The market: the game to understand buying, selling, winning and losing
Buying, short selling, winning, losing: everything nobody explains simply, in one game. Chapter 1 of the beginner path, right after the candle. A bet up or down, an entry, an exit, on a real chart: won or lost, by how many points, how many dollars?
How to play
The guided chart explains what a price is, what is traded (futures contracts on the Nasdaq and gold), then counts a first buy in points and dollars. Then, on each chart, an Entry line and an Exit line: won or lost? by how many points? how many dollars?
The rule that keeps score
Buy (long): you win if price rises between entry and exit. Sell first (short): you win if it falls. A point is a unit of price; each point is worth a fixed amount per contract: $2 for the micro Nasdaq contract (MNQ), $10 for the micro gold contract (MGC). The gain or loss: points × value per point × number of contracts.
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The beginner path
Eight chapters and an exam, from the market to the first trade: the market, the candle, highs and lows, the trend, the break of structure, support and resistance, risk, then the decision, and the final exam that brings it all together. Each one can be played on its own, in any order; Easy is for practice; a chapter is passed when every chart of a game at Medium or Hard is. It is an exercise on past data, not a trading signal.
The beginner path
In any order you like, but each chapter assumes the ones before it.
Its colour and its four prices: open, close, high, low.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Bet up or down, and count what you win or lose, in points and in dollars.
3 levels · 5 charts per gameThe waves of price, and the landmarks they leave.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 3The trendUp, down or range, read on four points.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 4The break of structureThe close that confirms the trend goes on.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 5Support and resistanceThe levels price will meet, above and below.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 6RiskThe stop, the target, R and the number of contracts.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 7DecidingLong, short, or do nothing, on a real moment of a session.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Final examThe final examThe whole path on a real moment of a session, with no help.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →The ICT concepts
What comes after the beginner path: each ICT concept has its game, on real charts, with its written rule.
The first break against the trend.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →DisplacementThe big candle that shows real intent.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →CISDThe close that flips the delivery.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Equal highs / lowsTwo highs at the same level: a pool of stops.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →STH, ITH, LTHThe high that survived a return of price.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Buy-side / sell-sideWhere the stops sit, above and below.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Stop huntThe wick that goes for the stops, then comes back.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Draw on liquidityThe liquidity price goes for.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Fair Value GapThe price gap left by a candle that moved too fast.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Inversion FVGThe FVG price went through, and that switches sides.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Balanced Price RangeTwo opposite FVGs that overlap.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Breakaway gapThe first FVG of a pair, which price never fills.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Order blockThe last opposite candle before an impulsive move.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Breaker blockThe order block that gave way, and switches sides.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Mitigation blockThe order block revisited, that holds, and that price leaves from.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Premium / discountThe middle of the range: expensive above, cheap below.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Optimal Trade EntryThe pullback zone between 62 and 79%.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →SessionsLondon, New York, and the hours they overlap.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →KillzonesThe hours when the market really moves.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Silver bulletThe FVG formed in the right hour.
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