Mechanics
Contracts · ticks · P/L
FREE TICKLAB / BEGINNER EDUCATION
Learn futures
in the right order.
Start with the instrument. Learn the math. Respect leverage. Then build a process you can practice without guessing.
LEARNING PATH / 5 PHASES
Execution
Orders · stops · targets
Context
Sessions · margin · charts
Protection
Risk · account rules
Process
Checklist · trade plan
CURRICULUM / ALL LESSONS
Build the foundation.
Complete the lessons in order if you are new. Every lesson ends with the next recommended step.
Beginner · 45 min
What Futures Trading Actually Is
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to explain: What a futures contract is How futures trading differs from stock investing What it means to go long or short Why futures are considered leveraged products Why a small market movement can create a significant profit or loss Why understanding risk must come before learning a trading strategy
Beginner · 45 min
NQ, MNQ, ES, and MES Explained
This lesson explains the differences between NQ, MNQ, ES, and MES, including what each market tracks and how much its price movements are worth. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to calculate points, ticks, profit, loss, total trade risk, and an appropriate position size before entering a trade.
Beginner · 45 min
Futures Trading Sessions and Market Hours
This lesson explains when the futures market is open, how the Asia, London, and New York sessions differ, and why price behavior can change throughout the trading day. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to identify the major trading sessions, understand regular and extended trading hours, prepare for scheduled economic news, and choose a consistent trading window that fits your schedule and trading plan.
Beginner · 45 min
Candlesticks Without the Confusion
This lesson explains how candlesticks are created and what their bodies, wicks, opens, highs, lows, and closes communicate about price movement. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to read a candlestick correctly, distinguish strong movement from hesitation, understand why a candle close matters, and avoid treating individual candle shapes as automatic trade signals.
Beginner · 45 min
Market Structure for Beginners
This lesson explains how price forms swing highs, swing lows, trends, pullbacks, ranges, and possible reversals. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to identify higher highs, higher lows, lower highs, and lower lows, distinguish trending conditions from consolidation, and explain what price would need to do to support or invalidate a directional idea.
Core · 45 min
Support and Resistance Done Correctly
This lesson explains how support and resistance areas form, why they should usually be treated as zones instead of perfect lines, and how to evaluate reactions, breakouts, retests, and failed breaks. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to identify meaningful support and resistance, distinguish a reaction from a confirmed reversal, and explain whether price is rejecting, accepting, or moving through an important area.
Core · 45 min
Liquidity
This lesson explains what liquidity means in futures trading, where buy-side and sell-side liquidity may form, and why previous highs and lows often attract price. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to identify common liquidity areas, distinguish a liquidity sweep from a confirmed reversal, and explain why liquidity can suggest where price may travel without automatically providing an entry.
Core · 45 min
Understanding Higher-Timeframe Bias
This lesson explains how higher timeframes provide directional context, why lower-timeframe movement can be misleading, and how to build a basic bullish, bearish, or neutral market bias. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to compare multiple timeframes, identify the major structure controlling price, explain what supports your directional idea, and define what would invalidate that idea before considering a trade.
Intermediate · 45 min
Premium, Discount, and the Middle of the Range
This lesson explains how traders use a dealing range to understand where price is currently positioned. You will learn how to identify a meaningful range, calculate equilibrium, distinguish premium from discount, and understand why these locations are relative to the timeframe and market structure being analyzed. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to explain why premium is not automatically a sell signal, why discount is not automatically a buy signal, and how price location can improve or weaken the quality of a trading opportunity.
Advanced · 45 min
Displacement and Market Intent
This lesson explains what displacement is, how it differs from an ordinary large candle, and what strong directional movement may communicate about buyers and sellers. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to identify the characteristics of displacement, distinguish purposeful expansion from temporary volatility, evaluate candle closes and follow-through, and explain why displacement provides evidence of market intent without becoming an automatic entry signal.
Core · 45 min
Risk Management Before Strategy
This lesson explains why risk management must be established before a trader relies on any strategy. You will learn how to calculate risk per trade, determine position size, evaluate risk-to-reward, understand expectancy, prepare for losing streaks, and create daily and account-level loss limits. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to explain exactly how much money is at risk before entering a trade and prevent one decision, one session, or one emotional reaction from causing account-ending damage.
Advanced · 45 min
Prop Firm Rules Beginners Ignore
This lesson explains how evaluation and funded-account rules affect position sizing, daily risk, trade management, and payout eligibility. You will learn the difference between a displayed account balance and usable drawdown, how trailing and static loss thresholds may work, why unrealized profit and loss can matter, and how consistency, minimum-day, news, scaling, and payout rules can change the way an account must be managed. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to read a provider’s rules carefully, calculate your actual risk room, and build a personal trading plan that remains safely inside the account’s limits.
Intermediate · 45 min
Why Traders Overtrade
This lesson explains why traders continue entering the market after their valid opportunities are gone. You will learn how boredom, fear of missing out, revenge, profit goals, account pressure, social comparison, and overconfidence create unnecessary trades. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to recognize your personal overtrading cycle, distinguish a planned second trade from an emotional re-entry, and build practical rules that limit trade frequency without causing you to ignore legitimate setups.
Intermediate · 45 min
How to Prepare Before the Market Opens
This lesson explains how to build a structured premarket routine before trading the New York session. You will learn how to review economic events, analyze higher-timeframe structure, mark relevant levels, map liquidity, identify current price location, create bullish and bearish scenarios, define risk limits, and determine the exact conditions required before taking a trade. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to begin the session with an organized plan instead of reacting emotionally to every candle.
Intermediate · 45 min
How to Backtest Properly
This lesson explains how to test a trading idea using historical market data without allowing hindsight, changing rules, or unrealistic execution to distort the results. You will learn how to define an objective setup, select a useful sample, record every qualified trade, calculate expectancy and drawdown, separate market conditions, and determine whether the results justify additional testing. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to design a repeatable backtest that produces evidence rather than simply collecting winning screenshots.
Intermediate · 45 min
How to Journal a Trade
This lesson explains how to document an individual trade from preparation through completion. You will learn how to record the market context, model used, entry reasoning, risk, execution, management decisions, emotional state, screenshots, and final result. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to separate a good decision from a profitable outcome, identify repeated execution mistakes, and create consistent journal data that can later be used to improve your trading process.