Cryptopedia Trading Course

Discover basic trading techniques and the potential for gains in crypto, including buying, storing, and cashing out. Learn to read candles and charts using technical and fundamental analysis.

Explore how to read the CoinMarketCap website, focusing on the top 100 by market cap, 24-hour changes, Bitcoin's 21 million cap, and circulating supply versus total mined for trading insights.

Learn what a wallet is, how to send cryptocurrencies, and the hot wallets versus cold wallets distinction, with examples like Exodus, Electrum, Mycelium, Ledger Nano X, and Trezor Model T.

Learn how to buy your first bitcoin on Binance or Coinbase, complete ID and address verification, fund your account, and execute a spot trade while noting custody on exchanges.

Private and public keys power major cryptocurrencies; addresses derive from private keys, and wallets sign transactions to authorize transfers without exposing the key, while a 12-word recovery phrase restores access.

Learn to read candles by identifying bullish and bearish patterns, understand candle bodies and wicks, and adjust time frames from one minute to daily to interpret price movements.

Identify bullish uptrends with rising prices and a support line, or bearish downtrends with declining prices and resistance. Recognize price channels where movements stay between support and resistance.

Compare technical and fundamental analysis to forecast cryptocurrency prices. Learn how intrinsic value, development fundamentals, and price-volume charts guide trading and participation in ICO, IEO, or DeFi projects.

Explore altcoins, including Solana and ether, as Bitcoin alternatives with thousands of options and opportunities for growing your portfolio, while emphasizing diversification to balance gains and risks.

Create your cash out plan and determine when your goals are met to realize gains in bull markets. Assess bitcoin cycles, risk, diversification, and exit strategies to target 10–15x returns.

Compare exchange platforms on CoinMarketCap by trading volume and exchange score, highlighting Binance, Coinbase Pro, and Kraken. Match your choice to your trading strategy and coins, and consider using exchanges.

Explore essential crypto research tools, including blockchain.com for hash rate, btc.com for mining difficulty, and coinmarketcap’s events calendar for fundamental analysis events.

Learn how to cash out crypto to your bank via fiat withdrawals on exchanges like Binance, choosing currency and payment method, with sepa transfers and tax notes.

Keep private keys under your control and store most funds in cold storage. Use hot wallets for small amounts and hardware wallets for security, avoiding exchange custody.

Explain market taker and market maker roles, and how 0.025% vs 0.075% fees on BitMEX reward liquidity provision and risk, with basics on candles, charts, and fundamental and technical analysis.

Learn to research altcoins through a structured fundamental analysis, evaluating websites, teams, exchanges, social signals, and price trends to identify credible projects and optimal entry points.

Learn how limit orders, market orders, and stop loss orders work, including buy/sell limit execution, stop price triggers, and how order books influence liquidity.

Describe the four-year bitcoin cycle driven by halving, where mining rewards halve every four years and bear markets often give way to new all-time highs after each halving.

Examine how Litecoin led the prior altcoin bull run and understand why this key altcoin remains a focal point to monitor during the cycle.

Learn what ICOs and IEOs are, how to participate, and compare their safety and requirements, including wallets, gas fees, and exchange rules.

Spot the next trend craze by analyzing the ICO mania and the rise of DeFi projects, while assessing volatility and risk and the role of news and crypto Twitter.

Structure a diversified trading portfolio by allocating percentages across Bitcoin, top coins, mid-cap, and high-risk assets, tuned to market cycles and personal risk tolerance.

Identify lines of support and resistance by connecting two low or two high points on price charts; more contact strengthens the line, and real breakouts often involve a volume spike.

Identify market structure via trend lines and support-resistance zones; confirm real breaks with volume to avoid false breakouts, as Bitcoin’s breaches suggest rallies.

Leverage trading lets you borrow ten times your capital on BitMEX and Binance, with liquidation risk and guidance to practice in a test environment, limiting exposure to 1 to 3%.

Learn to plan take profit targets and stop losses for spot and leveraged trading, using confirmed support and resistance to time exits and manage risk.

Learn to implement dollar-cost averaging by buying assets regularly to reduce investment volatility, avoid market timing, and benefit from long-term market growth across crypto and stocks.

Explore risk management and five golden rules for day trading across crypto, forex, and stock markets, including risk 1-3%, cut losers, let winners run, profit taking, and avoiding chasing markets.

Explore candlestick patterns for trend reversals, including engulfing patterns and the hammer. See how color and follow-up candles confirm bullish or bearish reversals and potential trend shifts.

Explore candlestick patterns for trend reversals, including hanging man, hammer, morningstar, and evening star, with emphasis on shadows, gaps, and dodgy candles signaling market turns.

Explore candlestick trend reversal and continuation patterns, including three stars, three white soldiers, three black crows, and three line strike with side-by-side candles for entries and exits.

The ascending triangle forms with a horizontal support line and rising demand, as price tests the level and buyers push it upward, confirming the breakout pattern.

Identify the ascending triangle's features, including a near horizontal upper border and volume changes clearly. Pursue penetration near two-thirds from the start to guide entry and height-based target.

Explore the bump and run reversal, a three-phase bar pattern signaling trend turns, with lines A and B guiding entries and exits.

Explore the diamond formation from a broadening triangle to a symmetrical triangle, using four points for entry and stop, with volume shifts signaling trend continuation or change.

The double top and double bottom form two peaks or valleys at similar levels; a trendline penetration signals reversal, guiding entries with a target height and appropriate stop orders.

Explore the flag, a chart pattern that signals the trend direction and where corrections end. It forms with support and resistance lines, four points, and volumes that rise after penetration.

Head and shoulders is a widely used chart pattern signaling a trend change, formed by three tops or bottoms with a higher middle peak, with neckline penetration confirming the move.

Explore the pennant, a fast forming continuation pattern with converging support and resistance lines that signals the prior trend will continue; enter on the breakout.

Explore the price channel, a continuation price model in trend analysis, where a bullish upward channel's bottom signals buys and penetration closes positions.

Understand the rectangle, or trading range, as consolidation with two strong support and resistance lines, where breakouts signal continuation or change, guided by the rectangle's height for targets and stops.

Analyze symmetrical triangles in an upward trend, formed by support, resistance, and five-wave patterns, and assess penetrations, volume shifts, and potential trend continuation or reversal.

Understand the triple top and triple bottom patterns—three tops and two bottoms, with entry on price penetration of the lowest bottom or highest top, and stops above or below.

Learn how the wedge pattern forms a triangle with five waves and four points, its penetration rules, price targets, and its role as a trend continuation or exhaustion signal.

Explore bollinger bands, a three-line channel using a 20-period sma and standard deviations, where upper penetrations signal buys and lower penetrations signal sells, with bands indicating volatility for short-term trading.

Learn the Elliott Wave theory and how to read five-wave impulsive waves and A,B,C corrective waves for forecasting market movements across time frames from years to days.

Analyze price waves to project Fibonacci levels for extensions and retracements, using 0.382, 0.618, 1.618, 2.618, Fibonacci fans, arcs, and the golden pocket to identify support, resistance, and reversals.

Learn bearish and bullish MACD divergences and interpret 20/50 day EMA crossovers on the Nasdaq 100, while recognizing EMA limits and reinforcing signals with RSI or MACD.

Trade with moving averages by comparing simple, exponential, and weighted averages to spot trends, crossovers, and buy or sell signals, including golden crosses, death crosses, and MACD analysis.

Explore the stochastic oscillator, using percentage k and d, to gauge short-term price momentum, identify overbought or oversold zones (80/20), and time buy and sell signals.

Examine the Parabolic SAR as a lagging indicator, using dot positions to time entries. Take shorts when dots are below candles in downtrends, and longs when above in uptrends.

Explore the relative strength index (RSI) with a 14-period calculation, 30/50/70 levels, and buy-sell signals from crossovers, divergences, and overbought/oversold zones.

Learn to use coin market cap to monitor price movements, market cap, and volume across exchanges, with historical data and charts. Explore trends, gainers and losers, and top DeFi tokens.

Learn to use the Moo wallet to manage your keys and funds directly on the blockchain. You will see practices to protect keys and transfer Ethereum to a public address.

Explore TradingView’s full featured chart to analyze bitcoin with moving averages, support and resistance lines, and risk-to-reward metrics, then practice long-term forecasts using the logarithmic view and scenario simulations.

Discover practical steps to avoid scams and drug pools by avoiding direct messages, researching a project's team and history, investor sentiment, liquidity, technical indicators, and exchange listings for unusual activity.