Learn the market before
you trade it.
No jargon for its own sake — just what each market actually is, how the risk tools work, and how real traders approach strategy and the news calendar.
Markets 101
What you’re actually trading, before you trade it.
The world’s largest market, explained the way a desk actually thinks about it — not the textbook version.
Owning a sliver of a real business versus trading its short-term mood swings — and why the difference matters.
Leverage, insurance, and a lot of fine print — how calls and puts actually work, priced with a real example.
Risk & Order Basics
The mechanics that decide whether a good idea survives contact with the market.
Strategy
Repeatable ways to find and structure a trade.
Five real approaches — trend following, mean reversion, breakout, range, and carry — and who each one actually suits.
Support, resistance, structure, and the handful of candlestick signals worth actually knowing.
Trading the News
What happens to price around the events everyone’s watching.
What actually moves a stock on earnings day, why the "beat" often doesn’t matter, and how to size the risk.
A real playbook for the releases that move every market at once — inflation prints, Fed decisions, and weekly oil data.