Trading, explained from zero.
Most people lose money because they place their first trade years before they understand what they're doing. This is the fix: a free, structured path from "what is a candle?" to your first well-managed trade — in the right order.
53 lessons · 12 stages · free, no sign-up · education only — never signals · updated 28 Sep 2026
The free course · 331 slides
The four tools traders come back to every day
Lessons teach the rules. These are where you read the chart the way the course reads it, rehearse the trade on live prices and keep an honest record — the loop that turns a beginner into someone with a process.
Live Chart
A TradingView-style chart read the way the course reads it: RSI 14 with its two averages first, the moving-average bundle second, across eleven timeframes from 1-hour to monthly — with a plan that says wait, or hands you the order.
- 1-minute to monthly, candles/bars/line/area, live volume
- Multi-timeframe read + wave fuel, updating itself
- Suggested order → Practice Arena → Journal in one click
Setup Radar
Every major coin run through the same multi-timeframe rules at once — and any coin you add. See which ones line up now, which are close, and exactly which condition is still missing, with the order when one is ready.
- 26 majors plus your own coins, rescanned live
- Ready · close · wait — with the checklist behind each
- Email alert when a coin you follow turns ready
Practice Arena
A $10,000 virtual account on live Binance prices. Market, limit and stop orders; stop and target that fill by themselves; partial closes; break-even; 0.05% fees. Every closed trade lands in your journal with the reason you typed.
- Terminal layout, full-screen mode
- Risk fixed at 1% by default — or type your own size and feel it
- Three losses in a row? The arena makes you sit out.
Trading Journal
The journal serious traders keep: expectancy, profit factor, drawdown, results by setup, market, weekday and emotion — and every trade on its own chart with entry, stop, target and exit drawn on real candles.
- Practice and live ledgers side by side
- Weekly review prompts, CSV in and out
- Syncs across devices when you sign in
SuperShark Cycle Portfolio — for investors who don’t want to read charts
Pick the leading coin of each sector (L1s, oracles, perp DEXs, lending…), split your capital between large and mid caps, and buy only in the deep drawdown in equal lots. The page shows every coin against its buy zone, what each plan says today and whether your money goal is realistic.
- Sector leaders template, large/mid split 50/50
- Live buy-zone status from each coin’s cycle high
- One click turns every coin into a plan
All four run in your browser on public Binance data. Nothing is a signal; paper results overstate real results. How to paper trade properly →
Twelve stages. Fifty-three lessons. One right order.
Understand the market → protect your money → then, and only then, place a trade. Lessons publish daily — follow the path in order, each stage assumes the one before it.
Mindset and the job
Before charts, before money: what this actually is, and which kind of trader you are becoming.
15 lessonsMarkets and tools
What you are trading, where you are trading it, and what each order type actually does.
25 lessonsReading the chart
The four numbers in a candle, the frame you read them on, and the levels that keep mattering.
33 lessonsMarket structure
Before any indicator: how to read what price itself is doing, in the vocabulary the rest of the course uses.
46 lessonsIndicators, set up properly
Each one with the exact settings, what it measures, and where it lies to you.
54 lessonsJapanese candlestick patterns
Every pattern with what forms it, what invalidates it, and exactly where the entry and stop go.
65 lessonsChart patterns
Reversal, continuation and bilateral — how each one is measured, and how each one fails.
73 lessonsPolarity and Fibonacci
Old resistance as new support, the retracement grid priced level by level, and where the target goes.
83 lessonsPrice action
Trading what price does rather than what an indicator says about it.
96 lessonsRisk management
The part that decides whether any of the above ever compounds.
105 lessonsTrading psychology
The four mistakes that end most accounts, and the habits that replace them.
114 lessonsProcess and discipline
Turning everything above into a plan you can follow on a bad day.
The instruments traders open every day
Trade planner
Every pre-trade number on one screen — size, R:R, liquidation, live funding — plus a pass/fail structure verdict.
Trading journal
Log trades in R — win rate, expectancy and your equity curve compute themselves. Syncs with Google sign-in.
Chart replay drill
Real candles, dates hidden. Five trades with a forced stop and 1% risk, scored in R — each loss points at the lesson it came from.
Trade autopsy
Six questions sort a losing trade into planned cost or mistake — then name the one lesson to reread.
Exchange matcher
Where you live, what you'll trade, how much, demo or not, who holds the keys — one recommendation for your first account, with its weakness stated.
Terms in plain English
Every concept from the curriculum, defined in two honest sentences.
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