Open Learning

No fees.
No gatekeeping.

CTLD is a non-profit. Everything we build, we document. Everything we learn, we share. The learning tracks below are being built in the open — alongside the strategies themselves.

Learning Tracks

◈Coming Soon

Foundation

How Markets Actually Work

Price action, order flow, microstructure, bid/ask dynamics. The foundations most retail traders never learn.

Market microstructure
Price action basics
Order types and execution
Reading a level 2 book

⬡Coming Soon

Intermediate

Building Your First Strategy

From hypothesis to backtest. How to design, test, and validate a quantitative trading strategy from scratch.

Hypothesis generation
Backtesting methodology
Walk-forward testing
Avoiding curve-fitting

◎Coming Soon

Advanced

Automation and Infrastructure

How to take a validated strategy and deploy it as a live, fully automated system running 24/7.

Python bot architecture
MT5 and IB integration
Risk management systems
Monitoring and alerting

Strategy Journal

What we are writing.

Apr 2026

Why DXY proximity matters for Forex session timing

Research

Mar 2026

Building a tick-level orderbook collector in Python

Infrastructure

Mar 2026

What we learned from 3 months of live futures trading

Performance

Feb 2026

Fair Value Gaps: the edge that still works in 2026

Strategy

Full journal and documentation coming as strategies are built and validated.

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When learning content drops, when new strategies go live, when research is published — we will let you know.