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 5, 2026
Moving Average Zones: How to Read the 20 and 200 SMA
Learn to read the slope, zones and spacing of the 20 and 200 SMA, then test a precisely defined return-to-zone setup with a complete Pine strategy.
- AdvancedOctober 5, 2026
The Wheel Options Strategy: Premium, Assignment and the Risk Behind the Yield
Understand the wheel through assignment and covered-call payoff examples, portfolio risk checks, and a clearly limited stock-trend research experiment.
- IntermediateOctober 5, 2026
Trading With Fewer Decisions: Simple Plans, Setup Rankings and Daily Limits
Turn The Rumers’ experience into a testable process: simplify decisions, rank setups before outcomes, bound risk, and compare daily entry caps with a transparent Pine Script baseline.
- IntermediateOctober 5, 2026
Support and Resistance That Matter: Five Context Checks Before a Breakout
Learn why market participation, clean levels, consolidation, reaction and timeframe agreement matter—and test three objective context proxies against a transparent breakout baseline.
- IntermediateOctober 5, 2026
AI Trading Assistants: Better Briefs, Watchlists and Risk Reviews
Build an auditable AI-assisted trading workflow: verify morning briefs, define watchlist rules, challenge risk assumptions, and test an oversold-screening baseline independently.
- IntermediateOctober 3, 2026
Liquidity Sweeps: Read the Context, Define Confirmation and Test the Setup
Learn to distinguish liquidity-sweep patterns from causal claims, define higher-timeframe context and range location, and test confirmation with an independent Pine v6 strategy.
- BeginnerOctober 3, 2026
The 3R Rule: Align Risk, Daily Bias and Range Before Scaling
Understand the difference between a $50 risk budget and account capital, evaluate 3R targets with daily bias and range context, and test an independent Pine v6 research baseline.
- IntermediateOctober 2, 2026
Swing Trading Beyond the Setup: Size, Market Regime and Capital at Risk
Explore swing-trading position size, overnight gaps, regime dependence and capital commitment, with worked risk examples and an independent Pine v6 momentum research strategy.
- IntermediateOctober 2, 2026
Resistance in an Uptrend: What the Reported Test Means for Profit Targets
Examine the reported 200-observation resistance test, distinguish reaction frequency from trade expectancy, and compare targets below and above resistance with an original Pine v6 strategy.
- BeginnerOctober 2, 2026
Learn Day Trading With a Clear Process: Rules, Replay and a Useful Journal
Turn trading education into measurable practice with learning milestones, risk calculations, replay records, a useful journal, and an original Pine v6 structure research baseline.
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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?
Examine drawdown, losing streaks, the number of trades, trading costs, and the period tested. Compare different market conditions and read the execution assumptions. Choosing the best result after many variations can make a strategy appear stronger than it is.
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