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Candles, execution, formations and risk. Every published video has a written companion with a visual exercise, practical checks and explained quiz answers.
Read a candle
Understand open, high, low and close—and why a long wick cannot tell you who traded or what happens next.
Market structure
Use completed swings to separate an upward sequence, a downward sequence and a market that has stopped following either.
Risk before entry
Turn a stop distance into an estimated cash risk. Include costs, round down, and accept that a stop cannot guarantee the fill price.
Candle sequences
Compare highs, lows and the recent range before naming a candle a reversal or breakout.
Bid, ask & spread
Read both sides of a quote and calculate why an unchanged market can still produce an immediate round-trip loss.
Market order fills
Follow a three-unit order through available asks and calculate its volume-weighted execution price.
Limit orders & the queue
Distinguish an eligible price, queue priority and a partial fill. Control the price without inventing execution certainty.
False breakout basics
Separate trading through a level, closing outside it and returning inside. They are different observations, not interchangeable labels.
Stop-loss & invalidation
Write the condition that disproves a trade, then separately specify how a protective order behaves when price reaches its trigger.
The seven-question plan
Turn an attractive chart into a decision record with evidence, entry, invalidation, size, execution, exit and review.
Pin bars in context
Calculate the body and wick, then distinguish a recorded return from lower prices from an unsupported reversal prediction.
Engulfing body vs range
Check body coverage and high–low coverage separately, and keep the preceding context in the observation.
Inside bars & doji
Compare total range for inside bars and open–close distance for doji. The labels can coexist without implying a breakout direction.
Three-candle stars
Read an initial move, a smaller middle body and a return into the first body without silently inventing required gaps.
Triangle compression
Freeze converging swing boundaries, then distinguish a local event from a change in the wider range.
Flags: pause or reversal?
Distinguish an impulse, a smaller corrective sequence and a later crossing without assuming the impulse high or projected target was reached.
Double tops & bottoms
Keep repeated extremes, the intervening swing and a subsequent neckline event as three distinct observations.
Head & shoulders neckline
Read three selected peaks and interpolate a sloping neckline instead of using whichever horizontal line makes the example work.
Cup & handle evidence
Measure rim, recovery and handle depth while separating visible price geometry from claims about hidden buyers.
Breakout & retest
Define a reference, breakout event, return band and response. Count the missing retest instead of manufacturing it.
No matching topic. Try “risk” or “breakout”.