How the lessons are written, and what they will not say.
What every lesson keeps
Never teach a prediction
A level is where the market already did something, not where it will. Lessons describe what a candle, a pattern or an indicator records — never what price is going to do next.
Never instruct a trade
Lessons explain how to read a chart and how to size risk from a stop. They never say buy or sell, and Otus, the AI tutor, refuses to.
No win-rate promises
Where a pattern or indicator has been measured, the lesson names who measured it and how. Where it has not, the lesson says so. A ranking is a measurement, not a promise.
XP for learning, never for results
Recording a losing trade earns exactly what a winning one does. Nothing in the school is ranked by money.
Define it before you look
Every term is defined once, in writing, before it is used on a chart — the same definition in the lesson, the quiz, the glossary and the tutor. A touch is not a close, and the close decides.
Who the lessons cite
Thomas Bulkowski
Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts, and the candlestick and chart-pattern statistics at thepatternsite.com
The pattern lessons quote his tested figures — what price did after a pattern completed — wherever a ranking is discussed.
J. Welles Wilder Jr.
New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems (1978)
The original definitions of RSI and ATR, and Wilder’s smoothing, which the lessons and the chart tools both use.
Gerald Appel
Creator of the MACD
The MACD lesson teaches the indicator as he defined it: the gap between two exponential moving averages, and its signal line.
John Bollinger
Bollinger on Bollinger Bands
The bands lesson uses his construction — a moving average with bands a set number of standard deviations away.
When a lesson is wrong
Lessons are corrected in place, and changes to the product are listed in the changelog. To report an error, write to contact@aitradeideas.com. AI Trade Ideas is an education product, not an investment adviser — read the risk disclaimer.
Start with lesson one.
The first modules, Otus as your tutor and the game board are free. No card needed.