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📖 How to use our technical analysis

Where every technical tool on Flash Finance is, what each one answers, and a direct link to it. Everything here is free and needs no login, except the AI tools (AI Chat and AI Backtester), which use AI credits after you sign in.

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Start here: three questions, three pages

Is my stock in an uptrend or a downtrend?
Technical Setup
Which stocks match my setup today?
Technical Screener
Would this rule have worked in the past?
Strategy Library · AI Backtester

🧭 Three ways to find the tools

1. The Research menu

Open Research ▾ at the top of any page. Technicals, Chart Patterns, Chart Books, Technical Screener, Technical Setup, Market Breadth, Strategy Library, Strategies, Seasonality, Sector Rotation, Highs & Lows and AI Backtester are all listed there.

2. The tab row on technical pages

On the Technical Screener and its sister pages, a row of tabs under the header leads to the rest: this guide · Screener · Market Breadth · Relative Strength · Candlesticks · Divergences · Strategy Library · Portfolio & Watchlists · Stock Setup · Chart Books. The chart pages (Indicator Studio, Support & Resistance, Trendlines) have their own menu on the left.

3. From any stock page

Search for a company at the top of the site. Under its name, buttons open that stock's Technical Setup, chart, seasonality and AI Chat.

1. Analyse one stock

Technical Setup — start here	One page that joins everything up: a 0–100 technical score built from five parts (trend, momentum, volume, volatility, support/resistance) with every rule and the points it earned; daily, weekly and monthly trend; RSI, MACD, ADX; nearest support and resistance; strength versus the Nifty 50 and its sector; candlestick patterns and divergences on the stock. Read the summary paragraph first, then the score table to see which rules pass.flashfinance.news/technical-setup/RELIANCE
Indicator Studio	Interactive candlestick chart with 20+ indicators (RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, SuperTrend, Ichimoku, ADX and more), pivot points and a bullish/bearish vote count across 23 indicators. Switch indicators on and off and compare daily with weekly candles.flashfinance.news/technicals/indicators/RELIANCE.NS
Support & Resistance chart	Horizontal price levels where the stock has reacted before, each with its historical bounce rate (only levels that held at least half the time are drawn). Daily view for the near term, weekly for the long term.flashfinance.news/technicals/RELIANCE.NS
Trendlines chart	Auto-drawn rising and falling trendlines (at least three touches each) plus the key horizontal levels.flashfinance.news/technicals/trendline/RELIANCE.NS
Seasonality	How the stock has done in each calendar month and quarter of past years.flashfinance.news/seasonality/RELIANCE
Strategy deep dive	The SuperTrend signal history of any stock: pick it from the drop-down to see every past entry and exit on one page.flashfinance.news/strategies/deepdive
Chart patterns for this stock	Triangles, flags, head and shoulders and similar formations, when the stock has one today. With no active pattern, the link opens the full list of stocks that do.flashfinance.news/patterns/stock/RELIANCE
Stock page	Price, results and financials. The buttons under its header open this stock's Technical Setup, chart, seasonality and AI Chat.flashfinance.news/stocks/RELIANCE

2. Find stocks that match a setup

Market-wide scans of NSE stocks, rebuilt after every market close. All free, no login.

Technical Screener	Build your own screen from about 200 technical fields joined with AND / OR / NOT, for example `tech_score >= 70 AND close > sma200`. Narrow it to All NSE, Liquid, Top 500 or Nifty 50 and to one sector. Every result links to that stock's Technical Setup.flashfinance.news/technical-screener/
41 ready-made screens	One-click lists such as RSI oversold, stocks above the 200-day average, golden cross, MACD crossover, SuperTrend buy and volume breakouts. The full list with links is at the end of this guide.flashfinance.news/technical-screener/rsi-oversold-stocks
Candlestick Patterns	21 classic patterns found after each close, each graded by its context: did it come after a real trend, on high volume, at support or resistance, with RSI at an extreme?flashfinance.news/candlestick-patterns/
Divergences	Price against RSI, MACD, OBV, MFI and Stochastic: bullish and bearish divergences, one page each.flashfinance.news/divergences/
Chart Patterns	Triangles, wedges, head and shoulders, double tops and bottoms, channels, flags and cup and handle, on daily and weekly candles across the 1,000 largest stocks, with the level each must clear and the move it projects.flashfinance.news/patterns/
Chart Books (PDF)	The day's annotated chart books: chart patterns, F&O stocks, trendline touches and channel tests.flashfinance.news/patterns/books
Relative Strength	Every stock ranked by an RS rating (1–99), its return against the Nifty 50 over four periods, and against its own sector index.flashfinance.news/relative-strength/
52-week Highs & Lows	Stocks at new 52-week highs, 52-week lows and all-time highs.flashfinance.news/highs/

3. Read the whole market first

Before picking stocks, check whether the broad market and your sector are helping or hurting.

Market Breadth	How many stocks are really taking part: the share above their 20/50/200-day averages, the advance-decline line and new highs against new lows, for the market and for each sector. The advance-decline count is live during market hours.flashfinance.news/market-breadth/
Sector Rotation	A rotation chart (RRG) showing which sectors are leading, weakening, lagging or improving against the Nifty.flashfinance.news/sector-rotation/
Nifty 50 Heatmap	Which index stocks are moving the Nifty today.flashfinance.news/nifty-heatmap/
Market Pulse	A one-page health score for the market, built from flows, F&O, volatility and breadth.flashfinance.news/market-intelligence/

4. Test a strategy and check your portfolio

Strategy Library	16 classic technical strategies in four families (trend following, momentum, mean reversion, breakout). Each shows its exact rules, the stocks triggering it today, its risk, and how it holds up when its settings change.flashfinance.news/strategy-library/
Strategies dashboard & Strategy Lab	Live SuperTrend signals, recent exits, and famous strategies tested on Indian stocks.flashfinance.news/strategies/
AI Backtester	Describe a strategy in plain English (stop-loss, target and trailing stop included) and test it on any NSE or BSE stock, on daily or weekly bars back to 2004. The link opens with the example stock selected. Each new strategy description uses one AI credit. Re-running a test does not.flashfinance.news/ai-backtest/?symbol=RELIANCE.NS
Portfolio & Watchlist Technicals	Add your holdings or a watchlist and check them all at once: a weighted score, how many are above their 50- and 200-day averages, the nearest support under each, and alerts such as a holding breaking its 200-day average. Lists stay in your own browser.flashfinance.news/portfolio-technicals/
AI Chat	Ask questions about a company in plain English. One AI credit per question.flashfinance.news/ai-chat?c=RELIANCE

5. Learn the indicators

Plain-English explainers for each indicator these tools use:

RSI · MACD · Moving averages · SuperTrend · Bollinger Bands · ADX · VWAP · Support & resistance · Divergence · Candlestick patterns · Golden cross · Relative strength · Relative volume · Market breadth · 52-week high · Full glossary · How our scores are calculated

6. A five-minute routine

Market Breadth: Is the broad market healthy or are only a few heavyweights rising?
Sector Rotation: Which sectors are leading right now?
A ready-made screen or the Screener: Shortlist stocks, filtered to a leading sector if you like.
Technical Setup of each shortlisted stock: Read the score table, the trend on three timeframes, and the nearest support.
Indicator Studio or Trendlines: Look at the chart itself before deciding anything.
Portfolio Technicals: Save the names to a watchlist and come back for alerts.

Every page, one click away

All 41 ready-made technical screens

The 16 strategies in the Strategy Library

Candlestick pattern pages

Divergence pages

Chart pattern pages

⚠️ Educational technical analysis computed automatically from end-of-day NSE prices — not investment advice. Flash Finance is not SEBI-registered. Indicators describe what price has done; they do not predict what it will do. Verify levels on a live chart and manage risk before acting.