The whole school on one page
The curriculum
5 belts, 5 courses, 25 lessons and 50 quiz questions — roughly 3 hours of reading if you take it straight through, which you should not. One lesson a day, quiz answered before you move on, is the pace that sticks.
How to use this page
- Work top to bottom. Each belt assumes the vocabulary of the one above it.
- Answer the end-of-lesson quiz before continuing — recall beats re-reading.
- Mark lessons complete as you go; the sidebar tree and header bar track it.
- At the end of a belt, take the belt quiz to check the whole rung at once.
Forex Foundations
You have never placed a trade. Perfect. We start from the very first idea — what a pip is, how lots work, how a price is quoted — and walk you calmly to a first order you actually understand.
What you can do afterwards
- Read a currency quote and count a move in pips
- Explain lots, leverage and margin without notes
- Size a first micro-lot trade from a risk rule
- Choose a regulated broker on evidence, not marketing
| # | Lesson | What it covers | Time | Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is a pip? | The smallest standard step a currency price moves, and why every trader measures gains and losses in pips. | 6 min | 2 Q |
| 2 | Lots & leverage | How position size is measured, and how leverage magnifies both profit and loss. | 8 min | 2 Q |
| 3 | The bid, the ask & the spread | Every price has two sides. The gap between them is your first and most frequent cost. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 4 | Market orders vs limit orders | Two ways to enter the market: take the price now, or wait for the price you want. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 5 | Risk management basics | The one skill that separates traders who last from those who blow up: protecting the account. | 9 min | 2 Q |
| 6 | Reading a candlestick | The candle is the trader's most-used chart. Learn to read one at a glance. | 8 min | 2 Q |
| 7 | How to choose a broker | Your broker holds your money and fills your trades. Choosing well is a risk decision, not a marketing one. | 8 min | 2 Q |
Charts & Execution
The vocabulary is yours. Now you learn to see. Timeframes, structure, support and resistance, and the mechanics of getting in and out without leaking money on every order.
What you can do afterwards
- Pick a timeframe on purpose instead of by habit
- Mark structure: higher highs, lower lows, ranges
- Draw levels that other traders can actually see
- Place market, limit and stop orders deliberately
| # | Lesson | What it covers | Time | Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Choosing a timeframe | The same market looks like three different markets on three different charts. Pick one on purpose. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 2 | Trend and structure | Higher highs, lower lows, and ranges — the plainest description of what a market is doing. | 8 min | 2 Q |
| 3 | Support, resistance & levels | Why price hesitates in the same places twice, and how to draw levels that other people can see too. | 8 min | 2 Q |
| 4 | Order types in practice | Stops, limits, stop-limits and OCO — the full toolkit, and when each one actually earns its place. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 5 | Sessions & liquidity | The forex day has a rhythm. Trading against it is a self-inflicted cost. | 7 min | 2 Q |
Risk & Position Sizing
The belt that keeps you alive. Fixed-fractional risk, stop placement that respects the chart, correlation between pairs, and the arithmetic of drawdown that nobody shows beginners.
What you can do afterwards
- Size every trade from stop distance and risk budget
- Place stops on structure, not on round numbers
- Spot correlated positions stacking the same bet
- Understand what a drawdown really costs to recover
| # | Lesson | What it covers | Time | Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fixed-fractional risk | Risking a constant percentage of equity is the simplest rule that survives a losing streak. | 8 min | 2 Q |
| 2 | Placing a stop that makes sense | A stop belongs where your idea is wrong — not where your loss feels comfortable. | 8 min | 2 Q |
| 3 | Correlation between pairs | Three trades can be one bet. Knowing when tells you whether you are diversified or doubled up. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 4 | The mathematics of drawdown | Recovering from a loss is harder than making it. The asymmetry is the whole argument for small risk. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 5 | Margin calls & stop-outs | What actually happens when losses eat the deposit, and why it usually happens at the worst moment. | 7 min | 2 Q |
Strategy & The Journal
An idea becomes a system. You write rules down, you test them against history honestly, you record every trade, and you review the record instead of your memory.
What you can do afterwards
- Turn a vague idea into written, testable rules
- Backtest without fooling yourself
- Keep a journal that answers questions later
- Read your own statistics: expectancy, win rate, R
| # | Lesson | What it covers | Time | Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Writing a trading plan | If it is not written down before the session, it is not a plan — it is a preference. | 8 min | 2 Q |
| 2 | Backtesting honestly | History will confirm anything you want if you let it. Here is how to stop it. | 8 min | 2 Q |
| 3 | The trading journal | Memory is a story-telling machine. The journal is the only witness that does not flatter you. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 4 | Expectancy & R multiples | One number tells you whether a strategy makes money. Learn to compute it and read it. | 8 min | 2 Q |
Psychology & Longevity
The mechanics are second nature and the enemy is now internal. Tilt, variance, the discipline of doing nothing, and building a trading life that survives a bad quarter.
What you can do afterwards
- Recognise tilt in yourself before it costs money
- Separate a bad outcome from a bad decision
- Sit out flat markets without inventing trades
- Build routines that outlast motivation
| # | Lesson | What it covers | Time | Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Process versus outcome | In a probabilistic game, a good decision can lose and a terrible one can win. Grade accordingly. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 2 | Tilt & revenge trading | The account-ending damage is rarely one bad trade. It is the five that follow it. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 3 | Patience & the discipline of doing nothing | Most of trading is waiting, and waiting badly is what most losing months are made of. | 7 min | 2 Q |
| 4 | Building a routine that lasts | Motivation is a bad power source. Structure is what carries a trader through year two. | 8 min | 2 Q |
After the black belt
There is no sixth belt, because at that point the syllabus stops being the constraint. Keep the journal, run the monthly statistics pass, and use the glossary and calculators as reference rather than as lessons. Re-read the green belt once a year — position sizing is the discipline that decays first.