Prompt
What are the best free technical analysis blogs for an advanced investor looking for serious analytical depth and charts?
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Here are some of the best free technical analysis blogs and research-style sites that tend to offer serious chart work, market structure discussion, and analytical depth rather than retail-level “buy/sell” noise.
Strong free TA blogs / chart-focused sites
1) Arthur Hill / DecisionPoint-style archives (StockCharts)
- Why it stands out: Institutional-feeling chart analysis, breadth, trend, momentum, sector rotation, and clear use of indicators.
- Best for: Advanced readers who want disciplined, repeatable technical frameworks.
- Note: StockCharts has a lot of free educational content and chart articles, though some features are paid.
2) The Big Picture (Investors.com)
- Why it stands out: Very strong market-level technical context: trend, breadth, distribution days, leadership, risk-on/risk-off.
- Best for: Macro technical perspective on indexes, sectors, and leading stocks.
- Note: Some content is free, some is gated.
3) TradingView Ideas / published analysis
- Why it stands out: Huge volume of charts and live technical commentary from many experienced chartists.
- Best for: Finding detailed setups, alternate counts, pattern analysis, and unconventional views.
- Caution: Quality varies a lot; you need to filter aggressively for credible analysts.
4) Alphatrends
- Why it stands out: Clean, trader-oriented technical analysis with focus on relative strength, support/resistance, and actionable chart levels.
- Best for: Investors/traders who value practical chart interpretation.
- Note: Free content is limited relative to subscription content, but the public posts are useful.
5) Kirk Spano / Margin of Safety-type market blogs
- Why it stands out: Often combines technical setup analysis with broader market and sentiment context.
- Best for: Investors who want TA tied to portfolio/risk thinking rather than pure pattern spotting.
6) A Dash of Insight
- Why it stands out: Sophisticated market analysis, sentiment, seasonality, breadth, and charts.
- Best for: Investors who like technical analysis blended with macro and cycle work.
- Note: Not pure TA, but often highly analytical.
7) SentimenTrader blog / public articles
- Why it stands out: Excellent market breadth, sentiment, and historical pattern analysis with charts.
- Best for: Advanced investors interested in quantified technical context.
- Note: Full value is paid, but public posts can still be very informative.
8) TopDownCharts
- Why it stands out: Excellent top-down market analysis, relative strength, trend, sector views, and charts.
- Best for: Investors who want high-level technical market regime analysis.
- Note: Some content is free, some subscription-based.
9) MarketSci / quantitative technical blogs
- Why it stands out: More systematic, often with data-driven chart studies.
- Best for: Readers who prefer evidence-based technical analysis over discretionary chart reading.
10) Contrary Investor
- Why it stands out: Longstanding, thoughtful market commentary with charts, trend and sentiment analysis.
- Best for: Advanced investors who appreciate measured, non-hype technical reasoning.
Also worth following on Substack / X / public research posts
A lot of the best current chart analysis now lives in:
- Substack newsletters
- public investor blogs
- X/Twitter threads from chartists
- TradingView published ideas
The challenge is quality control. Good signposts:
- they show multiple timeframes
- they explain why a level matters
- they use relative strength / breadth / sector leadership
- they distinguish scenarios instead of certainty
- they update prior calls honestly
If you want the highest signal-to-noise
If I were filtering for an advanced investor wanting free, serious chart analysis, I’d start with:
- StockCharts articles / Arthur Hill-type analysis
- The Big Picture
- SentimenTrader public articles
- TopDownCharts
- TradingView Ideas — but only from established, consistently good authors
Quick warning
“Technical analysis blogs” span a huge quality range. The best ones are usually:
- market-structure driven
- breadth-aware
- multi-timeframe
- risk-managed
- and not just pattern charts with no follow-through
If you want, I can also give you:
- a ranked list by quality,
- the best free blogs for US equities only, or
- the best technical analysis blogs specifically for macro, swing trading, or options traders.
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