Learn to read the market before you pay it tuition.
Most day-trading sites sell you certainty. This one teaches you mechanics: what a candle actually records, which patterns carry information, how position sizing keeps you alive, and how to prove you have an edge with replay data — before a single real dollar moves.
Read this before anything else. Regulator and broker studies consistently find that roughly 70–90% of active day traders lose money over time. Any site that skips that number is selling you something. Here, it’s the starting assumption: you have no edge until your own logged trades prove otherwise — and this site exists to teach you how to run that proof cheaply. Education only; nothing here is financial advice.
What you’ll learn
One interactive page, built to be poked at: draggable candles, live calculators, and side-by-side comparisons instead of walls of jargon.
The plumbing
Bid, ask, and spread — the cost you pay before the chart even moves. Order types, liquidity, and the PDT rule.
Explore the depth ladder → PART 02Candle anatomy
Drag the open, high, low, and close yourself and watch the story change. The body is what got accepted; the wicks are what got rejected.
Drag a candle → PART 03Reading wicks
Long wicks are the record of a fight. Learn which rejections matter, and why the close’s position beats wick length alone.
See the four shapes → PART 04The eight patterns
Hammer, shooting star, doji, engulfing, inside bar, morning and evening star — drawn to scale, with what each one actually claims.
Study the eight → PART 05Context decides everything
The same hammer at a tested level versus floating mid-range, side by side. Patterns are only signals at locations.
Compare the two → PART 06Risk — the actual job
A working position-size calculator: change the stop and watch dollars-at-risk stay pinned. Think in R, not dollars.
Run the calculator → PART 07Proof before size
The trade log, the expectancy formula, and a simulated 100-trade equity curve. Where “I think it works” becomes pass or fail.
Test an edge →180 trades before your money is at stake
Screen time is cheap. Tuition paid to the market is not. The path here compresses months of learning into staged, logged practice — and each stage has a gate.
Replay trades
Bar replay on historical charts — step forward candle by candle with no future visible. Log every trade against a written, falsifiable rule.
Paper trades, live
Real time, fake money. This stage exposes hesitation, chasing, and the fact that real spreads and fills are worse than your backtest assumed.
One-share real trades
Real money changes your decisions in ways paper can’t simulate. Discover that at $2 of risk, not $200. Scale only when stats match paper.
The gate: expectancy — (win% × average win) − (loss% × average loss), measured in R — must be positive at each stage. If it goes negative, you go back a stage. Forward is earned, never assumed.
What you won’t find here
No alerts, no picks
If someone had a money printer, they wouldn’t sell subscriptions to it. You’re here to build your own judgment.
No $997 course
The tutorial is free and stays free. The honest math of day trading is not a secret worth four payments of $249.
Testable claims only
Every rule on this site is written so it can fail. That’s the difference between education and marketing.
Start with what a candle actually is
Seven parts, about twenty minutes, every chart interactive. By the end you’ll know exactly what to practice — and how to score yourself.
