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• TradingView Guides

  All our TradingView guides in one place: plans and pricing, alternatives, brokers, backtesting and Pine Script. Written by a paying user since 2017.

  • Choose a plan
  • Save on a plan
  • Practice without risk
  • Compare platforms
  • Connect a broker
  • Test a strategy
  • Write an indicator
  • Use the AI Copilot
  • Filter stocks with the screener

• Central Bank Decisions for Traders

  Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, SNB, Bank of Canada and RBA rate decisions for traders: meeting dates, times, latest decisions, market reaction.

  • Follow the US dollar
  • Follow the euro
  • Follow the yen
  • Follow the British pound
  • Follow the Swiss franc
  • Follow the Canadian dollar
  • Follow the Australian dollar
  • Read Fed expectations

• Chart Techniques for Traders

  How Karsten Kagels reads charts: price action, support and resistance, breakouts, trendlines and Fibonacci, turned into a trade plan with real examples.

  • Draw key levels
  • Read price action
  • Read candlestick charts
  • Know candlestick patterns
  • Trade breakouts
  • Draw and trade trendlines
  • Use Fibonacci levels
  • Set Fibonacci targets
  • Trade gaps
  • Calculate pivot points
  • Swing trade
  • Identify market stages
  • Read Wyckoff ranges
  • Trade Darvas boxes
  • Count Elliott waves
  • Trade order blocks
  • Trade fair value gaps
  • Interpret volume

• Technical Indicator Guides

  How popular trading indicators are calculated, how to read their signals and what our own tests on long price histories show about them.

  • Judge a golden cross
  • Judge a death cross
  • Use moving averages
  • Trail a stop with the Supertrend
  • Read the Ichimoku Cloud
  • Measure trend strength with the ADX
  • Read the RSI
  • Read volatility with Bollinger Bands
  • Set stops with the ATR
  • Trade Donchian breakouts
  • Read the Stochastic
  • Judge a divergence
  • Read the MACD
  • Use VWAP

• Trading Equipment Guides

  How to choose a trading laptop, monitors, a desktop computer and the rest of your trading setup for the software you use, without wasted money.

  • Plan your trading setup
  • Choose a laptop
  • Choose a computer
  • Choose monitors
  • Optional: trade-management keys

• Markets and Brokers for Traders

  How brokers and markets work behind your orders: an Interactive Brokers review, how market makers set your price, what the MOVE index shows and which research tool helps you pick stocks.

  • Choose a broker
  • Understand your price
  • Read bond market stress
  • Research stocks
  • Follow an IPO
  • Invest in OpenAI before the IPO
  • Value a new listing

• Algo Trading Guides

  How algorithmic trading works: turning a strategy into code, trading bots and Expert Advisors, platforms and languages, risks and US rules.

  • Get started
  • Choose an API broker

• Backtesting Guides

  How to backtest a trading strategy by hand or automatically: the steps of a clean test, the metrics that matter, common mistakes and forward testing.

  • Test a strategy properly

• Risk Management and Trading Psychology

  How much to risk per trade, how to stay disciplined and how to keep a trading journal: position sizing, stops, trading psychology and journal software reviews.

  • Manage your trading risk
  • Calculate your position size
  • Size your risk per trade
  • Keep a trading journal
  • Choose a journal
  • Check TradeZella
  • Check TraderSync
  • Check Tradervue
  • Check Edgewonk

• Prop Trading Guides

  Reviews of futures and crypto prop trading firms: how their tests work, what they really cost, how payouts work and which rules change after you pass.

  • Check Take Profit Trader
  • Check Bulenox
  • Check Bitfunded
  • Check IQ Capital

• Prediction Markets Guides

  How prediction markets and event contracts work, where Kalshi, Polymarket and IBKR are legal, what they cost and what traders can read from their prices.

  • Understand prediction markets
  • Check Kalshi
  • Check Polymarket
  • Trade event contracts at a broker

• Market Hours and Trading Sessions

  When markets trade: CME futures hours, the Asian, London and New York sessions, RTH and ETH, holidays and daylight saving, in ET and London time.

  • Check futures hours
  • Time your trades
  • Plan around expiry
  • Trade before the open
  • Check exchange hours

• Crypto Guides

  Guides for buying and trading crypto in Europe: licensed exchanges, what they really cost and what the EU crypto law MiCA protects.

  • Choose an exchange
  • Check one provider in depth
  • Check one provider in depth
  • Check if an exchange is safe

• Famous Traders and Trading Championships

  The best-known traders in market history and the real-money trading championships, with documented numbers instead of legends.

  • See who really performed best
  • Understand trading championships
  • Meet the record holder
  • Meet the Prince of the Pit
  • Learn the Turtle rules
  • Understand the stock contest
  • Read the classic interviews
  • Meet the oldest legend
  • Meet the first Market Wizard
  • Meet the trend-following pioneer
  • Learn short-term setups
  • Trade the opening range
  • Understand Buffett's investing approach
  • Meet the 1987 crash trader
  • Learn the SEPA method
  • Understand All Weather

• Trading Book Guides

  Which trading books to read first and what to read next, chosen by a trader since 1980, with the reader each book suits and where it stops.

  • Choose your first trading book

• Order Flow and Volume Analysis Guides

  How traded volume, liquidity and order execution show up in market data, what order flow tools measure and where their limits are.

  • Read order flow
  • Read volume by price

• Trading Education Guides

  How to learn trading: courses, live shows and trading rooms, what they offer, what they cost and how to judge them before you pay.

  • Judge a trading education provider

• Karsten's Picks: Trading Resources I Like

  Websites, channels and tools for traders that Karsten Kagels finds useful, collected from time to time, each with a short note on what it offers.

  • Verified Investing (Gareth Soloway)
  • Trading Setups Review
  • FRED (St. Louis Fed)
  • CFTC Commitments of Traders
  • Finviz
  • Forex Factory calendar
  • CME Group Education
  • Peter Brandt (Factor Trading)
  • TraderFeed (Brett Steenbarger)
  • Chat With Traders
  • Top Traders Unplugged
  • VerrilloTrading

• Market Data and Research Tools

  How financial terminals, data feeds and research platforms compare: Bloomberg, LSEG Workspace, FactSet and the cheaper tools private investors use.

  • Check the Bloomberg Terminal
  • Find a cheaper research tool

• Stocks and Commodities

  Commodity stocks compared: which silver and mining companies produce what, at which costs, and how their shares move against the metal price.

  • Choose a silver stock

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