Initialize trading project — Bill & Colette learning tracks

Two-person trading team setup: Bill (quant/algorithmic) and Colette (market observer).
Includes phase-by-phase curriculum, separate sprint tracks, trade journal templates,
roadmap to prop firm challenge, and agent handoff documentation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

colette/journal/template.md

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+# Trade Journal — Colette
+
+## Trade Entry Template
+
+**Date:**
+**Ticker:**
+**Direction:** Long / Short
+**Timeframe:**
+**Entry Price:**
+**Stop Loss:**
+**Target:**
+**Risk/Reward:**
+**Position Size:**
+
+**Setup Description:**
+_(Why did you take this trade? What did you see?)_
+
+**Result:**
+- Exit Price:
+- P&L:
+- Outcome: Win / Loss / Breakeven
+
+**Review:**
+_(Did you follow your rules? What would you do differently?)_
+
+---

colette/sprints/sprint-01.md

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+# Colette — Sprint 01: Chart Literacy
+
+**Track:** Market Observer — Phase 1
+**Duration:** 2–3 weeks (go at your own pace)
+**Goal:** Be able to look at any stock chart and describe what the price is doing.
+
+No math. No formulas. Just learning to read the picture the market is drawing.
+
+---
+
+## Setup
+
+- [ ] Log into TradingView (Bill will help with first login)
+- [ ] Set chart type to "Candles" and timeframe to "1D" (daily)
+- [ ] Add these tickers to a watchlist: SPY, QQQ, NVDA, DXYZ, AAPL
+
+---
+
+## Week 1 — Reading Candlesticks
+
+A candlestick shows 4 things: where price **opened**, where it **closed**, the **highest** point, and the **lowest** point that day.
+
+**Tasks:**
+- [ ] Watch: look up "how to read a candlestick chart" on Investopedia (read the article, not YouTube)
+- [ ] On TradingView, hover over 5 different candles on SPY. Read the open/high/low/close values.
+- [ ] Find one green candle with a long wick on top — what does that wick mean?
+- [ ] Find one red candle with a long wick on the bottom — what does that mean?
+
+**Question to answer:** On SPY's daily chart, is the price higher or lower than it was 6 months ago?
+
+---
+
+## Week 2 — Spotting Trends
+
+A trend is just: is price generally going up, down, or sideways?
+
+**Tasks:**
+- [ ] Look at SPY on a weekly chart (change "1D" to "1W"). Describe the trend in one sentence.
+- [ ] Look at DXYZ on a daily chart. When did it spike? What was happening in the news at that time?
+- [ ] Look at QQQ. Draw a line (use the Line tool) connecting the recent lows. Is that line going up or down?
+- [ ] Compare NVDA and AAPL — which one has been stronger over the last 3 months?
+
+**Question to answer:** If a stock is making higher highs and higher lows, is that an uptrend or downtrend?
+
+---
+
+## Week 3 — Volume
+
+Volume is how many shares were traded that day. High volume = people care. Low volume = nobody cares.
+
+**Tasks:**
+- [ ] Find a day on SPY where volume was much higher than usual. What was happening?
+- [ ] Find a big up day on any ticker with LOW volume. Is that move trustworthy?
+- [ ] Look at DXYZ — was volume high when the price spiked? What does that tell you?
+
+---
+
+## Sprint Milestone
+
+By the end of this sprint, you should be able to:
+- [ ] Look at any chart and say: uptrend, downtrend, or sideways
+- [ ] Identify if a candle had a significant wick and explain what it means
+- [ ] Explain why volume matters
+- [ ] Describe what DXYZ did and why it's risky
+
+---
+
+## Notes & Questions
+_(write down anything confusing — Bill can explain or we can look it up together)_