go watch some youtube videos on TA . there is plenty of good ones out there to learn the ropes and especially basics. start with using tradingview.com as one of the best free charting tools. you also have to specify what time frame youre looking at. is this 1 min, 5 min, 1 hr, 4 hr, 1 day, 1 wk etc . the higher the time frame the more substantial a pattern typically is. the next thing you will want to learn is supports and resistances. these are areas where the price action provides either a level of price where when falling the stock will bounce off of, or when rising the resistances will be levels where it will be harder to push through. price action will usually bounce in channels between levels of support and resistance as well. say if looking at an hourly chart, try to find areas where if you drew a horizontal line across the screen, multiple different candles would touch this horizontal line . by touching, i mean the end of the wick or the end of the candle body (because you can draw them off of the body or the wick) will pretty much be right at that line you drew. this is just some basics but you will get the hang of it. horizontals and diagonals are some of the most basic and easy TA things to do and one of the most effective and powerful.