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

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

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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 23 min

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  1. How to Become a Trader: A Realistic Path From ZeroLesson 1

    How to become a trader

    15 min read

  2. Types of Trading: 7 Trading Styles ExplainedLesson 2

    Types of trading

    18 min read

  3. Day Trading for Beginners: How It Works and 5 StrategiesLesson 3

    Day trading for beginners

    14 min read

  4. Paper Trading: How to Practice Trading Without RiskLesson 4

    Paper trading

    14 min read

  5. What Is Forex Trading? Currency Pairs, ExplainedLesson 5

    What is forex trading

    8 min read

  6. How to Become a Funded Trader: A Step-by-Step GuideLesson 6

    How to become a funded trader

    14 min read

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.

Open the cheat sheet All technical analysis articles

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Chart patterns

Indicators

ICT and smart money

Trading strategies

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

13 lessons 3 h 9 min

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  1. Trading Strategies: 12 Strategies Explained for BeginnersLesson 1

    All trading strategies compared

    18 min read

  2. Swing Trading Strategies: 6 Setups With Entry, Stop and Target RulesLesson 2

    Swing trading strategies

    14 min read

  3. Breakout Trading Strategy: Ranges, Triangles, Flags and RetestsLesson 3

    Breakout trading

    15 min read

  4. Mean Reversion Trading Strategy: Setups, Rules and RisksLesson 4

    Mean reversion

    15 min read

  5. Opening Range Breakout (ORB) Strategy: Rules and ExamplesLesson 5

    Opening range breakout

    14 min read

  6. Momentum Trading Strategy: How to Trade StrengthLesson 6

    Momentum trading

    14 min read

  7. Trend Following Strategy: Rules, Examples and RiskLesson 7

    Trend following

    14 min read

  8. Price Action Trading: Strategy, Setups and ExamplesLesson 8

    Price action trading

    14 min read

  9. Supply and Demand Trading: How to Draw and Trade ZonesLesson 9

    Supply and demand trading

    15 min read

  10. Scalping Trading: How It Works, Costs and RisksLesson 10

    Scalping

    14 min read

  11. Swing Trading: What It Is and How to StartLesson 11

    Swing trading

    14 min read

  12. Position Trading: A Long-Term Trading Strategy ExplainedLesson 12

    Position trading

    13 min read

  13. Order Flow Trading: What Big Flows Tell You (and Hide)Lesson 13

    Order flow trading

    15 min read

Risk and orders

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

13 lessons 3 h 3 min

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  1. Risk Management in Trading: 7 Rules That Keep You in the GameLesson 1

    Risk management in trading

    18 min read

  2. Risk-Reward Ratio Explained for Funded TradersLesson 2

    Risk reward ratio

    11 min read

  3. Stop Loss: What It Is and Where to Place ItLesson 3

    Stop loss

    14 min read

  4. Kelly Criterion: The Position Sizing Formula ExplainedLesson 4

    Kelly criterion

    15 min read

  5. Margin Call: What It Is and How to Avoid OneLesson 5

    Margin call

    15 min read

  6. Notional Value Explained for Funded TradersLesson 6

    Notional value

    10 min read

  7. Order Types in Trading: Every Order ExplainedLesson 7

    Order types

    14 min read

  8. Market Order vs Limit Order: What Every Trader Should KnowLesson 8

    Market vs limit orders

    15 min read

  9. Stop-Limit Order: How It Works vs a Stop-Market OrderLesson 9

    Stop limit order

    14 min read

  10. Slippage in Trading: What It Is and How to Reduce ItLesson 10

    Slippage

    15 min read

  11. Bid-Ask Spread: What It Is and How It Affects Your TradesLesson 11

    Bid ask spread

    14 min read

  12. Short Selling: How to Short a Stock and the RisksLesson 12

    Short selling

    14 min read

  13. Short Squeeze: What It Is and How It HappensLesson 13

    Short squeeze

    14 min read

Trading psychology

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

9 lessons 2 h 7 min

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  1. Trading Psychology: Discipline, Overtrading and the Most Dangerous WinLesson 1

    Trading psychology

    14 min read

  2. How to Create a Trading Plan (With Template)Lesson 2

    Trading plan

    15 min read

  3. Trading Discipline: How to Follow Your RulesLesson 3

    Trading discipline

    13 min read

  4. Trading Journal: What to Track (Free Template)Lesson 4

    Trading journal

    16 min read

  5. FOMO Trading: How Fear of Missing Out Costs TradersLesson 5

    FOMO trading

    13 min read

  6. Revenge Trading: Why It Happens and How to StopLesson 6

    Revenge trading

    14 min read

  7. Overtrading: Signs, Costs and How to StopLesson 7

    Overtrading

    14 min read

  8. Loss Aversion in Trading: Why Losses Hurt MoreLesson 8

    Loss aversion

    14 min read

  9. Jerome Kerviel: The Société Générale Rogue Trader, Seen From the MarketLesson 9

    Jerome Kerviel: a risk lesson

    14 min read

Markets

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

19 lessons 3 h 8 min

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  1. How to Trade Forex: Pairs, Pips, Leverage, and Funded AccountsLesson 1

    How to trade forex

    9 min read

  2. What Is a Pip in Forex? Pip Value, ExplainedLesson 2

    What is a pip

    7 min read

  3. Forex Market Hours: Sessions, Overlaps, and the Best Times to TradeLesson 3

    Forex market hours

    9 min read

  4. NFP Meaning: What Non-Farm Payrolls Mean for TradersLesson 4

    NFP trading

    11 min read

  5. What Is FOMC and Why It Moves MarketsLesson 5

    FOMC trading

    10 min read

  6. How to Trade Gold (XAUUSD): Spot, Futures, Tokenized, and Funded AccountsLesson 6

    How to trade gold

    11 min read

  7. What Is XAUUSD? Spot Gold Priced in US Dollars, ExplainedLesson 7

    What is XAUUSD

    9 min read

  8. How to Trade Silver (XAGUSD): Spot, Futures, and Funded AccountsLesson 8

    How to trade silver

    8 min read

  9. How to Trade Oil (WTI and Brent): CFDs, Futures, and Funded AccountsLesson 9

    How to trade oil

    7 min read

  10. Contango vs Backwardation: The Futures Curve ExplainedLesson 10

    Contango and backwardation

    13 min read

  11. How to Trade Indices: CFDs, Futures, ETFs, and Funded AccountsLesson 11

    How to trade indices

    9 min read

  12. What Is NAS100? The Nasdaq-100 Index ExplainedLesson 12

    What is NAS100

    7 min read

  13. Futures Market Hours Explained for Funded TradersLesson 13

    Futures market hours

    13 min read

  14. Call vs Put Options: The Difference ExplainedLesson 14

    Call vs put options

    14 min read

  15. Selling Puts and Covered Calls: How Option Selling Really WorksLesson 15

    Selling puts and covered calls

    15 min read

  16. Tokenized Gold vs Spot Gold: XAUT, PAXG, and XAUUSD ExplainedLesson 16

    Tokenized gold vs spot gold

    7 min read

  17. What Is DXtrade? The Prop Firm Trading Platform ExplainedLesson 17

    What is DXtrade

    9 min read

  18. Can You Use MT5 in the US? Why Prop Firms Switched to DXtradeLesson 18

    Can you use MT5 in the US

    8 min read

  19. Crypto Prop Firms That Allow Weekend Holding in 2026Lesson 19

    Weekend holding on funded accounts

    12 min read

Crypto derivatives

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

8 lessons 1 h 53 min

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  1. Crypto Derivatives: Futures, Perpetuals and Options ExplainedLesson 1

    Crypto derivatives explained

    18 min read

  2. Perpetual Futures: How Perps Work in CryptoLesson 2

    Perpetual futures

    13 min read

  3. Funding Rate in Crypto: What It Is and Who PaysLesson 3

    Funding rate

    14 min read

  4. Open Interest: What It Means and How to Read ItLesson 4

    Open interest

    15 min read

  5. Mark Price vs Last Price: What Traders Need to KnowLesson 5

    Mark price

    15 min read

  6. What Is Liquidation in Trading and How It WorksLesson 6

    Liquidation

    10 min read

  7. Cross Margin vs Isolated Margin: Which to UseLesson 7

    Cross vs isolated margin

    14 min read

  8. Crypto Futures vs Spot Trading: Key DifferencesLesson 8

    Crypto futures vs spot

    14 min read

Algo and quant trading

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

18 lessons 4 h 8 min

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  1. What Is Algorithmic Trading? A Clear GuideLesson 1

    What is algorithmic trading

    11 min read

  2. Quant Trading Explained: Strategies, Tools, and Funded CapitalLesson 2

    Quant trading

    19 min read

  3. Backtesting Trading Strategies: A Practical GuideLesson 3

    Backtesting

    18 min read

  4. How to Build a Trading Bot (Step by Step)Lesson 4

    How to build a trading bot

    13 min read

  5. AI Trading Strategies That Actually WorkLesson 5

    AI trading strategies

    11 min read

  6. Algorithmic Trading Strategies: 7 Types and How They WorkLesson 6

    Algorithmic trading strategies

    14 min read

  7. Pine Script: How to Write and Test a TradingView StrategyLesson 7

    Pine Script

    14 min read

  8. Crypto trading bot: types, risks and how to run oneLesson 8

    Crypto trading bot

    14 min read

  9. Forex trading bot: EAs, robots and how to test oneLesson 9

    Forex trading bot

    14 min read

  10. Grid trading bot: how grids work and when they failLesson 10

    Grid trading bot

    13 min read

  11. AI Trading Bot: How It Works, Types, and How to Build OneLesson 11

    AI trading bot

    15 min read

  12. AI Forex Trading: How It Works and Where to Run ItLesson 12

    AI forex trading

    11 min read

  13. AI Trading Signals: How They Work and Their LimitsLesson 13

    AI trading signals

    12 min read

  14. Crypto Signals: How to Judge a Provider Before You PayLesson 14

    Crypto signals

    14 min read

  15. Statistical Arbitrage and Pairs Trading ExplainedLesson 15

    Statistical arbitrage

    14 min read

  16. Crypto Arbitrage: Types, a Worked Example and the RisksLesson 16

    Crypto arbitrage

    14 min read

  17. High Frequency Trading (HFT): What It Is and How It WorksLesson 17

    High-frequency trading

    13 min read

  18. DXtrade API: Connect a Trading Bot to VelotradeLesson 18

    DXtrade API for algo trading

    14 min read

Free calculators

Put the lessons into numbers before you place a trade.

All tools
Position size calculatorSize any trade from your risk and stopLot size calculatorForex lots from your risk and stopPip value calculatorWhat one pip is worth on any pairForex profit calculatorProfit or loss on a tradeDrawdown calculatorHow much you can lose before you breachRisk reward calculatorRatio, breakeven win rate and expectancyCrypto futures calculatorLeveraged PnL, fees and breakevenLiquidation price calculatorWhere an isolated position gets liquidatedMarket sessions clockWhich forex sessions are open right now