Trading lessons

How the library, the replay backtester and the method tags fit together, and the 20-minute daily routine.

How to read a candle, what wicks and bodies tell you, and how to choose timeframes that work together.

How to tell an uptrend from a downtrend from a range using swing highs and lows. The base of every method.

Why price reacts at the same levels again and again, how to draw zones (not lines), and how to trade bounces and flips.

Drawing valid trendlines, the 3-touch rule, trading bounces and breaks, and building channels.

Get direction from the higher timeframe, entries from the lower one. The single biggest win-rate upgrade.

Using volume to confirm breakouts, spot exhaustion, and find the prices where the most trading happened (POC).

How each order fills, what it costs you, and which one to use for entries, stops and targets.

How crypto perpetuals work, what funding rates tell you, and how leverage gets traders liquidated.

Engulfing, pin bars, doji, inside bars and morning/evening stars, and why location matters more than the pattern.

The classic reversal patterns, where the neckline is, how to measure the target, and when they fail.

Continuation and reversal patterns built from converging lines, and how to trade the breakout.

Find the bases where big orders sat before explosive moves, and trade the first return to them.

Trading price as it escapes a range, filtering out fake breakouts, and the safer break-and-retest entry.

The bread-and-butter trend trade: wait for a dip in an uptrend, then join when it turns back up.

Markets range most of the time. How to buy the floor, sell the ceiling, and get out when the range breaks.

Smoothed candles that make trends obvious and help you hold winners longer.

A higher high, then a lower low that breaks structure. The return to the old shoulder is a high-precision reversal entry.

A rounded base, a small pullback, then a breakout. A classic continuation pattern for trending markets.

Markets often repeat the size of their last leg. Use it to set targets and find where a pullback should end.

A candle inside the previous one shows compression. Trade the break of the mother bar in the trend's direction.

Let the chart mark the real swing highs and lows for you, then read the structure.

How institutions move price from liquidity to liquidity, and how all the SMC tools fit into one story.

The SMC way to read trend: continuation breaks vs. the first break against the trend.

Where stops cluster, why price hunts them, and how to trade the sweep instead of being the liquidity.

The 3-candle imbalance: how to spot it, which gaps to trade, where to enter inside it, and full trade rules.

When a gap fails and price closes through it, the gap flips direction. One of the cleanest reversal signals.

The last opposite candle before a structure-breaking move, and how to trade the return to it.

What happens when an order block fails: it flips into a breaker. Trade the retest.

Where a bullish and a bearish FVG overlap: a tight, high-probability reaction zone.

Only buy cheap and sell expensive: dealing ranges, equilibrium, and the 62–79% Optimal Trade Entry.

When setups actually work: the Asian range, London and New York killzones, and when to sit on your hands.

Accumulation, manipulation, distribution: the daily cycle and the fake-out move that starts it.

A time-based model: one FVG entry inside specific one-hour windows, targeting nearby liquidity.

Fade the breakout traders: a new 20-bar high or low that immediately fails.

When two related markets disagree at a high or low, one of them is lying. Use it to confirm sweeps.

When a breaker block and a fair value gap overlap, you get one of the tightest, highest-confluence ICT entries.

The full curve: original consolidation, engineered liquidity, smart money reversal, and the run back.

A simple routine to decide each morning whether you only look for longs or only for shorts.

Trend direction at a glance, dynamic support, crossovers, and the 9/21 and 50/200 combinations.

The most popular momentum oscillator, and why "overbought" is not a sell signal on its own.

Trend plus momentum in one indicator: line crosses, the zero line, and histogram divergence.

Where price closed within its recent range. Great for timing pullback entries in a trend.

Volatility bands that show when a big move is coming (squeeze) and when price is stretched too far.

The volume-weighted average price for the day: the line big desks benchmark against, and how to trade around it.

How to draw fibs correctly, the levels that matter (38.2, 50, 61.8, 78.6), and extension targets.

A complete trend system in one indicator: the cloud, Tenkan/Kijun, and the Chikou span.

Floor-trader levels calculated from yesterday's range, used for intraday bias, bounces and targets.

Average True Range tells you how much a market normally moves, so your stop isn't too tight or too wide.

Trailing-stop indicators that keep you in trends and flip when the trend ends.

The filter that tells you when to use trend methods and when to use range methods.

On-Balance Volume often moves before price. Spot accumulation and confirm breakouts.

When Bollinger Bands move inside the Keltner Channels, volatility is coiled. The first release starts a move.

VWAP started from a key event (a swing low, a breakout, a news candle) shows who is in profit since then.

The stochastic of RSI. A faster momentum gauge for timing pullback entries inside a trend.

Two classic momentum oscillators: spotting stretched moves and momentum shifts.

RSI with volume. See whether real money backs a move or the move is running on fumes.

The famous squeeze setup: catch the explosive move that follows quiet, low-volatility periods.

A fast, smooth moving average. Read trend direction from its color and slope with very little lag.

Let winners run with a volatility-based trailing stop that adapts to the market.

Know which kind of market you are in before you pick a strategy.

Bill Williams' momentum histogram: zero-line crosses, saucers and twin peaks.

Accumulation or distribution? Where candles close in their range, weighted by volume.

Measure how far price has stretched from its trend and where it tends to snap back.

Read trend strength at a glance from how moving averages stack and fan out.

Moving averages that cut lag or adapt to the market, and when each one beats a plain EMA.

The famous LazyBear oscillator: buy and sell dots at the extremes, and how to filter them.

A faster MACD that runs 0 to 100. Catches trend turns earlier, with clear 25/75 triggers.

Two momentum tools that make turning points sharp and easy to see.

Is volume backing the move? Five classic volume-flow tools and how to read them together.

Vortex shows when a new trend begins; TRIX shows if its momentum is holding.

Three overbought/oversold tools that fix the weak spots of RSI and Stochastic.

Measure how calm or wild the market is, and catch the moment it wakes up.

Momentum you can compare across markets, a major-bottom finder and a cycle detector.

Many small, fast trades on low timeframes: when it suits you, what it costs, and a simple scalping framework.

Opening and closing trades in the same day: daily bias, key levels, a session routine, and daily risk limits.

Holding trades for days to weeks: less screen time, bigger moves, and a simple daily-chart routine.

Mark the first 15–30 minutes of the session, then trade the break of that range.

Betting that stretched prices snap back to average, and how to avoid fading a real trend.

A famous mechanical system: buy 20-bar highs, size by volatility, cut losers, and let winners run.

Trade the break of the Asian range when London opens, with rules for the classic fake-out.

Gap-and-go vs. gap fill, plus the weekly and daily opening gaps used in ICT trading.

CPI, NFP, FOMC: why big news causes spikes and stop runs, and the safest ways to handle it.

Holding for months using weekly charts: fewer decisions, bigger trends, and very different risk rules.

What moves metals and the stock index, their trading hours and how they differ from crypto.

How big players build positions in ranges: the phases, the spring, and the sign of strength.

Five waves with the trend, three against it: the rules that can't be broken and the wave-3 trade.

Fibonacci-measured price structures that point to a precise reversal zone.

The six tenets behind almost every modern method: trends, phases, confirmation, and volume.

Value area high/low, POC, and why price accepted or rejected at those levels.

Who is aggressive, buyers or sellers? Delta, absorption and exhaustion explained simply.

How the dollar, bond yields, stocks and Bitcoin influence each other, and how to use that as a filter.

The four-year halving cycle, how past cycles played out and how to use the big picture without over-trusting it.

R multiples, the 1% rule, the position-size formula, and why win rate isn't everything.

Fear, greed, revenge trading and tilt, and the routines that keep emotions from running your account.

Turn lessons into a one-page plan, journal every trade, and review weekly so you actually improve.

How funded-trader challenges work, the rules that fail most people, and a risk plan to pass them.

The one number that tells you if a method makes money, plus how to take partial profits and scale positions.

The math of leverage, why most accounts get liquidated, and a simple rule that keeps you alive.

Sample size, hindsight bias, curve fitting and the stats that tell you whether a strategy really has an edge.

Losing streaks are guaranteed. How long they get, and the rules that keep them from ending your account.