Directional Movement Indicators

Featuring Lee Bohl

This in-depth course explains the function and use of directional indicators +DI, -DI, DX and ADX and how you can use them to help determine the strength and direction of a trend.

Fibonacci Tools

Featuring Lee Bohl

Learn how Fibonacci tools can help you evaluate the depth and strength of price pullbacks - and find potential entry points.

RSI and Stochastic RSI

Featuring Lee Bohl

Find out how these two powerful oscillators may help improve timing trading ranges and trending markets.

Technical Analysis for Traders

Featuring Lee Bohl

Start off with this comprehensive introduction to the most essential trading topics including price trends, support and resistance, chart patterns and technical indicators.

Pivot Points (30 min)

Featuring Lee Bohl

Get an introduction to using Schwab's state-of-the-art technical indicators and advanced trading tools to help identify support and resistance levels and trade off of those pivot points.

Versatile Commodity Channel Index

Featuring Lee Bohl

Learn how the CCI can help identify investments that may be overbought or oversold.

Bollinger Bands

Featuring Lee Bohl

Learn to better recognize potential price patterns and other trading techniques using Bollinger Bands.

  • Advanced charts
  • Loaded with robust and flexible technical indicators, our charts allow you to identify potential trading signals, support and resistance, and much more.
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  • Strategy Ticker
  • Get continuous, real-time updates of buy or sell signals using preset trading strategies or your own customized strategy.
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  • Strategy Matrix
  • This real-time customizable tool shows the moment a technical analysis indicator has been crossed, allowing you to compare and analyze potential trend changes.
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  • Strategy Tester
  • Identify the strategies that historically perform the best when used to trade a particular equity.
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