Practical guides to reading charts, using indicators, sizing positions, and managing risk — each one built to be practiced immediately on the simulator.
Win rate alone can mislead you badly. Learn expectancy, profit factor, payoff ratio, drawdown and sample size using Stockade's analytics page.
What a futures contract really is, how tick size and multipliers work, why margin is a performance bond rather than a loan, and how leverage cuts both ways.
Crypto trades 24/7 with no circuit breakers, weak protections, and inflated volume. What actually differs from equities, and how to size for it.
A currency pair means being long one currency and short another. How to read a quote, what a pip is, why JPY pairs differ, and why forex leverage hurts.
Oversizing, moved stops, revenge trades, averaging down. What each mistake looks like, why your brain produces it, and a checkable rule that stops it.
Position size is an output of your stop distance, not a number you pick. The sizing formula, the 1% rule, drawdown recovery math, and R-multiples.
Volume measures participation, not direction. How to read relative volume, breakout confirmation, and capitulation spikes — and where volume data lies.
A trading plan is a document, not an intention. Every section it needs, a fully worked setup example, and the rule for when you may change it.
Most paper trading builds nothing. Here is how to structure practice sessions, journal your reasoning, and measure whether you are actually improving.
Neither style is better. Here is how time, capital, gap risk, transaction costs and feedback speed actually differ, and how to tell which one fits you.
How OCO and bracket orders link a stop and a target so that filling one cancels the other, plus the quantity mistakes beginners make.
A stop belongs where your trade idea breaks, not at a round dollar figure. Stop-market vs stop-limit, placement beyond structure, and sizing to fit.
A market order guarantees execution but not price. A limit order guarantees price but not execution. Every other consideration flows from that.
VWAP is cumulative typical price times volume, divided by cumulative volume. Here is the arithmetic, why institutions track it, and where it fails.
MACD is two moving averages, their difference, and a smoothed copy of that difference. Here is how to compute each part, read it, and know when it lies.
RSI above 70 is not a sell signal. Here is what RSI actually measures, why overbought means strong, and how to read divergence without fooling yourself.
SMA and EMA differ by one multiplier. Here is the arithmetic, why 9/20/50 are standard, how to use them as support, and why they always lag.
Support and resistance are zones of resting orders, not exact prices. How to find them, why your stop gets wicked out, and what a real break looks like.
Every candle packs four prices into one shape. Learn what the body and wicks encode, the patterns worth knowing, and why context beats pattern spotting.
A stock market simulator lets you trade real market mechanics with virtual money. Here is how they work and what they can and cannot teach you.