Foundations
Everything a professional trader knows before they place a trade.
The fundamentals of the market and the full set of retail trading concepts and strategies, taught in order, with every source and note you need to keep.
What you'll learn
- Understand who moves the market, when, and why price behaves the way it does
- Read any chart with market structure, sessions and key levels
- Trade complete retail strategies with clear entries, stops and targets
- Size every position from a fixed risk, and know your numbers in R
- Build a written trading plan and the habits of a professional
Curriculum
6 modules, taught in this order.
- 01
How the market works
Market participants and liquidity. Sessions and when to trade them. Instruments, brokers and prop firms. Spreads, leverage and margin.
- 02
Reading price
Candlesticks and timeframes. Market structure: highs, lows and trend. Support, resistance and key levels.
- 03
Retail trading concepts
Supply and demand. Trendlines and channels. Chart patterns that still work. Confluence and context.
- 04
Retail strategies
Complete strategies, step by step. Entries, stop placement and targets. Backtesting a strategy properly.
- 05
Risk and position sizing
Risk per trade and the R multiple. Drawdown maths. Position sizing on any instrument.
- 06
Thinking like a professional
Writing your trading plan. Journaling and review. Trading psychology and discipline.
This course is for you if
- You are new to trading, or self-taught with gaps
- You want a structured path instead of scattered videos
- You are ready to treat trading as a skill, not a gamble
After this course
Advanced picks up where Foundations ends: prop firm trading, advanced price action and ICT concepts in depth.
View AdvancedFoundations questions.
Once you enroll, Foundations appears in your WickLabs account, with every lesson, note and source.
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Book a free consultation and we'll tell you honestly which path fits where you are. Or start with the free Discord.