Basic Technical Analysis: Charts, Support and Resistance (5 min)

Quickly learn to find potential opportunities by putting established indicators and charting techniques such as support and resistance to work in your trading.

Basic Technical Analysis: Trends and Moving Averages (8 min)

Get more comfortable at choosing when to buy or sell by learning techniques that can help spot trends and identify possible trend reversals.

Stock Screening Tools for Traders

Featuring Lee Bohl

Learn how you can narrow your search for better potential trading opportunities using Schwab's advanced stock screening tools.

Stock Selection for Traders

Featuring Lee Bohl

Learn to better identify potential trading opportunities in any market by understanding techniques for screening stocks and scanning pricing charts.

  • Advanced charts
  • Spot potential trade signals as soon as they appear using our up-to-the second charts with advanced technical analysis tools built right in
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  • Strategy Ticker
  • Find potential trading opportunities with continuous, real-time updates of buy or sell signals
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  • Strategy Matrix
  • Spot possible trading opportunities faster with this real-time customizable tool that shows when technical indicators are crossed helping you compare and analyze potential trend changes.
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  • Strategy Tester
  • Find a potential trade by matching equities against trading strategies that have historically performed best against that stock.
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  • Stock Screener
  • Speed your search for trading opportunities by scanning equities that fit your trading criteria, using over 140 filter variables.
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  • Strategy Center
  • Search for opportunities by scanning the market for stocks that meet your trading strategy, then back-test your strategy using historical market data.
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  • Sectors Tool
  • Find potentially strong or weak performing equities in a sector, industry or sub-industry in just seconds.
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  • Options Screener
  • Automatically filter thousands of options contracts quickly and easily for those that fit your trading strategy.
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