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Learn to interpret price action, identify support/resistance levels, and understand technical indicators without reliance on trading signals.
Explore cognitive biases, emotional discipline, and decision-making frameworks essential for consistent market participation.
Understand position sizing, stop-loss strategies, portfolio risk assessment, and other critical risk control methods.
Purpose: To buy or sell at a specified price or better.
Mechanics: The order is placed in the order book and executed only when the market reaches your specified price. Provides price certainty but not execution certainty.
Practical Use: Accumulating positions over time at desired price levels, taking profits at specific targets.
Purpose: To limit potential losses on a position.
Mechanics: Becomes a market order once the stop price is reached. Execution price may differ from stop price (slippage), especially in volatile conditions.
Practical Use: Essential for defining risk before entering any trade. Should be placed at a logical technical level where the trade thesis is invalidated.
Purpose: To determine the appropriate amount to risk on a single trade.
Mechanics: Calculated based on account size, stop-loss distance, and maximum risk per trade (typically 1-2%). Formula: Position Size = (Account Risk) / (Stop Distance).
Practical Use: The most important risk management tool. Ensures consistent risk exposure regardless of trade setup volatility.
Purpose: To identify price levels where significant trading activity has occurred.
Mechanics: Displays volume traded at specific price levels over a selected time period, creating a histogram on the price axis.
Practical Use: Identifying support/resistance zones, high-volume nodes (fair value), and low-volume gaps (potential acceleration zones).
How to identify trends, ranges, and key market phases through objective chart analysis without predictive claims.
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