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Trading education, checked against real market data
Every pattern and indicator on these pages is found by the same detector that runs inside the Vike trader — the exact rule, run over real exchange candles. No hand-drawn examples, and the trades that failed are shown next to the ones that worked.
Candlestick Patterns: The Complete Cheat Sheet
Every candlestick pattern with the exact rule that detects it, real market examples, and honest failure cases. The cheat sheet is copied from a running trading engine.
- Bearish Candlestick Patterns: Six Rules That End Ralliesbearish candlestick patterns
- Bearish Engulfing Pattern: How to Spot It and Trade Itbearish engulfing
- Bullish Candlestick Patterns: The Six Our Engine Tradesbullish candlestick patterns
- Bullish Engulfing Pattern: How to Spot It and Trade Itbullish engulfing
- Candlestick Chart: What One Bar Really Showscandlestick chart
- Candlestick Patterns PDF: The Cheat Sheet an Engine Wrotecandlestick patterns pdf
- Candlestick Reversal Patterns: The Twelve, and What the Detector Never Checkscandlestick reversal patterns
- Dark Cloud Cover: Exact Rules, Real Examples, and the Crypto Catchdark cloud cover
- Doji Candlestick: What It Is and How to Trade Itdoji candlestick
- Dragonfly Doji Candlestick: How to Spot It and Trade Itdragonfly doji
- Engulfing Candlestick Pattern: One Rule, Two Directionsengulfing candlestick pattern
- Evening Star Pattern: The Exact Rule, and Zero Daily Detectionsevening star
- Gravestone Doji Candlestick: How to Spot It and Trade Itgravestone doji
- Hammer Candlestick: How to Spot It and Trade Ithammer candlestick
- Hanging Man Candlestick: How to Spot It and Trade Ithanging man candlestick
- Heikin Ashi Candles: The Exact Formula, and What the Smoothing Costsheikin ashi
- How to Read Candlestick Charts, One Bar at a Timehow to read candlestick charts
- Inside Day: The Exact Rule, and What Happens Nextinside day
- Inverted Hammer Candlestick: How to Spot It and Trade Itinverted hammer candlestick
- Japanese Candlesticks: Where the Patterns Come Fromjapanese candlesticks
- Long-Legged Doji: What It Means and How to Trade Itlong-legged doji
- Market Profile: Time at Price, and the One Number Our Engine Shipsmarket profile
- Marubozu Candle: The Bar With No Wicks and How to Trade Itmarubozu candle
- Morning Star Pattern: The Exact Rule and Why It Almost Never Firesmorning star
- Piercing Pattern: Exact Rules, Real Examples, and Why It Barely Exists on Cryptopiercing pattern
- Point and Figure Chart: The Column Rule Our Engine Runspoint and figure chart
- Renko Charts: How Bricks Are Built, and What They Throw Awayrenko chart
- Shooting Star Candlestick: How to Spot It and Trade Itshooting star candlestick
- Spinning Top Candlestick: What It Means and How to Trade Itspinning top candlestick
- Three Black Crows: The Exact Rule and Real Examplesthree black crows
- Three White Soldiers: The Exact Rule and Real Examplesthree white soldiers
- Types of Candlesticks: The Groups the Engine Puts Them Intypes of candlesticks
What Is DeFi? How Decentralized Finance Actually Works
DeFi replaces banks and brokers with code anyone can audit. Here is what the $183 billion locked in it is actually doing, and where the risks sit.
On-Chain Analysis: What the Ledger Shows That Price Does Not
On-chain analysis reads settlement directly — who holds a token, who funded them, and who is selling. Here is what the ledger answers, and the four questions it cannot.
Trading Indicators: What They Measure and Where They Fail
A trading indicator is a formula over past bars, nothing more. Here is what each family actually measures, the exact RSI arithmetic our engine runs, and the failure every indicator shares.
- Accumulation Distribution Line: What the CLV Multiplier Doesaccumulation distribution
- Anchored VWAP: The Three Lines Our Engine Removes, and What That Costsanchored vwap
- Average True Range: The ATR Formula Our Engine Actually Runsaverage true range
- Bollinger Bands: What %B and Bandwidth Actually Measurebollinger bands
- Candlestick Indicators: All 63 Detectors, and What They Returnedcandlestick indicators
- Directional Movement Index (DMI): The DI Lines and ADX, Measureddirectional movement index
- Donchian Channel: The Breakout Rule That Fires Zero Timesdonchian channel
- Exponential Moving Average: The Seed, the Alpha, and What It Returnedexponential moving average
- Fibonacci Retracement: The Levels, the Swing, and the Function We Do Not Shipfibonacci retracement
- Golden Cross: The Rule, and What It Actually Returnedgolden cross
- Ichimoku Cloud: All Five Lines, and What 705 Real Crosses Returnedichimoku cloud
- Keltner Channel: An EMA, an ATR, and a Port That Is Not Identicalkeltner channel
- Linear Regression Slope: The Number Our Engine Returnslinear regression slope
- MACD: How to Read the Moving Average Convergence Divergencemacd
- McClellan Oscillator: The Breadth Data We Do Not Have, and the Crypto Analogue We Builtmcclellan oscillator
- Momentum Trading: What It Means, and the 36 Momentum Functions Our Engine Shipsmomentum trading
- Money Flow Index: The MFI Rule, Read From the Sourcemoney flow index
- On Balance Volume: What OBV Does With a Tied Closeon balance volume
- Order Flow Trading: What the Tape Records, and What Candles Cannotorder flow trading
- Pivot Points: The Exact Formulas, and What the Levels Containedpivot points
- RSI Indicator: How to Read It and Trade Itrsi indicator
- Relative Strength: Two Different Meanings, and the Kernel Our Engine Shipsrelative strength
- Relative Vigor Index: How to Read the RVIrelative vigor index
- Simple Moving Average: The Formula, and What Crossing It Returnedsimple moving average
- Smart Money Concepts: The Vocabulary, and What Our Engine Actually Shipssmart money concepts
- Stochastic Momentum Index: How to Read the SMIstochastic momentum index
- Stochastic Oscillator: The Exact Rule Our Engine Runsstochastic oscillator
- TTM Squeeze: The Two Channels Our Engine Ships, and the One It Does Notttm squeeze
- Technical Analysis: The Three Families, and What Our Engine Ships for Eachtechnical analysis
- True Range: How the Gap-Aware Bar Measurement Workstrue range
- VWAP: The Session Reset, and What Crossing It Actually Returnedvwap
- Volume Profile: The Point of Control We Compute, and the Histogram We Do Notvolume profile
- Wyckoff Method: The Four Kernels Our Engine Ships, and the Phase Labels It Does Notwyckoff method