Market Mechanics
Participants, exchanges, brokers, bid/ask, sessions, orders, leverage, margin, and execution.
Understand the instrument, the market environment, the risk, and the reasoning before worrying about entries.
Start with market mechanics, price behavior, structure, risk, and the language used across trading products.
Participants, exchanges, brokers, bid/ask, sessions, orders, leverage, margin, and execution.
Candles, swings, support, resistance, trend, ranges, breakouts, pullbacks, volatility, and volume.
Higher highs and lows, lower highs and lows, balance, imbalance, regime, and invalidation.
Position size, stop distance, loss limits, drawdown, expectancy, leverage, and stand-aside rules.
Study riskFOMO, revenge trading, overtrading, impulsive re-entry, routines, discipline, and journaling.
Rules, indicators, confluence, backtesting, robustness, regime dependence, and overfitting.
Futures, forex, stocks, options, and SPX/0DTE mechanics.
Inflation, labor, GDP, rates, central banks, liquidity, QE, and QT.
Trend, momentum, volatility, support/resistance, indicators, and market structure.
Turn simulated activity into evidence about decisions, risk, and discipline.
Use the practice environment after the concept is clear.