How to work through the course
A working rhythm, a journal, and one skill per check.
Build a study routine in which the material becomes a habit rather than something you forget.
3–5 lessons a day with a compulsory check on demo beats a marathon.
You could read this course in two evenings. The benefit would be roughly zero. What you are learning here is closer to motor skill: look at a chart and name the state of the market within ten seconds. Motor skill is built by repetition, not by reading speed.
- 01Read the lesson through, without skipping to the test
- 02Answer the 3 questions — they check that material specifically
- 03Open the demo account and find on screen what the lesson was about
- 04Write one sentence in your journal: what I now understand
- 05The next day, start by going back over the previous lesson
The right pace is 3–5 lessons a day. Faster is not forbidden, but then repetition becomes compulsory: without it, the material from levels 05–08 congeals into a mush of terms.
On the journal specifically. It is not bureaucracy and not reporting. It is the only way to separate “I felt like I understood” from “I did understand.” The format is minimal: date, lesson number, one sentence in your own words, one question you do not yet have an answer to.
If the test after a lesson gave you 1 out of 3, do not go on. That is not a punishment, it is a signal that the lesson was read with your eyes rather than your head. Go back to the text and reread only the part the wrong answer relates to.
And the main rule of pace: new knowledge is checked on demo the same day. A lesson about expiry — open demo and set three different expiries. A lesson about candles — find a candle with a long wick on the chart. The action is what fixes the text.
What people do
Reading lessons one after another with no platform open. Ten lessons in, the terms start running together, because none of them is tied to a specific place on the screen.
What works
Set one fixed hour for studying. The academy works like a gym: a steady 20 minutes every day gives more than four hours once a week.
A practical example
A typical student's day looks like this: 20 minutes on 4 lessons, 10 minutes on demo, 2 minutes on the journal.
- Monday
- — Lessons 011-014 + find the balance and the payout on the platform
- Tuesday
- — Lessons 015-018 + switch Demo / Real and back
- Wednesday
- — Review + the level exam
Key takeaways
- 013–5 lessons a day with a compulsory check on demo beats a marathon.
- 02The journal records not the result but the reason: what you understood and what is still unclear.
- 03A score of 1 out of 3 means going back to the lesson, not moving on.
Lesson 2 of 10 in “WELCOME TO MERCER”