Trading with a plan
Market structure, support and resistance, indicators and volume, order types and costs, position sizing, a trading plan and the psychology behind it.
5 modules · 17 lessons · 70 min
Risk warning
This course is educational and is not investment advice. Trading crypto is highly risky – you can lose all the money you put in. Read the risk warning
Who it is for
People who know the basics of crypto – exchanges, wallets, a candlestick chart – and want to trade with a plan instead of a gut feeling.
What you will learn
- Read market structure and work with support and resistance zones
- Use moving averages, RSI and volume – and know their limits
- Choose the right order type and count the real cost of a trade
- Size a position, write a trading plan and keep a journal
Course outline
Module 1Market structure
- 1.Trend and market structureHow to read a trend from its highs and lows, when the structure breaks and why even the nicest structure guarantees nothing.5 min
- 2.Support and resistance in depthWhy support and resistance are zones rather than lines, what a breakout and a retest look like and why resistance turns into support.5 min
- 3.Multiple timeframesHow to combine the weekly, daily and hourly chart into one picture, so that noise does not scare you and detail does not blind you.6 min
Module 2Indicators and volume
- 4.Moving averagesWhat SMA and EMA are, how to use them as a trend filter and why the so-called golden cross comes late.5 min
- 5.RSI and momentumWhat RSI measures, why “overbought” does not mean “sell” and how to use a momentum indicator sensibly.4 min
- 6.Volume: confirming the moveWhat trading volume reveals, how to confirm a breakout with it and why you take crypto volume with a pinch of salt.5 min
- 7.Why indicators misleadDelay, false signals in a range, overfitting to the past and ten indicators that say the same thing.4 min
Module 3Orders and costs
- 8.Order types in depthStop-market, stop-limit, OCO and the trailing stop: how they work, when to use which and where they can catch you out.4 min
- 9.What a trade costsMaker and taker fees, the spread, slippage and withdrawals – and why frequent trading eats an account even without a single wrong prediction.3 min
- 10.Spot vs futures: leverage, liquidation, fundingHow buying a coin differs from trading contracts, how liquidation and funding work – and why we do not recommend it to beginners.5 min
Module 4Risk and the trading plan
- 11.Position size and R-multiplesHow to work out position size from risk, why to measure results in R and how fast an account sinks with high risk.4 min
- 12.Expected valueWhy the win rate alone means nothing, how to calculate expected value and why you need hundreds of trades before you know anything.3 min
- 13.A trading plan step by stepWhat belongs in a trading plan, how to write it on one page and why decisions are made in advance, not in the trade.4 min
- 14.A trading journal and reviewWhat to record for every trade, how to review the journal once a week and how to spot your own mistakes in it.3 min
Module 5Psychology
- 15.Emotions: FOMO, fear and revenge tradingWhy a loss hurts more than a profit pleases, what FOMO and revenge trading look like and what to do so emotions do not decide for you.3 min
- 16.Thinking trapsConfirmation bias, overconfidence, sunk costs and other traps every trader falls into – and how to get around them.3 min
- 17.When not to trade, and what nextSituations where the best trade is no trade, a recap of the whole course and a safe way to try out your plan.4 min