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Thirteen modules, in order, from "what is a market" to institutional-grade risk models and asset-specific playbooks. Every step links to free lessons already on this site.
Understand what markets are and why they exist.
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Open a demo trading platform or a free charting tool, pick one major forex pair (like EUR/USD) and one less common instrument (like an exotic pair or a small-cap stock), and compare their bid-ask spreads at the same moment; then check the spread on the same major pair again during a quiet off-hours period versus during a London/New York session overlap, and write down the differences you observe to see liquidity's real-world effect on trading cost.
With the foundations of what markets are, who moves them, and how liquidity works now in place, Module 2: Trading Basics will turn to the practical mechanics of actually placing a trade — order types, position sizing, and the core vocabulary you'll use every time you click buy or sell.
Understand trading terminology.
Complete Module 1: Financial Market Foundation to unlock these lessons.
Open a demo account on any platform you have access to and place one example of each of the five pending order types covered in this module — a buy stop, a sell stop, a buy limit, a sell limit, and a stop limit — on the same instrument, then check the order confirmation screen for each to see the exact bid/ask price used and the margin it would reserve if triggered, deleting all five afterward without letting any of them fill.
Now that you understand the mechanics of how trades, margin, and orders actually work, the next module, Understanding Markets, zooms out to look at what drives price itself — the forces, participants, and structures behind forex, stocks, crypto, and indices.
Learn how each market behaves.
Complete Module 2: Trading Basics to unlock these lessons.
Pull up a chart of the US Dollar Index (DXY) and spot gold side by side over the past month, and note whether they moved in opposite directions on most days; then do the same comparison for crude oil and the Canadian dollar, and for Bitcoin against two major altcoins, writing down at least one day where the expected correlation held and one day where it broke down.
Now that you understand how different markets behave and relate to one another, the next module, Market Analysis Fundamentals, will introduce the tools and frameworks used to actually analyze price action, including the basics of technical and fundamental analysis.
Learn how professionals study markets.
Complete Module 3: Understanding Markets to unlock these lessons.
Pull up this week's economic calendar and identify the single highest-impact release scheduled (for example CPI, NFP, a central bank rate decision, PMI, or retail sales). Before it prints, write down the market forecast/consensus number and your own expectation for how the relevant currency or index should react if the actual figure beats, meets, or misses that forecast. Once the data is released, record the actual number next to your forecast and note exactly how price moved in the minutes and hours afterward, then write one or two sentences on whether the reaction matched what you expected and, if not, what you think explains the difference.
With a solid grip on the fundamental forces that move markets, Module 5 shifts to Technical Analysis Foundation, where you'll learn to read price charts directly, spot trends, and use the tools professionals rely on to time entries once the fundamental picture is already in place.
Learn chart reading.
Complete Module 4: Market Analysis Fundamentals to unlock these lessons.
Open a live chart of any market you follow and, working from right to left, mark the two most recent support and resistance levels, note whether either one has flipped roles after being broken, identify the most recent candlestick pattern you can name (hammer, doji, engulfing, morning star, or evening star), judge whether the current trend looks strong or weakening based on the size of the last two swings, and note whether the market is currently trending or consolidating.
With chart reading fundamentals in place, the next module, Advanced Technical Analysis, builds on this foundation with indicators, multi-timeframe analysis, and more advanced pattern confirmation techniques. It shifts from reading raw price structure to combining it with additional analytical tools.
Build trading strategies.
Complete Module 5: Technical Analysis Foundation to unlock these lessons.
Pull up a chart of any liquid asset and identify the most recent major swing low to swing high. Draw a Fibonacci retracement tool across that swing, mark the 50%, 61.8%, and 78.6% levels, then check whether price recently pulled back into that zone and note whether it aligned with a prior order block, VWAP, or a change of character in market structure before continuing the trend.
With a full toolkit of indicators and Smart Money Concepts now covered, the next module shifts from individual tools to combining them into a coherent trading strategy. Building A Trading Strategy will show how to select a handful of these concepts, define clear entry and exit rules, and turn them into a repeatable plan rather than a grab-bag of signals.
Convert knowledge into a system.
Complete Module 6: Advanced Technical Analysis to unlock these lessons.
Pick one trading setup you already understand and write, on a single page, your complete rule set for it: the exact objective entry condition, the exact stop-loss and take-profit or trailing exit rule, one trade management rule for what happens once you're in (such as moving to breakeven), and a five-item pre-trade checklist you would physically run through before placing the trade. Keep it specific enough that another trader could follow it without asking you a single clarifying question.
With a complete, written strategy in hand, the next module turns to Risk Management & Professional Trading, covering position sizing, drawdown control, and the habits that separate traders who survive long enough to let their edge play out from those who don't.
Protect capital.
Complete Module 7: Building A Trading Strategy to unlock these lessons.
Using your actual account size, write down three numbers in both dollar and percentage terms: your maximum daily loss limit (around 2-3% of equity), your weekly drawdown limit (around 5%), and your monthly drawdown limit (around 8-10%). Then look at any open or planned positions and group them by correlation — for example, note which pairs, stocks, or assets tend to move together — and calculate what your combined risk actually is for each correlated group, rather than treating every position as fully independent.
Risk management gives you the rules, but Module 9: Trading Psychology explains why traders break their own rules under pressure. Next, we look at the emotional and behavioral side of trading — fear, greed, discipline, and how to keep your mindset from undoing everything you've just learned about protecting capital.
Develop trader mindset.
Complete Module 8: Risk Management & Professional Trading to unlock these lessons.
Pull up your last 10 to 15 journaled trades and, for each one, write one honest sentence identifying whether it was triggered by your written setup criteria or by an emotional driver such as FOMO, revenge trading after a loss, overconfidence from a prior win, or confirmation bias while holding a losing position; tally how many trades fall into each category and use the pattern, not any single trade, to decide which one habit or rule you will tighten first.
With a professional trader's mindset in place, the curriculum moves from managing your own psychology to removing it from execution entirely. Module 10 introduces Automated Trading and the AutoEdges Ecosystem, showing how rules-based systems can enforce the discipline this module covered without relying on willpower in the moment.
Introduce your products naturally.
Complete Module 9: Trading Psychology to unlock these lessons.
Write a one-page checklist you would personally use to evaluate any EA before buying or running it with real money, covering at minimum: what backtest assumptions (spread, commission, slippage) are disclosed and whether the test period is representative; what the maximum drawdown was and how long recovery took; what the position-sizing and risk-per-trade settings are and whether martingale or grid scaling is involved; whether there is a verified live track record versus only a backtest or demo run; and at least two specific red-flag phrases or claims that would make you walk away immediately.
With the core building blocks of automation, VPS hosting, copying, and AI covered, the curriculum moves into Advanced Professional Level, where these pieces combine into more sophisticated portfolio-level and risk-management thinking used by experienced traders.
For experienced users.
Complete Module 10: Automated Trading & AutoEdges Ecosystem to unlock these lessons.
Pull the trade history from your own trading journal for the last three months, calculate your profit factor, expectancy per trade, maximum drawdown, and an approximate Sharpe or Sortino ratio, then reshuffle the order of those same trades by hand or in a spreadsheet ten to twenty times to see how much your worst-case drawdown could have differed from what actually happened, and write down one change you would make to your risk management based on what that range reveals.
The next module, Resources & Practical Trading, shifts from theory to application, pulling together the tools, platforms, and habits needed to put everything from this curriculum into daily practice. It closes the loop between understanding professional-grade concepts and actually operating with them day to day.
The practical layer most trading education skips: brokers, scams, and tools.
Complete Module 11: Advanced Professional Level to unlock these lessons.
Pick one broker you are currently using or considering, find the specific license or registration number and legal entity name in its terms and conditions, then go directly to the relevant regulator's official website (for example the FCA Financial Services Register, ASIC Connect, or CySEC's licensed firms list) and search for that exact entity yourself, confirming the details match before you trust the account with any real money.
The next module moves from these general practical safeguards into Asset-Specific Trading Guides, covering how the mechanics, sessions, and risks differ when trading forex, stocks, crypto, indices, and commodities specifically.
Apply everything you've learned to the behavior of each major asset class.
Complete Module 12: Resources & Practical Trading to unlock these lessons.
Pick the one asset class from this module you feel most drawn to trading, and write down four things: its typical trading hours and when its liquidity is deepest, its top three recurring news or data drivers, one other market it is meaningfully correlated with, and one risk management adjustment (stop distance, position size, or event-timing rule) you would make specifically because of that asset's volatility profile.
Congratulations on completing the full AutoEdges Academy curriculum, from the fundamentals of markets through technical and fundamental analysis, risk management, and now the specific behavior of each major asset class. Keep practicing everything you have learned on a demo account, track your results honestly, and only consider trading live once your process is consistent and well-tested.
Run through this before risking real capital.
Within a module, take the lessons in any order — but complete every lesson in a module before the next one unlocks. This sequence is designed to build on itself.
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