The realbacktesting Academy
Clear, honest explainers of how modern trading methodologies actually work — SMC, liquidity, Wyckoff, supply & demand, price action — and how you'd test them instead of trusting them.
VWAP is a volume-weighted average price and execution benchmark. Useful, measurable, and still not a trading edge by itself.
Smart Money ConceptsA plain-spoken overview of SMC — structure, order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity, premium/discount — and the honest problem: it is discretionary.
Smart Money ConceptsTwo different things get called 'liquidity': order-book depth you can measure, and a smart-money story about stop hunts you mostly cannot.
Smart Money ConceptsOrder blocks and fair value gaps are the core zones of Smart Money Concepts — how traders mark them, and why subjectivity makes them hard to test.
Wyckoff MethodAn honest look at Wyckoff's three laws, the Composite Operator, the market cycle and accumulation schematics — plus why the phases are idealised.
Supply & DemandA supply or demand zone is a base before an imbalanced move. Here is how they form, why zone-drawing is subjective, and how to make it testable.
Price ActionReading trades from raw candles, structure and levels — what price action is, and what the evidence really says about candlestick patterns.