I lost money trusting the wrong people.
So I found a better way.
Chart Signals exists because I spent years looking for an honest, logical answer to one question: what actually makes prices move?
2011 — the lesson that cost me
In 2011 I lost more money than I could afford to lose. Not through recklessness, but by trusting financial publications that I assumed knew what they were talking about. Week after week, as prices fell, the same sources kept encouraging readers to hold or even buy more. I followed their advice. I held. And I kept losing.
Eventually, out of fear of losing everything, I sold out at a significant loss. That was the moment everything changed for me — not because I gave up, but because I started asking a question I should have asked much earlier: how did these so-called experts not see this coming? And why was nobody holding them to account?
"I realised the experts were wrong — and that nobody had found them out. So I decided to find a better way myself."
Years of study — and one important discovery
After 2011 I threw myself into studying charts and indicators. What I found frustrated me. Nearly everything I looked at was backward-looking — a moving average crossover, a MACD signal, a pattern on a chart. I could always find a point in history where a particular indicator would have made me a lot of money. But I could just as easily find a point where it would have wiped me out. The indicator didn't know the difference. It just described what had already happened.
What I was looking for was something different — what I started calling predictive indicators. Not tools that described price, but tools that revealed what was happening beneath price. What was the market actually doing, underneath the numbers moving up and down?
The stochastic oscillator — and what it was really measuring
The first indicator I found with any predictive quality was the stochastic oscillator. Its inventor recommended buying divergences — where price makes a lower low but the stochastic makes a higher low. When I dug into why this worked, the answer was revealing: the stochastic measures where price closes within a range. Those higher lows on the indicator often corresponded to candles with long lower wicks — prices that had dropped and then recovered within the same period. That recovery was buying pressure. The stochastic was recording it, indirectly. That was my first real clue.
A better indicator — but still not the full answer
I found one other indicator that captured buying and selling pressure more directly than the stochastic. It was better — more consistent, more responsive. But it still couldn't fully explain why markets turned. It could tell me something was happening, but not the underlying mechanism. The why was still missing.
Volume — and Wyckoff's laws
The answer was volume. Not the standard volume bars on a chart — those are blunt instruments that sometimes work and often don't. What I needed was a way to interrogate volume the way Wyckoff described: comparing the effort of volume to the result of price movement, measuring buying pressure versus selling pressure across up moves and down moves, and identifying when an imbalance was building. No existing indicator did this the way I needed. So I built my own, using Wyckoff's three laws as the blueprint. That is the foundation of every signal on this site.
The principles behind Chart Signals
I built this site because I genuinely believe the approach is different — not just in method, but in honesty. The financial internet is full of people showing you their winners. I show everything.
Full transparency
Every signal is logged with entry price, outcome and return. The losses are there alongside the wins. A track record that hides failures is not a track record.
Grounded in logic
Every signal comes from the same process — measuring supply and demand imbalance, waiting for the tipping point, letting the market's own mechanics do the work. No hunches.
Risk comes first
I lost money in 2011 because I didn't manage risk. I won't encourage anyone else to repeat that mistake. Every signal comes with clear guidance on how to size and manage the position.
When it comes down to it,
only two things move markets.
Wyckoff's laws of supply and demand — and the fear and greed of the people participating in them. Everything else is noise. Once you understand that, the charts start to make a lot more sense.