Learn price action trading
Free, plain-English guides to reading price action, written to pair with our interactive 18-phase course. Everything here is honest education: no signals, no predictions, no profit promises. Read a guide, then practice the same concept with quizzes, Trade Replay drills, and a risk-free trading simulator called The Floor. Phase 1 of the course is free and needs no card. Phases 2 to 18 are part of the premium plan.
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Foundations
Mirrors Course 1: “Foundations: The Language” (Phases 1–7)
The language of the chart: candlesticks, structure, support and resistance, and where liquidity hides. Start here if charts still look like noise.
How to Read Market Structure (HH, HL, BOS & CHoCH)
Mark swing points, label higher highs and higher lows, confirm a break of structure, and recognize the change of character that hints a trend is turning. In plain English.
Read the guide →Candlestick Patterns for Beginners: The Only Cheat Sheet You Need
What a candle actually measures, the handful of patterns worth memorizing (grouped by the story they tell) and why context beats every pattern on the list.
Read the guide →Break of Structure (BOS) Explained with Examples
What counts as a real BOS, how it differs from a liquidity sweep, and how traders use the break-and-retest to stay on the right side of a trend.
Read the guide →Change of Character (CHoCH): How to Spot a Reversal Early
The first structural crack in a trend: what a CHoCH is, what it does not mean, and the boring-but-correct playbook for trading after one prints.
Read the guide →How to Draw Support and Resistance That Actually Holds
Fewer, fatter, fresher: how to draw zones instead of lines, grade a level’s quality, and read the flip when old support becomes new resistance.
Read the guide →This is what Course 1 teaches interactively. Start Phase 1 free →
Smart Money & Liquidity
Mirrors Courses 1 and 2 (Phases 6 to 12)
How large players move markets: smart money concepts, institutional order flow, ICT ideas, and turning them into clean trade execution.
Order Blocks: What They Are and How to Trade Them
The last opposite candle before the impulse: how to spot a valid order block, how to frame entries and invalidation, and the honest truth about hindsight zones.
Read the guide →Fair Value Gaps (FVG): The 3-Candle Rule, and When Gaps Actually Matter
The three-candle imbalance, how to mark gaps that actually matter, and why “price must fill the gap” is a narrative rather than a law.
Read the guide →Liquidity Sweeps: Why Price Hunts Your Stop Loss
Why price keeps tagging the obvious levels, how a sweep differs from a real breakout, and where traders put stops so the pool isn’t theirs.
Read the guide →Supply and Demand Zones: How to Draw Them Correctly
Find the explosive move first, then look left: the four-step method for drawing zones, grading their quality, and knowing when freshness runs out.
Read the guide →The Professional
Mirrors Course 3: “The Professional: The Business” (Phases 13–18)
Treating trading like a business: risk, journaling, the math of edge, session timing, psychology, and what getting funded actually involves.
Why a 1:3 target changes what win rate you need, and why "R" is the only unit worth journaling in.
The one formula: position size = dollar risk ÷ (entry − stop). Plus what changes when the stop has to move.
Profit targets, daily loss limits and trailing drawdown, and why most people fail on the rules rather than the reading. Our Prop Challenge simulates the same constraints inside The Floor.
What actually happens in the twenty minutes after a loss, and the rules traders use to make that window boring.
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