Education

Exchanges and Order Basics

Exchange types, market vs limit orders, fees, and custody basics.

Order Books and Liquidity

Order book structure, spread, slippage, and how liquidity shapes execution.

Derivatives: Structure and Risks

Perpetual futures, funding rates, leverage, and liquidation mechanics.

Reading Charts: First Steps

Candle anatomy, timeframes, and volume fundamentals.

Trends, Support and Resistance

Defining trends, how S/R levels form, and using moving averages.

Patterns and Probabilistic Thinking

Interpreting chart patterns probabilistically and the pitfalls of backtesting.

Why Risk Management Comes First

Volatility, the affordable-amount principle, and the math of compounding losses.

Position Sizing and Diversification

Fixed-fraction concepts, correlation, and reading allocation via concentration metrics.

Drawdowns and Risk Metrics

Max drawdown, volatility measurement, and the concept and limits of VaR.

Psychological Traps in Markets

How FOMO, loss aversion, and herd behavior distort decisions.

Biases and Decision-Making

Confirmation bias, anchoring, hindsight bias, and the value of journaling.

Discipline and Systems

Process-oriented thinking, plan adherence, and frameworks for emotional state.