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SmartReversals’ Trading Compass

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Complete Market Intelligence and Educational Collection

Mastering Technical, Fundamental, and Macroeconomic Analysis

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SmartReversals
Aug 14, 2025
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Since March 2024, SmartReversals has delivered three publications every week. Each one blends technical, fundamental, and macro analysis into an easy-to-understand format, making advanced concepts accessible to all.

A cornerstone of my content are the regular educational pieces. From day one, I've gone beyond theory, using recent, real-world charts to teach technical indicators, fundamental metrics, and crucial market research—not the unrealistic infographics found on the web, or outdated charts in old books. My research has consistently proven its worth, offering a framework for how both investors and traders should assess the markets.

Master the Market

This publication is the complete guide that organizes all of this educational content, giving you full access classified by chapter. As I've often said, this library of content alone is worth the subscription, and it is constantly updated with new content assessing the market conditions. There is a profound difference between learning from an outdated book and studying the markets with recent charts you've likely navigated yourself. Nothing teaches more effectively than real-world experience.

The material is organized logically to guide you from general concepts to specific applications. Once you understand the basics of investment instruments and technical indicators, you can progress to identifying setups and confluence levels. Similarly, after you learn how to read charts, you'll be prepared to understand and analyze market breadth.

The technical indicators are explained using popular examples from across the market, such as the SPX and NDX indices, Bitcoin, major stocks like NVDA, MSFT, TSLA and AAPL, and ETFs for gold and silver.

The section on fundamental indicators helps you understand the value behind a chart, so you can avoid risky euphorias. Following that, the lessons on trading psychology will teach you how to combine this knowledge to make disciplined decisions and set effective stop losses.

With this comprehensive foundation, you will be ready to study macroeconomic conditions, and also utilize the special stock market research. These studies analyze conditions that have preceded major market events, many of which, such as the crash starting in August 2024, the bear market that visited $4,835 and the recent rally, were anticipated in my research. My objective is to stay one step ahead and ensure subscribers are prepared for significant market moves.

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1. Investment Instruments

Master the fundamentals of different asset classes. This section breaks down the characteristics of Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, and Options, helping you choose the right tools for your investment strategy.

  • Stocks, ETFs, Cryptocurrencies and Other Market Instruments

  • Mastering Options

  • Bonds: The Silent Market Mover

  • VIX: Don't Get Caught Off Guard by the Market's Volatility Monster


2. Technical Indicators

Learn to decode price action with essential technical tools. From momentum Oscillators and Bollinger Bands to Fibonacci retracements, Volume analysis and more, this section provides the toolkit needed to anticipate market moves.

  • Candlesticks

  • Moving Averages

  • RSI, Stochastic, and MACD

  • Bollinger Bands

  • Williams%R, Rate of Change (ROC), and A/D Line

  • The Fibonacci Sequence

  • Volume

  • Volume Profile / Volume at price

  • Navigating the Market’s Tides: The Power of Elliott Wave


3. Identifying Setups Using Support & Resistance Levels

This is where theory meets practice. Learn how to identify high-probability trading setups by combining multiple signals at Confluence Levels and leveraging Short Timeframes for precise entry and exit points.

  • Mastering Support and Resistance Levels

  • Navigate Volatility Using Support and Resistance Levels

  • Learn How to Find Confluence Levels

  • Level2 and Order Book

  • Managing Confluence in Short Timeframes


4. Breadth Indicators

Look beyond single stocks to gauge the health of the entire market. This section covers key breadth indicators like the McClellan Oscillator, McClellan Summation Index and the Advance/Decline Line to help you determine if a market trend is broad-based and sustainable.

  • McClellan Summation Index, A/D Volume Ratio, Percent of Stocks Above MA

  • McClellan Oscillator, New Highs/New Lows

  • Combining Breadth Indicators

  • Breadth Thrust Signals


5. Fundamental Indicators

Go beyond the chart to evaluate a company's true financial health. Here, I break down essential fundamental metrics like the P/E Ratio and PEG Ratio and teach you how to analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) from a financial report.

  • Hype Versus Reality: Fundamental Analysis - PE and PEG Ratios

  • From Charts to Companies: P/S Ratio, EBIDTA, Price-to-Pretax Income Ratio


6. Trading Psychology

Often underestimated, mastering market psychology is crucial for long-term success. This core section covers the essentials of risk management, setting effective stop losses, and maintaining the discipline required to navigate volatile markets.

  • Trading Psychology and Risk Management

  • Setting Stop Losses

7. Macro Indicators

Similar to fundamental analysis for stocks, the macro analysis provides a valuable context for the overall stock market and the major indices like the S&P500, Nasdaq100, Russell2000, Dow Jones, and the different economy sectors.

  • Decoding the Fed: A Visual Exploration of Interest Rate Changes

  • Rate Cuts - Are They Bullish for the Stock Market?

  • Rate Cuts - How to Anticipate the Direction for the Stock Market and Bonds?

  • Inverted Yield Curve

  • U.S. Economy: Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Indicators


8. Market Studies

Charts doesn't repeat, but technicals do. This section contains my deep-dive market research studies, each analyzing specific conditions that have historically preceded major bullish or bearish moves. These case studies, are essential for understanding how to position yourself for significant market shifts.

  • Navigating Overextensions: 7 Charts and Key Indicators to Watch

  • Technical Study of Historical Corrections

  • Navigating Major Selloffs: 3 Indicators to Watch

  • Levels that Indicate When Bear Markets are Over

  • Bearish Crossovers and Divergences Analysis

  • Study of Bounces Across Six Major Bear Markets

  • Advancing Volume Implications

  • Zweig Breadth Thrust Signal Triggered

  • Finding Bottoms in Bear Markets

  • When do Gaps Stay Unfilled?

  • Third Bullish Signal for 2025

  • Bitcoin Cycle and Fundamental Drivers

  • S&P500 - Roadmap for Potential Volatility

  • Nasdaq 50%+ Surge: What History Says Happens Next

  • Stage of the Market - SPX and NDX -Targets for 2026


Unlock Your Full Potential

Ready to master the markets? A premium subscription unlocks the complete educational library, giving you immediate access to every guide, indicator breakdown, and market study mentioned above. It's time to build your analytical toolkit, understand the "why" behind market moves, and invest with the conviction that comes from knowledge.

SmartReversals is a publication read by more than 26K subscribers across all the U.S. and 157 countries. Learning about the Stock Market is for everyone!

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I have gathered some of the knowledge provided in the guide above in two ebooks including:

First Ebook: Essentials of Technical Analysis

  1. Candlesticks to understand price action and formations that suggest bullish or bearish reversals and trend continuation.

  2. Oscillators like the Stochastic, RSI, and MACD act as a "speedometer" for the market, helping you identify overbought or oversold conditions where a trend may be losing steam.

  3. Bollinger Bands to gauge volatility and identify when price has moved to a relative extreme, signaling a potential reversion back to its average.

  4. Fibonacci Retracements to uncover hidden levels of support and resistance where a price pullback is likely to pause or reverse.

  5. Moving Averages to smooth out price data, clearly define the direction of the underlying trend, and spot major shifts in long-term momentum through signals like the Golden Cross and Death Cross.

  6. Volume as the fuel that drives every market move. Volume provides context and measures the conviction behind a price trend, allowing you to distinguish a reliable breakout from a false one.

  7. SPX Case Study to present one by one, see each technical indicator applied in real life to this index.

Second eBook: Advanced Technical Indicators

  • Volume Profile: Go beyond standard volume to see at what price levels the most trading activity has occurred. This creates a “map” of the market, identifying the high-volume nodes that act as magnets for price and the low-volume areas where price moves rapidly.

  • Rate of Change (ROC): Master this pure momentum oscillator to measure the percentage change in price between periods. By tracking the speed of a trend, you can identify early signs of momentum shifts and potential price peaks or troughs before they become obvious to the broader market.

  • Accumulation/Distribution (A/D) Line: Peek behind the curtain of price action to see if the “smart money” is buying or selling. By correlating price with volume flow, the A/D Line helps you spot divergences where price may be rising on weak participation, signaling an imminent reversal.

  • Support and Resistance Levels: Moving beyond basic lines to understand supply and demand zones. Learn to manage specific price levels where institutional orders are clustered, creating a roadmap of where price is likely to find a floor or hit a ceiling.

  • P/E and PEG Ratios: Bridge the gap between technicals and fundamentals. Understand how the Price-to-Earnings and Price-to-Earnings-to-Growth ratios provide the valuation context needed to determine if a technical breakout is supported by real company earnings and growth potential.

  • Case Studies for NVDA and QQQ: See theory meet reality. These detailed studies apply every advanced indicator in the book to the market’s leading semiconductor and the premier tech index, demonstrating how to navigate high-volatility megacaps with institutional precision.

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