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Online trading tutorials for beginners
Risk, psychology and strategy explained in plain English, written from a real trading journal with the mistakes left in.
13 free lessons · Four learning paths · No paid signals, ever
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When to Exit a Trade (and How to Stop Getting Out Too Early)
Three exits, all written before you enter. Why cutting winners early raises the win rate you need, and how to tell from your own records whether…
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How to Know If Your Trading Strategy Actually Works
Five numbers decide it, and your account balance is not one of them. How to compute expectancy, how many trades you need, and how to tell…
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How to Be Disciplined in Trading
Discipline is an engineering job, not a character test. Mechanical rules, a pre-trade checklist, and what to actually do on the days you break your own…
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How Much Money Do You Need to Start Trading?
Not the broker minimum. The floor is set by what a round trip costs next to your risk per trade, and the US $25,000 day trading…
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How to Control Your Emotions When Trading
Fear and greed break a trading plan in opposite directions and need opposite fixes. How to tell which one you are in from behaviour rather than…
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What Is the Best Time of Day to Trade?
The sessions, the overlaps and the hours to avoid, plus the part nobody covers: how to find the hours you personally trade well from your own…
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What Economic Factors Affect Stock Prices?
The list is short. The useful part is that markets move on the surprise against the forecast, not on the number, which is why the calendar…
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Why Is Trading So Hard?
Not because the ideas are complicated. Because the feedback lies, the sample needed to trust it is enormous, and ordinary randomness looks exactly like failure.
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How to Manage Risk in Trading
Risk management is two decisions and one division. How much to risk per trade, where the stop belongs, and the arithmetic that turns both into a…
Four paths, in order
Each path is a short course. Finish one before starting the next.
Trading basics
Orders, spreads, leverage and position size. The vocabulary you need before the charts make sense.
Risk management
How much to risk per trade, where the stop goes, and why account size decides everything else.
Trading psychology
Fear, greed, revenge trades and discipline, plus the journal that makes all of it visible.
Strategy & analysis
Market cycles, short-term analysis, and what separates professionals from beginners.
How this site works
No signals, no mentorship
Nothing here promises a return. The lessons are free and stay free.
Reviewed, with dates
Every lesson shows when it was last checked. Anything stale gets rewritten or removed.
Written from experience
Each lesson comes from a real trading journal, including the trades that went wrong.