Learn Trading Free: An Honest 90-Day Roadmap

The free-content trap

Search "learn trading" and you'll get two extremes: $5,000 courses promising six-figure months, or YouTube channels pumping the latest Free AI Indicator with no track record. Both are noise. The actual path to competence is free, structured, and slow.

This is the 90-day roadmap we recommend to every trader who joins the Trade Feeld community. It costs nothing but time.

Days 1–14: Mechanics

Goal: understand what you're actually trading. - Read about order types (market, limit, stop, stop-limit, post-only) until you can explain each in one sentence. - Open a paper trading account on a real platform. Place 20 orders of each type. Watch what happens. - Learn to read a candlestick chart. Don't memorize patterns — understand what a candle represents (open, high, low, close, volume). - Skip indicators entirely for these two weeks. Just price and volume.

Days 15–30: Structure

Goal: see the market the way professionals see it. - Learn swing highs, swing lows, support, resistance. Mark up 50 charts by hand. - Understand trend (higher highs + higher lows) vs range (chop between two levels). - Add one indicator: a 20-period moving average. Notice how price interacts with it. - Start journaling every observation. Write what you see, not what you predict.

Days 31–60: Strategy

Goal: develop one simple, written, testable approach. - Pick ONE setup. Examples: trend pullback to MA, range reversal at level, breakout retest. Just one. - Define exact entry, stop, and target rules in writing. If you can't write them, you can't trade them. - Paper-trade 100 of these setups. Log every one. Calculate your win rate, average R, and expectancy. - Now — and only now — explore additional tooling. AI indicators and signal services make sense once you have a baseline to compare against. Before that, you're shopping blind.

Days 61–90: Risk and psychology

Goal: build the only edge that compounds. - Read about position sizing until 1R is muscle memory. - Define a daily loss limit. Define a weekly loss limit. Define an account drawdown limit. - Take 50 small live trades (0.25% risk each) just to feel the difference between paper and real money. It's enormous. - Continue journaling. Review weekly. Adjust the strategy only when you have 30+ trades worth of evidence, not after one bad day.

What comes after 90 days

After 90 days you'll know whether trading is something you actually want to keep doing. Most people discover it isn't, and that's a profitable answer — you saved years of tuition. The minority who continue have a real foundation to layer professional tools onto.

That's the moment when joining a desk like Trade Feeld pays off. You'll evaluate our signals against your own framework instead of treating them as gospel. You'll understand why we publish the win rate honestly instead of cherry-picking. You'll know what to do when the model is silent.

Learn Trading Free is real. It just requires patience that the loudest corners of the internet don't reward.