Course 01Individual lesson
TF25 — How This Course Works: Your Roadmap
What Is Trading?
Here’s the road ahead. You’re finishing the foundation (this book). Next you’ll learn to read a chart, then how trades work mechanically, then trend, then
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Course 01Individual lesson
TF26 — Capstone: What Trading Really Is (One Page)
What Is Trading?
The whole book on one page. Trading is profiting from price movement — you can go long (profit if price rises) or short (profit if price falls). A market i
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR01 — Start Here: How to Read This Book
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Welcome to the next step. In ‘What Is Trading?’ you learned what trading is and how it works; now you’ll learn to read a price chart — the visual language
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR02 — What a Price Chart Is
Chart Reading Fundamentals
A price chart is simply a picture of how price has moved over time. It plots price going up the page and time going across it, so you can see the whole his
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR03 — The Axes: Price (Y) and Time (X)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Every chart has two axes. The vertical axis (Y, up the side) is price — higher up means a higher price, lower down means a lower price. The horizontal axis
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR04 — Line, Bar & Candlestick Charts
Chart Reading Fundamentals
There are three main chart types, all plotting price over time, differing only in how much detail they show. A line chart connects closing prices with a si
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR05 — Why Candlesticks Win (and What Bars Still Offer)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Candlesticks are the most popular chart type for a simple reason: they show the same open/high/low/close data as a bar, but far more visually. The colored
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR06 — OHLC: Open, High, Low, Close
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Every candle (or bar) captures four prices for its time period: the OPEN (first traded price of the period), the HIGH (highest price reached), the LOW (low
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR07 — The Candle Body (and What It Tells You)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
The body is the thick part of a candle, drawn between the period’s OPEN and CLOSE. It shows the net result of the period — how far price traveled from wher
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR08 — The Wicks / Shadows
Chart Reading Fundamentals
The wicks — also called shadows or tails — are the thin lines extending above and below the candle body. The upper wick reaches up to the period’s HIGH; th
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR09 — Bullish vs. Bearish Candles (Color & Meaning)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
A candle’s color shows its direction at a glance. A bullish (up) candle closes ABOVE its open — price rose over the period — and is conventionally green (o
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR10 — Reading a Single Candle, Start to Finish
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Now put it all together. To read one candle completely: (1) identify the period (the timeframe — each candle is one period); (2) find the open and close (t
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR11 — Candle Size & Range (Big vs. Small)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
A candle’s overall size is its range — the full distance from the LOW to the HIGH (the total ground price covered in the period). That’s different from the
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR12 — Timeframes: From 1-Minute to Monthly
Chart Reading Fundamentals
A timeframe is the amount of time each candle represents. On a 5-minute chart, every candle is 5 minutes; on a daily chart, every candle is one day. Common
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR13 — How One Timeframe Is Built from Another
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Higher-timeframe candles are built from lower-timeframe candles. For example, one 1-hour candle contains twelve 5-minute candles (12 × 5 = 60 minutes). The
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR14 — Choosing a Timeframe (and Multi-Timeframe Basics)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Which timeframe you use depends on your trading style and what you want to see. Day traders lean on lower timeframes (intraday detail); swing traders lean
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR15 — Price Scale: Linear vs. Log (Plain Version)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
The price (vertical) axis can be scaled two ways. On a linear (arithmetic) scale, equal price distances take equal space — a move from 100 to 110 looks the
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR16 — Gaps: When Price Jumps
Chart Reading Fundamentals
A gap is when price ‘jumps’ from one candle to the next, leaving a visible empty space on the chart — no trading happened at those in-between prices. Gaps
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR17 — Swing Highs & Swing Lows
Chart Reading Fundamentals
A swing high is a peak on the chart — a point higher than the candles on either side; price rose to it and then turned down. A swing low is a valley — a po
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR18 — Higher Highs / Lower Lows: Reading Structure
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Using the swing highs and lows you just learned, you can read a chart’s structure. An uptrend structure is a series of higher highs and higher lows — each
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR19 — What "the Trend" Looks Like on a Chart
Chart Reading Fundamentals
The ‘trend’ is just the general direction of price on the chart. An uptrend looks like the chart generally moving up over time (higher highs and higher low
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CR20 — Congestion, Ranges & Sideways Price
Chart Reading Fundamentals
When price isn’t trending, it moves sideways — roughly horizontally, bounded by a rough ceiling and a rough floor. This is called a range (or congestion, c
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR21 — Open Interest & Volume Bars (What They Look Like)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
Two extra things you’ll see on or below a chart. Volume bars are the small vertical bars usually shown at the bottom, one under each candle; the bar’s heig
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Course 02Individual lesson
CR22 — Common Candle Shapes at a Glance (Doji, Long-Wick, etc.)
Chart Reading Fundamentals
A few common candle shapes are worth recognizing by sight, using the anatomy you’ve learned. A doji has a tiny body (open ≈ close) — a cross shape — signal
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