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Technical Analysis
The Smart Trading Book
Nadia Berrada
ZoneEdu
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- Author
- Nadia Berrada
- Category
- Technical Analysis
- Pages
- 248
- Reading time
- ~5 h
- Level
- Beginner
Technical Analysis
The Smart Trading Book
A structured path from chart reading to a written trading plan
The Smart Trading Book is the ZoneEdu starting point. It walks through how markets are quoted and matched, how to read a chart without decorating it, and how to translate observations into rules that can be written down and reviewed.
Each chapter ends with a short study exercise so the material stays practical. The book is educational: it teaches process and vocabulary, and it does not promise outcomes.
What readers will learn
- How orders, spreads and liquidity shape the chart you see
- How to describe trend, range and transition in plain language
- How to size a position from a fixed risk-per-trade figure
- How to write a trading plan with entry, invalidation and review rules
- How to keep a journal that produces usable feedback
Table of contents
- 1What a Chart Actually Shows
- 2Timeframes and Context
- 3Describing Trend and Range
- 4Support, Resistance and Reaction Levels
- 5Risk Per Trade
- 6Building the Trading Plan
- 7Journaling and Review
- 8Common Mistakes and How to Interrupt Them
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