From zero to your first well-managed trade

Stage 0 — Mindset and the job

Before charts, before money: what this actually is, and which kind of trader you are becoming.

Stage 0 quiz · 8 questions →

1. 1Trading is a profession, not gambling — realistic expectations for beginnerslive
2. 2Why most new traders lose money in year one — the root causeslive
3. 3Knowledge capital before trading capital — buy your mistakes wholesalelive
4. 4Scalp, day, swing or position — which kind of trader are youlive

Stage 1 — Markets and tools

What you are trading, where you are trading it, and what each order type actually does.

Stage 1 quiz · 8 questions →

5. 5How the crypto market actually works — supply, demand and market makerslive
6. 6Choosing a trustworthy exchange — the three questions that actually matterlive
7. 7Market, limit and stop orders — choosing the one that fits the tradelive
8. 8Leverage and margin — what you are really borrowing, and what it costslive
9. 9Liquidity and spread — why altcoins slip more than BTC and ETHlive

Stage 2 — Reading the chart

The four numbers in a candle, the frame you read them on, and the levels that keep mattering.

Stage 2 quiz · 8 questions →

10. 10Candlesticks — what one candle can and cannot tell youlive
11. 11Timeframes — 1m to daily: which chart is for whomlive
12. 12Support and resistance — why levels hold and why they breaklive
13. 13Trendlines and channels — the line that moves under youlive
14. 14Volume — measuring effort, not intentionlive

Stage 3 — Market structure

Before any indicator: how to read what price itself is doing, in the vocabulary the rest of the course uses.

Stage 3 quiz · 8 questions →

15. 15Higher highs and lower lows — reading structure, the third systemlive
16. 16Bull, bear and sideways — the three phases and how each one behaveslive
17. 17Market structure — BOS and CHoCH, pricedlive

Stage 4 — Indicators, set up properly

Each one with the exact settings, what it measures, and where it lies to you.

Stage 4 quiz · 8 questions →

18. 18Moving averages — smoothing has a price, and the price is delaylive
19. 19RSI — it measures a ratio, and the ratio is not linearlive
20. 20Trend or range — diagnosing the market before you trade itlive
21. 21Multi-timeframe analysis — why the frames must agree before a trend existslive
22. 22Momentum inertia — RSI extremes read as fuel, not exhaustionlive
23. 23Combining moving averages, RSI and timeframes — the agreement rulelive

Stage 5 — Japanese candlestick patterns

Every pattern with what forms it, what invalidates it, and exactly where the entry and stop go.

Stage 5 quiz · 8 questions →

24. 24Single-candle signals — hammer, hanging man, inverted hammer, shooting starlive
25. 25Doji and indecision — gravestone, dragonfly and spinning topslive
26. 26Two-candle reversals — engulfing, tweezers, dark cloud cover, piercing linelive
27. 27Three-candle patterns — morning star, evening star and inside barslive

Stage 6 — Chart patterns

Reversal, continuation and bilateral — how each one is measured, and how each one fails.

Stage 6 quiz · 8 questions →

28. 28Reversal patterns — double top and head and shoulders, and what makes them faillive
29. 29Wedges — falling, rising and expandinglive
30. 30Rounding patterns — cup and handle, rounding bottom and toplive
31. 31Continuation patterns — flags, pennants and rectangleslive
32. 32Triangles — ascending, descending, symmetrical, and how to tell a pennant apartlive

Stage 7 — Polarity and Fibonacci

Old resistance as new support, the retracement grid priced level by level, and where the target goes.

Stage 7 quiz · 8 questions →

33. 33Polarity and Fibonacci retracement — what each level actually payslive
34. 34Fibonacci extension — setting the target after the pullback endslive
35. 35Confluence — Fibonacci with moving averages and candlestick patternslive

Stage 8 — Price action

Trading what price does rather than what an indicator says about it.

36. 36What price action is made of — trendline, levels, candles, fib and volumelive
37. 37Five rules of price action — distance from the average, and what tight ranges meanlive
38. 38False breakouts and trend exhaustion — the reversal everyone else takes latelive

Stage 9 — Risk management

The part that decides whether any of the above ever compounds.

39. 39Why risk comes before strategylive
40. 40The one to two percent rule — and what breaking it costslive
41. 41Risk-to-reward — the ratio that lets a 40% win rate paylive
42. 42Position sizing — the four-step calculationlive
43. 43Stop losses — the four places a stop can legitimately golive
44. 44Scaling in and scaling out — entering in tranches instead of all at oncelive

Stage 10 — Trading psychology

The four mistakes that end most accounts, and the habits that replace them.

45. 45FOMO — the fear of missing out, pricedlive
46. 46Revenge trading — why the next trade after a loss is the dangerous onelive
47. 47The gambler’s mindset — treating each trade as an independent projectlive
48. 48The emotional cycle — fear, hope, doubt, greed, disappointment, excitementlive
49. 49The trading journal — the six columns worth keepinglive

Stage 11 — Process and discipline

Turning everything above into a plan you can follow on a bad day.

50. 50The trading plan — the five steps, in orderlive
51. 51Entry timing — amateurs buy A, professionals buy A-primelive
52. 52Avoiding the big loss — the only rule that has to holdlive
53. 53Setting goals in trading — daily, weekly, and what not to measurelive

Practical guides — do it, step by step

Short how-to pages for the mechanical jobs the lessons assume you can already do — see all guides.