What Is Market Structure?
Market structure is a simple way of describing how price is moving by looking at swing highs and swing lows. It helps identify trends, ranges and possible changes in behaviour.
Learning track 02
Move beyond terminology and learn the concepts traders use to interpret price, economic forces and changing market conditions.
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Market structure is a simple way of describing how price is moving by looking at swing highs and swing lows. It helps identify trends, ranges and possible changes in behaviour.
A trend shows sustained directional progress. A range shows price rotating inside a broader area. Markets can move between both conditions.
Support and resistance are areas where price has previously attracted meaningful buying or selling. They are better treated as zones than as perfect lines.
Technical analysis uses price, market structure and chart-based tools to organise what the market is doing. It does not remove uncertainty.
Fundamental analysis looks at economic information, policy and expectations that can change the relative value of currencies.
Price action is the study of price behaviour itself: swings, candles, closes, wicks, reactions and the context around them.
Volatility describes how much price moves. Momentum describes the strength and persistence of that movement. They are related but not identical.
Consolidation is a period of compressed or sideways price action. A breakout occurs when price moves beyond the established range, but not every breakout holds.
Currencies react to interest-rate expectations, central-bank communication and broader market sentiment. The expected future path often matters more than one decision.
Correlation describes how markets tend to move in relation to each other. Liquidity describes how easily transactions can occur without large price disruption.