TRADING GUIDES & STRATEGY RESEARCH
Trading Education
Explore practical guides to trading concepts, risk, and backtesting. Search by keyword, difficulty, or topic to find your next lesson.
159 guides found
- IntermediateOctober 11, 2026
AI Trading Journals: Validate Your Edge Before Increasing Risk
Use AI to reconcile broker records, investigate trading strengths, validate historical groups, and test sizing policies without confusing win rate with an edge.
- AdvancedOctober 11, 2026
Mechanical Market Structure: Failure, Shift, and Retest
Turn market-structure labels into a defined failure–shift–retest sequence, with location examples and a Pine Script strategy using confirmed pivots.
- IntermediateOctober 11, 2026
Volume Profile: Fixed Levels, Zones, and Reaction Entries
Learn to freeze volume-profile levels, treat them as zones, and wait for price reactions, with a Pine Script test using actual supplied VAL, POC, and VAH.
- AdvancedOctober 11, 2026
Regression-Band Pullbacks: Trend Filters Before Breakout Entries
Turn indicator signals into a selective trend–pullback–breakout process, with 1.5R risk examples and a causal Pine Script research approximation.
- AdvancedOctober 11, 2026
Liquidity Sweep Reclaims: Entries and Profit-Giveback Protection
Study Momentum.'s liquidity-sweep recovery entries, candle-low protection, and profit-giveback rule, with a Pine Script research test and execution checks.
- IntermediateOctober 11, 2026
Perpetuals vs. Futures: Contract Risk and Funded-Account Rules
Compare perpetuals with dated futures by contract exposure, leverage, funding, drawdown floors, and funded-account payout rules, with worked risk examples.
- AdvancedOctober 9, 2026
Price Action: Direction, Confirmation, and Fair Value Gap Entries
A practical guide to direction, confirmation, and invalidation using 15-minute context and one-minute fair value gap retests, with a Pine Script research strategy.
- AdvancedOctober 9, 2026
Opening Surge From a Flat 200: Entries, Adds, and Risk
Study Oliver Velez's opening surge from a flat 200-period average, risk-aware adds, and exit management, with a Pine Script test of the opening-location filter.
- AdvancedOctober 9, 2026
Backtest Drawdown: Monte Carlo Testing and Position Sizing
Historical drawdown is one path, not a future limit. Learn how Monte Carlo methods, expectancy uncertainty, and position sizing fit together—with worked examples.
- IntermediateOctober 9, 2026
Dilution Filings and VWAP Reclaims: Small-Cap Risks to Check Before Entry
Connect financing-filing risk with small-cap VWAP recoveries, reclaim confirmation, spread-sensitive entries, and complete partial-exit accounting.
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Before you test a trading idea
Where should I start if I’m new to trading?
Start with the price action guide to learn the vocabulary of trends, levels, and confirmation. Write down the entry, exit, and risk rules of an idea before you test it. Use hypothetical capital while you learn.
Can I test every strategy in these guides on CandleChasers?
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What should I look at beyond total return?
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