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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>
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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)