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Trading, in plain English
What each pattern and indicator is, how to spot it, and what the words mean. Every picture is drawn from real candle numbers.
Market basics
How prices, orders and charts work, in plain English.
All market basicsChart patterns
The shapes traders look for on a chart, and how to spot each one.
All chart patternsIndicators
What each indicator measures, how it’s worked out, and how to read it.
All indicatorsFunded accounts
How evaluations and funded accounts work, without any one firm’s rules.
All funded accountsBacktesting
Testing a strategy on past prices, and how to read what comes back.
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- Ichimoku cloudThe Ichimoku cloud is an indicator made of five lines, each worked out from the highest highs and lowest lows of past candles.
- Double top and double bottomA double top is a chart pattern with two peaks at about the same price, with a dip between them.
- OverfittingOverfitting is tuning a strategy’s rules so closely to one stretch of past prices that they describe that stretch, not anything that carries on.
- Kill zonesKill zones are windows of clock time that ICT traders mark on their charts, each tied to the start of a big trading session.
- Futures contracts explainedA futures contract is an agreement, made on an exchange, to buy or sell a set amount of something at a price agreed now, for a date in the future.
- Pin bar, hammer and shooting starA hammer is a candle with a small body near the top and a long lower wick, usually at least twice the body, that forms after a fall.