Educational content, not investment advice. See our Disclaimer. A realistic path from the simulator to real capital: small size first, scaling up only as metrics hold. What a simulator is actually good for A trading simulator lets a trader practice reading charts, Level 2, and Time & Sales, and executing a strategy’s mechanics (order entry,…
Not every stock trades the same way, and treating a $3 billion-market-cap biotech the same way you’d treat a $2 trillion mega-cap is a fast way to lose money for reasons you don’t understand. Market capitalization — share price times shares outstanding — splits the market into rough tiers: small-cap (roughly $300 million to $2…
Everything covered so far in this course has been about day trading — opening and closing positions within the same session. Day trading isn’t the only way to apply the same analytical toolkit (catalysts, risk management, technical levels, tape reading). Two other approaches worth understanding, even briefly, are swing trading and options trading. Neither is…
Every lesson in this course has covered one piece of the puzzle: instruments and accounts, order mechanics, market depth, tape reading, scanning, catalysts, risk management, stops, journaling, psychology, simulated practice, and the large-cap/small-cap and swing/options landscape beyond day trading. A trading plan is where those pieces stop being separate lessons and become one operating document…
Educational content, not investment advice. See our Disclaimer. Time & Sales ("the tape"): a scrolling log of every executed trade, color-coded by where it hit relative to the bid/ask. What Time & Sales actually shows The Time & Sales window (nicknamed "the tape", after the paper ticker-tape machines used from the 1800s through the 1960s)…