Lesson 1
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1:55What Trading Is — and How Markets Move
Meet buyers, sellers, exchanges and brokers, and learn why price moves when supply and demand change.
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Learn to read the market, one lesson at a time.
Follow a practical learning path from market basics to planning, executing, and reviewing your first complete simulated trade.
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Your path from first chart to first trade
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1:59Your Trading Screen: Prices, Orders and Costs
Understand bid, ask, spread, market and limit orders before placing your first simulated trade.
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1:58Reading Candlesticks Without Guessing
Read open, high, low and close, then use candle sequences to describe what price actually did.
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2:05Market Structure: Trends, Ranges and Turning Points
Identify swing highs and lows, distinguish a trend from a range, and recognise when structure changes.
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2:05Support and Resistance as Zones
Mark useful decision areas, avoid false precision, and see how price reacts when a level is tested.
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2:02Top-Down Analysis: Choosing the Right Timeframe
Use a higher timeframe for context and a lower timeframe for timing without mixing conflicting signals.
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2:09Risk First: How Much Can One Trade Lose?
Learn fixed risk, drawdown and position sizing so one bad idea never decides the whole challenge.
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2:01Stops, Targets and Risk-to-Reward
Place logical invalidation points, set realistic targets, and compare trades using R-multiples.
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1:56One Repeatable Setup: Trend, Pullback, Confirmation
Combine structure, a key zone and a clear trigger into one simple setup you can practise consistently.
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2:19Build Your Pre-Trade Plan and Checklist
Define the setup, entry, stop, target, size and no-trade conditions before you click a button.
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2:02Executing Under Pressure: Discipline and Psychology
Handle fear, FOMO, losses and overtrading by following a process instead of chasing an outcome.
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2:16Your First Complete Trade: Plan, Execute, Review
Walk through a simulated trade from analysis to journal entry, then turn the result into one improvement.
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