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From your first candlestick to a portfolio you can defend. Half an hour a day, every day, and it all starts to click.

Every course below is included in one plan.

Foundations

Market FoundationsBeginnerStart here: how financial markets actually work, who participates in them, and how orders get filled.

How Markets Work

  • Markets and Participants
  • Why Prices Move
  • Inside the exchange: order books and market makers

Orders and Execution

  • Market vs Limit Orders
  • Understanding the Bid-Ask Spread
  • Stops, stop-limits, trailing stops and OCO orders
Reading ChartsBeginnerGraph analysis from the ground up: candlesticks, timeframes, trends, support and resistance, volume, patterns and indicators.

Chart basics

  • Line, bar and candlestick charts
  • Reading a candlestick
  • Timeframes: zooming in and out
  • Multi-candle patterns: stars, soldiers and inside bars

Trends and levels

  • Spotting a trend
  • Support and resistance
  • Trendlines and channels

Volume, patterns and indicators

  • Reading volume
  • Moving averages
  • Common chart patterns
  • RSI and momentum
  • Divergences: when price and momentum disagree
Risk ManagementIntermediateThe discipline that separates surviving markets from blowing up an account: position sizing, stop-losses, and risk/reward.

Position Sizing

  • Why Position Size Matters
  • The 1% Rule
  • Sizing positions with volatility

Stops and Risk/Reward

  • Setting a Stop-Loss
  • Risk/Reward Ratios
  • Trailing stops and scaling out
Trading StrategiesIntermediateHow trend following, range trading, mean reversion and breakouts work, how to test them honestly, and how to build a plan you'll follow.

Strategy foundations

  • What a strategy actually is
  • Testing a strategy without fooling yourself

Following the trend

  • Trend following
  • Moving average crossovers
  • Multi-timeframe alignment

Ranges and reversals

  • Range trading
  • Mean reversion

Breakouts

  • Breakout trading

Styles and planning

  • Day, swing and position trading
  • Building your trading plan
  • Reviewing your trades like a professional

TRADINGVIEW

TradingView EssentialsBeginnerSet up a chart properly, mark it up with the right tools, and use alerts, screeners and backtesting without paying for signals.

Getting set up

  • Why traders use TradingView
  • Chart types, timeframes and sessions
  • Trendlines, channels and the Fibonacci retracement tool

Marking up a chart

  • Marking support, resistance and setting alerts
  • Adding and configuring indicators
  • Watchlists, multi-chart layouts and saved templates
  • Building a pre-market routine

Going further

  • Introduction to Pine Script
  • Backtesting with the Strategy Tester
  • Screeners, and the caution around copying signals
  • Your first Pine Script alert condition

INDICATORS

Technical IndicatorsIntermediateMACD, Bollinger Bands, ATR, Stochastic, ADX and more: what each one actually measures, how to combine them, and where they mislead.

Trend and volatility

  • MACD: trend and momentum together
  • Bollinger Bands: volatility bands
  • Average True Range for stops and sizing
  • VWAP and anchored VWAP

Momentum and volume

  • Stochastic oscillator
  • RSI and stochastic together: confluence without redundancy
  • On-Balance Volume and volume confirmation

Using indicators well

  • ADX and Ichimoku: two more systems worth knowing
  • Leading vs lagging indicators, and curve-fitting
  • Building your own indicator checklist
  • Volume profile: where the market did business

RISK

Risk AssessmentAdvancedExpected value, risk of ruin, the Kelly criterion, drawdown math, tail risk and the psychology that undoes good plans. The maths and mindset behind Risk Management.

Thinking in probabilities

  • Expected value: the maths behind every trade
  • Risk of ruin
  • The Kelly criterion, and why professionals use a fraction of it
  • Monte Carlo thinking: how bad can normal get?

Surviving the tail

  • Maximum drawdown and the math of recovery
  • Correlation: when 'diversified' isn't
  • Fat tails, black swans and stress testing
  • Leverage and margin: how losses accelerate

Behaviour and a framework

  • Loss aversion and the disposition effect
  • Overconfidence and the research on active trading
  • Setting limits and writing your risk policy

BUSINESS

Business for TradersBeginnerWhat a share actually represents, how companies really make money, and the business-side questions worth asking before you trade one.

Understanding a business

  • What a share actually represents
  • Business models: how companies make money
  • Competitive advantage: why moats matter to a price
  • Reading an annual report in 30 minutes

Reading the bigger picture

  • Industries and business cycles
  • Growth companies vs value companies
  • Management, incentives and red flags

Putting it together

  • Revenue, profit and margin: the vocabulary
  • News and events that move a stock's story
  • Building a one-page company snapshot
  • Earnings season: expectations and reactions

ECONOMICS

Economics for TradersIntermediateGDP, inflation, interest rates, employment data and the business cycle: the macro forces that move whole markets at once, kept practical.

The big economic engine

  • GDP, growth and recessions
  • Inflation: what it is and why traders watch it
  • Central banks and interest rates
  • The yield curve and what an inversion signals

Reading economic data

  • Employment data and what it signals
  • The economic calendar: trading around news events
  • Currencies, trade and exchange rates

Cycles and connections

  • The business cycle and sector rotation
  • Commodities, oil and their ripple effects
  • Putting macro context around a trade
  • Quantitative easing and tightening

FINANCE

Finance for TradersIntermediateReading the three financial statements, the valuation ratios traders actually use, and the common traps in putting a number on a business.

The three financial statements

  • The income statement in five minutes
  • The balance sheet in five minutes
  • The cash flow statement, and why profit isn't cash
  • Free cash flow and why investors love it

Valuation basics

  • P/E ratio and what it really tells you
  • Other valuation ratios: P/B, P/S and EV/EBITDA
  • Debt and leverage: reading a company's risk
  • Discounted cash flow in plain language

Putting a number on a business

  • Dividends, buybacks and shareholder returns
  • Common valuation traps for traders
  • Building a simple valuation checklist

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