Learn to trade. Properly.
43 lessons · 270 minutes · animated examples throughout. Market mechanics, technical reads, professional risk management and the psychology that holds it together — everything applies directly to the BTC Sim Challenge and to trading anywhere.
Education first. The Sim Challenge is simulated trading — skill with structure, risk and discipline is what separates traders who last from traders who refund. Work through the Risk & Money Management track before sizing up anything. All content is educational, not financial advice.
Foundations
4 lessonsHow markets actually work — the auction, candles, levels and structure.
How Markets Move: Price, Orders & Liquidity
Why price actually moves — buyers, sellers, and the auction underneath every candle.
Read lessonReading Candlesticks
Open, high, low, close — and what bodies vs wicks actually tell you about who's in control.
Read lessonSupport & Resistance
The levels where price reacts, why they work, and how to trade the bounce vs the break.
Read lessonTrend vs Range: Market Structure
Higher highs, lower lows, and the only question that matters: what regime is the market in?
Read lessonCandlestick Patterns
5 lessonsThe candle vocabulary — pin bars, engulfing, inside bars, dojis, and the context that makes them real.
Pin Bars & Rejection Wicks
The single most readable candle: a long wick into a level, a close back the other way.
Read lessonEngulfing Candles: the Momentum Flip
When one candle swallows the previous body, the last candle's traders are all trapped.
Read lessonInside & Outside Bars
Compression and expansion in candle form — the market inhaling before it moves.
Read lessonDojis & Indecision Clusters
Tiny bodies, wicks both ways — what stalemate candles mean at tops, bottoms, and nowhere.
Read lessonPattern + Location: Context Beats Pattern
Why the same candle is a signal at one price and noise at another — the context checklist.
Read lessonChart Patterns & Price Action
5 lessonsRanges, breakouts, fakeouts, flags and double tops — the shapes crowds leave behind.
Ranges & Breakouts: Trading the Box
The two honest range trades — fade the edges, or trade the break — and how to pick.
Read lessonFakeouts & Stop Hunts
Why obvious breakouts fail, whose stops fund the move, and how to trade the trap instead.
Read lessonFlags & Continuation Patterns
The pause that refreshes — how trends rest, and where the continuation entry lives.
Read lessonDouble Tops, Double Bottoms & Failed Retests
The market knocking twice — why the second test tells the truth the first one couldn't.
Read lessonTrendlines & Channels, Honestly
What a trendline actually is, how to draw one you'd trade, and when to ignore them.
Read lessonTechnical Toolkit
4 lessonsThe reads and setups — averages, momentum, volatility, and the house playbook.
Moving Averages: the Trend's Backbone
What an SMA actually measures, fast vs slow, and the three honest ways to use them.
Read lessonHouse Playbook: the 600/1200 Reverse-Cross
The house setup on the 1-second chart: skip the first big cross, trade the crossback.
Read lessonMomentum & Exhaustion
Impulse legs vs corrective legs, and the tells that a move is running out of fuel.
Read lessonVolatility: Why BTC Moves in Bursts
Volatility clustering, quiet-before-storm compressions, and adapting to the market's energy level.
Read lessonAdvanced Technicals
5 lessonsVWAP, RSI divergence, volume, ATR sizing and multi-timeframe alignment — the professional layer.
VWAP: the Institution's Average
The volume-weighted session average — fair value, the reversion magnet, and trend-day tells.
Read lessonRSI & Divergence: Momentum's Odometer
What RSI actually measures, why overbought isn't a signal, and the divergence that is.
Read lessonVolume: Reading Participation
Effort vs result — confirming breaks, spotting empty moves, and climax volume.
Read lessonATR: Sizing to Volatility
Average True Range — normalizing stops, targets and size to what the market actually moves.
Read lessonMulti-Timeframe Alignment
Zooming out to trade in — using a higher frame for bias and a lower one for entries.
Read lessonCrypto Markets
4 lessonsHow BTC really trades — perps, liquidation cascades, 24/7 liquidity and macro flows.
How BTC Actually Trades
Spot vs perpetuals, why one exchange's print moves them all, and where BTC's price really forms.
Read lessonLeverage Cascades & Liquidation Wicks
Forced sellers creating forced sellers — anatomy of crypto's signature violent wick.
Read lesson24/7 Markets: Sessions, Weekends & Liquidity Holes
Crypto never closes — but its liquidity absolutely does. Trading the clock in a clockless market.
Read lessonMacro & News: What Actually Moves BTC
Rates, liquidity, and headlines — separating what re-prices BTC from what just makes noise.
Read lessonRisk & Money Management
3 lessonsThe survival curriculum — sizing, R-multiples and drawdown. Start here if you skip everything else.
Position Sizing: the 1–5% Rule
The single decision that decides whether you survive — how much to risk per position.
Read lessonRisk:Reward — Thinking in R
Why R-multiples beat win rate, and how to judge any entry price in one number.
Read lessonDrawdown: the Number that Ends Careers
Peak-to-trough thinking, why recovery math is brutal, and trading to protect the peak.
Read lessonTrader Psychology
5 lessonsTilt, FOMO, loss aversion and process — the difference between traders and gamblers.
Tilt & Revenge Trading
The loss-chasing spiral, how to catch it in yourself, and the reset protocol.
Read lessonProcess over Outcome
Thinking in probabilities: good losses, bad wins, and judging decisions, not results.
Read lessonA Session Routine that Protects Capital
The pre-session checklist, in-session limits, and post-session review that pros run daily.
Read lessonFOMO & Overtrading
The fear of missing out, the boredom trade, and hard caps that save you from yourself.
Read lessonLoss Aversion: Why Losses Feel 2× Bigger
The wiring that makes you cut winners and ride losers — and the mechanical overrides.
Read lessonSim Challenge Mastery
4 lessonsThe game as a trading instrument — round anatomy, reading late-entry odds as R:R, pricing chop, bankroll play.
Anatomy of a Round
Entry, targets, knockouts, both-stopped — the full ruleset, and what each rule rewards.
Read lessonReading Late-Entry Odds Like a Pro
The live multiplier is an R:R quote — when the comeback is cheap, and when 'cheap' is a trap.
Read lessonMAX PAIN: Pricing Chop Itself
The side market on both-stopped — when ranges pay, and how to combine it with a direction.
Read lessonBankroll Strategy Across Rounds
Sizing per round, surviving streaks, and the discipline layer above any single race.
Read lessonProfessional Path
4 lessonsJournaling, expectancy, what evaluations test, and deliberate practice — the road from sim to skill.
The Journal that Actually Teaches
The five-field entry log, weekly review ritual, and turning your own history into edge.
Read lessonYour Real Stats: Expectancy & Profit Factor
The two numbers that define any strategy, why sample size rules everything, and variance literacy.
Read lessonWhat Professional Evaluations Actually Test
Drawdown limits, consistency rules, and why funded-trader programs measure discipline, not profit.
Read lessonFrom Sim to Skill: Deliberate Practice
Why screen time isn't practice, the one-variable drill, and structuring sim hours that compound.
Read lessonThe 600/1200 SMA Reverse-Cross — live, right now
This is not a recording. Real BTC, one candle per second, with the house playbook’s actual SMA 600 and SMA 1200 overlaid and crossovers marked as they happen. Let the first big move go — your trade is the crossback.
Real trades, streamed live, compressed into tick candles so the playbook’s rhythm is watchable: this fast/slow SMA pair is the 600/1200 logic at 10× speed — crossovers print every few minutes. Skip the big first move, watch for the reverse cross. Educational display only.
Trader’s Glossary
Put it on the chart
Open the live round, pick ONE lesson’s idea, and practice only that until it’s boring. The best traders take fewer positions than everyone else — at better prices.
Open the Sim ChallengeEducational content only — not financial advice. All trading on this platform is simulated using Sim currency. No strategy wins consistently; past behaviour of any indicator or setup does not predict future results, and simulated results do not represent real trading. Trade the challenge with discipline.