The Halal Trading Bootcamp

1

Foundations & getting set up

How the market actually works, the halal framework, and getting your broker + charts set up.

30 topics

📚 Trading Basics · 8 lessons

What is trading — ownership, profiting from price movement, why losses are normal
Trading vs investing — and the types of trading, day vs swing
Where stocks are traded — NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, OTC (why we skip it), and ETFs
When the market is open — premarket, regular hours, after hours, and what your orders can do in each
Types of stocks — market cap and float, why small caps move fast, and the under-$2 rule
How to analyze stocks — fundamental (dilution, offerings, reverse splits, warrants) vs technical
Understanding the overall market — SPY as your lens, and what moves the tape (CPI, PPI, FOMC, NFP)
How we trade here — cash only, long only, no gambling, halal only

🧭 The ways people trade

Price action (what we do), ICT, SMC, supply & demand and fundamentals — and where we fit: simple, halal, price-action.

🗺️ The market map

Reading the main index ETFs and their overnight equivalents, why the whole market moves together, and why we watch them but trade halal stocks.

🕌 Halal vs Haram

What we avoid, and why — forex (riba/leverage), options (speculation), short selling, futures
How we screen a stock — business activity + financial ratios
The standards we follow — DJIM (primary) and AAOIFI (secondary), and the /halal bot

💻 Brokerage & Platforms

Market hours, and charting vs execution (they're separate)
Cash vs margin — always cash (margin = riba)
The broker rundown — Interactive Brokers, Webull, TradeStation, TradeZero, Schwab (thinkorswim), Fidelity, Robinhood
Level 2, other charting tools, and options for international traders

🧰 TradingView Template

How to load our template — your chart comes set up with the exact same tools we trade with
Nothing to memorize yet — we break down every one of those tools, and what an indicator even is, in Week 3

📖 Trading Terminology · your reference from day one

The 80-term glossary of every word used in the room. Bookmark it and look anything up as you go, so you always know exactly what we're talking about before we start reading charts.

Live session Room walk-through + the market from zero + set up your broker and TradingView together.

Homework Open a cash account, load the template, run /halal on a few tickers. Read #trading-basics + #brokerage-and-platforms, and bookmark #trading-terminology.

2

Reading charts, part 1

Reading a chart from scratch — candles, timeframes, trend, and the key levels price reacts at.

24 topics

📈 Charting Basics · Chapters 1–5

What a chart is — price over time, a record of behavior, and the two axes
Candlesticks — open/high/low/close, bullish vs bearish, the body and wicks, what the shape tells you, and reading a candle in context
Timeframes — lower/mid/higher, the same stock different story, higher gives direction / lower gives the entry, and multi-timeframe alignment (the basis of how we trade)
Trend & structure — uptrend, downtrend and chop; higher highs & lows; clean vs weak trends; front side vs back side; and the signs a move is weakening
Key levels — premarket high/low, PDH/PDL, intraday levels, candle highs/lows, support-becomes-resistance, confluence, rejection vs break-and-hold, and what to avoid

Live session Live chart reading — candles, timeframes, spotting a clean trend vs chop, and marking the key levels on real charts.

Homework Re-read #charting-basics Ch 1–5. Mark up 3 charts — label the trend, find one clean and one choppy, and draw the key levels.

3

Reading charts, part 2

Patterns, trade quality, the full toolbox, and the process to read any chart.

22 topics

📈 Charting Basics · Chapters 6–9

Chart patterns & formations — continuation (flags, pennants), channels, compression (wedges, triangles), reversal (double top/bottom), candlesticks (hammer, doji)
Trade quality — volume, float, spread, and why a good chart isn't automatically a good trade
Trading tools — what an indicator actually is, then the three EMAs, TRP (and the Demark 9), standard deviations, trendlines, and how confluence (several factors lining up) ties them together
Putting it all together — the 6-step process to read any chart (trend → levels → patterns → quality → tools → confluence)

📊 The full indicator landscape

Our six tools versus the ones we don't lean on (MACD, RSI, stochastics, Bollinger Bands, volume profile, Fibonacci) and the order-flow tools (footprints, Bookmap, Level 2) — what each one is, and why we keep the chart simple.

Live session Walk the 6-step process live on real charts; break down a few patterns and confluence spots.

Homework Re-read #charting-basics Ch 6–9. Run the 6-step read on 3 charts.

4

Risk, money management & your edge

Protecting the account, and the honest math that makes you profitable.

32 topics

💸 Risk & Execution · 10 lessons

Why risk management is everything — protect capital before profit; what blows up accounts
Position sizing (the 1% rule) — the formula, and worked examples at 1% and 2%
Stop losses — where to place them and why; structure-based stops, ATR, and the 10% ceiling
Adding to a position (DCA) — a good add vs a bad add
R-multiples and risk-to-reward — 1R/2R/3R, and why 1:2 beats a high win rate
Account risk limits — daily/weekly max loss, and no revenge trading
Waiting for your entry — why waiting is sometimes the trade
Managing open trades — T1, T2, scaling out, and moving the stop to T1
Stop orders & execution — slippage, halts, stop-market vs stop-limit, bracket orders, the premarket warning
When to stop trading — the signs it's time to step away

💡 Edge & Compounding · 8 lessons

What is an edge? — a repeatable advantage over a large sample
Why win rate alone doesn't pay — how a high win rate can still lose money
Expectancy, your real math — the formula and the benchmark tables (in R and in %)
How position sizing multiplies your edge — same edge, very different outcomes
Compounding — why small wins become big
Compounding in numbers — the projection table, the SPY benchmark, and the honest caveats
What destroys compounding — oversizing, drawdowns, and the asymmetry of losses
The long-term mindset — longevity over speed

Live session Position-sizing and the math worked live; expectancy and compounding explained honestly.

Homework Re-read #risk-and-execution L1–10 + #edge-and-compounding L1–8. Size 3 example trades with the 1% rule.

5

Day trading the small caps

Day trading small caps with a checklist and clear risk.

24 topics

🚀 Small-Cap Behavior & Tips

What a small cap is, and how they behave — fast, emotional, volume-driven, fake breakouts, key levels
Day trading vs swing trading a small cap
Timing — premarket, the open, midday
The core setups we focus on, the common mistakes to avoid, and risk & discipline

☀️ The Trend-Aligned Day Playbook

The stocks we trade — already trending on the higher timeframes, with clear room to run
The 5-step checklist — range → higher timeframe → standard deviation → structure → 1-minute entry
The two entry types — continuation/breakout, and pullback-continuation
Sizing, targets & what to avoid — risk-based sizing, T1/T2, and the full pre-entry checklist
How the day alerts map — reading the trend-aligned day alert channel

Live session Live day-trade breakdowns — walk the 5-step checklist on real charts and read the alert channels together.

Homework Re-read #small-cap-behavior-and-tips + #small-cap-day-trading-playbooks. Paper-trade the checklist on 3 setups.

6

Swing trading & putting it all together

The 6 swing setups in full, the psychology, and how the whole system runs day to day.

23 topics

⏳ Small-Cap Swing-Trading Playbooks

What swing trading is — held days to weeks, off the Daily + 4H; swing vs day; overnight risk and why 1% is the rule
The 6 setups — each with what it is, entry, stop, targets, and common mistakes:

Trend — uptrend continuation, holding the 9 EMA
Pullback — dip to the 23 EMA / support, then strength
Snap Back — sharp wick off the 200 EMA, fast bounce
Reversal — trendline bounce against the prior trend
Channel — buy support, sell resistance
Expansion — breakout from tight consolidation

Managing the trade — adding at structure, taking targets by setup, the swing sizing math, and the pre-entry checklist

🧠 Trading Psychology

Trading vs gambling, trading as a skill, the emotions you'll feel, losses as part of it, and what you're actually trying to do.

📝 The Daily Workflow

How a day in the room runs — the daily brief → the watchlist → the alerts. Plus your first-month plan.

Live session Live swing-setup breakdowns for all six, the daily workflow, and your first-month plan. Final Q&A.

Homework Re-read #small-cap-swing-trading-playbooks + the psychology lesson. Identify which of the 6 setups each recent swing alert was.

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Bonus modules — included

Beyond the mechanics — the inner game, and the bigger picture.

Bonus

🪞 The Mirror — Trading Psychology

Trading is a mirror. This module shows you how to read what your trading reveals about you, and how to diagnose and fix what's actually holding you back — fear, greed, impatience, ego, and revenge.

🌙 What Trading Taught Me About Life

The closing reflection — the lessons trading has taught me about patience, discipline, sabr, and tawakkul, and how they reach far beyond the charts.