Technical analysis of stocks PDF, free, printable, no email

You searched for a technical analysis PDF because you want one clean sheet to keep beside your charts, not a pirated 500-page trading manual. So here it is: a free two-page cheat-sheet for NSE stocks, indicators and trend on one side, candlesticks, chart patterns and a six-point checklist on the other. No email gate, no signup.

If you searched for a “technical analysis of stocks PDF”, I can guess what you were after: one clean reference sheet you can keep next to your screen, what RSI is telling you, when a moving-average cross matters, which candle is worth noticing. Not a 500-page trading manual you’ll never finish. So here is a free one, built for NSE charts. Two pages, no email box, no signup, no “enter your number to download”.

Download the free technical analysis PDF

It’s a straight free download, a two-page stock market technical analysis PDF you can print tonight. Prefer Hindi? Get the technical analysis PDF in Hindi, the same sheet translated. Want the business side too? Grab the free fundamental analysis PDF, a ratio cheat-sheet built the same way, or the stock analysis Excel template if you’d rather work in a spreadsheet. All three live together in the free resource hub.

It’s a study aid, nothing more. It tells you what each signal means; it never tells you what to do about it. That part stays with you.

What’s inside the technical analysis PDF

Two pages, designed to print back-to-back and sit beside your monitor.

• Page 1, trend and indicators. The signals that do most of the work: trend, the 50- and 200-day moving averages, support and resistance, RSI (14), MACD, volume and Bollinger Bands. For each one, the plain-English meaning and a “read it” line on how to interpret it, not just how to plot it.
• Page 2, candlesticks, patterns and a checklist. The three candles worth knowing, the reversal and continuation patterns you’ll actually meet on NSE charts, and a six-point checklist that turns the whole sheet into a routine.

Both pages carry the SEBI disclaimer at the foot, because this is education, not a tip sheet.

Page one, the indicators (in full)

You don’t need the PDF to start. Here’s page one as it reads on the sheet, each line followed by the settings most Indian charting platforms use by default.

• Trend. Higher highs and higher lows is an uptrend; the reverse is a downtrend; everything else is sideways. Price holding above both its 50- and 200-day moving averages confirms an uptrend. Establish this first, before you look at anything else.
• Moving averages (50 and 200-DMA). The 50-DMA tracks the medium trend, the 200-DMA the long one. A “golden cross” (50 crossing above 200) is the classic strength signal; a “death cross” is the opposite. Both lag, by design.
• Support and resistance. Price levels where the stock has turned before. A clean daily close through one means far more than an intraday poke that gets reversed by 3:30.
• RSI (14). A momentum gauge from 0 to 100. Above 70 is overbought, below 30 oversold. The catch: in a strong trend RSI can sit above 70 for weeks, so a high reading is a question, not an answer. If oscillators are new to you, our breakdown of common technical indicators goes through each one.
• MACD (12, 26, 9). The gap between two moving averages, plotted with a signal line. The MACD line crossing above its signal line points to building momentum; crossing below, fading momentum.
• Volume. The conviction behind a move. A useful rule of thumb: a breakout on volume well above the 20-day average, say 1.5 to 2 times, is believable; the same move on thin volume is suspect. That’s why reading volume on stocks is the confirmation step behind almost every other signal here.
• Bollinger Bands (20, 2). Bands two standard deviations either side of a 20-day average. A “squeeze”, where the bands narrow, often comes before a big move; it doesn’t tell you which direction.

Page two, candlesticks and patterns (in full)

A candle shows the open, high, low and close for one period. A long body means a strong move; long wicks mean a price was tried and rejected. The sheet keeps to three:

• Doji. Open and close almost equal, a tiny body. Indecision; the trend may be pausing.
• Hammer and shooting star. A small body with one long wick. A hammer (long lower wick) after a fall hints at a bottom; a shooting star (long upper wick) after a rise hints at a top.
• Engulfing. A large candle that completely covers the one before it. A momentum shift, and it matters most when it forms at a support or resistance level.

Patterns are just candles strung together over weeks. The sheet sorts them into two jobs:

• Reversal patterns warn that a trend is tiring. A head-and-shoulders (three peaks, the middle one highest) breaking its neckline, or a double top or double bottom, two failed attempts at the same price.
• Continuation patterns are pauses. Triangles narrow, flags drift gently against the trend, and both usually resume the prior direction.

For the full set beyond the sheet, the free candlestick patterns PDF covers 40 patterns with a diagram each, the chart patterns PDF draws 20 chart patterns, and the guides to candlestick patterns and chart patterns explain them in depth. None of them is a guarantee. They shift the odds, and only when volume agrees.

The six-point checklist

The bottom of page two is the part most people end up using. Run a chart through it in this order:

1. Is price above its 50- and 200-day moving averages?
2. Where are the nearest support and resistance levels?
3. Is RSI in a healthy zone, or stretched?
4. Is MACD momentum with the move or against it?
5. Is the recent move backed by above-average volume?
6. Is there a reversal candle or pattern sitting at a key level?

Six answers give you a technical read. They don’t give you a decision.

A worked example (one fictional NSE name)

Here’s the checklist on a made-up company, Deccan Cables Ltd, purely illustrative, not a real stock and not a view on any company.

The stock trades at ₹412. Its 50-DMA is ₹388 and its 200-DMA ₹351, so price is above both and the 50 sits above the 200: an uptrend, checks one done. Support sits near ₹380, where it bounced twice in the last three months, and resistance near ₹425, which has turned it back once. RSI is 64, warm but not stretched. MACD is above its signal line but the gap has narrowed over the last week, so momentum is still there, just cooling. The push from ₹395 to ₹412 came on volume about 0.8 times the 20-day average, below normal. And there’s no reversal candle at resistance yet, because price hasn’t reached it.

Put together, the read is: “healthy uptrend, approaching resistance at ₹425, momentum cooling, and the latest move wasn’t backed by volume.” That’s a balanced picture of where the chart stands, and a reason to watch how it behaves at ₹425, not a signal to act. For the same kind of end-to-end read with the fundamentals added, see a full worked stock analysis example.

Looking for a specific book as a PDF?

Some of you searched “technical analysis of stock trends PDF” hoping for a free copy of Edwards and Magee, or John Murphy’s Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets. They’re both worth reading, and I’m not going to point you at a pirated scan. The free copies floating around are usually illegal, often malware-laced, and they rob the authors.

The legal routes are good, and some are free:

• Zerodha Varsity publishes its technical-analysis module as an official free PDF, and it’s written for Indian markets. zerodha.com/varsity
• NSE Academy has the exchange’s own learning material. nseindia.com/learn
• The publisher’s site or your library’s digital lending for the classics still in print. Buy the e-book, support the author.

If it’s recommendations you’re after, the best stock analysis books for India covers which technical classics still hold up for NSE charts and which are too American to bother with.

Or let the app read the chart for you

A cheat-sheet still leaves you doing the reading, stock by stock. StockGenie’s technical analysis app reads every NSE chart for you: trend, support and resistance, RSI, MACD and volume, with AI chart-pattern detection on Premium, and a “what this means” note on each, in plain English or Hindi. It runs the same six checks as the sheet, and like the sheet it gives no buy or sell calls. For the full explanation behind the indicators, the guide to technical analysis walks through it properly.

Whichever you use, treat the chart as one half of stock market analysis: the mood of the stock, not the truth of the company. Keep the decision your own.

StockGenie provides analysis and education only, not investment advice. Always consult a SEBI-registered adviser before investing.