Week 1
Levels — where the big money already sits
The first thing isn't buying and selling. It's learning to mark two or three places on the chart that matter and leave the rest alone. They're called zones, and they come off the big charts — hourly and four-hourly — not the five-minute one.
Still don't get: why the small chart doesn't count. Everybody online is staring at the five-minute chart. They tell me that's exactly why.
Week 2
Delta — real orders, not shapes on a chart
Delta is the difference between how much is being bought and how much is being sold at the same moment. It's not a drawing and it's not a prediction. It's a count. It's the first thing in trading that felt like a fact instead of an opinion.
Still don't get: how the number can go one way and the price goes the other. They tell me that's the whole thing.
Week 3
Absorption — why we go against whoever's pushing
This is the part that hurt my head. When price hits a level and one side is pushing hard, that's not the side we follow. The reason: somebody bigger is quietly taking everything they throw, and when the pushers run out of steam, only the other direction is left.
Still don't get: how to tell absorption apart from a move that's simply continuing. They tell me that's what the rules are for.
Week 4
The checklist — and why silence is an answer
There's a list of twelve things that have to agree before anything counts, and three of them aren't negotiable. Miss one of those three and it doesn't count, no matter how good the rest looks. Most days nothing clears the list. That's the part I'm working on hardest: not feeling like I'm wasting the day when I do nothing.
Still don't get: how to sit through a whole day doing nothing and call that a good day.