Crypto Trading: The Complete Reference / Overview
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Crypto Trading: The Complete Reference
Every layer of crypto trading in one course — how markets set prices, reading charts, on-chain and fundamental analysis, derivatives and DeFi, risk and position sizing, psychology, and running your operation like a professional.
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Use as a reference
Jump directly to the workflow you needBefore placing an order
Choose the order instruction, estimate costs, and check visible liquidity.
Before using leverage
Stress exposure, understand funding and liquidation, and cap account risk.
Size a position
Set invalidation first, calculate account risk, and test drawdown consequences.
Build and validate a strategy
Move from a falsifiable rule through locked validation and minimal live deployment.
Evaluate a token
Inspect asset class, supply, dilution, value drivers, and on-chain evidence.
Evaluate DeFi yield
Identify who pays, withdrawal dependencies, contract risk, and loss scenarios.
Secure a wallet or transaction
Choose custody, verify signing effects, control approvals, and prepare recovery.
Review a drawdown or losing streak
Separate expected variance, broken assumptions, process errors, and emotional tilt.
Modules
Module 0 · Start here
Risk first: what this course cannot promise
Before charts or leverage: uncertainty, loss, venue failure, stablecoins, protocol risk, and the limits of simulation.
5 lessons
Module 1 · Foundation
Money, markets & the crypto asset class
What a market actually does, how a price comes to exist, and what kind of assets you are really trading.
3 lessons
Module 2 · Foundation
Exchanges & market microstructure
Where trades actually happen: CEX vs DEX, the anatomy of an order book, and why size moves price.
3 lessons
Module 3 · Foundation
Order types & execution
The full order-type zoo, what trading actually costs, and the habits that keep execution cheap.
3 lessons
Module 4 · Analysis
Technical analysis I — price structure
Candles, levels, trend structure, and volume — reading raw price before any indicator touches it.
6 lessons
Module 5 · Analysis
Technical analysis II — indicators & method
Moving averages, momentum, divergence — and the discipline that keeps indicators from fooling you.
3 lessons
Module 6 · Analysis
Fundamental & on-chain analysis
Tokenomics, dilution math, and the on-chain footprints that stocks could never show you.
3 lessons
Module 7 · Instruments
Derivatives: futures, perps & options
The instruments that dominate crypto volume — perps and funding, basis and carry, and an honest survey of options.
8 lessons
Module 8 · Instruments
DeFi & yield
Providing liquidity, staking and lending, airdrop farming — and the iron rule of knowing where the yield comes from.
3 lessons
Module 9 · Risk
Risk management & position sizing
R-multiples, expectancy, sizing formulas, drawdown math, and the simulator that shows why risk per trade decides survival.
4 lessons
Module 10 · Risk
Psychology & process
The biases that empty accounts, the journal that catches them, and the tilt protocol for when discipline slips anyway.
5 lessons
Module 10B · Process
Strategy research & validation
Turn an observation into an executable rule, test it without leaking the future, and monitor whether the edge survives reality.
6 lessons
Module 11 · Operations
Portfolio, taxes, security & ops
The unglamorous layer that separates professionals: allocation and rebalancing, records and taxes, and security that doesn't fail.
8 lessons
Module 12 · Institutional Edge
MEV & The Dark Forest
Understand how block builders extract value from retail traders via front-running and sandwich attacks.
1 lesson
Module 13 · Institutional Edge
Advanced Order Flow
Look inside the candlestick to find hidden absorption and whale positioning.
1 lesson
Module 14 · Institutional Edge
Delta-Neutral Arbitrage
Trading relative strength rather than directional bias.
1 lesson
Module 15 · Institutional Edge
Macroeconomics & Liquidity
How rates, dollar conditions, credit, and liquidity can shape—but do not dictate—crypto risk regimes.
1 lesson
Module 16 · Institutional Edge
Smart Contract Risk
Spotting rug pulls and malicious code before you invest.
1 lesson
Capstone · The complete trader
The complete trader
Everything in the course compressed into one decision framework and one master checklist.
2 lessons