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Chart patterns

What Is a Bull Flag Pattern? How to Trade It in Crypto

What a bull flag is, how to spot one, where traders enter, stop and take profit, how it differs from a pennant and a bear flag, and why it fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 12 min read
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What Is a Bear Flag Pattern? How to Trade It in Crypto

What a bear flag is, how to spot one, where traders enter, stop and take profit, what it means if you cannot short, and why the pattern fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 11 min read
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What Is a Cup and Handle Pattern? How to Trade It in Crypto

What a cup and handle is, how to tell a real one from a V-shaped bounce, where traders enter, stop and take profit, and why the pattern fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 10 min read
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What Is a Double Top Pattern? How to Trade It in Crypto

What a double top is, why it is not confirmed until the neckline breaks, where traders act, stop and target, and why the pattern often fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 9 min read
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What Is a Double Bottom Pattern? How to Trade It in Crypto

What a double bottom is, why it is not confirmed until the neckline breaks, where traders enter, stop and take profit, and why the pattern fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 8 min read
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What Is an Ascending Triangle Pattern? How to Trade It in Crypto

What an ascending triangle is, how to draw its two lines, where traders enter, stop and take profit, how it compares with other triangles, and why it fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 8 min read
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What Is a Falling Wedge Pattern? How to Trade It in Crypto

What a falling wedge is, why a falling pattern is read as bullish, where traders enter, stop and take profit, how it differs from a rising wedge, and why it fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 9 min read
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What Is a Rising Wedge Pattern? How to Trade It in Crypto

What a rising wedge is, why a rising pattern is read as bearish, where traders act, stop and target, what it means if you cannot short, and why it fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 8 min read
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What Is a Hammer Candlestick? How to Read and Trade It

What a hammer candlestick is, how it differs from a hanging man, inverted hammer and shooting star, how traders confirm and trade it, and why it fails.

Sep 25, 2026 · 9 min read
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What Is a Doji Candle? Types, Meaning and How to Trade It

What a doji candle is, the four main types, what it says about buyers and sellers, how traders confirm and trade one, and why a doji alone means little.

Sep 25, 2026 · 9 min read

Basics

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How to swap tokens on Solana

A step-by-step guide to swapping one Solana token for another from your own wallet, what each number in the quote means, and what it costs.

Sep 21, 2026 · 3 min read
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How to get your first SOL

Four ways to put SOL into a Solana wallet you control, what each one costs, how long it takes, and the mistakes that lose people money on the way in.

Sep 21, 2026 · 5 min read
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What Is Slippage in Crypto? How It Works and How to Limit It

What slippage is, why prices move between quote and fill, how slippage tolerance protects you, sensible settings, and how it differs from price impact.

Sep 25, 2026 · 8 min read
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Why Solana swaps fail, and how to fix each cause

The real reasons a Solana swap fails or gets dropped — insufficient SOL, slippage, stale routes, congestion — and what to change for each.

Sep 21, 2026 · 2 min read
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How to spot a rug pull before you buy

The concrete on-chain checks that separate a risky token from a trap: mint authority, freeze authority, liquidity locks, holder concentration and honeypots.

Sep 21, 2026 · 2 min read
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How to read a DEX chart

Candles, volume, liquidity, market cap versus FDV, and the specific things that mislead people on decentralised exchange charts.

Sep 21, 2026 · 2 min read
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What Is a DEX Aggregator? How It Finds a Better Price

How a DEX aggregator routes a swap across many exchanges for a better price, what it costs, what it cannot do, and how single- and cross-chain aggregators differ.

Sep 25, 2026 · 8 min read
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SPL tokens explained

What an SPL token is, why every token needs its own account, what Token-2022 changes, and why symbols on Solana are not unique.

Sep 21, 2026 · 2 min read
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Self-custody basics: keeping your own keys

What self-custody means in practice, how seed phrases work, the realistic threats, and the habits that prevent almost every avoidable loss.

Sep 21, 2026 · 2 min read
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How to connect a Solana wallet

Setting up Phantom, Solflare or Backpack, what connecting actually grants a site, and how to disconnect or revoke access afterwards.

Sep 21, 2026 · 2 min read
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Price impact explained

Why your own order moves the price, how pool depth determines the cost, and how to reduce it by splitting orders or trading deeper pairs.

Sep 21, 2026 · 2 min read
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Wrapped and bridged tokens explained

Why Bitcoin, Zcash and Hyperliquid trade on Solana, what backs those tokens, and the specific risks you take on that you do not have with the native asset.

Sep 21, 2026 · 3 min read
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Solana transaction fees explained: base fee, priority fees and rent

What a Solana transaction actually costs in 2026: the 5,000-lamport base fee, priority fees and when they matter, account rent, why failed swaps still cost, and why you always need SOL.

Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min read
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Tokenised stocks explained: how xStocks work on Solana, what backs them and what to watch

How tokenised stocks like NVDAx, SPYx and SPCXx work on Solana: who issues them, what backs them, dividends, market hours, who can buy, how to verify the real token and the risks that are not the share price.

Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min read
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USDT to Solana: how to move Tether from Ethereum, BNB Chain, Arbitrum or Tron to USDT on Solana

USDT on Ethereum (ERC-20), Tron (TRC-20), BNB Chain (BEP-20) and Arbitrum are different tokens from USDT on Solana. How to bring Tether across in one route, what it costs, and which network cannot be bridged.

Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
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USDC to Solana: moving USDC from Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum or BNB Chain to USDC on Solana

USDC on Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, Polygon and BNB Chain cannot be sent to a Solana wallet. How to bring it across to native USDC on Solana in one route, what it costs, and what usdcarb and usdcsol actually mean.

Oct 3, 2026 · 5 min read
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SOL to USDT on BNB Chain, and back: swapping between Solana and BSC in one route

How to swap SOL for USDT on BNB Chain (BEP-20), or BNB Chain USDT for SOL, in one cross-chain route from your own wallets: what you need on each side, what it costs, how long it takes and the mistakes that lose funds.

Oct 3, 2026 · 4 min read