A free beginner path hosted by Josh, then a deeper course on risk, sizing, process, and psychology. Education only, not financial advice.https://ratigancapital.com/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/what-a-market-is/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/what-a-market-is/A market is a two-sided auction where prices form from bids and offers. This first lesson is about that meeting place, not about picking a trade.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/how-to-read-a-candlestick/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/how-to-read-a-candlestick/A candlestick is a compact record of a session's open, high, low, and close. It is history, not a prediction of the next session.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/trend-and-market-structure/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/trend-and-market-structure/Market structure is the sequence of swing highs and swing lows. A trend is a label you give that sequence, and labels can change.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/support-and-resistance/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/support-and-resistance/Support and resistance are zones where price has stalled or turned before. They are areas, not tripwires, and a touch is not a trade.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/sizing-from-the-stop/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/sizing-from-the-stop/Choose the dollar risk first and place the stop from the idea. Position size is the output of those two numbers, not the starting point.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/stops-and-accepting-risk/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/stops-and-accepting-risk/A stop belongs to the thesis: it is the price that means the idea is wrong. Accept that cost in full before you enter, because a stop is a plan, not a guaranteed fill.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/thinking-in-r/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/thinking-in-r/R is the risk you accepted before entry. Measuring outcomes in R lets you compare trades on the same scale, without pretending a dollar gain is always a good decision.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/psychology-and-the-gambling-mindset/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/psychology-and-the-gambling-mindset/A process names the risk and the exit before the click. A gambling mindset looks for a way to feel right, get even, or avoid taking a loss already accepted.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/a-plan-and-a-journal/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/a-plan-and-a-journal/Write the plan while you are calm, and keep a journal that records the plan, the execution, and the moments you broke it. A journal is not a highlight reel.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/crypto-basics-on-chain/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/crypto-basics-on-chain/Crypto markets run continuously and settle on ledgers you can inspect. A wallet transfer is movement, not motive, and on-chain data is not a trade signal.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/risk-and-invalidation/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/risk-and-invalidation/Before any entry, decide where your idea is proven wrong and how much you accept losing if it is. Everything else in this course builds on this.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/risk-per-trade-and-r-multiples/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/risk-per-trade-and-r-multiples/Measure every trade in units of the risk you took, and you can finally compare trades, strategies, and losing streaks honestly.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/position-sizing/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/position-sizing/How to decide how much to buy so that a single trade can only cost you a fixed, chosen slice of your account.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/stops-slippage-and-gaps/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/stops-slippage-and-gaps/Your planned 1R loss is a best case. Fees, slippage, gaps, and leverage can all make the real loss bigger, so plan for them.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/thinking-in-probabilities/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/thinking-in-probabilities/Mark Douglas argued that traders struggle less with markets than with the belief that the next trade should be knowable. Here is what that means, and what it does not.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/accepting-risk-and-the-four-fears/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/accepting-risk-and-the-four-fears/Defining a stop is mechanics. Accepting the loss before you enter is psychology. Mark Douglas named four fears that make traders break plans in predictable ways.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/consistency-as-a-process/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/consistency-as-a-process/Mark Douglas listed seven principles of consistency. Here they become a journal template and a fixed review cycle you can run on paper.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/patience-as-a-position/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/patience-as-a-position/Livermore wrote that his best results came when he waited for price to confirm his idea. Here is how to turn waiting into a written, checkable decision.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/never-average-down-early-is-wrong/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/never-average-down-early-is-wrong/Livermore's 1940 book warns plainly against averaging losses. Here is the arithmetic of adding to a loser, and a simple pre-commitment rule.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ratigancapital.com/learn/price-evidence-and-regimes/https://ratigancapital.com/learn/price-evidence-and-regimes/Livermore wrote that markets are never wrong while opinions often are. A practical way to rank price evidence above narrative, and the limits of that idea.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT