Why this academy exists
Understand trading without paying for it in money
Most people arrive at the market with a hope rather than a question: someone told them about trading, someone showed them a chart, someone promised a quick result. A month later they have neither the knowledge nor the money, and they are sure it was their own fault.
We think it is the order of things. First you need to see how it all works: where a price comes from, who earns on your trade besides you, what risk is and why it always walks with return. Then you try it with your hands, on real quotes and virtual money, where a mistake costs nothing. Only then do you decide whether your own money belongs here.
The academy takes no money from the people who learn. We are glad to give you an education in trading: no course, no lesson and no simulator costs anything. We give no signals and never tell you what to buy. We promise no income: nobody honest can.
The academy keeps growing — right now and from here on.
Where the academy goes next — sections in progress:
- 1
Technical analysis, deeper
Read a chart the way experienced traders do — and tell what works from what people simply believe in.
Topics 8
- Candle patterns: doji, hammer, engulfing — what they mean and when they say nothing
- Trend lines and channels: drawing them honestly, not conveniently
- Several timeframes: direction from the higher chart, entry from the lower
- Fibonacci levels: why people watch them and why it is not magic
- MACD and Bollinger bands: what they are made of and what they add to the average and RSI
- Average true range: a stop sized to the asset’s character
- Divergence between price and indicator: a warning, not a signal
- Classic chart patterns tested on history: how many reach their target
- 2
Trader psychology
Understand why market decisions are harder than everyday ones — and build your own rules against your own traps.
Topics 8
- The gambler’s fallacy: five red candles do not owe you a green one
- Loss aversion: why a loss hurts twice as much as a gain
- Confirmation seeking: reading the chart to agree with yourself
- Overconfidence after a winning streak — the most dangerous time
- Recency: the last trade shouts louder than a hundred before it
- Boredom and overtrading: a trade for the feeling
- Your personal list of traps from the journal
- When trading turns into gambling — and how to stop in time
- 3
Fundamental analysis
Learn what moves prices for months — and read the news as a trader, not a spectator.
Topics 7
- The central bank rate: how one decision moves currencies, gold, stocks and crypto
- Inflation, jobs, growth: three numbers the whole market waits for
- Company reports: revenue, profit, guidance — and why a “good” report drops the price
- Valuation: price to earnings and what stands behind it
- Bonds and yields: the quiet market everyone listens to
- Oil, gold and the dollar: how they are linked
- Putting it together: fundamentals say “where”, the chart says “when”
- 4
Binary options: mechanics and arithmetic
See how the contract works, who sets the payout and how often you must be right just to break even.
Topics 8
- The contract inside: strike, expiry, payout, counterparty
- Break-even: payout versus the share of correct calls
- Short expiries: why a one-minute chart is noisier than a daily one
- Contract types: above / below, touch / no touch, range
- Rules by country: where the product is banned for retail clients and why
- Choosing a venue: licence, payout terms, withdrawals
- The gambler’s fallacy and excitement: the main risk of a short contract
- Practice in the simulator: a series of contracts on virtual money with the final arithmetic
- 5
Options: a right, not an obligation
Understand regular options — the instrument used to insure portfolios and trade expectations.
Topics 7
- Call and put: the right to buy and the right to sell
- Premium: what the price of a right is made of
- Time works against the buyer: how an option loses value towards expiry
- Expected move: how the market prices future motion
- Portfolio insurance: a put as a policy
- Option buyer and option seller: who carries which risk
- Options and binary options: what they share and where they differ
- 6
Crypto, deeper
Know where your coins really are and which crypto risks exist beyond the chart.
Topics 7
- Custody: exchange wallet versus your own, the recovery phrase
- Stablecoins: how the peg holds and what happens when it breaks
- Perpetual contracts and the funding rate
- Decentralised exchanges and DeFi: what they are and where the risk is
- Security: phishing, fake wallets, irreversible transfers
- Halving, token issuance and pump-and-dump
- Choosing a crypto exchange: licence, reserves, withdrawals
- 7
Video lessons
Short clips for the key lessons: the same ideas on a live chart and in a trade ticket. One minute instead of three paragraphs.
Topics 5
- A simulator trade from entry to exit
- Stop and target on the chart: where to place them and why
- Candles on a live market: reading them as they move
- A broker’s trade ticket: what is where
- Common beginner mistakes, shown on examples
- 8
Forex, deeper
See two economies behind every currency pair — and size a trade in pips and lots with confidence.
Topics 6
- Majors, crosses and exotics: each with its own spread and character
- Pip value and lot size on any pair
- Interest differentials: why the rollover can cost or pay
- The dollar as the common denominator: the dollar index
- Sessions in detail: Asia, London, New York
- Central bank decisions and their calendar
- 9
Stocks and investing for years
Learn how owning a company for years differs from a week-long trade — and how funds, dividends and regular buying work.
Topics 7
- Trader and investor: different questions to the same market
- Index funds: the whole market in one purchase
- Regular purchases of a fixed amount
- Dividends and the record date
- Compound interest: why time is the investor’s main asset
- Splits, buybacks, going public
- Earnings season: reading the week when everyone reports
- 10
Managing a trade
Run a trade from entry to exit by rules — moving the stop, taking partial profit, adding to a position.
Topics 6
- Break-even: when to move the stop to entry and when it is too early
- Partial profit: half at the first target
- Trailing stop: behind price, by levels or by candle range
- Adding to a winner without raising total risk
- Time exit: when the trade “did not go”
- Several positions: total risk and correlated assets
- 11
Strategies
Take apart several classic approaches to the market and test each on history before choosing your own.
Topics 7
- Trend following
- Range trading
- Breakouts and protection from false ones
- Swing trading: trades over days and weeks
- Intraday trading: what changes when a trade lives for hours
- Scalping: why costs decide everything
- Comparing approaches on one asset in history-replay mode
- 12
Systems and testing
Measure your trading with numbers — and tell a working method from a lucky streak.
Topics 6
- How many trades you need before drawing conclusions
- Profit factor, expectancy, maximum drawdown — three numbers of a system
- Risk of ruin: how bet size decides the fate of an account
- Testing on new data and on other assets
- Trading robots and ready-made advisors: what can be checked before buying
- When to change the system, and when to change yourself
- 13
Other people’s hands: copying, signals, prop firms
See how copy trading, paid signals and prop-firm challenges work — who earns on what, and what the arithmetic is.
Topics 6
- Copy trading: what you really copy — someone else’s risk
- Reading the statistics of the person you copy
- Paid signals: why a history check matters more than promises
- Prop firms: the challenge, the rules, who pays and who earns
- Trading robots: what they promise and what can be verified
- Signs of a scheme: guarantees, pressure, a “private group”
- 14
Money and safety
Protect your account, your documents and yourself — from scammers, from mistakes and from haste.
Topics 6
- Scammers around trading: messenger acquaintances, “managers”, fake apps
- “We will recover your money”: the second wave of fraud
- Two-step sign-in, phishing, a separate email for money
- Taxes: the general principle and what to keep from the first trade
- Complaining to a regulator and a bank chargeback: the steps
- Responsible trading: self-limits and where to ask for help
- 15
Trader’s calculators
Small counting windows for the sums the lessons make you do on paper. Enter your own numbers and see the answer and what it is made of. They advise nothing: they show the arithmetic of a trade.
Topics 6
- Position size: how much to take so a stop costs you exactly what you decided
- Pip and lot value: what one move is worth on your pair
- Trade profit and loss: entry, exit, size, leverage — and the result in money
- Risk to reward: how much further the target is than the stop, and how often you must be right
- Spread and fees: what a trade costs before the price has moved at all
- Compounding and drawdown: how much you must win back after minus thirty per cent