FARAMARZ KOWSARI · TRADING BOOKS

Technical Analysis & Price Action Trading Books

Technical analysis becomes useful when it gives a trader a repeatable language for describing what price has already done and what would invalidate a current idea. This collection focuses on price action, candlesticks, support and resistance, breakouts, Wyckoff structure, Fibonacci, confluence and related chart-reading skills. It is designed for readers who want a stronger foundation before moving into specialized tools such as order flow, options or algorithmic systems. The emphasis is on reading structure clearly, separating observation from prediction, and connecting every setup to risk and invalidation.

8 books in this collection. Every cover links directly to Google Books, and each title includes a free-preview link when available.

Book cover of Beyond the Single Candle by Faramarz Kowsari
Start Here & Core Technical Analysis

Beyond the Single Candle

A Visual Field Guide to Inside Bars, Engulfing Patterns, and Two-Candle Price Action

Beyond the Single Candle moves away from memorizing isolated candlestick names and studies what changes from Candle 1 to Candle 2. Range, body and close location are kept as separate dimensions so an Inside Bar, body engulfing pattern or Outside Bar has a mechanical definition before context is interpreted. Compression is treated as an observable condition, not a directional prediction.

Two-candle price actionInside BarsEngulfing patternsOutside BarsCompression
Book cover of BREAKOUT & RETEST TRADING by Faramarz Kowsari
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BREAKOUT & RETEST TRADING

Breakout and Retest: A Rules-Based Trading Strategy

Breakout & Retest Trading organizes the strategy into a fixed chain: context, level, break, acceptance, retest, trigger, invalidation, target space, risk and execution. The book begins by defining meaningful levels and distinguishing a real break from a brief penetration, then studies closes, acceptance, follow-through, volume, overextension and the quality of the return to the broken area.

BreakoutsRetestsAcceptanceRole reversalEntry triggers
Book cover of Candlestick Patterns From Zero by Faramarz Kowsari
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Candlestick Patterns From Zero

A Visual Trading Course for Beginners

Candlestick Patterns From Zero is a 100-page visual course that teaches candlestick reading from basic OHLC anatomy through pattern recognition, market context, confirmation and risk-aware execution. The book treats candle patterns as clues rather than guarantees: readers learn to interpret bodies and wicks, bullish and bearish candles, doji structures, hammers, shooting stars, engulfing patterns, harami patterns, morning and evening stars, multi-candle formations and gaps while checking trend, support and resistance, volume, volatility and higher-level context.

Candlestick anatomyOHLCBody and wick psychologyDojiHammer and inverted hammer
Book cover of Confluence Trading by Faramarz Kowsari
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Confluence Trading

A Visual Practical Guide to Combining Price Action, Market Structure, Key Levels, Multiple Timeframes, and Risk

Confluence Trading treats confluence as a way to organize evidence, not a score that makes uncertainty disappear. The early chapters distinguish independent evidence from duplicate evidence and put market structure and location before indicators. Key levels, price action, support and resistance, Fibonacci, moving averages, momentum, volume and multiple timeframes are evaluated according to what new information they add rather than how many boxes they allow the trader to tick.

Confluence tradingIndependent evidenceMarket structureKey levelsPrice action
Book cover of FALSE BREAKOUTS / FAKEOUTS: by Faramarz Kowsari
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FALSE BREAKOUTS / FAKEOUTS:

Trading Fakeouts: How to Avoid the Trap

False Breakouts / Fakeouts turns the familiar idea of a failed breakout into an operational sequence that can be recorded before the result is known. The book distinguishes the reference boundary, penetration, acceptance outside the level, reclaim, confirmation and invalidation so a wick beyond support or resistance is not automatically labeled manipulation or reversal.

False breakoutsFakeoutsLiquidity trapsAcceptance and rejectionReclaim
Book cover of Mastering Support & Resistance by Faramarz Kowsari
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Mastering Support & Resistance

80 Practical Visual Infographics for Reading Levels, Entries, Exits, Breakouts, Retests, and Traps

Mastering Support & Resistance is designed as an 80-page visual field guide for turning vague horizontal lines into usable trading decisions. It teaches the reader to identify a meaningful level, convert the line into a realistic zone, wait for price behavior at that area and enter only when the planned confirmation and invalidation logic are present. The book treats support and resistance as maps of probability rather than guaranteed predictions.

Support and resistanceSupply and demand zonesBreakout and retestFake breakoutsWick versus body
Book cover of The Wyckoff Method by Faramarz Kowsari
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The Wyckoff Method

A Practical Guide to Accumulation, Distribution, Springs, Upthrusts, and Market Structure

The Wyckoff Method is a working manual for reading ranges and transitions through evidence rather than memorizing an ideal accumulation or distribution schematic. It develops wave comparison, trend health, price-volume relationships, accumulation, distribution, springs, upthrusts, UTADs, reaccumulation, redistribution, structural failure, entry and risk while emphasizing what the market has actually demonstrated and what would invalidate the current hypothesis.

Wyckoff methodAccumulation and distributionSprings and upthrustsPrice and volumeMarket structure

Where this category fits in a trading education

Foundational books for reading price, structure, levels, breakouts, confluence and chart behavior with a practical trading lens. Use this page when this subject matches a real weakness in your process; use the complete library when you need to compare several approaches before choosing what to study next.

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