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
- BeginnerOctober 6, 2026
Seven Trading Misconceptions: Liquidity, Expectancy and Account Risk
Jason Graystone’s seven lessons explain why win rate, candles, price feeds and trade-level risk can mislead beginners, with worked examples and a review checklist.
- IntermediateOctober 6, 2026
Liquidity Sweeps and Failure Tests: Reclaims, Wick Stops and Risk
Study Mind Math Money’s failed-breakout setup, reclaim entry and wick stop, with a transparent rolling-range research proxy and execution limits.
- AdvancedOctober 6, 2026
Flat 200 Opening Surges: Narrow States and Five-Bar Confirmation
Explore Oliver Velez’s flat 20/200 opening setup, five-bar clearing event, entry timing and a clearly labeled two-minute confirmation research baseline.
- IntermediateOctober 6, 2026
EMA Pullbacks and Oscillator Filters: A Testable Trading Framework
Examine TradeGenius’s 45/200 EMA pullback setup, its oscillator gate and the assumptions needed for a reproducible research test.
- IntermediateOctober 6, 2026
Swing-Point Engulfing Candles: Context, Confirmation and Risk
Study Trader DNA’s larger-body reversal at swing candidates, with clear limits on hindsight, oscillator context and a complete Pine research baseline.
- AdvancedOctober 5, 2026
Event, State and Position: A Framework for Timing Trade Entries
Separate candle events, moving-average states and price position, then study a confirmed tail-bar breakout with explicit stop and execution assumptions.
- BeginnerOctober 5, 2026
Trading Psychology: Turn Fear and Greed Into Clear Decision Rules
Convert fear, greed, chasing and sizing impulses into observable trading controls, with practical risk examples and a journal-based learning plan.
- AdvancedOctober 5, 2026
Gap-Up Fades: Weigh the Evidence Before the Entry
Study late-day weakness, a gap up into resistance and the color-change trigger, with risk examples and a transparent initial-entry Pine experiment.
- IntermediateOctober 5, 2026
Breaking a Trading Plateau: Journal Your Decisions Before You Scale
Use JadeCap’s three-phase framework to control learning risk, distinguish good execution from lucky outcomes, and validate journal-based changes before scaling.
- BeginnerOctober 5, 2026
What to Learn First in Trading: A Beginner’s Roadmap
Build trading skills in a useful order: understand markets, define rules, calculate risk, test ideas, practice on demo and use a journal to improve.
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Where should I start if I’m new to trading?
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