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markets · accounts and exchanges · vocabulary · chart setup · paper trading and max loss · security · first simulated trade

Bars, then trend, then bases and dips, then the trade — fifteen single-rule lessons and a checkpoint.

Impulse and ABC legs, more than one timeframe, the half-way level.

Impulse slope, steep versus correction angles, fans, offsets.

High of the low bar, measured move, square roots, natural ratios, doubling.

Risk and sizing, the ideal buy, cross-currents, past swings, pre-open estimates.

Arc scalping, session harmonics, squaring price and time, cycle harmony.

An index-future walkthrough, two case studies, tape reading, the daily reversal checklist.

Micro bars, moving 45° angles, combining time and price, trailing stops, gaps, the 90-bar rule.

The bear side, geometric projection, scalping breakouts, the mastery review.

risk per trade as a formula · sizing from the chart stop · R and expectancy · drawdown math · leverage

revenge, FOMO, overtrading · the journal · reviewing your own trades

how evaluations work · the only official funnel numbers: Topstep's 2025 footnote (16.8% of Combines completed; 51.8% of participants reached Funded; 33.3% of Funded participants paid; 0.71% called to Live). Four different denominators; don't multiply them · firm rules compared, dated · trailing vs end-of-day drawdown · eval risk vs funded risk

consistency rules · payout windows and buffers · payout denials under hold-time rules · copiers where allowed · discounts and loss-limit add-ons

lead fact: the Topstep 2025 footnote · who profits from failed evaluations · what firms now ban by name and why: stacking, batch-buying, churning, hedging, 10-second flips, news spikes · CFTC v. My Forex Funds: dismissed May 2025, CFTC sanctioned; no regulator has a won case against the evaluation model · Topstep's NFA-registered introducing-broker affiliate · fake prop firms that impersonate real brands

indicators, patterns, harmonics, supply/demand blocks — what others use, taught apart from the method

contracts, margin, funding, liquidation

calls and puts, Greeks, sizing to a chart stop, rebates

venues, custody, on-chain risk; terrain: pump.fun, copy-trading wallets, pump-and-dump and paid promotion (SEC 2022, DOJ Token Mirrors 2024; SEC staff meme-coin statement Feb 2025), signal groups and copy-trading bait

write a setup as rules · backtest honestly · scoring a backtest

alerts, webhooks, prototypes

broker APIs · prompt-to-bot · LLM as trader · kill switches · firm automation rules

signing, routing, MEV, key management