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Learn the concepts,and their limits.
Free lessons on the ideas prop-firm traders chart with every day: smart money concepts, price action, chart and candlestick patterns, and the sessions and scheduled events that move markets. Each one is defined precisely, walked through in words, and honest about what it cannot tell you.
9 lessons
Smart money concepts (SMC and ICT)
Order blocks, breaker blocks, fair value gaps, market structure and liquidity - the vocabulary most prop-firm traders now chart with, defined precisely and with its limits stated.
Breaker Blocks Explained (ICT and SMC)
An order block that failed after a sweep of liquidity and a shift in structure, then treated from the other side.
Order Blocks in Trading, Explained
The last down-close candle before a strong rally, or the last up-close candle before a strong drop, marked as a zone of interest.
Fair Value Gap (FVG) in Trading, Explained
A three-candle imbalance: the range between the first candle's wick and the third's that the move left untraded on both sides.
Inverse Fair Value Gap (IFVG) Explained
A fair value gap that price closed through, after which traders read the same range with the opposite expectation.
Break of Structure (BOS) vs CHoCH
BOS is a break of a swing point in the trend's direction; CHoCH is the first break against it. The vocabulary of market structure.
Liquidity in Trading: Pools and Sweeps
Buy-side and sell-side liquidity, equal highs and lows, and what traders mean when they say price swept a level.
SMT Divergence in Trading, Explained
One of two normally correlated markets makes a new high or low and the other does not. What the disagreement is taken to mean.
AMD in Trading: Power of Three Explained
The power of three model: a quiet range, a false move against the day's direction, then the real move - and why it only fits in hindsight.
Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Explained
What SMC and ICT mean, the core vocabulary in the order it is usually learned, and an honest account of what the framework can and cannot do.
6 lessons
Price action and market structure
Support and resistance, supply and demand zones, divergence and ranging markets - the older, broader framework the newer terminology is built on.
Support and Resistance, Explained
The levels where price has repeatedly stalled or turned - how to draw them as zones, why broken levels flip roles, and what they cannot tell you.
Supply and Demand Zones in Trading
The zones price moved away from sharply - how they are drawn, why fresh zones are watched more than tested ones, and how they relate to order blocks.
Divergence Trading: Regular and Hidden
Regular and hidden divergence between price and an oscillator - how each is drawn, what it is taken to mean, and why it is a warning rather than a trigger.
Sideways Market: How to Spot a Range
What a sideways, or ranging, market is, how to recognise one before a trend strategy is used in it, and how traders approach the range and its breaks.
Uptrend and Downtrend: How to Spot a Trend
The swing-by-swing definition of an uptrend and a downtrend, the tools traders use to confirm one, and the point at which a trend is said to end.
Breakout Trading and False Breakouts
What a breakout is, how traders define and enter one, and how to recognise the false breakout - the move through a level that snaps straight back.
9 lessons
Chart and candlestick patterns
Head and shoulders, wedges, double tops, dojis, pin bars, inside bars and the Wyckoff schematics - what each pattern is, how it is drawn, and why none of them is a forecast.
Inverse Head and Shoulders Pattern
Three troughs with the lowest in the middle, a neckline across the rallies between them, and a break above it - the pattern and its limits.
Doji Candle: Meaning and Types
The candle with almost no body - what it shows about the session, the common types, and why a doji on its own says very little.
Ascending Wedge (Rising Wedge) Pattern
Two rising, converging trendlines that are usually read as a weakening advance - how a wedge differs from a triangle, and how it resolves.
Wyckoff Method: Accumulation Explained
Richard Wyckoff's framework for reading trading ranges as accumulation or distribution, with the named events of the schematic in order.
Double Top Pattern (the M Pattern)
Two failed attempts at the same high - how the M pattern is drawn, what confirms it, the double bottom mirror, and its limits.
Pin Bar Candle: Bullish and Bearish
The long-wicked candle that shows price reaching a level and being rejected - bullish and bearish forms, where they matter, and why most are noise.
Inside Bar Candlestick Pattern
A candle that stays entirely within the previous candle's high and low - what the contraction shows, how breaks are traded, and why many fail.
Bullish and Bearish Candlestick Patterns
The candlestick patterns traders name most often - single, two- and three-candle, bullish and bearish - and what each is taken to show.
Reversal Chart Patterns, Explained
The chart patterns traders read as a possible end to a trend - how they compare, what each needs to confirm it, and why most candidates fail.
14 lessons
Indicators and trading styles
The indicators worth understanding before you rely on them - VWAP and ATR - and the trading styles, like scalping, whose costs and rules change on a simulated account.
VWAP: Volume-Weighted Average Price
The volume-weighted average price - its formula, why it resets each session, how traders read price above and below it, and why forex volume complicates it.
ATR Indicator: Average True Range Explained
The average true range - how it measures volatility, what ATR 14 means, and how traders use it to set stops and size positions.
Swing Trading vs Day Trading
How swing trading and day trading differ on holding time, screen time, costs and overnight risk - and why neither is the easier route.
Swing Trading Forex: How It Works
Holding currency positions for days to weeks - the timeframes swing traders use, the costs that come with holding, and the gap risk.
How Much Do Day Traders Make?
An honest answer to the income question: what large studies of retail day traders found, and why a per-month figure is the wrong thing to look for.
Backtesting a Trading Strategy
How to test a strategy's rules on historical data, the costs and biases a fair test must include, and why a good backtest is not a forecast.
Tick Scalping: What It Is and Its Costs
Scalping at its most extreme - trades aiming for a few ticks - and why spread, commission and fills decide the result more than the entry signal.
The History of Social and Copy Trading
From signal sharing to automated copying: how social and copy trading developed, how the three forms differ, and why the rules around it tightened.
Keltner Channel: How It Works
Bands set a multiple of average true range around a moving average - how the channel is built, how it differs from Bollinger Bands, and its uses.
GTC Order Meaning and Order Types
What good 'til cancelled means, how time in force works, and how market, limit and stop orders differ - with the risks of orders left working.
CCI Indicator: Commodity Channel Index
The commodity channel index - how it measures price's distance from its average, what the +100 and -100 levels are taken to mean, and its limits.
What Is a Retail Trader?
Who retail traders are, how they differ from institutional traders on capital, costs and access, and where a prop firm evaluation fits between the two.
Trading Plan Template and Example
A fill-in template for a trading plan - markets, times, setups, risk and review - with a forex example and the gaps most plans leave.
AI in Forex Trading: What It Can Do
Where machine learning and automation are used in currency trading, why regulators warn about AI trading-bot claims, and what automated trading means on a prop account.
8 lessons
Risk and performance
Profit and loss, risk-adjusted return and the risk-on, risk-off mood of markets - the measurements that decide whether a trading record means anything.
What Is PnL? Profit and Loss in Trading
What PnL means, the difference between realised and open profit and loss, and how costs turn a gross result into the number that counts.
Risk On, Risk Off: Meaning in Markets
The shorthand for markets moving together as investors seek or shed risk - which assets usually go which way, and why the pattern breaks.
Lot Size in Forex: What It Means
Standard, mini and micro lots, what 0.01 lot is worth, how gold lots differ, and how to work out the lot size a stop and a risk amount allow.
Intraday Trailing Drawdown, Explained
A trailing loss limit that moves up with your highest equity during the day, including unrealised profit - and why that makes giving back gains costly.
Notional Value in Trading, Explained
The full market value behind a leveraged position - how it is calculated, how it differs from margin, and what notional volume and notional limits measure.
Balance vs Equity in Trading
Why an account shows two numbers - balance and equity - what separates them, and why risk limits usually watch equity.
Going Long vs Going Short in Trading
What a long and a short position are, how going short works without owning anything, and how currency pairs make every trade both at once.
Revenge Trading and Going Full Port
Trading to win back a loss immediately - often by going full port, all in on one position - why losses trigger it, and the rules that interrupt it.
8 lessons
Sessions and market events
When markets open and close, how the trading day divides into sessions, and the scheduled releases - FOMC and payrolls - that move prices fastest.
Trading Sessions: Asia, London and New York
How the 24-hour forex day divides into the Asian, London and New York sessions, when they overlap, and why the hours move twice a year.
London Session: Times and How It Trades
The session that carries the largest share of forex turnover: its conventional hours, its open, and the overlap with New York.
Asian Session: What Time It Opens
When the Tokyo-centred Asian session runs in UK, US and India time, and why its range matters to traders who never trade it.
New York Session: Times and What Moves It
The US trading window: its conventional hours, its overlap with London, and the scheduled releases that make its first hours the most volatile.
What Is FOMC? The Fed Meeting, Explained
The Federal Reserve committee behind US interest rates: its members, its eight scheduled meetings, and how a decision day plays out in markets.
NFP Meaning: Non-Farm Payrolls Explained
Non-farm payrolls: what the number measures, what else is in the report, when it lands, and why its first seconds are the hardest to trade.
Opening Range Breakout (ORB) Strategy
ORB - marking the high and low of a session's first minutes and trading a break of either side, with the choices and risks that come with it.
Benchmark Interest Rates and Rate Decisions
The policy rates set by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the ECB, why their scheduled decisions move currencies, and how a decision day unfolds.
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