The Tradeskill
Trading Library

Trading Library: every concept explained with diagrams

Market structure, liquidity, smart money concepts, Fibonacci, candlestick and chart patterns, indicators, order flow and risk statistics. Every lesson uses the same format: definition, chart examples, objective rules, what confirms and what invalidates it, limitations and a short quiz.

Market Structure

Swing highs and lows, HH/HL and LH/LL, break of structure (BOS), change of character (CHoCH), market structure shift (MSS) and protected highs and lows.

9 topics

Liquidity

Buy-side and sell-side liquidity, previous day/week/month highs and lows, equal highs and lows, sweeps and stop hunts, inducement, draw on liquidity and liquidity voids.

11 topics

Fair Value Gaps & Order Blocks

Order blocks, breaker and mitigation blocks, inverse FVG, balanced price range, premium and discount zones and optimal trade entry, with objective drawing rules.

8 topics

ICT Sessions & Models

ICT kill zones, midnight open and true day open, opening range breakout, Judas swing, power of three (AMD) and the silver bullet, with session times and rules.

9 topics

Fibonacci

Fibonacci extensions and projections, confluence clusters, Fibonacci time zones and the AB=CD pattern, with anchor rules and limitations.

6 topics

Candlestick Patterns

Doji, hammer and hanging man, shooting star, engulfing, harami, morning and evening star, pin bar, inside and outside bars: shape, context, confirmation and failure.

9 topics

Chart Patterns

Head and shoulders, double tops and bottoms, triangles, wedges, flags and pennants, cup and handle, breakout and retest and the measured move.

9 topics

Technical Indicators

ATR, VWAP, stochastic oscillator, ADX, Ichimoku cloud, Supertrend, on-balance volume and pivot points: how each is calculated, read and misread.

12 topics

Order Flow

Delta divergence, absorption, exhaustion, stacked imbalances and order book imbalance, with what the data can and cannot prove.

9 topics

Risk Management & Statistics

Expectancy, profit factor, maximum drawdown, risk of ruin, position sizing, and the biases that make backtests look better than reality.

9 topics

Coming in the next phases

These areas are being written to the same standard and will be added category by category.

  • Elliott Wave Theory

    Impulse and corrective waves, counts, alternation and invalidation rules.

  • Wyckoff Method

    Accumulation, distribution, springs, upthrusts and the phases A–E.

  • Market Profile & Auction Theory

    TPO, value area, POC, initial balance and day types.

  • Harmonic Patterns

    Gartley, bat, butterfly, crab and their measurement rules.

  • Gann Methods

    Gann angles, fans, square of nine and price-time ideas.

  • Intermarket Analysis

    Dollar, yields, gold, oil, equities and how correlations change.

  • Trading Psychology

    FOMO, revenge trading, biases and process-based decisions.

  • Trading Strategies

    Complete rule sets that combine concepts, with testing notes.