đTA Educationď˝Understand Market Signals! How to Spot $MSFT & $TSLA's Uptrend?
This series aims to break down commonly used technical indicators simply and intuitively, helping investors improve their ability to interpret market trends, momentum, and risk. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced trader, youâll quickly grasp the core logic behind each indicator, avoid common misuses, and strengthen your practical analysis skills.
1. What Volume Indicators Do We Need in Technical Analysis?
Volume indicators are tools that analyze trading volume to understand market strength, momentum, and potential price direction. They help traders see whether a price move is supported by strong participation or driven by weak activity. High volume often signals conviction, while low volume may indicate uncertainty.
Common uses:
Trend confirmation â Rising prices with rising volume suggest a strong uptrend; falling prices with rising volume suggest a strong downtrend.
Reversal signals â Divergences between price and volume can hint at trend exhaustion.
Breakout validation â True breakouts typically occur with a surge in volume.
Momentum assessment â Volume-based indicators show whether buyers or sellers are gaining control.
Popular indicators include:
OBV (On-Balance Volume) â Tracks cumulative volume to show buying vs. selling pressure.
Volume RSI â Measures volume momentum.
Money Flow Index (MFI) â Volume + price to detect overbought/oversold conditions.
VWAP â Shows the average price weighted by volume, often used for intraday support/resistance.
2 Common Bullish Patterns for Volume
A. Healthy Uptrend - Volume Confirmation
From January 2023 to July 2024, $Microsoft(MSFT)$ showed a clear volume-supported uptrend. Buying demand consistently outweighed selling pressure, reinforcing the strength and reliability of the trend.
Although this pattern doesnât generate a precise entry signal, it provides solid confirmation that the market is trending upward. Likewise, the rally from April 2025 to August 2025 was strongly validated by increasing volume, indicating firm participation behind the price surge.
How to Spot a Healthy Uptrend?
Key characteristics to focus:
Higher highs and higher lows: Price steadily pushes upward, forming a staircase-like pattern.
Rising volume during upswings: Green or upward bars expand, showing strong buying interest.
Falling volume during pullbacks: Retracements occur on lighter volume, suggesting sellers lack conviction.
Easy analogy: Itâs like walking up stairs while the cheering gets louder during each push upward and quieter during each rest.
This combination of price structure and volume behavior helps confirm a trendâs strength and reliability, making it a key concept in technical analysis.
B. Valid Breakout with High Volume
Example: $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ , January 24â30, 2023
During this period, TSLA posted a clean breakout above resistance. The price surged with strong momentum, and volume spiked well above its average, confirming that buyers were forcefully supporting the move. This combination of high volume and strong candle structure made it a textbook valid breakout.
How to Spot a Valid Breakout?
Key Characteristics to focus:
Price breaks above resistance (or below support): The market pushes through a level that previously blocked price movement.
Volume surges to 150â200%+ of the average: A breakout is only reliable when strong participation confirms it.
Momentum candle leads the break: A large, decisive candle shows conviction, not hesitation.
Analogy: Like breaking through a door with a crowd pushing behind you â strength + support.
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the stock was in a healthy uptrend in 2024.
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The valid breakout pattern also stood out. The TSLA example showed perfectly why strong volume is essential during a breakout. Without that 150â200% surge in participation, most breakouts are just noise. This helps filter out a lot of false signals I used to get caught in.
For NVDA, I notice it previously followed the healthy uptrend pattern, with rising volume supporting its push higher. It matches exactly what we learned today. Excited to see the next part of the series!
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Take for example $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ its strong price increases with high volume. High volume on up days, particularly following positive news like robust earnings report or Jensen Huang's major key note speeches, signal strong buying conviction.
Volume indicators like On Balance Volume or OBV and Money Flow Index or MFI are used to further confirm these trends and spot divergence between price and volume. This provides extra layers of confidence or caution to the analysis.
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Downtrend I think