Guided path · Advanced

Build Your Trading Plan

The capstone path: turn everything you've learned into a written plan with entry, exit and risk rules.

  • ✓ 10 lessons in order
  • ✓ About 42 minutes
  • ✓ Progress tracked in MarketPro
  • ✓ Free to follow

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The lessons, in order

A path is the academy's answer to "where do I start". The order is deliberate: each lesson assumes the ones above it, which is why reading them this way works better than picking at a category list. In the app the path tracks how far through you are and what comes next.

  1. Defining Your Trading Edge An edge is a repeatable reason to expect a favourable outcome across many trades, specific enough that you can count instances… Intermediate4 min
  2. Setting Realistic Goals And Expectations A realistic goal is one your expectancy and trade frequency can actually produce, stated as a range wide enough to contain… Intermediate4 min
  3. Choosing A Market And Timeframe Focus Narrow the plan to a few instruments you can watch in the same hours, and one timeframe you decide on, for long enough to learn… Intermediate4 min
  4. Writing Clear Entry Criteria Rules An entry rule is written well enough when a second person, handed the same chart, marks the same bar as you. Advanced4 min
  5. Exit Rules: Stop Loss And Take-Profit Frameworks Put the stop where the idea is proved wrong, then size the position so that distance costs what the plan allows. Advanced4 min
  6. Position Sizing Models Sizing decides what a single trade can cost, and it moves long-run results more than entry timing does. Advanced4 min
  7. Risk Management Rules At The Portfolio Level Per-trade limits say nothing about how open positions interact, and the gap between the two is larger than most people assume. Advanced4 min
  8. Why Keep A Trading Journal Memory is a highlight reel. A journal is the only record that shows what your trading actually did. Beginner4 min
  9. Calculating Win Rate Versus Risk-Reward Neither figure means anything alone. Expectancy is the one number in your journal that says whether the process pays. Intermediate4 min
  10. Adapting Your Plan To Changing Market Conditions Change the plan when a measurable property of the market has changed, not when the last three trades lost. Advanced6 min

What it draws on

This path pulls from 2 categories: building a trading plan, trade journaling and review. Each of those pages lists its full set of lessons if you would rather go deep on one subject than move across several.

Written and reviewed by the MarketPro research desk

MarketPro is a trading-signal and trading-education app operated by Harajuku Holdings LTD (Cyprus). Our signal desk publishes and tracks every trade idea in-app, and every page here is checked against the app's live behaviour before publishing. Last reviewed . How we produce signals and content · About MarketPro

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10 lessons, in order, with your place kept. Free on any MarketPro account, in the app or your browser, alongside vetted free signals every week.

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