Learn to trade

Free trading lessons: read charts, use indicators, pick a strategy, size risk and manage your psychology. Plain-English guides with worked examples.

99 free lessons, no sign-up. Need account or platform help? See the Velotrade guides.

Start here Charts and indicators Strategies Risk Psychology Markets Crypto derivatives Algo trading Calculators

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What trading is, the main styles, and how to practise before real or firm capital is on the line.

6 lessons 1 h 21 min

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Technical analysis

Learn to read any chart

Every chart pattern, indicator and price-action concept in one place, with annotated charts, plain rules and the mistakes to avoid.

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Trading strategies

Rules for entries, exits and risk, each with a worked example sized for a prop firm challenge.

13 lessons 3 h 2 min

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Risk and orders

Position sizing, stops and order types: the mechanics that decide whether a strategy survives a drawdown limit.

13 lessons 2 h 53 min

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Trading psychology

The habits that fail more challenges than bad entries do, and the routines that fix them.

9 lessons 2 h 3 min

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Markets

How each market moves, when it trades, and the news that moves it.

14 lessons 2 h 12 min

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Crypto derivatives

How perpetual futures price, fund and liquidate, and the data traders watch.

8 lessons 1 h 47 min

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Algo and quant trading

Turn rules into code: backtesting, bots and connecting a strategy through an API.

6 lessons 1 h 14 min

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Free calculators

Put the lessons into numbers before you place a trade.

Position size calculatorSize any trade from your risk and stop Lot size calculatorForex lots from your risk and stop Pip value calculatorWhat one pip is worth on any pair Forex profit calculatorProfit or loss on a trade Drawdown calculatorHow much you can lose before you breach