Trading glossary
278 terms, explained the way someone would actually explain them out loud. No signup, no paywall. Each one links to its interactive lesson if you want to practise it.
Candles 101
Market Basics
Candle Combos
Trend & Structure
Chart Patterns
Indicators I
Investing Basics
Funds & Diversification
Reading a Company
Portfolio & Risk
Indicators II
Day Trading
Swing Trading
Scalping
Risk & Psychology
Smart Money
The Math of an Edge
- Win rate is a trap
- Expectancy — the only number that matters
- Thinking in R instead of dollars
- The break-even table
- Variance, and why six losses mean nothing
- Sample size
- Drawdown and the maths of recovery
- Risk of ruin
- What an edge actually is
- The costs that eat the edge
- How much to risk
- Judge the decision, not the result
Journaling & Review
- Why almost nobody improves
- What to actually write down
- Write it before, not after
- Reviewing in batches, not one at a time
- Tagging so the data can answer questions
- Naming your leaks
- The calendar view
- Grading the process, not the P&L
- A review routine you'll actually keep
- Backtesting: reviewing trades you never took
- Screenshot the chart, not the P&L
Liquidity & Stop Hunts
- Why price hunts liquidity
- Buy-side & sell-side liquidity
- Equal highs & lows
- Liquidity pools
- External vs internal liquidity
- Trendline liquidity
- Anatomy of a sweep
- Liquidity grab vs real breakout
- Old highs & lows as magnets
- Session highs & lows as liquidity
- Trading the sweep-and-reclaim
- Where NOT to put your stop
Fair Value Gaps
- What a fair value gap is
- Reading the three candles
- Displacement creates the imbalance
- Bullish fair value gaps
- Bearish fair value gaps
- Consequent encroachment, the 50% mark
- Partial vs full vs no fill
- Higher timeframe FVGs carry more weight
- Inversion fair value gaps
- Stacking FVGs with other signals
- Trading the FVG retracement