Market Foundations
What price actually is, who is on the other side, and how to read a candle without mythology.
For the true beginner. Reading level is enforced here — if a sentence needs a glossary to parse, it gets rewritten.
- 1How price actually moves
Kill the idea that a chart controls price. It is an auction, not a machine.
Checkpoint: Sequence - 2Candles & timeframesnot written yet
Read OHLC fluently and understand what a timeframe choice discards.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 3Liquidity: who is on the other sidenot written yet
Every fill has a counterparty. Internalise what that implies about your entries.
Checkpoint: Spot the trap - 4Order types & spreadnot written yet
Market, limit and stop orders — and the real cost of crossing the spread.
Checkpoint: Size the trade - 5Sessions: when markets actually movenot written yet
Session character, and why the same chart is a different trade in Asia and London.
Checkpoint: Sequence - 6Volume basicsnot written yet
Participation versus price, and what a divergence between them means.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 7Choosing your marketnot written yet
An honest trade-offs table across equities, FX, crypto and futures.
Checkpoint: — - 8Choosing your stylenot written yet
Match timeframe to the life you actually have, not the one you want.
Checkpoint: —
Complete all 1 written lesson in this track with an average checkpoint score of 70 or better and you can generate a shareable record of completion. You are at 0/1.
The concepts here are applied in the Trade Playbook, and the engine that grades them is taken apart in how AI chart analysis works.