Master Trading from First Principles
100 free lessons across 4 tiers. Learn market structure, order flow, and institutional trading. Every lesson ends with three problems to work on your own data, and there is an AI chatbot, notes, and progress tracking.
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🎓 Complete Curriculum
4 progressive tiers, 100 lessons, ~239,000 words of practical trading education
🟢 Beginner: The Mechanism, Costs and Risk
How a market actually works, what trading takes from you before you are right or wrong, and what risk is as a number. Nothing here assumes you have ever placed a trade.
- #1: What a Market Solves
- #2: The Order Book
- #3: What a Fill Actually Is
- #4: The Spread Is the Price of Immediacy
- #5: Why Anyone Quotes At All
- #6: The Candle Is a Summary
- #7: Time and Sales
- #8: Volume and Delta
- #9: Who Else Is Here
- #10: Every Trade Starts Negative
- #11: Slippage and Impact at Retail Size
- #12: What Should You Actually Trade
- #13: What You Are Actually Buying
- #14: Margin and Leverage
- #15: When Your Broker Acts Without You
- #16: Sim Against Live
- #17: Expectancy
- #18: What an Edge Feels Like
- #19: How Long Until You Know
- #20: Position Sizing
- #21: Where the Stop Goes
- #22: Risk of Ruin
- #23: Keeping the Record
- #24: When the Drawdown Arrives
Module 1: The Mechanism
- What a Market Solves
- The Order Book
- What a Fill Actually Is
- The Spread Is the Price of Immediacy
- and 5 more
Module 2: The Cost of Trading
- Every Trade Starts Negative
- Slippage and Impact at Retail Size
- What Should You Actually Trade
- What You Are Actually Buying
- and 3 more
Module 3: Uncertainty, Risk and Ruin
- Expectancy
- What an Edge Feels Like
- How Long Until You Know
- Position Sizing
- and 4 more
🟡 Intermediate: Reading the Auction
Volume, delta, the tape and the book, turned into a reading of who was aggressive. Then the context that decides when that reading applies, and an honest account of what indicators can add.
Prerequisites: Complete the Beginner tier first (lessons 1–24)
- #25: Where Liquidity Rests
- #26: The Order Book Is Theater
- #27: The Liquidity Lie
- #28: Absorption and Exhaustion
- #29: Volume at Price
- #30: Volume Profile
- #31: Hidden Size
- #32: Market Structure
- #33: Order Blocks and Displacement
- #34: Divergence
- #35: Sweeps, Beyond the First
- #36: Markets Have Modes
- #37: Detecting a Regime Change
- #38: What a Timeframe Is
- #39: Trading More Than One
- #40: Multi-Day Structure
- #41: The Session Cycle
- #42: Opening and Closing Auctions
- #43: Scheduled Events
- #44: Volatility as a Quantity
- #45: Correlation
- #46: Positioning Data
- #47: The Macro Cycle
- #48: What an Indicator Is
- #49: Repainting
- #50: Moving Averages as Support
- #51: Oscillators Under Regime
- #52: Confirmation Bias, Measured
Module 4: Reading the Auction
- Where Liquidity Rests
- The Order Book Is Theater
- The Liquidity Lie
- Absorption and Exhaustion
- and 7 more
Module 5: Context
- Markets Have Modes
- Detecting a Regime Change
- What a Timeframe Is
- Trading More Than One
- and 8 more
Module 6: Indicators, Honestly
- What an Indicator Is
- Repainting
- Moving Averages as Support
- Oscillators Under Regime
- and 1 more
🟠 Advanced: The Other Side, and Building a System
Who else is in the book and what their job is (market makers, speed, off-exchange, dealer hedging) and how to turn a reading into something testable, deployable and honest about its decay.
Prerequisites: Complete the Intermediate tier first (lessons 1–52)
- #53: What the Spread Is Paying For
- #54: The Fee That Routes Your Order
- #55: What a Millisecond Is Worth
- #56: The Side the Tape Leaves Out
- #57: What a Million Shares Takes
- #58: What an Order Type Gives Away
- #59: What Hurry Costs
- #60: The Flow With No Opinion
- #61: The Number You Cannot Look Up
- #62: What Would Have to Happen
- #63: Backtesting as Evidence
- #64: The Price of Looking
- #65: The Horizon You Fix First
- #66: The Benchmark You Chose
- #67: The Drawdown You Should Expect
- #68: How Much the Trade Holds
- #69: The Delay You Remove
- #70: Machine Learning as a Filter
Module 7: The Other Side
- What the Spread Is Paying For
- The Fee That Routes Your Order
- What a Millisecond Is Worth
- The Side the Tape Leaves Out
- and 5 more
Module 8: Building a System
- What Would Have to Happen
- Backtesting as Evidence
- The Price of Looking
- The Horizon You Fix First
- and 5 more
🔴 Professional: Portfolio and Practice
Correlation and portfolio heat, the operations and infrastructure of doing this for a living, and the specialisms worth taking once the core is solid.
Prerequisites: Complete the Advanced tier first (lessons 1–70)
- #71: How Many Bets You Are Carrying
- #72: The Day Every Stop Hits
- #73: The Weights You Can Hold
- #74: The Window Decides
- #75: Which Limit Binds First
- #76: The Pace You Actually Trade At
- #77: The Link You Do Not Own
- #78: The Deduction That Changes Nothing
- #79: Paying Yourself Before You Know
- #80: The Cost That Does Not Scale
- #81: What the Book Clears
- #82: The Second Way to Disagree
- #83: The Same Thing in Two Places
- #84: The Share That Is Real
- #85: The Unit That Moved
- #86: Taking the Profit
- #87: The Second Exit
- #88: The Size of the Next One
- #89: The Money That Was Showing
- #90: The Four Habits Together
- #91: What the Whole Grid Earns
- #92: Where the Result Came From
- #93: The Rule That Trades the Most
- #94: The Ride You Actually Bought
- #95: The Book on One Card
- #96: The Month That Loses
- #97: The Money You Take Out
- #98: The Number That Says Scale
- #99: How Long the Money Lasts
- #100: The Business on One Page
Module 9: Portfolio
- How Many Bets You Are Carrying
- The Day Every Stop Hits
- The Weights You Can Hold
- The Window Decides
- and 1 more
Module 10: The Profession
- The Pace You Actually Trade At
- The Link You Do Not Own
- The Deduction That Changes Nothing
- Paying Yourself Before You Know
- and 2 more
Module 11: Electives
- The Second Way to Disagree
- The Same Thing in Two Places
- The Share That Is Real
- The Unit That Moved
Module 12: The Trader
- Taking the Profit
- The Second Exit
- The Size of the Next One
- The Money That Was Showing
- and 1 more
Module 13: The Book
- What the Whole Grid Earns
- Where the Result Came From
- The Rule That Trades the Most
- The Ride You Actually Bought
- and 1 more
Module 14: The Business
- The Month That Loses
- The Money You Take Out
- The Number That Says Scale
- How Long the Money Lasts
- and 1 more
Every module quiz
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