Courses
Structured, written courses covering every market and every style — free, in full, with no account required to read them.
Learning paths
Not sure where to begin? Pick the path that matches what you want to do and read in order.
Start here (everyone)
The foundation every trader needs before picking a style. About 12 hours.
Day trader
Intraday on stocks, futures or forex, with order flow and a prop-firm route.
Swing trader
Multi-day holds around a job. Regime, scans, setups, and management.
Options trader
From calls and puts to spreads and income strategies, with the risks spelled out.
Futures and forex
Leveraged products: contract math, sessions, margin, and funded accounts.
Crypto
Exchanges, custody, perps and the scams to avoid.
Macro and long-term
Understand what moves markets and hold positions through it.
Systematic and quant
Turn ideas into testable rules, then code them.
Every course
- beginnerstocksoptions
Trading 101: How Markets Actually Work
The plumbing behind every trade, explained plainly: who is on the other side, how prices and order books work, what each asset class really is, how brokers get paid, why prices move, and how to spend your first 90 days without blowing up.
29 lessons · 3.9h - beginnerstocksoptions
Risk Management: The Only Edge That Never Fails
Position sizing, stops, R-multiples, expectancy, leverage, portfolio heat and a written risk plan. The arithmetic that keeps you in the game long enough for any other edge to matter, shown step by step for stocks, futures, forex, crypto and prop accounts.
23 lessons · 3.1h - beginnerstocksoptions
Reading Charts: Price Action from Zero
Learn to read a price chart the way experienced traders do: candles, trend, levels, volume and a couple of indicators, then three simple setups you can practice. No hype, no secret patterns, just what the chart is actually telling you.
30 lessons · 3.8h - beginnerstocksoptions
Candlesticks, Support/Resistance and Trend
Candles, levels and trend taught with arithmetic instead of folklore: what a candle records, the few shapes worth knowing and why they fail, how to draw levels you can defend, how to define a trend without arguing, and how to combine all three into setups with a stop, a target and honest R:R math.
23 lessons · 3.4h - intermediateoptionsstocks
Options Fundamentals: Calls, Puts and the Greeks
What an option contract actually is, how it is priced, what the Greeks measure, what implied volatility does to you, and how long options, verticals and income strategies really pay off. Worked numbers and full payoff tables throughout, no hype.
29 lessons · 4.6h - intermediatefuturesindices
Futures and Leverage Explained
What a futures contract actually is, how to read a contract spec and do the tick math, what margin really means, when the market is liquid, the risks that only exist in futures, and how to approach micros and prop firms without blowing up. Built on the risk course's arithmetic.
24 lessons · 3.8h - beginnerforex
Forex Basics: Pairs, Pips and Sessions
How the decentralized currency market actually works: pairs, pips, lots and pip value, the four sessions and their overlaps, spreads, swaps, leverage and stop-outs, what moves currencies, and a plain session-based plan for a beginner trading two or three pairs on micro lots.
23 lessons · 3.6h - beginnercrypto
Crypto Trading: Exchanges, Wallets and Perps
How the crypto market is actually built: coins and stablecoins, exchanges and wallets, spot order books, perpetual futures with funding and liquidation math, on-chain and tokenomics basics, and the scams and tax rules that catch beginners. No hype, no coin picks, just the mechanics.
24 lessons · 3.7h - intermediatefuturesstocks
Order Flow and Market Structure: Reading the Auction Underneath the Chart
Limit versus market orders, the DOM, tape and footprint, delta, volume profile and auction theory, then market structure explained as resting orders and stop runs. A full session playbook, three worked sessions, and an honest look at tools, data costs and what order flow cannot do.
27 lessons · 4.5h - intermediatepropfutures
Passing a Prop Firm Challenge (Without Blowing Up)
How evaluation firms make money, how to read drawdown and consistency rules, the arithmetic of target versus drawdown, a game plan that survives a bad start, what the funded phase is really like, and a due-diligence checklist for choosing a firm. No hype, no promised payouts.
23 lessons · 3.4h - beginnerstocksoptions
Building a Trading Plan and Journal
Write a one-page plan that decides market, session, setup, risk, exits and review in advance; define an edge with objective criteria; add execution rules; keep a journal that actually changes behaviour; and iterate the plan on evidence, not mood.
20 lessons · 3h - allstocksoptions
Trading Psychology and Tilt Control
Why your brain fights you, what tilt actually is, and the mechanical circuit breakers that stop one bad afternoon from erasing a good month. Research-grounded, no hype: loss aversion, revenge trading, losing-streak math, routines, and what to do after a blow-up.
24 lessons · 3.7h - intermediatestocksfutures
Backtesting and Strategy Development: Testing an Idea Before You Pay for It
How to turn a trading idea into unambiguous rules, test it on clean data with honest costs, read the results without fooling yourself, avoid overfitting, and carry a system from spreadsheet to live account. Worked examples for stocks, futures, forex and crypto.
29 lessons · 5h - advancedstocksfutures
Intro to Algorithmic Trading with Python
Turn a trading idea into tested, honest Python. Load and clean OHLCV data, build indicators from scratch, write vectorized and event-driven backtests with real costs, evaluate with Sharpe, drawdown and Monte Carlo, avoid overfitting, and go live carefully with paper trading and kill switches.
30 lessons · 6.2h - intermediatestocksfutures
Pine Script for TradingView: Indicators, Alerts and Strategies
Write your own TradingView indicators, alerts and backtests in Pine Script v6. Script structure, types and series, built-ins and multi-timeframe data, inputs and on-chart visuals, repaint-safe alerts, strategy orders with stops and sizing, reading the Strategy Tester honestly, and two full projects.
24 lessons · 4.5h - allstocksoptions
Taxes for Traders (US, with International Notes)
Capital gains, cost basis, wash sales, Section 1256, trader tax status, the 475(f) election, options, forex, crypto and prop payouts, then estimated taxes, harvesting, records and audit triggers. Worked numbers, illustrative rates, and a UK, Canada, Australia and EU overview.
19 lessons · 3h - intermediatestocksoptions
The Swing Trading Playbook
A complete process for holding trades from a few days to a few weeks: read the market regime, scan for candidates, trade five defined setups with fixed stops and targets, manage through earnings and gaps, size for portfolio heat, and run a weekend-and-weeknight routine that fits around a job.
28 lessons · 4.4h - intermediatestocksfutures
The Day Trading Playbook
An honest, rules-first guide to intraday trading: what the research says about who wins, the session clock, choosing one product, six core setups with stops and R:R, reading the day type by 10:30, execution mechanics, intraday risk limits and a daily process. No hype, no picks.
28 lessons · 4h - advancedoptionsstocks
Advanced Options Strategies: Spreads, Condors, Calendars and Hedges
Position-level Greeks, vertical spread mechanics, iron condors and strangles, calendars and diagonals, butterflies, portfolio hedging and a risk process for multi-leg trading. Full P&L tables, Greeks tables and worked numbers throughout, including what goes wrong in a tail. No hype.
26 lessons · 5h - intermediatestocksindices
Market Internals, Breadth and Intermarket Analysis
Read the market underneath the index: TICK, ADD, VOLD and TRIN intraday; advance-decline lines, percent-above-MA, McClellan and breadth thrusts daily; VIX structure, put/call and dealer gamma; bonds, dollar, credit and sectors. Then build a 10-minute dashboard and log the regime.
23 lessons · 3.9h - intermediatestocksoptions
Fundamental Analysis for Traders
Read the three statements in fifteen minutes, know which ratios mean something and which lie, trade earnings season and event catalysts with a plan, place a stock in its sector and rate cycle, and use fundamentals as a filter for swing trades rather than a crystal ball.
26 lessons · 4.1h - intermediateindicesfutures
Macro Trading and the Economic Calendar
How rates, growth, inflation and liquidity move indices, bonds, FX and gold; what central banks and the data calendar actually release and when; how to read a decision in a minute; and how to trade around events with defined risk without turning into a pundit.
22 lessons · 3.9h
Everything here is educational, not financial advice.