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The Ultimate Getting-Started Guide

Trading Education Roadmap

This roadmap is a tool we’ve designed to help you navigate some of our key educational resources, structured to build upon your existing knowledge and guide you on your journey to becoming a successful trader. Remember, learning to trade is a marathon, not a sprint—so be patient with yourself. Good luck!
Introduction
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Your Journey Starts Here

Step 1

Let’s get our expectations in check and remind ourselves that this is a marathon, not a sprint, and will require thousands of hours to rack up the education and experience needed to benefit us later in our trading journey. There are no time horizons because some people can put in double the time of others, so this is just at your own pace. Here are a couple great resources to begin the long path ahead...

Great start! Now, let's get more in-depth...

"It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently."
Step One

Step 2

Now that we have some basic understanding of technical analysis, let’s start to apply those concepts to help you understand how time frames interact with each other, and how we can begin to structure different trade setups. Remember, this is just a rough guide and you should branch out into other sources as well! Check out the recommended trading books article for example.

You're doing great! That was a good chunk of essential theory!

After studying these lessons and concepts, you should have gained insights into utilizing different timeframes effectively, identifying the most likely trading scenarios, and various entry techniques. You should also have a basic grasp of market correlations, looked at a couple of our recommended trading books, and gained some experience of tools such as TradingView, including topics such as paper trading to build confidence, account growth strategies, chart patterns, and some basic trading styles.
Step Two

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To learn from other experienced traders and technical analysts, why not join our unique trading community? We can't wait to welcome you in our trading room to answer your questions and help you achieve your goals.
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