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Trading practice for futures day traders

One candle at a time.

Interactive lessons that show you exactly where your read went wrong. A little practice every day until price action and confluence jump off the chart. Then battle your friends on the same market, live.

Start the course Battle in the weekly market
  • 86 lessons in 13 modules
  • 4 scored drills
  • A ranked market every day
  • A weekly market and a Saturday live event against your friends
  • Charts tuned to 8+ years of real Nasdaq price action

Free during early access. Every chart is simulated, but built from what real Nasdaq futures do: candle sizes, the 9:30 rush, quiet overnights, calm and wild days. Educational practice, not financial advice.

Training TerminalSESSION 001 / PRICE ACTION
PREVIEW MODE ●

NQ futures / synthetic

5 minute · generated training scenario

—SYNTHETIC REPLAY
CANDLELAB ENGINE / NO FUTURE CANDLES SHOWN
LOADING CHART
MARKETNQ / MNQ
TIMEFRAME05 MIN
SETUPFind the next FVG

Watching isn't practice.

Most people learn from videos, then jump into a live or demo account. Both skip the part where someone checks your read and shows you where it went wrong.

Videos

Someone else walks you through the setup, after the fact. You watch the whole time and nod along, and nobody checks whether you would have seen it.

A demo account

Real-time charts with no structure and no grade. A clean setup may show up once a day, and nobody tells you what you missed.

CandleLab

You make the call on charts built around the idea. Get it wrong and you see exactly where: the candle you missed, the level you misread, and why.

A little every day. From first candle to beating your friends.

Every step earns XP toward your level, and a few minutes of practice a day keeps your streak going.

  1. Learn

    86 short lessons. You make every call yourself, and a wrong one shows you exactly where your read went off.

  2. Drill

    A few minutes of scored reps a day, until sweeps, gaps and structure jump out at you.

  3. Simulate

    Trade full simulated days with an order ticket and account rules that can end the run.

  4. Battle

    Take on your friends on the same chart: the weekly market, the Saturday live event and the daily challenge.

A course that makes you do it.

86 short lessons in 13 modules, from what a candle is to a complete trade plan.

  1. Watch the idea play out on a chart.
  2. Name it, with a rule you can check.
  3. Try it yourself on fresh charts. Miss and it shows you where.
  • Live chart tests in 25 lessons. Candles print in real time: tap the moment you see it, or make the call before the window closes.
  • Checkpoints along the way. A Core test after the first three modules, and a final challenge at the end.
  • Paper trades in 5 lessons. Set the entry, stop and target yourself, manage the trade, and see the result in R.
Start the course
Module 1

Read a candle

Open, high, low and close: what five minutes of price leave behind.

Module 5

Catch the sweep

A wick through an old high, a close back below it. Only the close decides.

Module 6

Follow the structure

Confirmed highs and lows, and the close that breaks them.

Module 7

Spot the gap

Three candles whose wicks don't overlap: a fair value gap, measured to the tick.

See all 13 modules
  1. 1Understanding candlesticksRead a candle from scratch: what it shows, how it forms, its four prices.
  2. 2Highs, lows and turning pointsHow price makes peaks and valleys, and when a swing is confirmed.
  3. 3Understanding trendsHow highs and lows together describe the direction.
  4. 4Liquidity and important levelsWhy traders watch old highs and lows, and how to mark them.
  5. 5Liquidity sweeps and breaksTouching, sweeping, breaking and what happens after.
  6. 6Market structureWhether confirmed structure continues or shows a possible change.
  7. 7Fair value gapsThe three-candle gap, its direction, its size and what happens next.
  8. 8Putting everything togetherRead an unfamiliar chart in order, and say what's known.
  9. 9Time and sessionsThe trading day's rhythm, and the session, daily and weekly highs and lows traders watch.
  10. 10Timeframes togetherDirection from the bigger charts, timing from the smaller one.
  11. 11Liquidity II and zonesWhere price is likely heading next, and the zones it may react from on the way.
  12. 12Risk and trade managementWhat a trade risks, how big to trade, and how to manage it.
  13. 13Putting it togetherOne complete way of trading, from the plan to paper trades scored in R.

Train your eye a little every day.

Fresh charts every time, calibrated on years of real Nasdaq price action, so you learn to spot setups and where they line up with each other, not one chart you've memorized. Practise as much as you like without risking a dollar.

Built like a prop evaluation.

The simulator's presets are modelled on common 50K evaluations, so you can practise under the kind of rules you may face later.

Example account: 50K · End-of-day trail
Floor
$48,000
Start
$50,000
Target
$53,000

Floor trails your best end-of-day balance by $2,000, then locks at $50,000. Breached in real time.

Profit target
$3,000 on a 50K account
Trailing floor
End of day or intraday, $2,000 below your high
Daily loss limit
On some presets: hit it and your day is over
Consistency
On some presets: one big day can't carry the pass
Also
Minimum days, size limits, flat by the close

  • A guard against blowing the account

    Before each order it checks your stop against the room you have left, stops (or warns about) a trade that could end the account, and suggests a size that fits.

  • Trade management that works like the real thing

    Market, limit and stop orders, brackets, trailing stops, a second target to scale out, and closing part of a position.

  • NQ / MNQ and ES / MES

    Quarter-point ticks, real point values and per-contract fees, on a market built for the pair you pick.

  • A funded stage after you pass

    Keep going on a funded practice account with payout rules. Payouts are counted, never paid.

  • Stats and a journal

    Win rate, average R, profit factor and max drawdown, notes on every trade, and a CSV export.

Start a practice account

Battle your friends.

Same chart, same moment, one leaderboard. Nobody can skip ahead, so the only edge is reading price better than the person next to you.

Live now, all week

The weekly market

Market
One simulated NQ market that runs 24/7, Monday to Monday, in real time
Account
Everyone gets the same $50,000 account, with a loss floor $2,000 below your best equity
Board
Ranked by profit, open trades marked at the live price
Reset
A new market and a fresh account every Monday
Join this week's market Send your friends the link and see who finishes the week on top.

Every Saturday, 10 AM PT

The live event

Format
60 minutes, one market, everyone trading the same candles as they print
Charts
Pick your candles: 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes
Board
Everyone who joins, ranked live while it happens
Join
Opens 60 minutes before the start, and you can jump in until the last 10. A free account is all you need.
See the next event Find people on Discord

Same market. Same morning. One shot a day.

The Daily Challenge gives everyone the same simulated New York morning. Your first run is the one that counts.

Daily Challenge

Market
Simulated MNQ, 9:30 to 11:30 ET, 24 five-minute candles
Score
Total R after fees, so size can't buy a better score. Ties go to the smaller dip.
Fair play
Candles come from the server one at a time, and your run is replayed and scored there
Boards
Today, this week and all time, for everyone or just your friends
Practice
The last 7 days stay open to replay, no account needed
Play today's challenge Ranked runs need a free account. Scores stay private until you choose to share them.

Your progress keeps score too

XP rewards learning and discipline. Trading with a stop counts. Profit doesn't.

XP for each kind of practice
Practise a lesson+40 XP
Pass a checkpoint+150 XP
Finish a live chart test+30 to +60 XP
Simulator trade with a stop+4 XP
Simulator day traded inside the rules+15 XP
Pass a simulator evaluation+500 XP
Pass the final challenge+400 XP

XP builds your level. Practise on back-to-back days for a streak, add friends by username, and sign in to keep it all on every device.

See your profile

Coming next.

Not playable yet. Here's what's being built.

Battles

Take on a friend on the same chart and compare accuracy, speed and the decisions you each made.

Coming soon

Strategy Lab

Mark each step of a written setup as it forms, then trade it. Your decisions get graded, never the outcome.

Coming back once the practice charts behave more like a real market

Free while we build. Pro when it's ready.

Everything that's live today is free during early access. Pro has no price yet; here's what it's planned to add.

Free, live now

Everything on the site today

  • The full Basics course: 86 lessons with live chart tests, paper trades, checkpoints and the final challenge
  • All 4 drills, with hints that adjust as you improve
  • The simulator with every account preset and the funded stage
  • The weekly market, the Saturday live event, the Daily Challenge, leaderboards and friends
  • Replay Lab, XP, levels and streaks
Create a free account Keeps your progress on every device and opens ranked play. No card needed.

Pro, planned, no price yet

More depth for daily practice

  • Pick your drill difficulty by hand (open to everyone during early access)
  • Deeper analytics on your practice
  • Battle history, once Battles arrive
  • Unlimited Strategy Lab, once it's back

The plan is for the Basics course to stay free.

Get your reps in before the money is real.

Free, in your browser, nothing to install. Bring a friend. Simulated charts only.

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