Foundations
Beginner6 min read
15 Trading Myths That Cost Beginners Money
Most trading advice circulating online is either wrong or true only under conditions nobody states. Here are the myths that cost the most money.
13 in-depth guides
Trading Foundations: How Markets and Strategies Actually Work
Every strategy in this library rests on the same foundations: who is on the other side of your trade, what an edge actually is, and why rules beat instinct. Start here if you have never placed a trade.
Beginner guides
No prior knowledge assumed. Start here.
Foundations
Beginner6 min read
Day Trading vs Swing Trading vs Position Trading: Which Fits You?
The four main trading styles differ far more in lifestyle and cost structure than in market theory. Choosing the wrong one is the most common reason capable people quit.
Foundations
Beginner8 min read
How Financial Markets Work: Buyers, Sellers, and Price Discovery
Before any strategy makes sense you need to know what a price is, who creates it, and why it moves. This is the mechanical tour of a market, with no assumed knowledge.
Foundations
Beginner6 min read
How Much Money Do You Need to Start Trading?
The honest answer depends on the arithmetic of costs, position granularity, and the risk per trade you can afford. Here is how to compute your own number.
Foundations
Beginner7 min read
How to Build a Trading Plan: A Template You Can Actually Follow
A trading plan is the document that decides in advance what you will do, so that the version of you under stress has nothing left to improvise.
Foundations
Beginner5 min read
How to Choose a Broker: Costs, Execution, and Safety
Commission-free is not free. This guide shows how to compare brokers on the costs that are hidden and on the protections that matter when things go wrong.
Foundations
Beginner6 min read
How to Read a Price Chart: Candles, Volume, and Structure
A chart is a picture of an argument between buyers and sellers. This guide teaches you to read that picture without projecting patterns that are not there.
Foundations
Beginner6 min read
Long and Short Positions Explained: Profiting in Both Directions
Going long has bounded losses and unbounded gains. Going short is the reverse. Understanding that asymmetry changes how you size, stop, and select every trade.
Foundations
Beginner6 min read
Paper Trading Guide: How to Practise Without Learning Bad Habits
Simulated trading is valuable for exactly two things and misleading for everything else. This guide explains which is which and how to run it properly.
Foundations
Beginner6 min read
Trading Timeframes Explained: Choosing the Chart You Trade
The same strategy is profitable on one timeframe and hopeless on another. This guide explains what each chart interval contains, and how to choose without guessing.
Foundations
Beginner6 min read
Trading vs Investing: Which One Are You Actually Doing?
Most losses come from starting as an investor and finishing as a trader, or the reverse, in the middle of a losing position. This guide draws the line clearly.
Foundations
Beginner13 min read
What Is a Trading Strategy? A Complete Beginner Guide
A trading strategy is not a prediction or a hunch. It is a written, repeatable set of rules covering entry, exit, position size, and risk. This guide builds one from nothing.
Foundations
Beginner7 min read
What Is an Edge in Trading? How to Find and Verify One
Everyone talks about having an edge. Very few can state which market behaviour pays them, how large the payment is, and what would make it stop.
Every guide in this category
- 15 Trading Myths That Cost Beginners Money
- Day Trading vs Swing Trading vs Position Trading: Which Fits You?
- How Financial Markets Work: Buyers, Sellers, and Price Discovery
- How Much Money Do You Need to Start Trading?
- How to Build a Trading Plan: A Template You Can Actually Follow
- How to Choose a Broker: Costs, Execution, and Safety
- How to Read a Price Chart: Candles, Volume, and Structure
- Long and Short Positions Explained: Profiting in Both Directions
- Paper Trading Guide: How to Practise Without Learning Bad Habits
- Trading Timeframes Explained: Choosing the Chart You Trade
- Trading vs Investing: Which One Are You Actually Doing?
- What Is a Trading Strategy? A Complete Beginner Guide
- What Is an Edge in Trading? How to Find and Verify One
Other categories
Trading Strategy Types
In-depth guides to every major trading strategy type, from trend following and mean reversion to pairs trading, arbitrage, market making, and event-driven trading.
Indicators & Signals
How technical indicators are calculated, what they actually measure, and how to turn moving averages, RSI, MACD, ATR, and volume tools into tested trading rules.
Chart Patterns & Price Action
Candlestick patterns, classical chart patterns, support and resistance, and price action structure, each with objective definitions you can actually code and backtest.
Strategies by Asset Class
The strategies that actually fit each market: stocks, ETFs, options, futures, forex, crypto, commodities, bonds, and index products, with costs, hours, and leverage compared.
Risk & Money Management
Position sizing, stop losses, drawdown control, correlation risk, and the maths of ruin, explained so you can size trades with a formula instead of a feeling.
Algorithmic & Quant Trading
How to turn a discretionary idea into code: signal design, factor models, execution algorithms, data pipelines, machine learning pitfalls, and production monitoring.
Backtesting & Validation
Backtesting methodology that survives contact with live markets: look-ahead bias, survivorship bias, walk-forward analysis, Monte Carlo testing, and realistic cost modelling.
Market Mechanics & Execution
Order books, matching engines, order types, spreads, slippage, market makers, settlement, and the trading session structure that decides what your fill really costs.
Trading Psychology & Process
The behavioural side of trading: loss aversion, revenge trading, overconfidence, journaling, routine design, and the process controls that keep rules intact under stress.