Guided path · Intermediate

Strategy Building Blocks

Trend following, breakouts, mean reversion and price action. Core approaches to structuring a trade idea.

  • ✓ 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. Trend Following Fundamentals Trend following is a method for being wrong cheaply and occasionally right on a large scale, and the arithmetic only works if… Intermediate4 min
  2. Mean Reversion And Range Trading Range trading sells the top of a defined box and buys the bottom, and almost all of its profitability is decided by what you do… Intermediate4 min
  3. Breakout Trading Strategy The same breakout can be entered three ways with three different risks, and the stop placement matters far more than the entry… Intermediate4 min
  4. Moving Average Crossover Strategies A crossover converts a vague judgement about trend into a rule you can follow, and charges you a measurable amount of the move… Beginner4 min
  5. Price Action Trading Without Indicators Every indicator is a transformation of price, so a bare chart holds the same information earlier, and gives up the second… Intermediate4 min
  6. Reading Market Structure And Swing Points A trend does not change because the chart looks weaker, it changes at a specific price you can write down before it happens. Intermediate4 min
  7. Position Sizing Strategies Where price goes is not up to you. How much it costs when it goes the wrong way is entirely up to you. Intermediate4 min
  8. Risk-Reward Ratio And Win-Rate Math The relationship between reward-to-risk and how often you need to be right is fixed arithmetic, not a matter of trading… Intermediate4 min
  9. ATR-Based Stop-Loss Placement A stop inside one third of a typical candle will be hit by ordinary movement, on trades whose underlying read was perfectly sound. Intermediate4 min
  10. Building A Trading Plan A plan fixes your decisions while you are calm, so the hardest ones are not being made with a position open and money moving. Beginner4 min

What it draws on

This path pulls from 1 category: trading strategies. 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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