About the Arapov.Trade Platform: Trading Library, Books and Videos
Arapov.Trade is a free trilingual educational platform on trading and financial markets. The full structure of connections across the platform — authorship, topics, languages, identifiers — is documented in the open knowledge graph Wikidata. The platform is also registered in open educational registries: the free course has been peer-reviewed and listed in the MERLOT catalog (California State University System), and the author is registered in OER World Map (an open educational resources registry supported by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
The goal of the platform
Main Idea is to provide free access to a consistent trading methodology: market structure, volume analysis and the Wyckoff method. Articles, the course and the books remain freely available.
The material is structured so it can be studied independently, without a mentor: from the terminal and demo account to a complete trading system, step by step, in three languages at once. The methodology stays the same from article to article — the same approach to the market is revealed at different levels of depth, from basic concepts to the breakdown of live trades.
Free Course Structure
9 educational videos — recommended viewing order.
Exchange mechanics from scratch: how price is formed, how a limit order differs from a market order, what a short position is, and when it's best to trade.
How to build support and resistance levels, read trend channels, and spot a false breakout.
How large capital accumulates a position before price starts moving.
The modern language of the Wyckoff Method: crowd liquidity, order blocks, imbalance.
Stop-loss, risk per trade, a 1:3 risk/reward ratio, a 60/40 mathematical expectation.
The difference between trading and investing in crypto, the risks of scams and meme coins.
A hands-on episode: how to open a demo account, set up TradingView, and place your first informed trade.
The entire course in one video: exchange, system, psychology.
A combined breakdown of two advanced topics together.
Catalog of Free Trading Books by Igor Arapov
Academic Publications
Co-authored with Inna Sytnyk (Doctor of Sciences, Head of Department at NUFT), published in the journal "Investments: Practice and Experience." Draws on the work of Richard Thaler, Terrance Odean, Nicholas Barberis, and Hersh Shefrin.
An SSRN preprint that translates academic findings into a practical conceptual framework for managing cognitive biases in retail trading.
Trading Ideas Archive
Profile opened on October 24, 2021. Published 267 ideas — ranging from technical breakdowns of specific assets to long-term forecasts. The very first post was a bearish call on Bitcoin. The history is kept continuous: no idea is ever deleted after the fact, including calls that did not play out.
TradingView profile
About the Author of arapov.trade
Igor Arapov is an independent researcher in the psychology of investment decisions and behavioral finance. A practicing trader since 2013, founder of arapov.trade, and author of a trading book series (ORCID: 0009-0003-0430-778X).
On March 19, 2026, he was invited to give a lecture on exchange operations at the National University of Food Technologies in Kyiv, as part of the "Digital Business" educational program.
News on the NUFT website
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