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Six pillar guides covering what a self-directed trader actually has to learn: reading a chart, what indicators measure, how to analyze a company, how to size and manage risk, what AI can genuinely do for you, and how to stay out of your own way.
- Technical indicators →
The four families of indicator, trend, momentum, volatility and volume, the most used tool in each, and how to combine them without double-counting.
- How to read charts →
The reading order that works: axes and chart types, then candlesticks, support and resistance, patterns, and one confirming indicator.
- How to analyze a stock →
A repeatable framework: the business, the numbers, the valuation, then the chart, with the risk checks that come before any entry.
- Portfolio management and risk →
Diversification, position sizing, drawdown and the Sharpe ratio: how to measure a portfolio instead of guessing at it.
- ChatGPT for trading →
What a general-purpose model can genuinely do with a chart or a filing, where it invents things, and when a purpose-built tool is the better answer.
- Trading psychology →
Loss aversion, revenge trading, FOMO and the disposition effect, plus the journaling habit that makes them visible before they cost you.
Each guide is a pillar: it explains the topic end to end and links out to the deeper posts on each individual piece, so you can go as far into any one of them as you want. There is no required order, but if you are starting from zero, read how to read charts first and technical indicators second. Indicators sit on top of price action, and they are close to useless before you can read the price action underneath them.
When you want to put a number on a trade rather than read about it, the free calculators cover the arithmetic the guides refer to: a position size calculator for risk per trade, the drawdown recovery calculator (a 50% loss needs a 100% gain to get back to even), the trading expectancy calculator and the Kelly criterion calculator. Everything here is educational, and none of it is financial advice.
To practice the chart-reading guides on a live market, take a screenshot of the chart you are watching and get a second read with the chart screenshot analyzer. It reads the same structure and levels these guides teach, from a TradingView screenshot, an MT4 or MT5 chart or a thinkorswim chart.
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