Pathway 10 courses Beginner friendly
Master the market step by step. Complete each stage to unlock the next one.
A beginner course covering why inflation makes investing necessary, when and what to invest in, the right attitude, and where to start.
Why Investing Matters Explains how inflation quietly erodes buying power over time, why a bank account is no longer enough, and why investing is something everyone needs - not just the wealthy. Start When Should You Invest? Covers the classic timing trap - buying high out of excitement and waiting too long at low prices - and introduces chart analysis as a way to read what the big players are doing. Locked Stocks vs Other Investments Introduces the three main investment venues - stocks, commodities with margin, and physical valuables - and explains why US stocks are a strong starting point for beginners. Locked The Right Investment Mindset Covers the healthy attitude for investing: treating it as a part-time income rather than a get-rich-quick scheme, dividing capital into time buckets, and keeping investment life separate from work life. Locked Course Recap: Investing 101 A quick timed recap of everything this course covered, from inflation to timing to product choice to mindset. Locked
How Markets Work Details Learn what a stock exchange is, why markets matter for the economy, what moves prices up and down, and how rules protect investors from extreme crashes.
Where Buyers Meet Sellers This lesson explains what a stock exchange is, what a share of stock actually proves, and why different exchanges trade different products. Locked How Markets Shape Economies This lesson explains why a healthy stock market signals a healthy economy, why capital concentration matters, and why the Dow Jones is called the world's economic thermometer. Locked Read Any Market Move This lesson teaches the four factors - global, regional, sector, and company - that cause the market to rise or fall, with concrete examples of each. Locked How Markets Stay Safe This lesson explains stop-high and stop-low daily limits - how they protect individual stocks from extreme swings and the trade-offs they create for investors. Locked The Whole-Market Shutdown This lesson explains the US circuit breaker: its three trigger levels, how it was born from the 1987 crash, and how it was used four times in March 2020. Locked Profit When Prices Fall This lesson explains what short selling is, how it works, and its genuine advantages and disadvantages for the market and individual investors. Locked Course Recap: Market Foundations A quick timed recap of everything covered in Course 1 - exchanges, market importance, the four factors, stop limits, circuit breakers, and short selling. Locked
Read the Market at a Glance Details Learn the five major US stock indices - Dow Jones, S&P 500, NASDAQ, Russell, and Wilshire - plus stock futures and US trading hours.
One Number for the Whole Market This lesson explains what a stock index is, why markets need them, and why selecting a group of important stocks beats tracking every share. Locked The World's Most Watched Number This lesson covers the history and composition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, how its price-average formula works, and why speculators prefer it. Locked The Researcher's and Tech Investor's Index This lesson covers the S&P family of indices (500, 400, 600, 1500), who uses them, and the origin and character of the NASDAQ as the world's first electronic market. Locked The Indices Nobody Talks About This lesson covers the Russell and Wilshire indices - their structure, what makes them different from the Big Three, and why they are rarely in the news. Locked Buy the Index, Not the Stock This lesson explains what a stock index future is, its four main functions, and why big investors use it to speed up entering and exiting the market. Locked Know Exactly When to Trade This lesson covers US market trading hours across all four time zones, extended hours, and the official NYSE and NASDAQ holidays. Locked Course Recap: US Stock Indices A quick timed recap of all lessons in Course 2 - why indices exist, the five US indices, stock futures, and trading hours. Locked
Markets and Trading Details Learn how stock exchanges work, when markets are open, how prices are quoted, and how different order types get your trade done.
NYSE and NASDAQ Introduces the two main US stock exchanges - where they are, what they list, and what makes each one unique. Locked Trading Hours Explained Covers the three trading sessions on the NYSE and NASDAQ - pre-market, core, and after-hours - and explains why extended hours carry extra risk. Locked Bid, Ask, and Spread Teaches what the bid price, the ask price, and the spread mean, using a real Tesla quote as a worked example. Locked Order Types Teaches the three main order types - market, limit, and stop - with a focus on how limit orders work and when to use them. Locked ETFs and IPOs Explains what an ETF is, the three most famous ETFs, and how a company's first sale to the public through an IPO works. Locked Margin Trading Explains what margin trading is, how margin calls work, and why the risk scales up dramatically when you trade with borrowed money. Locked Course Recap: Markets and Trading A quick timed recap of everything this course covered - exchanges, trading hours, bid-ask, order types, ETFs, IPOs, and margin. Locked
Markets and Money Details Learn what bull and bear markets are, how dividends and P/E ratios work, and what the biggest financial crises in history have in common.
Adjustment and Rebound Explains what a market adjustment (correction) and a rebound are, why they happen, and how investors use them. Locked Bull Markets Teaches what a bull market is, its three stages (Worrying, Building, Euphoria), and how to recognise which stage the market is in. Locked Bear Markets Covers what a bear market is, its three stages (Denial, Collapse, Recovery), and why it is harder to profit in a bear market than a bull. Locked Dividends and Capital Gains Covers the two ways to profit from stocks - capital gains and dividends - plus the key dates of the dividend process and how dividend yield works. Locked The P/E Ratio Explains what the price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) means, how to calculate it, what a normal range looks like for US stocks, and why you must compare within the same industry. Locked Famous Market Crises Covers the Great Depression of 1929, the Black days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Wednesday), the Great Recession of 2008, the Petroleum Crisis, the Shale Oil revolution, and the China-US Trade War. Locked Course Recap: Markets and Money A quick timed recap of everything this course covered - bull and bear markets, dividends, P/E ratio, and the major historical crises. Locked
Reading Charts Details Learn what price charts are, why they exist, and how to tell the eight main chart types apart.
What Charts Do This lesson explains the core job of a price chart - storing and displaying past prices visually so you can spot trends without reading hundreds of figures. Locked Candlestick and Bar This lesson covers the two dominant chart types - the candlestick and the bar chart - including why practitioners prefer the HLC bar over the OHLC bar. Locked Six More Chart Types This lesson walks through six specialist chart types - dot, line, area, bar forest, Heiken Ashi, and Renko - explaining what each one emphasizes and when you might reach for it. Locked Course Recap: Reading Charts A quick timed recap of everything this course covered - chart functions, time frames, candlestick, bar, and the six specialist types. Locked
Triangle Patterns Details Learn how the ascending, descending, and symmetric triangle patterns form and what each one signals about future price direction.
Why Patterns Form This lesson explains the market behavior that creates chart patterns - the Big Shot's formula buying strategy and why individual investors depend on charts rather than news tips. Locked The Ascending Triangle This lesson covers the ascending triangle in full: how it forms, how to calculate the profit target, which past trends make it reliable, and how to tell a firm pattern from a loose one. Locked Descending Triangle This lesson covers the descending triangle - the mirror image of the ascending triangle - including the formula-selling mechanism, profit target calculation, and how to tell a firm pattern from a loose one. Locked Triangle Variants This lesson covers three triangle variants - the upward-variant ascending triangle, the downward-variant descending triangle, and the directionless symmetric triangle. Locked Course Recap: Triangle Patterns A quick timed recap of everything this course covered - formula buying, ascending and descending triangles, profit targets, past trends, and symmetric triangle. Locked Learn how the Head and Shoulders pattern forms, what drives each peak, and when the official sell signal fires.
Why H&S Is Number One Introduces Head and Shoulders as the most trusted reversal pattern, explains why it is not 100% reliable, and sets up the buyer-seller struggle that drives its formation. Start How Hot Money Builds the Pattern Traces how waves of capital - from local insiders to distant Hot Money - create each point of the Head and Shoulders pattern, explaining why the head is taller than the shoulders. Locked Signals: Get Ready, Official, Pullback Teaches the three-stage signal sequence - Get Ready Signal, Pullback, and Official Sell Signal - and explains how trading volume helps you tell a genuine signal from a trap. Locked Reverse Head and Shoulders Introduces the Reverse (Inverted) Head and Shoulders pattern, explains how the three rounds of struggle flip direction to produce a buy signal, and compares it with the standard version. Locked H&S Variants and Past Trends Covers the clinging-up and clinging-down variants, explains how past trends reveal whether an H&S is genuine or a trap, and introduces multi-shoulder and false penetration patterns. Locked Course Recap: Head and Shoulders A quick timed recap of everything covered in the Head and Shoulders course - from formation to signals to variants. Locked
Channels and Double Patterns Details Learn how to draw and trade Channels, read Double Bottom (W-Shape) and Double Top (M-Shape) patterns, and understand Round Bottoms and when patterns are genuine vs. traps.
The Upward Channel: Basic Theory Introduces the Upward Channel pattern, explains how to draw its two parallel lines, and teaches the four signals a Channel can generate. Locked Channel Variants: Trumpet and Funnel Covers the Trumpet Channel (formed when early lines are drawn incorrectly), the Funnel Channel (formed when the upper bounce is lower than expected), and the classic beginner trap of drawing repeated false support lines. Locked Double Bottom (W-Shape) Introduces the Double Bottom (W-Shape) pattern, explains why the buy signal fires at the topline breakout rather than at the bottom, and covers common mid-path traps like Point G and Point J. Locked Double Top and Past Trends Covers the Double Top (M-Shape) as the mirror of the Double Bottom, teaches the five past-trend rules for both patterns, and explains support-and-resistance role swaps at breakout. Locked Round Bottom and True-vs.-False Patterns Introduces the Round Bottom pattern and its Two Bars entry rule, then covers the complete True-and-False guide to matching each pattern to the correct market condition. Locked Course Recap: Channels and Double Patterns A quick timed recap of everything covered in the Channels and Double Patterns course - Channels, Double Bottom, Double Top, Round Bottom, and True-vs.-False Patterns. Locked After this course you can look at any candlestick chart and name what each candle is telling you about that day's price action.
A Rice Trader's Secret Weapon Where the candlestick chart came from, how it spread worldwide, and why traders prefer it over the older bar chart. Start Read a Candle in Seconds Learn the four parts of a single candlestick - body, upper shadow, lower shadow, and their relationship to open and close - plus what white and black bodies mean. Locked Spot a Reversal Early Learn the Anti-Falling Hammer and Rising Hammer single-candle patterns, how to judge their strength by shadow length, and how to confirm a 'single day turn' the right way. Locked Know When to Step Back Learn the Anti-Rising Hammer, Falling Hammer, Struggling High, Struggling Low, Little White, and Little Black line patterns - the single-candle warnings that a trend may be ending. Locked Spot the Market Pause Learn the four Doji patterns - Small Star, Long Leg Star, Upper Cross, Lower Cross - plus the Dragon Fly Doji and Gravestone Doji, and how to use them as get-ready signals. Locked Course Recap: Candle Basics A quick timed recap of everything this course covered - history, candle structure, hammer patterns, warning candles, and Doji types. Locked 
