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How markets work: bid, ask and spread

Every price you see is the meeting point of buyers and sellers. Learn the words before the strategies.

Beginner · 5 min · Foundations

Reading a candlestick

Open, high, low, close in one shape. The body and the wicks tell you who won the period.

Beginner · 4 min · Foundations

Timeframes and multi-timeframe analysis

Higher timeframes give direction; lower timeframes give timing. Use both.

Beginner · 6 min · Foundations

Order types: market, limit, stop and take-profit

The tool you choose decides your price, your speed and whether you get filled.

Beginner · 5 min · Foundations

Leverage, margin and liquidation

Leverage lets a small deposit control a large position. It multiplies losses just as fast as gains.

Beginner · 6 min · Foundations

Trading sessions and kill zones

The market is busiest at the Tokyo, London and New York opens. Know when liquidity arrives.

Beginner · 5 min · Foundations

Engulfing candle

A candle whose body fully covers the previous one signals a sudden change of control.

Beginner · 4 min · Candlestick patterns

Pin bar (hammer and shooting star)

A long wick shows price was pushed away and rejected. It is a rejection signal at a level.

Beginner · 4 min · Candlestick patterns

Doji and indecision candles

Open and close nearly equal: neither side won. Momentum may be fading or about to resume.

Beginner · 3 min · Candlestick patterns

Inside bar breakout

A candle inside the previous candle’s range marks a pause. The break shows the next direction.

Intermediate · 4 min · Candlestick patterns

Morning star and evening star

A three-candle reversal: strong move, hesitation, strong move the other way.

Intermediate · 4 min · Candlestick patterns

Market structure: HH, HL, BoS and ChoCh

Trends are staircases of highs and lows. Breaks of that staircase tell you when control changes.

Intermediate · 7 min · Price action & structure

Support and resistance

Prices react at the same zones repeatedly. A broken level often flips its role.

Beginner · 5 min · Price action & structure

Trendlines and channels

Connect the swing lows to measure a trend and spot when it weakens.

Beginner · 4 min · Price action & structure

Breakout and retest

Break first, then retest. Waiting for the retest filters many false breakouts.

Intermediate · 6 min · Price action & structure

Range trading

When price moves sideways, buy near the bottom and sell near the top. Step aside when it breaks.

Beginner · 4 min · Price action & structure

Opening range breakout

The first minutes of a session set levels the rest of the day often respects.

Intermediate · 5 min · Price action & structure

Liquidity sweeps (stop hunts)

Price often runs beyond obvious highs and lows to trigger stops, then reverses.

Intermediate · 6 min · Liquidity & smart-money concepts

Fair value gaps (FVG and iFVG)

A three-candle imbalance. Price often returns to fill it before continuing.

Intermediate · 6 min · Liquidity & smart-money concepts

Order blocks

The last opposite candle before a strong move marks where large orders may remain.

Advanced · 6 min · Liquidity & smart-money concepts

Premium and discount zones

Split a swing in half. Buy cheap, sell expensive.

Intermediate · 5 min · Liquidity & smart-money concepts

Moving averages (SMA and EMA)

Smoothed price. They show trend direction and act as dynamic support and resistance.

Beginner · 6 min · Indicators

VWAP (volume-weighted average price)

The average price paid today. Institutions benchmark to it; price tends to return to it.

Intermediate · 6 min · Indicators

Volume profile: POC, VAH and VAL

Shows how much traded at each price. The busiest price is a magnet; value area edges act as levels.

Advanced · 7 min · Indicators

RSI (relative strength index)

A momentum gauge from 0 to 100. It shows stretched conditions and divergences.

Beginner · 5 min · Indicators

MACD

Two moving averages and a histogram: a view of momentum and trend change.

Intermediate · 5 min · Indicators

Bollinger bands

A moving average with bands two standard deviations away. They show volatility cycles.

Intermediate · 5 min · Indicators

Reading the order book

Resting buy and sell orders at each price. Useful for scalping, easy to misread.

Intermediate · 6 min · Order flow

Footprint and delta

How much was bought and sold at each price inside a candle.

Advanced · 7 min · Order flow

Whale prints and large-trade flow

Unusually large trades. They show where size is being committed.

Intermediate · 6 min · Order flow

Liquidations and funding rate

Where leveraged traders are forced out. Crowded positioning shows up in funding.

Advanced · 6 min · Order flow

Position sizing

Size every trade so the stop costs the same small fraction of your account.

Beginner · 6 min · Risk & money management

Risk-to-reward ratio

How much you aim to make for each unit you risk. Quality of the ratio changes how often you need to win.

Beginner · 5 min · Risk & money management

Win rate and expectancy

A strategy is profitable only if the average trade is positive. Win rate alone says nothing.

Intermediate · 6 min · Risk & money management

Drawdown and the maths of recovery

Losses are harder to recover than they look. Protect capital first.

Beginner · 5 min · Risk & money management

Stop placement and ATR

A stop belongs where your idea is wrong, outside normal noise.

Intermediate · 6 min · Risk & money management

Trading psychology: FOMO, revenge and discipline

Most losses come from breaking your own rules. Know the loop and build guardrails.

Beginner · 6 min · Process & psychology

Keeping a trade journal

What gets measured gets better. Record every trade and review weekly.

Beginner · 5 min · Process & psychology

Paper trading: how to practise properly

Practise with simulated money and real prices, then step up deliberately.

Beginner · 5 min · Process & psychology

Pre-trade checklist

A seven-question gate that stops most bad trades.

Beginner · 3 min · Process & psychology

Playbook: trend pullback

Join an established trend on a shallow pullback to value.

Intermediate · 7 min · Playbooks

Playbook: micro scalping (sweep, reclaim, flow)

Very short trades around liquidity sweeps, confirmed by real order flow.

Advanced · 9 min · Playbooks

Educational content only. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Trading leveraged products can lose more than you deposit. Practise with paper trading first and never risk money you cannot afford to lose.