Guided path · Beginner

Crypto Trading Path

What makes crypto different from forex: volatility, custody, funding rates and 24/7 markets.

  • ✓ 10 lessons in order
  • ✓ About 40 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. What Is Crypto Trading? Crypto trades like a currency pair right up until you look at the size of the moves, and that is where imported habits break. Beginner4 min
  2. Bitcoin and the Majors Bitcoin sets the direction for almost everything else, which makes a portfolio of ten coins far less diversified than it looks. Beginner4 min
  3. Wallets vs CFDs Spot and CFDs give the same price exposure and fail in completely different ways. Cost and holding period decide which one fits. Beginner4 min
  4. Market Capitalization And Why It Matters Market cap corrects for the accounting artefact that makes one token look cheap and another look expensive when they are worth… Beginner4 min
  5. Stablecoins Explained Holding a stablecoin is lending an issuer money at zero interest, which makes a parked balance a credit decision rather than cash. Beginner4 min
  6. Order Types For Crypto Traders Every order trades certainty of price against certainty of execution, and crypto charges more than most markets for picking the… Beginner4 min
  7. Leverage And Liquidation Risk In Crypto Leverage does not change whether you are right. It changes how far price can move against you before someone else closes the… Intermediate4 min
  8. Risk Management For Crypto Positions The rules are the same ones forex uses. Crypto just charges you for breaking them several times faster. Beginner4 min
  9. Trading Crypto's 24/7 Market Structure A market with no closing bell will take every hour you give it, and it moves hardest when the fewest people are awake. Beginner4 min
  10. Crypto Market Cycles And Halving Events The halving is a known, scheduled supply cut. The four-year cycle built around it rests on three observations and a decade of… Intermediate4 min

What it draws on

This path pulls from 1 category: crypto trading. Each of those pages lists its full set of lessons if you would rather go deep on one subject than move across several.

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