Second Mind Academy

Learn the markets for free, with a clear structure.

Every course and lesson is free, for everyone. We never ask for money.

Learn with simplicity, emotional balance and consistency. Observe without bias, follow a disciplined method and recognise when an idea no longer holds. Clear no-trade rules and decision review give your market learning a defined structure.

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50lessons · 7 stages

10Second Mind Principles

Markets

Mechanics & participation

Price

Candles & structure

Context

Order flow & volume

Process

Risk & review

1Course in production; 3 more are planned

7Parts in the Order Flow course

50Lessons in the Order Flow Full Course

10Second Mind Principles guide every lesson

8Dimensions in the final assessment

The learning path

Free courses.

Market mechanics, price behaviour and order flow, in a structured curriculum guided by the Second Mind Principles. Only Order Flow is in production. The other three are planned and not released yet.

COURSE 01

Market Foundations

Market mechanics, chart reading and the foundations of a trading process.

Status: Planned. Not released yet. The parts below are the planned outline and can change.

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Market Mechanics & Trading Fundamentals. Financial markets and market participants; price discovery; exchanges and brokers; liquidity, volatility and trading sessions. Order types, execution and trading costs. Leverage, margin, tick size, tick value, lot size and trading volume. Core differences between cash markets and derivatives.
Chart Reading & Candlestick Analysis. Chart reading, timeframes, Japanese candlestick anatomy, key candlestick patterns, candle momentum, rejection and confirmation. Understanding successful and failed candlestick patterns within market context.
Price Action Fundamentals. Swing behaviour, support and resistance, breakouts and false breakouts, retests, price rejection, gaps, trendlines, channels and chart patterns.
Key Price Levels & Zones. Key swing highs and lows, reaction zones, previous session and previous week highs and lows, and opening and closing prices. Identifying key price levels and distinguishing individual levels from broader price zones.
Market Structure & Trend. Higher highs, higher lows, lower highs and lower lows. Bullish and bearish structure, ranges, structure shifts and transitions between trends and ranges. Understanding the relationship between higher- and lower-timeframe structure.
Risk & Trade Management. Risk per trade, position sizing, stop-loss placement, targets, risk-to-reward and expectancy, accounting for trading costs. Daily loss limits, drawdown control and capital protection rules.
Trading Process & Trader Psychology. Trading plans, discipline, patience, emotional control and journaling. Trading simulation, pre-trade checklists, no-trade rules and post-trade review.

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COURSE 02

Advanced Price Action

Price structure, liquidity and the conditions around an interpretation.

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Advanced Market Structure. Internal and external market structure, Break of Structure (BOS), Change of Character (CHoCH), structural transitions and multi-timeframe alignment. Criteria for confirming and invalidating structural breaks.
Liquidity Concepts. Liquidity pools, equal highs and lows, session highs and lows, liquidity sweeps and breakout scenarios. Distinguishing observable liquidity from assumed stop-loss locations.
Supply & Demand Zones. Zone identification and boundaries, fresh and previously tested zones, strong price moves away from zones (displacement), and higher-timeframe context. Criteria for selecting zones and recognising when they are invalidated.
Order Blocks & SMC Models. Order blocks, mitigation and breaker blocks. Identification criteria, market context, validation and invalidation.
Price Imbalances & Gaps. Fair value gaps, displacement and price gaps. Partial and full gap fills, and unfilled gaps. Distinguishing chart-defined imbalances from order-flow imbalances.
ICT Framework & Market Narrative. ICT terminology, dealing ranges, premium and discount, session timing and time-zone conventions. Building a market narrative and defining conditions that invalidate a directional view.
Advanced Trade Models & Confluence. Combining market context, liquidity, structure, price location and confirmation. Defining clear rules for entries, stop-loss placement, targets, setup cancellation and no-trade conditions. Evaluating these rules and trade models through testing.

Planned

COURSE 03

Order Flow & Market Analysis

Orders and traded volume in the context of price behaviour.

Status: Order Flow is in production. New lessons are shared free on our official YouTube channel. The 50 lessons run in 7 stages (see the roadmap).

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Order Flow & Auction Market Mechanics. Auction behaviour, aggressive and passive orders, bid–ask interaction, trade matching, absorption and liquidity replenishment. Market data coverage and limitations.
Footprint Charts, Volume Delta & CVD. Footprint chart reading, executed-volume imbalances, volume delta and cumulative volume delta (CVD). Absorption and exhaustion. Interpreting these observations alongside price behaviour and market context.
Volume Profile & Market Profile. Volume-based and time-based profiles, value areas, Point of Control (POC), high-volume and low-volume areas, session profiles, and price acceptance and rejection.
Depth of Market & Trade Execution. Depth of Market (DOM) reading, queue priority, bid–ask spreads, order-type selection and partial fills. Slippage, market impact, latency and execution quality.
Market Data, Positioning & Expiry Dynamics. Data sources, market data feed quality, reporting delays and market coverage. Volume, open interest and positioning reports. Rollover, expiry and settlement.
Macro Context & Trade Confluence. Economic data releases, central-bank decisions, company earnings, event calendars, cross-market relationships and changing market conditions. Combining these factors with market structure and order flow.
Strategy Research, Backtesting & Validation. Written strategy rules, historical data quality and backtesting with realistic trading costs. Look-ahead bias, survivorship bias and overfitting. Out-of-sample evaluation, walk-forward testing and simulated forward testing.

Order Flow: in production

COURSE 04

Second Mind Time Theory™

The Academy’s own framework. Details will be published when the course is ready.

Status: Planned. Not released yet.

Planned

Order Flow Full Course

50 lessons.
7 teaching stages.

Read in order. The book comes before Bid and Ask, data comes before tools, context comes before interpretation, and the research plan is written before formal testing.

Status: Order Flow is in production. New lessons are shared free on our official YouTube channel.

Foundations: Orders, Book and Market Data

Lessons 01–09 · 9 lessons

Stage exitExplain order versus trade; read book sides, prices and order events before analytical tools.

Lesson 01What is Order Flow?

Lesson 02Market, Venue, Instrument and Quantity Units

Lesson 03Order Book: Meaning, Structure and Visible Scope

Lesson 04Bid, Ask, Tick and Spread

Lesson 05Market, Limit and Marketable Limit Orders

Lesson 06Order Lifecycle and Time-in-Force

Lesson 07Matching Rules and Queue Position

Lesson 08Sessions and Auction Mechanisms

Lesson 09Trades, Quotes, Snapshots and Event History

Data Integrity, DOM, Execution and Risk

Lessons 10–15 · 6 lessons

Stage exitAudit the feed, reconcile depth and executions, and state execution costs and risk assumptions.

Lesson 10Data Quality and Platform Audit

Lesson 11Time and Sales and Aggressor Classification

Lesson 12DOM: Depth of Market and Book Reconciliation

Lesson 13Displayed, Hidden, Iceberg and Reserve Liquidity

Lesson 14Execution Quality and Trading Costs

Lesson 15Risk, Position Sizing and Expectancy

Order Flow Displays and Profiles

Lessons 16–24 · 9 lessons

Stage exitConstruct each view from its correct data and distinguish executed volume, resting depth and time-based activity.

Lesson 16Delta and Cumulative Delta

Lesson 17Footprint Charts: Construction and Reading

Lesson 18Executed-Volume Imbalances

Lesson 19Book Imbalance and Order Flow Imbalance

Lesson 20Volume Profile

Lesson 21Market Profile and Time-Price Opportunity

Lesson 22Session Profiles, Acceptance and Rejection

Lesson 23VWAP: Construction and Scope

Lesson 24Heatmaps and Displayed-Liquidity History

Positioning, Contract and Macro Context

Lessons 25–31 · 7 lessons

Stage exitDescribe the context available at the decision time before explaining a pattern.

Lesson 25Market Context and Regimes

Lesson 26Volume, Open Interest and Positioning Basics

Lesson 27Positioning Reports and Reporting Delays

Lesson 28Rollover, Expiry and Settlement

Lesson 29Macro Events and Event Calendars

Lesson 30Cross-Market Relationships

Lesson 31Market Structure and Order Flow Confluence

Evidence-Based Interpretation

Lessons 32–37 · 6 lessons

Stage exitForm and invalidate hypotheses; compare competing explanations without assuming participant intent.

Lesson 32Absorption and Replenishment

Lesson 33Exhaustion

Lesson 34Delta Divergence

Lesson 35Liquidity Gaps and Multi-Level Sweeps

Lesson 36Breakouts, Failed Breakouts and Reversal Candidates

Lesson 37Participant Intent and Manipulation Claims

Playbook, Replay, Simulation and Validation

Lessons 38–44 · 7 lessons

Stage exitWrite the plan before tests; distinguish replay, execution simulation, validation and paper-forward testing.

Lesson 38Conditional Playbook and Written Strategy Rules

Lesson 39Research Plan, Hypotheses and Baselines

Lesson 40Historical Data Preparation and Version Control

Lesson 41Outcome-Hidden Replay and Case Studies

Lesson 42Backtesting and Execution Simulation

Lesson 43Validation and Bias Control

Lesson 44Simulated Forward Testing

Research Quality and Final Assessment

Lessons 45–50 · 6 lessons

Stage exitEvaluate uncertainty, reproduce the analysis and demonstrate the complete chain on unseen cases.

Lesson 45Uncertainty, Effect Sizes and Sample Adequacy

Lesson 46Robustness and Backtest Overfitting

Lesson 47Reproducible Research and Replication

Lesson 48Integrated Unseen Case Review

Lesson 49Final Assessment: Eight-Dimension Scorecard

Lesson 50Delayed Review, Misconceptions and Coverage Audit

How we teach

The Second Mind Principles.

Ten principles shape every explanation, every example and every decision review.

Simplicity in explanation

Emotional balance

Consistency in learning

Careful observation

Neutrality in interpretation

Discipline in analysis

A defined method

Clear invalidation criteria

No-trade rules

Ongoing decision review

Every lesson

Start with understanding.

Explore each concept through clear explanations, practical examples and common mistakes.

Prior-knowledge check

Start from what you already know.

One clear objective

Each lesson has a single, defined goal.

Explanation and original example

Concepts explained clearly, with an original example.

Guided practice

Work through the idea step by step.

Independent check

Apply it on your own.

Recap and next-lesson link

Close the loop and connect to what comes next.

Final assessment

Eight dimensions.
One complete picture.

Unseen cases are assessed on eight dimensions. Weak areas are remediated and reassessed in a separate, later session.

Mechanics and vocabulary

Distinguish orders, book, trades, matching, units and executable sides.

Data integrity and provenance

Identify feed/session scope, missing data and invalid comparisons.

Calculations and construction

Reproduce spread, tick value, Delta, imbalance and selected profile/VWAP settings.

Display reading

Read DOM, Time and Sales, Footprint, profiles and heatmap without mixing their data.

Context and hypothesis

Use regime, macro/contract context and competing explanations at decision time.

Invalidation and no-conclusion

Separate observation, interpretation and intent; state invalidation and when evidence is insufficient.

Execution and risk

Apply fees, spread, fill assumptions, position sizing, drawdown and no-trade rules.

Research and decision review

Use a frozen plan, bias controls, uncertainty, trial logs, replication and reflective review.

0Missing or incorrect

1Partial or prompted

2Correct independently, with reasoning

About the Academy

About Second Mind Academy.

Second Mind Academy provides a detailed, structured understanding of the activity behind market movements—exploring how price, liquidity, order flow and market participants interact.

We break down complex market processes into clear explanations, helping learners examine not only what happens on a chart, but how and why it may occur.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions.

What is Second Mind Academy?

Second Mind Academy provides structured market education, helping learners understand the activity behind price movements and how markets operate.

What does the curriculum cover?

The planned path has four courses: Market Foundations, Advanced Price Action, Order Flow & Market Analysis, and Second Mind Time Theory. Only Order Flow is in production today. Visit the Courses section for the outline.

Which lessons are out today?

Order Flow is in production. The other three courses are planned and not released yet. Watch the official YouTube channel for new lessons.

What guides the Academy’s approach to learning?

The Second Mind Principles guide our approach, with an emphasis on clear explanations, objective observation, disciplined analysis and decision review.

Is it really free?

Yes. Every course, lesson and Short of Second Mind Academy is free for every student. There is no fee, no membership and no hidden charge, now or later.

Will the Academy ever ask me for money, or message me first?

Never. We do not sell courses, groups, signals, software or “mentorship”, we do not take commission from any broker or app, and we never message you first to ask for money. If anyone using our name asks you for money, it is not us: do not pay, and write to us at secondmindacademy@gmail.com.

How do I know an account is really the Academy’s?

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Does the Academy provide trading calls or personalised investment advice?

No. The Academy’s content is educational and does not provide trading calls or personalised investment recommendations.

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Learn the markets for free, with a clear structure.

Free courses.

50 lessons.7 teaching stages.

The Second Mind Principles.

Start with understanding.

Eight dimensions.One complete picture.

About Second Mind Academy.

Frequently asked questions.

Have a question?

Get in touch.

50 lessons.
7 teaching stages.

Eight dimensions.
One complete picture.