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Dear reader, on this website, you will find a free trading course designed for self-study. Having been actively engaged in trading since 2013, I can confidently say: not all information is equally useful. Many topics only distract attention and slow down the learning process. I have made every effort to include in the course program all the key theoretical and practical information that I use in practice and which, in my opinion, is sufficient to eliminate the need for further paid training. The course can be taken at a convenient pace, regardless of your level of preparation.


Free Trading Course Program

The course covers all key sections of trading theory necessary for a confident start. On the platform, you will find over 130 articles and 70 covering both basic and advanced topics.

The course materials are structured sequentially: each section logically follows the previous one, helping not only to absorb information but also to build a holistic understanding of the market. This approach simplifies learning, keeps the focus on the essentials, and allows you to move forward without gaps in knowledge.

The articles provide a theoretical foundation, while the video lessons demonstrate the practical application of key ideas. At the end of each section, you will find a brief summary: what skills you have mastered, how they will help in trading, and what to focus on next.

The result of completing the course will be a deep understanding of the fundamentals of stock market trading and mastery of with positive mathematical expectation. This will serve as a solid foundation for a confident start and further professional growth in trading.


Lesson Topics:

  • Introduction to trading: basic terms and principles.
  • How the exchange works: market mechanics and its participants.
  • Trading instruments: stocks, futures, options, and other assets.
  • Technical analysis: charts, indicators, and trading patterns.
  • Fundamental analysis: assessing market conditions and news.
  • Risk management: stop-losses, averaging, deposit calculation.
  • Examples of trading strategies: from basic to advanced.
  • Trading psychology: how to avoid emotional mistakes.

In this course, you will learn:

  • What trading is and how it works.
  • Where to start and what types of trading exist.
  • Basics for beginners: choosing a broker and trading platform.
  • Market analysis methods: technical and fundamental approaches.
  • Working with technical indicators and building trading strategies.
  • Risk management: Stop Loss, position averaging, deposit calculation.
  • Trading psychology and a self-study plan.
  • Myths about trading and reasons for losses.
  • How to choose the best time for trading and consider trading sessions.
  • What volatility is and how to use the ATR indicator.
  • Introduction to futures and options trading: key differences.
  • Basics of volume analysis: Wyckoff method, Steidlmayer’s market profile.
  • Working with support and resistance levels, false breakouts, and Price Action.
  • Japanese candlesticks, order blocks, imbalance, pin bars, and liquidity grabs.
  • Market mechanics: order types, order book, accumulation and distribution phases.
  • Elliott Waves and Fibonacci levels.
  • Introduction to the Smart Money concept.
  • The role of books and features of paid education.
  • How to use exchange volumes to forecast the market.
  • Trading system based on a “false breakout” of a level.
  • How NOT to lose money in trading.

Section 1 - Trading for Beginners

In this section, you will learn about the following topics:


The “Trading for Beginners” section is valuable because it helps provide a general understanding of trading: how the market works, who traders are, and how they make money. It also helps avoid common mistakes by providing information on trading myths, drawdowns, averaging, and other pitfalls that beginner traders encounter. This section also explains key concepts such as trading terms, timeframes, leverage, and trading systems, forming a solid knowledge base that provides a realistic view of risks, especially in the realm of cryptocurrencies and when using borrowed funds. Here, you will find step-by-step instructions on getting started: how to choose a platform, where to begin learning, and what to pay attention to. Additionally, the section helps you determine what suits you better— trading or investing—by comparing both approaches.

As a result, completing this section gives a beginner trader a comprehensive understanding of the profession, its associated risks, and how to avoid them, enabling confident mastery of trading theory with minimal losses.


Section 2 - Technical Market Analysis

In this section, you will learn about the following topics:


The benefit of the "Technical Market Analysis" section lies in providing practical tools and methods for predicting price movements in the market. This section helps you understand how to "read" a chart by analyzing price and market behavior without relying on fundamental analysis. You will study the core elements of technical analysis, such as support and resistance levels, trends, channels, patterns, and candlestick formations, enabling you to accurately identify entry and exit points for trades. Topics like Elliott Wave analysis, Fibonacci levels, and patterns (flag, triangle, head and shoulders, 1-2-3, double top, and double bottom) will teach you to recognize recurring market structures, allowing you to forecast future market movements. You will also learn how to use indicators and moving averages for additional signal confirmation and filtering out "noise" on the chart. As a result of completing this section, a beginner trader transforms from someone who "guesses" into a more systematic and confident market participant, using objective data to make decisions about entering and exiting positions.


Section 3 - Volume Market Analysis

In this section, you will learn about the following topics:


The benefit of the section covering topics on market phases, volumes, and exchange mechanisms lies in providing a deep understanding of the market’s internal structure and the logic behind price movements. This is the next level after basic technical analysis—a more professional and precise approach.

Here are its main advantages: Understanding market phases and trend anatomy allows you to determine where the market currently stands—accumulation, growth, distribution, or decline—and act accordingly. A deep understanding of pricing and liquidity explains where prices come from, how orders work, and why prices move—you begin to see the “mechanics” of the market. The skill of working with the order book and tape of prints provides insight into the intentions of large players and allows you to identify potential reversals or impulses before they appear on the chart. Volume analysis (Wyckoff, Steidlmayer, accumulation levels) teaches you how volume reveals the real behavior of supply and demand, helping you distinguish “smart money” from the crowd and predict likely price developments. Market auctions and sentiment analysis allow you to assess the psychology of participants and understand who controls the market at any given moment—buyers or sellers. Setting stop-losses based on market structure helps place protections logically, reducing the likelihood of being stopped out unnecessarily. Price forecasting based on volume and participant behavior provides a strategic advantage: you don’t just follow the price but understand why it moves in a certain direction. Ultimately, this section teaches you to think like a professional trader, relying not only on charts but also on logic, volumes, structure, and market participant behavior.


Section 4 - Smart Money Concept

In this section, you will learn about the following topics:


The section dedicated to Smart Money Concepts provides both beginner and advanced traders with a deep understanding of the behavior of large market players and teaches how to analyze the market from the perspective of liquidity, manipulations, and the intentions of market makers and other major participants. This is a practical foundation that allows you to stop being part of the “crowd” and start thinking like a professional. You will learn how banks, funds, and market makers think and trade, that they don’t “guess” but create price movements by taking liquidity from the market. This enables you to trade alongside them rather than against them. Topics like imbalance, order blocks, FVG, and liquidity zones teach you to identify key areas on the chart where hidden actions of large players occur. You will learn to recognize techniques such as false breakouts, stop hunting, and hidden orders (iceberg) and avoid common traps that 90% of traders fall into. You will begin to understand where the crowd’s stop-losses accumulate and how large players use them to open their positions. This helps you build trades based on the real interests of big money in the market. The section includes clear entry strategies and a step-by-step guide: from identifying market structure to placing trades with minimal risk and high profit potential.

Ultimately, this section provides an understanding of market architecture, teaches you to think like a market maker, recognize market manipulations, and use them to your advantage. This is the key to transitioning from chaotic trading to systematic professional trading. Detailed trade examples with full descriptions and step-by-step guidance provide an excellent practical foundation for finding profitable entry points on the chart with an optimal profit-to-loss ratio.


Section 5 - Trading Psychology

In this section, you will learn about the following topics:


The benefit of the section dedicated to trading psychology and the reasons for losses lies in helping you recognize and control internal factors that prevent a trader from achieving consistent results. This is one of the key components of successful trading, often underestimated. The section helps understand why most traders lose their deposits—not usually due to a “wrong strategy,” but because of fear, greed, lack of discipline, and unrealistic expectations. The market creates numerous mental “traps”: from the urge to recover losses to euphoria after profits. By recognizing them, a trader learns to resist emotional impulses and avoid impulsive decisions.

You will learn how emotions impact thinking, risk perception, and decision-making, enabling you to stay calm even under high pressure. The topic of “gambling vs. business” helps shift your mindset: to stop trading like a gambler and start acting like an entrepreneur— with calculation, risk management, and a clear plan. Exploring William Gann’s biography and methods provides motivation and demonstrates how psychological discipline combines with technical analysis to achieve success. You’re not just learning to press buttons on a platform; you’re building a mindset that helps you endure losing streaks, stick to your plan, and treat trading as systematic work. This section is the foundation for transitioning from an emotional gambler to a stable trader. Without psychological preparation, no strategy will yield results in the long term.


Section 6 - Fundamental Market Analysis

In this section, you will learn about the following topics:


The benefit of the section dedicated to fundamental analysis lies in helping traders understand why the market moves in a particular direction based on global economic and political factors. This provides a broader picture of what’s happening and allows for informed trading decisions, especially over medium- and long-term horizons. You will learn to assess the impact of macroeconomics on asset prices, understand global trends, and identify the fundamental reasons behind movements in currencies, stocks, and indices. Inflation, interest rates, employment, and GDP all influence market participants’ behavior. The section explains how to interpret these indicators and use them in trading. You will also learn how global stock indices reflect economic sentiment and how news and press releases can trigger significant market movements.


Section 7 - Cryptocurrency

In this section, you will learn about the following topics:


The benefit of the section dedicated to cryptocurrencies lies in providing both novice and active traders with a comprehensive understanding of how the crypto market operates, its associated risks, and how to make informed decisions. This helps avoid common mistakes, steer clear of scams, develop a trading strategy, and manage capital effectively. You will learn how to avoid losing everything in margin trading, how crypto arbitrage and Bitcoin ETFs work, the roles of market makers, and how to analyze supply and demand in the crypto market. Additionally, you will discover how to secure your funds, understand the risks and benefits of crypto staking, learn what sets Tether apart from other stablecoins, and why algorithmic stablecoins present unique risks and opportunities. As a result, this section forms a foundation for confident and informed participation in cryptocurrency markets.


Section 8 - Trade Examples

This section is the final and concluding part of trading theory for beginners. It consolidates all trading theory into a related to the topic of “false breakouts” and the Smart Money concept.

The main benefit lies in providing ready-made practical examples with step-by-step logic for identifying entry and exit points, offering a complete understanding of how to select trades with the most effective “risk/reward” ratio, determine the level for a protective “stop-loss” order, and set trade targets. It also teaches how to avoid traps set by large players, trade in harmony with professionals, and stay away from the market “crowd.”


📑 Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Trading for Beginners

Recommendations for self-studying trading and the sequence for mastering key topics:

  1. 📌 Exchange structure, main participants, and basic definitions.
  2. 📌 Main types of market analysis (with a focus on technical analysis).
  3. 📌 Technical analysis
    • Chart analysis
    • Support and resistance levels
  4. 📌 Volume analysis
    • Types and categories of orders, market mechanics
    • Logic of “liquidity” at levels
    • False breakouts and “stop-loss hunting”
    • Main methods of analyzing exchange volumes
  5. 📌 Market psychology
    • How to avoid “tilt,” “gambling,” and “greed.”
  6. 📌 Trading system
    • Why systematic trading is the foundation of success, money management, and mathematical expectation.

🎯 Conclusion

This list allows you to build a “roadmap” for mastering the trading profession and provides sufficient understanding of the direction to pursue. I also believe that studying these topics offers a comprehensive understanding of all risks associated with trading, enabling anyone interested to make an informed decision about pursuing this profession.

Trading is inherently tied to the “pursuit of truth,” much like chess—the smartest prevail. This profession touches various aspects of a person’s life and leads to profound changes that foster qualities such as discipline, patience, and critical thinking. The trader’s path is often challenging and, at times, extremely difficult, but ultimately, individuals gain the ability to analyze and actively manage capital—an invaluable skill in the modern world.

Respectfully, the author of the course “Learn Trading from Scratch” — Igor Arapov.

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