What this course teaches you, and what it does not promise

This course describes, tool by tool and minute by minute, how a discretionary trader reads ES with the three DeepCharts modules, then turns that reading into quantified decisions. Everything in it can be checked on the screen: the settings, the levels, the thresholds, the entry procedures, the stops, the targets. The captures come from two real ES sessions, Friday, October 30 and Tuesday, November 3, 2026, read on the Deepchart chart (Deep Prints, Deep Stats, Deep Trades, profiles), the DeepDom order book (heatmap, DOM, Liquidity Tracker) and the DeepGamma gamma map (GEX (MM), H-GEX, C/P OI (R), 0DTE walls).

The promise

By the end of the course, you know what you are looking at, why price reacts where it reacts, and what decision to make when it gets there. You also know how to recognize the moments when you should do nothing, and they outnumber the others.

What the course does not promise: a win rate, an income, a guaranteed edge. The trades shown on the captures are reconstructed after the fact. They illustrate a method, they do not prove it. There is only one way to know whether this method suits you: journal it over thirty trades per setup, in replay and then in simulation, before putting a single cent into it. The risk module shows how.

The path

Follow modules 2 to 5 in order. Then work through the setups one by one: each card stands on its own, but it assumes the method of module 5.

Conventions

• Prices in ES points. One point is worth 4 ticks and $50 on ES, $5 on MES. One tick is worth 0.25 point, i.e. $12.50 on ES and $1.25 on MES.
• Paris time. Module 2 gives the conversion table, including the weeks when Paris and New York do not change their clocks at the same time.
• Gamma levels at ±1 point. An SPX strike projected onto ES is a zone, not a tick. A level read as "7,600" covers 7,599 to 7,601.
• R. The initial risk of a trade, in dollars. A trade that makes twice its risk is +2R. Every performance figure in the course is expressed in R, never in dollars alone.
• Captures. Every figure says whether it comes from a real session or from a constructed example. Constructed examples have fictitious prices and real mechanics.
• Reading after the fact. The trades from the real sessions are reconstructed on 1-minute candles, with no slippage or fees, and graded with the three-A grid, exactly as you will grade your own.

What is documented, and what is inferred

DeepCharts documents its tools in a help center. When a reading in this course comes from that documentation, it is presented as a fact. When it comes from observing the captures, for instance the exact meaning of a color or a marker, it is presented as an inference, and the last lesson lists the points to check in your own settings. A tool whose source you do not know goes into no trading rule: that is the first rule of the course, and it applies to the course itself.