The game board

Learn to trade the way you learn a language.

Every lesson, quiz and chart exercise earns XP. XP raises your level — up to 100 — and a level once reached is never lost. Streaks, a daily chest, keys and badges keep the habit going. And one rule holds everywhere: XP measures what you learned, never what you earned.

The rule

Why levels in a trading school?

Trading gives terrible feedback: a good decision can lose and a reckless one can pay, and it takes a hundred trades before a win rate means anything. A beginner has no way to tell progress from luck — so the board measures the part they control. Lessons finished, questions answered, charts practised, trades recorded. Recording a loss pays exactly what recording a win pays, nothing on the board is ranked by money, and XP can never be bought.

Is this Duolingo for trading?

In the way it builds a habit, yes: short lessons, XP, levels, a daily streak and a reward for coming back. The difference is what sits underneath — a 33-module trading syllabus taught by an AI tutor, quizzes that explain the right answer, and charts you mark yourself. AI Trade Ideas is not affiliated with Duolingo; the comparison is only about how the learning is paced.

XP

What earns XP

Up to 650 XP a day, so nobody can farm a level in one weekend.

ActionXPKeys
Finish a lesson chapter40—
Answer a quiz question right30—
Answer one wrong (it still pays)10—
Finish a whole module1503
Finish a Chart Practice exercise25—
Watch a lesson video15—
Get a term right twice, a week apart251
Read the daily market briefing20—
Record a trade outcome — win or loss, same XP50—
Levels

100 levels, and what the milestones give

Chart Reader badge

Level 10 · 983 XP

The Chart Reader badge

A couple of weeks of showing up, and it shows. Pinned to your badges for good.

Level Hunter badge

Level 20 · 2,328 XP

The Level Hunter badge and a third freeze slot

Hold up to three streak freezes instead of two, for good.

Structure Reader badge

Level 35 · 4,980 XP

The Structure Reader badge and 10% off the vault

Every price in the vault, permanently.

Risk Keeper badge

Level 50 · 8,658 XP

The Risk Keeper badge and a Private Trade Ideas day pass

Halfway up. One full day of the room’s calls in the app, read-only — on the house.

Tape Reader badge

Level 75 · 18,203 XP

The Tape Reader badge

For the ones still here after months.

Desk Veteran badge

Level 100 · 34,648 XP

The Desk Veteran badge

Level 100, the top of the board. Very few get here.

Learning streaks

A day counts when you learn something — a lesson, a quiz, a video, a practice chart. Opening the app is not enough. Freezes cover a missed day, because losing a forty-day streak to a flight is how people quit.

  • Three days learning+50 XP
  • A week of learning+150 XP · 2 keys
  • A fortnight of learning+300 XP · 3 keys
  • A month of learning+600 XP · 5 keys · 1 freeze
  • Two months of learning+1000 XP · 8 keys
  • A hundred days of learning+1500 XP · 12 keys

The daily chest

Log in and open one chest a day. The ladder runs 14 days and the last days are worth the most, so the longer the run, the more a missed day costs.

  1. Day 110 XP
  2. Day 215 XP
  3. Day 31 key
  4. Day 425 XP
  5. Day 52 keys
  6. Day 640 XP
  7. Day 7120 XP + 1 key
  8. Day 820 XP
  9. Day 930 XP
  10. Day 102 keys
  11. Day 1145 XP
  12. Day 123 keys
  13. Day 1360 XP
  14. Day 14Private Trade Ideas day pass

Keys and the vault

Keys come from modules, chests, streaks and badges, and they are spent in the vault on things worth having: extra coach messages, extra analyses, a streak freeze, a week of an add-on, opening the next module early. Keys buy product, never money off — and neither keys nor XP can be bought with money.

Badges

10 badge tracks, five tiers each

Bronze · Silver · Gold · Platinum · Obsidian — every track counts something you did, never a result.

Scholar — BronzeScholar — SilverScholar — GoldScholar — PlatinumScholar — Obsidian

Scholar

1 / 5 / 12 / 22 / 33 modules finished

Record keeper — BronzeRecord keeper — SilverRecord keeper — GoldRecord keeper — PlatinumRecord keeper — Obsidian

Record keeper

10 / 50 / 100 / 300 / 500 outcomes recorded

Showing up — BronzeShowing up — SilverShowing up — GoldShowing up — PlatinumShowing up — Obsidian

Showing up

7 / 14 / 30 / 60 / 100 learning days in a row, best

Quizmaster — BronzeQuizmaster — SilverQuizmaster — GoldQuizmaster — PlatinumQuizmaster — Obsidian

Quizmaster

10 / 40 / 80 / 140 / 193 quiz questions answered right

Watcher — BronzeWatcher — SilverWatcher — GoldWatcher — PlatinumWatcher — Obsidian

Watcher

5 / 15 / 30 / 60 / 100 lesson videos watched

Chart practice — BronzeChart practice — SilverChart practice — GoldChart practice — PlatinumChart practice — Obsidian

Chart practice

1 / 5 / 10 / 16 / 22 modules practised on a chart

In your words — BronzeIn your words — SilverIn your words — GoldIn your words — PlatinumIn your words — Obsidian

In your words

1 / 5 / 12 / 22 / 33 writing chapters marked solid

Clean ledger — BronzeClean ledger — SilverClean ledger — GoldClean ledger — PlatinumClean ledger — Obsidian

Clean ledger

7 / 30 / 60 / 100 / 200 days closed with nothing unrecorded

Weekly caller — BronzeWeekly caller — SilverWeekly caller — GoldWeekly caller — PlatinumWeekly caller — Obsidian

Weekly caller

4 / 12 / 26 / 52 / 104 weekly calls made

Morning read — BronzeMorning read — SilverMorning read — GoldMorning read — PlatinumMorning read — Obsidian

Morning read

10 / 30 / 90 / 180 / 365 market briefings read

The lessons behind the XP are in the syllabus; the tutor who marks them is Otus.

Otus

Start with lesson one.

The first modules, Otus as your tutor and the game board are free. No card needed.