MarginPad Academy - Learn Crypto Trading Free, Lesson by Lesson
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The full syllabus

Every lesson in the Academy, in order. 140 lessons across 16 courses, all free, no account needed to read and a free email-code sign-in only if you want your progress and XP saved across devices.

Crypto Basics 9 lessons

What you are actually trading

  1. What is crypto, really?
  2. Exchanges, wallets and what buying means
  3. Reading a price chart
  4. Market cap, liquidity and why price alone lies
  5. Why crypto moves so violently
  6. Stablecoins and trading pairs
  7. Fees: the silent tax on every trade
  8. Market cycles and narratives
  9. Scams and self-defense

Trader's Dictionary 8 lessons

The jargon, decoded

  1. Long, short, and having a position
  2. Bull, bear, pump, dump, crash
  3. Margin, leverage, liquidation, P&L
  4. How an order reaches the market
  5. The words for crowd emotion
  6. Support, resistance, trend, breakout
  7. Liquidity, volume, volatility, market cap
  8. The words that cost you money

Money & Math Made Simple 9 lessons

The only arithmetic trading needs

  1. Percentages, properly
  2. Why losses hurt more than gains
  3. How profit and loss is calculated
  4. Position size decides the damage
  5. Decide the loss before you enter
  6. R: one language for every account
  7. Win rate is not the whole story
  8. What a round trip really costs
  9. Do the math before you click

Inside the Exchange 10 lessons

What happens when you press buy

  1. An exchange is a matching engine
  2. The order book, row by row
  3. Bid, ask and the spread
  4. Makers and takers
  5. What a market order really does
  6. Depth, and the cost of size
  7. Why price moves at all
  8. Who is on the other side
  9. Perpetual futures plumbing
  10. Your first $10,000: bank, exchange, wallet

Candlestick Patterns 8 lessons

Reading the battle, candle by candle

  1. Doji: the market shrugs
  2. Engulfing: one side takes over
  3. Hammer and shooting star: the rejection wicks
  4. Morning star and evening star
  5. Inside bars and compression
  6. Wick stories: absorption and exhaustion
  7. Patterns lie: the failure trade
  8. Putting candles in their place

Trend, Support & Resistance 9 lessons

Reading a chart from scratch

  1. What a trend actually is
  2. Your first trendline
  3. Support and resistance are zones
  4. Why levels matter at all
  5. The flip: roles change at a level
  6. Breakouts and fakeouts
  7. Ranges: when there is no trend
  8. Where the level puts your stop
  9. Reading a chart in sixty seconds

Your First Trade, Click by Click 8 lessons

Every button, in order

  1. Three decisions before any click
  2. Market order or limit order
  3. The size field, decoded
  4. The stop-loss, placed first
  5. The take-profit and the ratio
  6. Reading your open position
  7. Closing a position
  8. One complete trade, start to finish

Leverage & Liquidation 12 lessons

The machinery that wipes accounts

  1. What is a futures contract?
  2. Leverage: trading with borrowed size
  3. Liquidation: the point of no return
  4. Longs, shorts and how P&L actually works
  5. Funding: the invisible cash flow
  6. Order types: market, limit, stop
  7. Isolated vs cross margin
  8. Mark price vs last price
  9. Maintenance margin: the real liq math
  10. Managing a live position
  11. The leverage myths
  12. Reading a futures ticket

Risk Management 12 lessons

The only edge beginners can actually have

  1. Position sizing: the #1 skill
  2. Stop-loss and take-profit, placed like a pro
  3. Risk:reward - being wrong profitably
  4. The brutal math of drawdowns
  5. Psychology: the enemy in the mirror
  6. The daily loss limit and tilt
  7. Correlation: the hidden double bet
  8. A+ setups: the skill of skipping
  9. Scaling in and out
  10. Risk of ruin: the math of survival
  11. The pre-trade checklist
  12. Review your journal like a coach

Reading the Market 12 lessons

Data instead of vibes

  1. Trend, support and resistance
  2. Moving averages: the trend, smoothed
  3. RSI and momentum
  4. Open interest and crowd positioning
  5. Liquidation cascades: why crashes overshoot
  6. Macro: the tide under every trade
  7. Chart patterns: compression and expansion
  8. Multi-timeframe analysis
  9. Bitcoin dominance and rotation
  10. ETF flows: institutional footprints
  11. Sentiment: fear and greed
  12. Building a complete trade thesis

Advanced Market Structure 8 lessons

Where orders live and why price goes there

  1. Liquidity: where the orders actually live
  2. Ranges: accumulation and distribution
  3. Imbalances: when price moves too fast
  4. Volume profile: the market's memory
  5. Fibonacci: math or mirror?
  6. Relative strength: pick the strongest horse
  7. Volatility regimes: calm and storm
  8. Confluence systems: stacking evidence

Systems & Automation 7 lessons

Turning rules into machines

  1. Why systems beat vibes
  2. Backtesting: interrogating the past
  3. Overfitting: the silent killer
  4. Out-of-sample: the honesty test
  5. From rules to robot
  6. Monitoring and kill switches
  7. A portfolio of edges

Going Live 5 lessons

From paper to real, without dying

  1. Are you ready? The honest metrics
  2. Choosing an exchange
  3. Your first real trade
  4. Real money psychology
  5. The long game

Trading Stories 8 lessons

Choose your trade - interactive scenarios

  1. Your First 100×
  2. The Revenge Trade
  3. The FOMO Candle
  4. News Night
  5. The Crowded Boat
  6. The Sliding Stop
  7. The Whale's Shadow
  8. One Good Trade

Trading Psychology 8 lessons

Master the trader in the mirror

  1. Your Brain on Leverage
  2. Tilt: The Account Killer
  3. The Hot Streak Trap
  4. Why Losses Hurt Twice as Much
  5. Sunk Cost & the Falling Knife
  6. The Crowd in Your Pocket
  7. The Journal: Your Black Box
  8. Process Over Outcome

MarginPad Mastery 7 lessons

Turn the toolkit into a workflow

  1. Paper Trade Like It’s Real
  2. Let the Screener Do the Hunting
  3. A Chart Workspace That Works
  4. Never Get Ambushed by News
  5. Read the Crowd Before Joining It
  6. Alerts Instead of Chart-Babysitting
  7. The XP Loop: Practice That Pays