15 Easy Steps to Mastering Technical Charts How to hugely increase your trading profits. Charts are for trading as water is for fish. You cannot trade without knowing how to read a technical chart, says market guru and bestselling author, Ashu Dutt. Trading the markets is a game of odds. The goal is to improve your odds. The odds of making the greatest profit at the minimum possible risk. In this book, Ashu explains everything you need to master technical charts. Each of these 15 steps will help you read what the charts are revealing about the market and what and how you should trade.