Ten12 Mentors Academy: trading courses, several of them free

Candlesticks, support and resistance, trends and trendlines, timeframes and volume: the language every chart speaks.

1. Reading candlesticks6 min. Open, high, low and close: what one candle tells you, and the three shapes worth knowing first.
2. Support and resistance7 min. Why prices react at the same areas again and again, and how to draw levels that actually matter.
3. Trends and trendlines6 min. Higher highs and higher lows, how to draw a trendline honestly, and why the trend is your first filter.
4. Timeframes that work together5 min. Use one timeframe for direction, one for setups and one for timing, and stop flipping between ten.
5. Volume: the fuel behind the move5 min. Breakouts on rising volume, rallies on fading volume, and what a volume spike at a level means.

How Bitcoin and gold move, how to read a trade plan, and how to size a position from the stop.

1. How Bitcoin and gold move7 min. Sessions, liquidity and why the same chart behaves differently at different times of day.
2. Reading a trade plan: entry, stop, targets and R6 min. Every trade has three numbers decided before you enter. R turns them into a language you can compare.
3. Position size from the stop8 min. Choose the money you can lose first; the stop distance then decides the lot size.
4. Costs, spread and slippage5 min. The hidden fee on every trade, and why it hurts short-term traders most.

Read the free guides: How Bitcoin and gold move, How to read a trade plan, How to calculate position size, Spread, commission and slippage.

Spot versus perpetual futures, funding, leverage and liquidation, order types and the order book.

1. Spot versus perpetual futures6 min. What you own in spot, what you hold in a perpetual, and why BTCUSDT and XAUUSDT perpetuals exist.
2. Funding rates5 min. Who pays whom every eight hours, what extreme funding says about positioning, and how much it really costs.
3. Leverage, margin and liquidation8 min. Leverage changes how much margin you post, not how much you risk. Here is the maths that keeps you away from liquidation.
4. Order types: market, limit and stop6 min. What each order does, what it costs, and why stop losses should be stop-market orders.
5. Reading the order book6 min. Bids, asks, the spread and depth: what the book shows, what it hides, and how not to be fooled by it.

How to pass a prop-style evaluation like the Ten12 Challenge without gambling the account.

1. How evaluations are really failed5 min. Almost nobody fails on the profit target. They fail on the daily loss limit. Here is why, and the fix.
2. Sizing for a challenge6 min. The 0.5–1% risk sweet spot, how many winners you need, and why 2% is a ceiling, not a target.
3. A 30-day plan5 min. Week by week: find your setup, build a cushion, protect it, then finish calmly.
4. Journaling the challenge4 min. Your challenge trades flow into the journal automatically. Here is what to add, and the weekly review that finds the leak.

The maths that keeps you in the game: risk per trade, drawdowns, losing streaks, daily limits and correlation.

1. The 1% rule and the maths of drawdowns8 min. Why small risk per trade is what lets a good strategy survive its bad months.
2. Losing streaks and daily loss limits7 min. Streaks are normal. A daily limit stops a bad day turning into a bad month.
3. Correlation and total exposure6 min. Three trades can be one bet. Count risk across positions, not per position.
4. The pre-trade checklist5 min. A 30-second routine that filters out most impulsive trades.

Moving averages, RSI, MACD, ATR and VWAP: what each one measures, how to use it, and when it lies.

1. Moving averages7 min. SMA versus EMA, the 20/50/200 that most traders watch, and using averages as a trend filter rather than a signal.
2. RSI: momentum and divergence7 min. What RSI measures, why "overbought" is not a sell signal, and how divergence warns of a tired trend.
3. MACD in practice6 min. The MACD line, signal line and histogram, and the one use that holds up: confirming momentum shifts.
4. ATR: volatility for stops and size6 min. Average True Range turns volatility into a number, so stops sit outside the noise and size adapts to the market.
5. VWAP and when indicators lie6 min. The intraday fair price institutions track, and a checklist for not being fooled by any indicator.

Candle signals, flags, triangles, double tops and bottoms, and telling a real breakout from a fake one.

1. Candle signals at key levels6 min. Pin bars, engulfing candles and inside bars: how to trade them at levels, with clear stops.
2. Flags and pennants6 min. Continuation patterns after a strong move, how to measure them, and when they fail.
3. Triangles and ranges6 min. Ascending, descending and symmetrical triangles, trading inside ranges, and waiting for the break.
4. Double tops and bottoms5 min. Two failed attempts at a level, the neckline that confirms it, and why most "double tops" are not.
5. Real breakouts versus fakeouts7 min. A checklist for breakouts: close, volume, retest, room and context.

Market structure, entries, partial profits and how to read a backtest without fooling yourself.

1. Market structure: swings, breaks and ranges8 min. Higher highs, lower lows and the break that changes the story.
2. Partial profits: why a third at each target6 min. Scaling out changes the shape of results. Here is the arithmetic behind it.
3. Limit vs market entries, and unfilled orders5 min. Why a missed limit order is not a loss, and why chasing is.
4. Reading a backtest honestly8 min. Win rate, profit factor, drawdown and expectancy, and the traps that make backtests look better than reality.

Revenge trading, FOMO, and the journaling and weekly review routine that turns mistakes into rules.

1. Revenge trading and FOMO6 min. Two emotions that cost more than any bad strategy, and practical ways to defuse them.
2. Journaling that changes results6 min. What to record, and how to turn a log into decisions.
3. The weekly review5 min. A 30-minute routine every weekend that keeps you improving.

CPI, jobs, the Fed, the dollar and real yields: how macro moves Bitcoin and gold, and how to trade it with MacroIQ.

1. Why macro moves Bitcoin and gold7 min. Liquidity, real yields and the dollar: the three channels that connect US data to crypto and gold prices.
2. CPI, PPI and PCE: inflation days7 min. What each inflation report measures, why the surprise matters more than the number, and how to plan the day.
3. Jobs data and the Fed7 min. Payrolls, unemployment and claims, how they shift Fed expectations, and reading the 2-year yield.
4. The dollar, stocks and correlations6 min. How Bitcoin trades with the Nasdaq, gold against the dollar, and why correlations change.
5. Trading with Ten12 MacroIQ7 min. Bias, conviction, factor agreement and catalysts: a daily routine that turns MacroIQ into better trades.

Where stops cluster, how sweeps work, funding and open-interest squeezes, and reading the tape.

1. Where liquidity sits7 min. Equal highs, obvious lows, round numbers and session extremes: the places stops gather and price is drawn to.
2. Sweeps and reversals7 min. The stop run, the close back inside, and how to trade the trap with a tight stop.
3. Funding, open interest and squeezes7 min. How crowded leverage builds up, what rising open interest means, and how long and short squeezes unwind.
4. Reading the tape6 min. Trades, aggressors and absorption: what the live trade feed shows at a key level.