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53 free lessons in 8 tracks, from your first candle to a written trading plan. Every lesson is honest about what works: where we tested an idea on real market data, the lesson tells you what we found.

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Foundations

Beginner · 6 lessons

What a chart shows, how trends and levels work, and how to read volume — before any pattern.

  1. What one candle tells you
  2. Timeframes and top-down reading
  3. Trend: higher highs and higher lows
  4. Support and resistance
  5. Supply and demand zones
  6. Volume and order flow

Market structure & liquidity

Intermediate · 5 lessons

How trends change, where the stops sit, and why breakouts fail.

  1. Structure in depth: swings that matter
  2. Break of structure and change of character
  3. Liquidity: where the stops are
  4. Ranges, breakouts and fakeouts
  5. Sessions and time of day

Japanese candlesticks

Beginner → Intermediate · 13 lessons

Single, double and triple candle patterns — what each says, when it fails, and why context beats shape.

  1. Reading candles: context beats shape
  2. Doji: when nobody wins
  3. Hammer and hanging man
  4. Shooting star and inverted hammer
  5. Spinning tops and marubozu
  6. Engulfing patterns
  7. Piercing line and dark-cloud cover
  8. Harami and the inside bar
  9. Tweezer tops and bottoms
  10. Morning star and evening star
  11. Three white soldiers and three black crows
  12. Continuation: windows and three methods
  13. Candles with Western tools

Indicators that matter

Intermediate · 6 lessons

Moving averages, RSI, MACD, Fibonacci, ATR and VWAP — what each measures and how not to misuse it.

  1. Moving averages
  2. RSI and divergence
  3. MACD and momentum
  4. Fibonacci retracements and extensions
  5. ATR: measuring volatility
  6. VWAP and volume profile

Chart patterns

Intermediate → Advanced · 8 lessons

Shapes made by swings over many candles — and the only setups in this app with a tested edge (4H).

  1. How chart patterns work — and repainting
  2. Double top and double bottom
  3. Head and shoulders
  4. Triangles
  5. Wedges
  6. Channels, ranges and flags
  7. Cup and handle
  8. Trading a confirmed pattern

Crypto derivatives

Intermediate · 4 lessons

Perpetual futures, funding, leverage and liquidation — the mechanics that move crypto and wipe out accounts.

  1. Perpetual futures and funding
  2. Leverage, margin and liquidation
  3. Liquidation cascades and open interest
  4. News, macro events and the calendar

Risk, psychology & your plan

All levels · 7 lessons

Position sizing, expectancy, stops, discipline, biases, honest testing — and writing your own plan.

  1. Risk per trade and position size
  2. R-multiples and expectancy
  3. Stops and targets
  4. Discipline: guardrails, checklist and journal
  5. Psychology: the biases that cost money
  6. Testing ideas honestly
  7. Write your trading plan

Using NexusCore

Beginner · 4 lessons

Turn the lessons into practice: chart, ticket, replay, journal, alerts and the bot.

  1. The chart: timeframes, indicators, drawings
  2. Placing a trade
  3. Practise with Bar Replay and the Journal
  4. Alerts and the pattern bot

Glossary — 103 trading terms →