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Trading Knowledge Notes
Build a verifiable, executable, and reviewable learning framework from market structure, price action, trade execution, risk control, and review methods.
This knowledge base is shared for learners of financial trading. It systematically organizes market structure, price action, technical analysis, trade execution, risk control, and review methods. The content is for education and research only and does not constitute personalized investment advice.
Chapters
Follow the knowledge path from market structure, key locations, confirmation tools, execution, and review.
Introduction: A Reading Path for Trading Knowledge
Many people begin learning trading from candlestick patterns, indicator settings, or a single entry technique. But stable trading unders...
02Chapter 1: Foundational Trading Thinking
1.1 Price Is Not a Random Number; It Is the Result of Trading Behavior Market price comes from continuous transactions between buyers an...
03Chapter 2: Market State: Trend, Range, Pullback, Reversal
2.1 Markets Have Only a Few Basic States Every trade judgment must begin with market state. Market state is not a feeling. It is judged ...
04Chapter 3: Support and Resistance: Where Trade Plans Happen
3.1 Support and Resistance Are Zones, Not Lines Support is an area where buying pressure becomes stronger after price falls. Resistance ...
05Chapter 4: Candlesticks: Local Buyer-Seller Behavior
4.1 Candlesticks Compress Price Path A candle contains open, high, low, and close. But it hides the internal path. The same long-lower-w...
06Chapter 5: Chart Patterns: Labels for Structural Rhythm
5.1 Patterns Are Not Prediction Tools Patterns are labels for market structure and rhythm, not future predictors. Their value is not whe...
07Chapter 6: Breakout, Retest, and Entry Confirmation
6.1 Valid Breakout and False Breakout A breakout is not price touching the outside of a line. It means the market accepts a new price ar...
08Chapter 7: Indicators and Supporting Tools
7.1 Moving Averages Moving averages are smoothed expressions of average price, used to observe trend direction and dynamic support/resis...
09Chapter 8: Risk, Position Sizing, and Discipline
This chapter explains the basic logic of risk and position sizing. To see how CubeTrade applies those principles to the entry window, fi...
10Chapter 9: Market Mechanics: Orders, Execution, Slippage, Gaps
9.1 Gaps A gap occurs when price opens or resumes trading by jumping across the previous candle close, creating a price area with no tra...
11Chapter 10: Product Basics: Different Markets Are Not the Same Game
10.1 Why Product Basics Matter Charts may look similar, but stocks, ETFs, futures, options, forex, spot crypto, and perpetual contracts ...
12Chapter 11: Backtesting, Samples, and Strategy Research
11.1 Why Backtest Backtesting is not to certify future profitability. It answers: Did this rule repeat historically? What are approximat...
13Chapter 12: Review System: Turning Experience into Skill
12.1 Three Layers of Review First, single-trade review. Check whether the trade followed the plan. The focus is not profit/loss, but sys...
14References and Verification Sources
The following sources are used to verify indicator definitions, order mechanics, product mechanics, and risk concepts. Specific trading ...