Protect the account
Every trade has a stop, a size from a calculation, and a known worst case.
Gate20 closed demo trades; every trade had a stop at entry; risk per trade <= 1% of balance on >= 95% of trades; no day lost more than 3%.
Six stages · evidence gates
Your path
From your measured level today to consistent execution on a demo account - before real money. Each stage builds one skill; its gate opens on your own record, not on pages read.
Plan and journal every trade
A written plan decides the trade before the market does; the journal shows whether the plan was followed.
4.1 The Anatomy of a Trading Strategy7.1 Setting Up Your Sim Trading Environmen7.3 Trade Journaling Mastery2.4 Building Your First Watchlist & Daily
GateA written trading plan saved; 30 journaled demo trades with setup, plan-followed and emotion fields; plan followed on >= 90%.
Read the market as it is
Know what a release, a session and a volatility regime do to price, from measured reactions - not from a pattern name.
1.2 Platform Mastery & Chart Reading 1011.3 Price Action Fundamentals3.2 Market Structure Deep Dive3.4 Multi-Timeframe Analysis (MTA) Framewo12.2 Advanced Market Analysis2.1 Candlestick Patterns That Actually Mat2.2 Multi-Candle Patterns & Engulfing Setu
Gate50 scored replays of real past events and sessions with a rule score >= 80%.
Test an edge before trusting it
Rules written so a stranger could follow them, tested on 100+ trades with costs, judged on data they were not built on.
4.3 Backtesting Your Strategy4.4 Optimizing Without Over-Fitting4.2 Strategy 1: Trend Continuation (Supply5.2 Strategy 2: Reversal at Key Level5.4 Backtesting Strategy 2 + Combining Sys6.4 Mid-Course Review & Strategy Refinemen
GateA backtest of your written rules with >= 100 trades, costs included, split in-sample / out-of-sample, submitted with the rules.
Execute consistently on demo
Follow the plan for weeks, not days: adherence, drawdown and expectancy measured on your own demo record.
7.2 Execution Precision7.4 Sim Results Review & Readiness Assessm8.2 Managing Live Emotions8.3 Trade Management in Real-Time9.1 The Consistency Framework9.3 Weekly & Monthly Performance Reviews
Gate>= 60 closed demo trades over >= 8 weeks; plan followed >= 90%; max drawdown <= 10%; expectancy after costs above zero, shown with its 95% range.
Decide what comes next with numbers
Sizing, going live and scaling are decisions taken on criteria written in advance.
8.1 Transitioning from Sim to Live8.4 First Live Month Review9.4 The Consistency Benchmark10.1 Scaling Up10.4 Building Your Edge Dashboard12.1 Your Complete Trading System
GateReadiness review: the stage-5 record, your written scaling criteria and a variance check of your own numbers.
The library
Lessons outside the path stay in the course as reading: 1.1, 3.1, 3.3, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.3, 12.4.