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Free educational guides on market analysis, chart reading, and building your edge as a trader.
Course: First Principles to First Trade
A complete beginner course — from reading your first chart to placing your first paper trade.
1.How to Read a Candlestick Chart
One bar, four data points, and a window into market psychology. Learn to read candlestick charts from first principles.
2.Understanding Price Movement — Why Stocks Go Up and Down
Price moves for one reason only: supply and demand imbalance. Learn how trends form, why support and resistance work, and how volume separates signal from noise.
3.How to Read a Stock's Financial Data
Learn what market cap, float, volume, P/E ratio, and 52-week range actually tell you about a stock — and where to find it all for free.
4.Introduction to Options Data — What the Market Is Betting On
Learn how to read options data like open interest, implied volatility, and the put/call ratio to understand what institutional money expects next.
5.What Is VIX? The Market's Fear Gauge Explained from First Principles
Learn what VIX actually measures, how to read its regimes, and why it should change the way you size every position.
6.RS Rating — Finding Stocks with Relative Strength
What relative strength really measures, why momentum persists, and how to use RS Rating to find stocks that institutions are accumulating.
7.Understanding Market Regime — The Tide That Lifts (or Sinks) All Boats
Most stocks follow the market's direction. Learn to read the regime so you never fight the tide.
8.Consolidation Breakout — Your First Pattern
The most reliable chart pattern for beginners: how to spot a stock coiling into a tight range and catch the move when it breaks free.
9.Trend Pullback — Buying the Dip the Right Way
Learn to distinguish a healthy pullback from a reversal, and how to enter trending stocks at lower-risk prices using moving average support.
10.Your First Paper Trade — Putting It All Together
A complete walkthrough of placing your first paper trade using everything you've learned. From checking market regime to logging and managing your position.