Beginner Trading Course: First Two Lessons Free

A self-paced beginner course on trading basics: 24 modules and 147 to 151 lessons, depending on your tax module. It covers profit and loss, stop losses, candlesticks, and long versus short, with a knowledge check after each lesson. The first two lessons are free and a pass unlocks the rest.

Every lesson cites its sources and separates teaching frameworks and synthetic examples from Tickfloor's own measured research results. Course completion does not validate a trading strategy.

Later lessons cover position sizing, funding rates on crypto perpetuals, and the multiple-testing problem the evidence page corrects for, so you know the vocabulary by the time you get there. Sources include peer-reviewed asset-pricing papers and exchange documentation, each listed under the lesson that uses it.

Each lesson has a short explanation, a worked exercise and a check question before the next one unlocks, so you find out whether it stuck. Progress is saved on this device, so you can leave mid-lesson and pick up where you stopped.

The course keeps three kinds of content apart: established theory (asset-pricing and market-microstructure research), synthetic worked examples that teach one mechanic on its own, and Tickfloor's own measured results, which are never passed off as textbook fact. When a lesson uses one of our findings it says so and links to the full write-up.

It suits someone who has never placed a trade and wants the vocabulary before opening a live dashboard. It does not suit someone chasing a signal. Each module groups a few lessons by topic, and the outline shows lessons done out of total per module.

See the evidence, the results, the research desk, every strategy family, a worked example, one claim we tested, does the golden cross work, does the TJR / ICT sweep and FVG model work, does low-beta crypto beat an equal-weight benchmark, does crypto trend following work, does Fear & Greed timing work, does VIX term structure timing work, does an RSI strategy work, do moving average crossovers work, does the Ichimoku cloud work, does the 81% opening range breakout work, does the volume profile POC strategy work, every popular trading rule we tested, the 5 trending trading techniques of 2026, tested, the trading glossary, the trading concepts library, every course lesson by topic, how strategies did on crypto, how strategies did on US stocks, how strategies did on ETFs, the paper trading simulator, the funded-account challenge, the daily chart drills, how Tickfloor compares to TradingView.