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Crypto trading path for beginners, in ten steps

This is a free crypto trading course for beginners, in ten steps, built as one decision method for perpetual futures. Each step ends in something you produce, and the next step uses it. The last step edits the first, so the path is a loop. It teaches process, never which coin to buy, and a justified pass counts as a finished decision.

Work in order the first time. The charter fixes what the cycle may touch, the fact sheet and the risk budget fix what a position may cost, the charts and maps say where an idea is wrong, and the shortlist says which coins earn a plan. The plan, the ticket and the log then carry out the trade and check it. If you already hold an output, start at the chapter that uses it and test it against the table at the top of that chapter.

ChapterYou produceThe next chapter uses it to
1. Trading mindsetA one-page charter: markets, timeframes, risk ceiling, pass rulePick the contract whose liquidation distance, fees and funding you read
2. Futures basicsA dated fact sheet for one perpetualTurn its costs and liquidation distance into a sizing formula and a risk budget
3. Risk and position sizingA risk budget sheet: planned loss, ceilings, caps, pause trigger, sizing formulaLeave the stop distance for a chart to fill, and set up the chart
4. Charting toolsA saved chart template and a dated watchlistDraw each coin's levels on the template's two charts
5. Market structure and FibonacciA level map per coin: trend, bands, invalidation closesLabel each coin and list the setups the label allows
6. Trading market conditionsA condition label per coin, with its eligible setups or a passStart the shortlist from the labelled list
7. Finding coins to tradeA shortlist of up to five coins and a pass list, each with a reasonGive each shortlisted coin a plan
8. Entries, stops and exitsA written if-then plan per coinCopy one plan onto an exchange form
9. Placing ordersA completed order ticket and checklist for one planFill the plan fields of a row in the log
10. Review and practiceA decision log and a one-page process revisionWrite version 2 of the chapter 1 charter, which the next cycle starts from

Three sections sit behind the path. The setups are nine patterns, each written risk first. The concepts explain one tool or term each. The rules checklist puts the seven steps of the decision cycle on one page you can tick off. Start with the charter, and finish with a log and a second version of it.

The chapters