Trading Roadmap
Seven stages, in this order. The ordering is the argument: most people learn entries first and risk last, then pay for the sequence.
Understand what you are doing
What a market is, who takes the other side, how an order reaches the venue, and what a round trip costs before price moves at all.
Learn to survive before you learn to win
Drawdown arithmetic, position sizing, and placing invalidation where the idea fails rather than where losses become uncomfortable.
Read the record accurately
Support and resistance as behaviour rather than geometry, trend as a sequence, and indicators as arithmetic on data you already have.
Add context
Market structure and timeframe discipline — a vocabulary for describing conditions without implying what happens next.
Write it down and test it
Turn intentions into rules specific enough to test, then test them in a way that can actually fail.
Fix the execution gap
Why rules break under pressure, which biases cost most, and how to build a review loop that tells you the truth.
Only then, leverage
Futures mechanics, margin, liquidation and carrying costs — placed last because leverage amplifies whatever process you already have.