Learn Trading and Investing with Agenticks
Agenticks Learn is a free, structured path through trading and investing. You can read the eight tracks in order or jump to any single lesson, and every lesson is written without jargon, not financial advice. A cross-track glossary defines the terms as they come up.
The Eight Tracks
- Investing Foundations: markets, accounts, risk, diversification, and the core ideas every investor needs.
- Reading the Market: charts, candlesticks, volume, timeframes, and how to read price without fooling yourself.
- Market Mechanics: orders, the order book, spreads, slippage, leverage, and how execution actually works.
- Styles of Trading: discretionary vs systematic, the honest reality of day trading, edge and variance.
- Prop Firms Explained: evaluations, funded accounts, drawdown rules, and how prop firms really make money.
- Tools of the Trade: TradingView, indicator families, the limits of indicators, and Pine Script.
- Backtesting and Research: turn an idea into a tested rule set, then read results honestly.
- Automation and Agentic Trading: from a tested idea to automation, and why agentic auto-trading can be dangerous.
Glossary
The Agenticks glossary gives clear definitions for the terms used across every track, from candlestick and drawdown to expectancy, order flow, and Monte Carlo.
Learning tracks
- Investing Foundations Start here. Markets, stocks, indexes, accounts, risk, and diversification, explained in plain language with no jargon and no hype. 10 lessons.
- Reading the Market: Charts and Data Learn to actually read a chart. Price and time axes, candlesticks, volume, timeframes, support and resistance, and market structure, without fooling yourself. 10 lessons.
- Market Mechanics: Orders and Execution How execution really works. Buy and sell, long and short, order types, the bid ask spread, liquidity, the order book, slippage, leverage, and the true cost of trading. 11 lessons.
- Styles of Trading and the Honest Reality An honest look at how people trade. Discretionary versus systematic, why discretionary struggles, the real attrition in day trading, and what edge, expectancy, and variance mean. 7 lessons.
- Prop Firms Explained How prop firms really work. Evaluations, funded accounts, real versus simulated capital, drawdown and daily loss rules, why most people fail, and what passing actually takes. 7 lessons.
- Tools of the Trade: TradingView, Indicators, Pine The trader toolkit. TradingView and common platforms, what an indicator is and is not, the main indicator families, the limits of indicators, and an intro to Pine Script. 10 lessons.
- Backtesting and Research Test before you trust. Turn an idea into a rule set, then read results honestly: win rate, expectancy, drawdown, sample size, overfitting, walk forward, Monte Carlo, and variance. 12 lessons.
- Automation and Agentic Trading From a tested idea to automation, and where the real risks are. What strategy automation is, what agentic trading is, and why mutating a live strategy can be dangerous. 6 lessons.