formations used by growth and momentum traders.

Technicals
Relative Strength6 min readMarket Leaders

How to Use Relative Strength to Find Market Leaders

Relative strength helps traders identify stocks, sectors, and markets that are outperforming peers. Strong stocks usually deserve attention before weak ones.

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Trend Analysis6 min readMarket Stages

Stage Analysis and Trend Analysis: Reading the Market’s Life Cycle

Understand accumulation, uptrends, distribution, downtrends, moving averages, trend structure, and how stage analysis can improve market review.

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Technical Analysis7 min readMoving Averages

Moving Averages: 5, 9, 13, 21, 34, 50, 100, 200, 100W and 200W

Learn how traders use short-term, intermediate-term, long-term, and weekly moving averages to read trend, support, resistance, extension, and market structure.

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Volume Analysis8 min readPrice & Demand

Volume Analysis: How to Interpret Volume in Different Market Situations

Learn how volume confirms breakouts, exposes distribution, supports pullbacks, reveals accumulation, and helps traders understand demand and supply.

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Technical Analysis8 min readSupport & Resistance

Support, Resistance, Breakouts, Breakdowns, and Fibonacci Levels

Learn how traders identify key price levels, use Fibonacci retracements, avoid false breakouts, and combine levels with volume, trend, and risk control.

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Candlesticks8 min readPrice Action

Candlestick Charts and Patterns

Learn how traders read candlesticks, including doji, hammer, shooting star, engulfing candles, inside bars, outside bars, morning star, evening star, and more.

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Derivatives and Leveraged Instruments

Options, futures, CFDs, margin products, and other leveraged instruments where structure and risk mechanics matter more than marketing slogans.

Leverage

Fundamentals and Financial Statement Analysis

Financial-statement reading for investors and traders who want to understand quality, growth, margins, debt, dilution, and balance-sheet risk.

Fundamentals
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