From market basics to options mastery — one island at a time.
Market basics before options — prices, pips, spreads and orders.
1. What is Forex?
2. What is Traded in Forex?
3. Buying & Selling Currency Pairs
4. Market Size & Liquidity
5. Ways to Trade Forex
6. How traders actually profit
7. Going long or short
8. Measuring moves in pips
9. Lots, Leverage, and Profit & Loss
10. The Bid and Ask Price
11. What is a Spread?
12. Talk Like the Desk: Forex Lingo
13. Types of Orders
14. Order Types Cheat Sheet
15. Practice with a demo account
16. How your margin account really works
Forex up close — when to trade, market sessions and market hours.
1. Is fast money realistic?
2. Forex Trading Sessions
3. The Tokyo Session
4. The London Session
5. The New York Session
6. Best Times of Day to Trade
7. Best Days of the Week to Trade
8. Forex Market Structure
9. The Market Players
10. A Quick Forex History
11. Why Trade Forex?
12. Forex vs Stocks
13. Forex vs Futures
14. The three types of analysis
15. Swaps & the carry trade
Meet options: calls, puts, moneyness and the option chain.
1. What is an option?
2. The 4 parts of an option
3. What is a Call?
4. What is a Put?
5. Buyer vs Seller
6. Moneyness: ITM, ATM, OTM
7. Breakeven & the payoff diagram
8. Intrinsic vs Time value
9. Reading the options chain
10. Expiration, exercise & assignment
The Greeks — Delta, Theta, Vega and implied volatility.
1. What are the Greeks?
2. Delta — direction & odds
3. Gamma — Delta's accelerator
4. Theta — time decay
5. Vega — the price of volatility
6. Implied Volatility & IV Rank
7. IV Crush & earnings
Spreads, condors, earnings plays and the wheel.
1. Vertical spreads
2. Credit spreads
3. The Iron Condor
4. The Iron Butterfly
5. Covered calls
6. Cash-secured puts & the Wheel
7. Straddles & strangles
8. Calendars & diagonals
Risk, psychology and your trading plan.
1. Psychological Levels
2. Position sizing & risk per trade
3. Managing trades: exits & rolling
4. Trading psychology & discipline
5. Build your trading plan
6. Journaling & reviewing trades
7. Top mistakes to avoid
8. Stop-loss placement
9. Build your own trading system
10. Which type of trader are you?
11. Scaling in & out
12. Leverage without blowing up
Read the chart — trends, support & resistance, candles and indicators.
1. Reading a price chart
2. Trends & trendlines
3. Support & resistance
4. Candlestick patterns
5. Moving averages
6. RSI & momentum
7. MACD
8. Volume & confirmation
9. Fibonacci retracement
10. Classic chart patterns
11. Bollinger Bands & Stochastic
12. Multiple time-frame analysis
13. Pivot points
14. A tour of advanced tools
15. Trading divergences
16. Elliott Wave theory
17. Harmonic price patterns
18. Heikin Ashi candles
19. Price action trading
20. Breakouts & fakeouts
21. Market environment
Earnings, LEAPS, 0DTE and advanced plays.
1. Trading earnings
2. LEAPS: long-term options
3. Poor man's covered call
4. 0DTE & weeklies
5. Dividends & early assignment
6. Synthetic positions
7. Adjusting & rolling
What moves markets — macro, sentiment and your trading routine.
1. What moves a stock
2. The economic calendar
3. Sentiment & options flow
4. Sectors & correlation
5. Building a watchlist
6. Your trading routine
7. Currency correlations
8. The US Dollar Index (DXY)
9. Reading positioning: the COT report
10. Prop firms & avoiding scams
11. Forex brokers 101
12. Currency crosses
13. Intermarket analysis
14. Trading the news
15. Macro fundamentals for FX
Where your order really goes, who prices it and who takes the other side.
1. Who is on the other side?
2. Passing the trade on
3. Taking the other side
4. Both books at once
5. Where the price comes from
6. The fill you actually get
7. When trading looks free
8. Reading the disclosures
