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10 founding spots40 in-depth lessons, the Trader's Toolkit, private Discord channels and a weekly live chart session. Built for UK beginners, crypto first, and it keeps growing every week.
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What you get
Everything in the free course, plus all of this.
- 40 in-depth VIP lessons10 to 15 minute reads, each with worked crypto, forex and gold examples, a full trade walk-through, a practice task, a checklist and a 10-question quiz. A new lesson is added every week.
- The Trader's ToolkitJournal and risk calculator spreadsheet, trading plan, pre-trade checklist, a 2-page quick-reference sheet, a start-here guide and a risk-rules lock screen. Worth £4.99 on its own.
- Private VIP channels in DiscordA members-only lounge, chart reviews, journal reviews and the live session room.
- A weekly live chart sessionWe read real charts together: levels, trends and risk. Education only, never trade calls.
- Feedback on your charts and journalPost your analysis or journal and get honest feedback on your process.
- A new feature every monthNew tools and features land every month, and members vote in Discord on what we build next.
- Founding Member badgeA gold badge on the site and in Discord, and your price locked for life while you stay subscribed.
Free vs Founding VIP
The free course is a great start. VIP is where you build real skill.
| Free | Founding VIP | |
|---|---|---|
| 10-lesson beginner course, quizzes and certificate | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily chart challenge, simulator and calculators | ✓ | ✓ |
| 40 in-depth VIP lessons, +1 every week | – | ✓ |
| The Trader's Toolkit | £4.99 | Included |
| Private VIP Discord channels | – | ✓ |
| Weekly live chart session | – | ✓ |
| Feedback on your charts and journal | – | ✓ |
| New features every month, first access and a vote | – | ✓ |
| Price | £0 | £9.99 a month |
Inside the library
Five levels, 40 lessons, in a sensible order. Tap a level to see its lessons.
Reading a chart properly Level 1+ · lessons 11–17
- Anatomy of a candle
- Support and resistance
- When support becomes resistance
- Trendlines
- Chart types
- Log vs linear scale
- Market structure
Placing and managing a trade Level 2+ · lessons 18–26
- The 1% rule in depth
- Position sizing
- Taking profit
- Trailing stops
- The real cost of a trade
- Order books and liquidity
- Leverage and liquidation
- Long vs short
- Spot, futures and CFDs
Patterns Level 3+ · lessons 27–35
- 5 candles every beginner should know
- Engulfing candles
- Hammer and shooting star
- Doji and indecision
- Double top and double bottom
- Triangles
- Rising and falling wedges
- Cup and handle
- Fakeouts
Indicators Level 4 · lessons 36–42
- RSI explained
- MACD explained
- Bollinger Bands
- Fibonacci retracements
- VWAP
- Divergence
- Confluence
Psychology and process Level 5 · lessons 43–50
- 5 mistakes that blow up accounts
- FOMO and revenge trading
- Build your own trading plan
- Backtesting by hand
- Paper trading the right way
- Reading your journal stats
- Drawdowns
- Keeping your crypto safe
Read a free sample
The start of VIP lesson 11, Anatomy of a candle.
A candle is a small picture of everything price did in one period: where it started, how far it travelled each way and where it finished. Once you can read one properly, every chart in every market starts to make sense.
Why this matters
Almost every tool in these lessons is built on candles. Support and resistance zones are drawn from candle wicks and bodies. Market structure is a chain of candle highs and lows. Indicators such as moving averages and RSI are worked out from candle prices. Even your stop and your position size depend on reading the candle where your idea is proven wrong.
If you misread a candle, everything you build on top of it is wrong too. If you read it well, you can see in a few seconds who was in control, where the other side fought back and whether that happened somewhere that matters. This lesson gives you a clear, repeatable way to do that, with numbers rather than guesswork.
The four prices
Every candle records four prices for its timeframe:
- Open: the first price of the period.
- High: the highest price reached.
- Low: the lowest price reached.
- Close: the last price of the period.
You choose the timeframe. On a daily chart each candle is one day. On a 4-hour chart each candle is four hours. The rules for reading the shape are the same on all of them. But a daily candle carries far more weight than a 5-minute one, because far more trading went into it.
A candle does not show the order things happened in, or how much was traded. It is a summary, and every summary leaves things out.
Body and wicks
The body is the thick part. It runs from the open to the close. The wicks (also called shadows) are the thin lines. They run from the body up to the high and down to the low.
If the close is above the open, the candle is usually green, or bullish: price finished higher than it started. If the close is below the open, it is usually red, or bearish. Colours can be changed, so check your settings.
Here is how to measure each part:
Body = close − open (ignore the minus sign on a red candle)
Upper wick = high − top of the body
Lower wick = bottom of the body − low
Range = high − low = body + upper wick + lower wick
On a green candle the top of the body is the close. On a red candle the top of the body is the open. Getting this the right way round is the most common slip beginners make.
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A new VIP lesson every week and a new feature every month. Members get each one the day it's released, and you can vote in Discord on what comes next.
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Do I need to be experienced?
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