Learn to trade from zero.
A free 10-lesson course on charts, risk and orders, in plain English. Built for crypto, and the same skills work on forex, gold, indices and stocks. No hype and no signals.
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- Built for crypto, works on forex and gold too
- Made for the UK: FCA rules, £ examples
- 10 free lessons with quizzes
- Start learning without signing up
- Free account saves your progress on any device
- Earn ranks and badges as you learn
- Daily chart challenge and leaderboard
- A free certificate when you finish
- Practise trades with pretend money
- Risk and position-size calculators
- Spot-the-trend game
- Plain-English glossary
- Scam red flags to watch for
- Free cheat sheet and trading journal
- No ads, no tracking cookies
- 40 in-depth VIP lessons
- A new VIP lesson every week
- A new feature every month
- Free weekly newsletter
- Blockchain course coming soon
Education only. No signals, ever.
Built for crypto. Works on forex, gold and more.
Crypto and blockchain are our main focus. But a candle is a candle on every chart, so once you can read price and manage risk, you can use it on whichever market you choose.
Crypto
Coins and tokens running on blockchains, trading 24/7, every day of the year. Bigger daily swings than most markets. Moves on news, sentiment and the wider market mood.
Forex
Trading one currency against another. The biggest market in the world, open 24 hours on weekdays. Moves on interest rates and economic news.
Gold
Priced in US dollars per ounce. Often moves when people get nervous about the economy. Moves on the dollar, interest rates and big news events.
Indices
One price for a whole basket of companies, like the 100 biggest on the London Stock Exchange. Moves on company earnings and the wider economy.
Stocks
A small piece of one company. You can buy shares outright with no borrowing. Moves on results, news about the company and the market around it.
Trends, support and resistance, candle patterns, stop losses, the 1% rule and your trading journal. Everything in the free course works on all five, and our examples lean on crypto.
Forex, gold and indices are mostly traded with spread bets or CFDs, which use leverage. FCA rules cap it for retail customers (30:1 on major currency pairs, 20:1 on gold and major indices), and providers must tell you what percentage of their customers lose money. Crypto is usually bought outright on an exchange, because crypto derivatives are banned for UK retail customers.
The Trade Blocks blockchain course
How blockchains actually work, in plain English: blocks and chains, wallets and keys, coins and tokens, and how to keep your crypto safe. Join the free Discord to hear first when it opens.
Get notified on DiscordTen lessons, in order
Each one takes about five minutes: the visual lesson, a plain-English explanation and a three-question check at the end.
40 more lessons and the trader's toolkit
The free course gets you started. The VIP library goes deeper: chart reading, managing trades, patterns, indicators and the habits that keep you in the game. Same style, same quizzes, still education only.
Always growing: a new VIP lesson every week and a new feature every month.
The Trader's Toolkit
Five tools, plus a start-here guide, that VIP members get on day one. Not ready for VIP? Get the Toolkit on its own for £4.99.
Founding VIP is open: 10 spots
£9.99 a month or £99.99 a year, locked for life while you stay subscribed. A new lesson every week, a new feature every month, and a 14-day full refund if it's not for you.
This lesson is part of the VIP library. Founding VIP is open now: £9.99 a month, 10 spots.
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Get your certificate
Complete all 10 lessons and their quizzes to unlock your Trade Blocks Beginner Course certificate, with your name and your quiz score. Save it and share it on your story, and tag @trade_blocks so we can share it too.
A certificate of completion for a free educational course. It isn't a professional qualification.
Get the free weekly email. Every Sunday: how the markets moved, the headlines that mattered, the week's lessons and a free guide.
One chart. Three questions. Every day.
A new chart every day at midnight, the same one for everyone. Read the trend, find the key level, place the stop. Keep your streak going and share your score.
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Challenge charts are generated for practice. They aren't real markets.
Leaderboard
Top 20 by current streak, then total points.
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Want your name here? and your daily scores count.
Practise trades with pretend money
The chart stops halfway. Pick buy or sell, drag your stop and target into place, then press play and watch what happens next. You start with £1,000 of pretend money and risk 1% on every trade.
New: try the live practice account. Real Bitcoin, Ether and gold prices, pretend money, and a stop loss on every trade.
Drag the lines on the chart, or type the prices.
- Risk (1% of balance)
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- Position size
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- Risk to reward
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Pretend money on made-up charts, so you can practise the routine without risking anything. If a candle touches both your stop and your target, it counts as a stop.
Practise before you risk a penny
Work out your numbers before every trade, and train your eye on charts.
Position size calculator
Risk a small, fixed slice of your account on each trade. Put in your numbers to see how big your position can be.
Position size = (balance × risk %) ÷ distance from entry to stop. It ignores fees, spread and slippage, so real losses can be a little bigger.
Risk to reward and break-even calculator
See what you stand to lose against what you aim to make, and how often you'd need to be right just to break even.
Break-even win rate = risk ÷ (risk + reward), before fees. It shows the maths only. It can't tell you whether a trade will work.
Spot the trend
A new practice chart every round. Is it an uptrend, a downtrend or going sideways? Look at the highs and lows, not just the last candle.
Pick an answer to start.
Practice charts are generated at random. They aren't real markets.
The beginner chart cheat sheet
Three pages to keep open next to your charts while you learn.
- 1/3Reading the chartHow a candle works, spotting the trend, and support and resistance.
- 2/312 patternsSix candle patterns and six chart patterns, from hammers to head and shoulders.
- 3/3Risk rulesThe 1% rule, position sizing and break-even win rates, with worked examples.
No sign-up needed. The free trading journal spreadsheet is pinned in #free-cheat-sheet on our Discord.
How to spot a trading scam
Beginners are the main target for trading and crypto scams. If you see any of these, walk away.
Guaranteed returns
"2% a day" or "you can't lose". Nobody can promise returns in real markets.
"I'll trade for you"
An account manager or mentor who wants to control your money or your login.
Strangers in your DMs
Someone you don't know messages first with an opportunity, often after you comment on a post.
Pressure to act now
"Only 3 spots left" or "price goes up tonight". Real education doesn't need you to rush.
Pay to withdraw
A "tax" or "unlock fee" before you can take your money out. That money is almost always gone.
Fake proof
Celebrity endorsements, rented cars and profit screenshots. All of them are easy to fake.
Trade Blocks will never message you first offering to trade for you, and will never ask you to send money or crypto in a DM. If someone claiming to be us does, it isn't us. Report it and block them. Before using any investment firm, check the FCA Warning List.
Trading words, in plain English
Heard a word you don't know? Search for it here.
No match. Ask in the Discord's #questions channel and we'll add it.
Learn alongside other beginners
Ask the questions you'd feel daft asking anywhere else. Everyone here started at zero.
Free Discord
Open now- Daily lessons and a chart of the day
- A questions channel where nothing is too basic
- Share your charts and get eyes on them
- Free cheat sheet and trading journal spreadsheet
- A voice study room
VIP
Founding: 10 spots- 40 in-depth VIP lessons, +1 every week
- Feedback on your own chart analysis
- Trading journal reviews
- A weekly live chart session
- A private members' chat
Or £99.99 a year (2 months free). Founding members keep this price for life while they stay subscribed. 14-day full refund.
Become a founding VIP- Signals or trade calls
- Copy trading
- Managing your money
- Promises of profit
Answers to the questions beginners ask
Plain-English guides with a UK focus. New ones added every week.
Before you start
Is this financial advice?
No. Trade Blocks teaches how charts and risk work. We never tell you what to buy or sell, or when. Your decisions are your own.
Do I need money to start learning?
No. You can do the whole course and practise on a demo or paper trading account without putting in a penny.
Is this only for crypto?
Crypto and blockchain are our main focus, but no. The course teaches chart reading and risk, which work the same on forex, gold, indices and stocks. Our examples use simple £ prices so you can apply them anywhere.
Is it really free?
Yes. The course, tools, cheat sheet, journal and Discord are free. Founding VIP is an optional paid extra (£9.99 a month) with 40 in-depth lessons, the Trader's Toolkit and feedback on your charts.
The Trade Blocks weekly
Every Sunday morning: the week's seven bite-size lessons, a free guide and what's new on Trade Blocks. Education only, no signals.