Field manual
Traders Toolbox
A WorldBase manual for reading price, writing a process, and sizing a loss before you take it. The figures are drawn to the definitions. The desk does the arithmetic. Nothing here is a signal.
- Lessons
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- Studied
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- Cards firm
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Practice
Learn it, then do it
Reading a definition is the first half. The lab draws the indicator and writes the latest number. The desk turns a stop into a size and a score. The cards tell you whether the sentence stuck.
01
Foundation
The language of price. Name what you see before you try to trade it.
- Start hereThis is the WorldBase field manual. It teaches you how to name what price is doing, how to write a testable process, and how to size a loss before you take it. It does not tell you what to buy.8 min
- Key conceptsPrice is an auction print. Before any pattern matters, you need the words for orders, trend, cost, and the loss you are willing to take. A description of the past is not yet an edge.16 min
- CandlesticksA candlestick records the open, high, low, and close of one period. Named shapes describe who won that period. They do not, by themselves, predict the next one.22 min
- Chart patternsChart patterns are names for how swings arrange themselves. Use them to describe structure and to plan a break or a failure. Do not use them as a forecast the market owes you.24 min
02
System builder
Turn a description into rules, a size, a test, and a reason to stop.
- Building a systemA system is a hypothesis you froze into rules: what you trade, when you enter, when you are wrong, how much you lose, and when you quit the idea. If any of those is missing, you have a story.18 min
- Trading systemsThe durable styles are trend following, mean reversion, breakout, and pullback. Each one gets paid for a different kind of pain. Pick the pain you can actually sit through.16 min
- IndicatorsIndicators are arithmetic on past prices or volume. They can summarize. They cannot know the next trade. Learn the formula well enough to say what the number is not.18 min
03
Mastery
History, second-order risk, and the habits that keep a rule intact.
- Advanced conceptsAdvanced does not mean secret. It means the second-order problems: time frames that disagree, gaps, correlation, execution, bad research habits, and the psychology that breaks a good rule.18 min
- Market studiesThese are short histories of markets that broke someone's assumptions. The lesson in each is about liquidity, leverage, or crowding. None of them is a setup to repeat.20 min
- FlashcardsRecall from the same definitions, sorted so the cards you miss come back first.48
04 · Library and support