Learning Hub
The free video library. Watch in order or jump to what you need — every video is organized by category and skill level so you can build a real foundation instead of guessing.
Beenriq Trade Recap: Reading the Session After the Close
A structured after-market recap format showing how to review a session's key levels, structure shifts, and decision points once price has already played out. Built as a template you can repeat on your own charts nightly.
Beenriq Q&A: Common Questions From New Students
Answers the most frequent questions from new Digital Edge Lab students, covering account size selection, realistic timelines, and how to use the AI chart-analysis tool without becoming dependent on it. Recorded as an open, unscripted session.
What Day Trading Actually Is (and Isn't)
A plain-language walkthrough of what day trading means, how it differs from investing and swing trading, and why most people underestimate the skill gap. Sets expectations before you touch a platform.
Your First 30 Days: A Realistic Roadmap
A week-by-week plan for the first month of learning to trade futures, from paper trading to your first funded evaluation attempt. Built around slow, verifiable progress instead of shortcuts.
Futures Contracts Explained: NQ, ES, and Micros
Breaks down what a futures contract is, why NQ and ES exist alongside their micro versions MNQ and MES, and how tick value and point value actually work. Uses real contract specs, not rounded estimates.
Tick Size and Point Value: The Math That Runs Every Trade
Walks through how tick size and dollar value combine to price every futures trade, using NQ ($20/point), MNQ ($2/point), ES ($50/point), and GC ($100/point) as worked examples. Ends with a drill you can do on paper before risking a dollar.
Futures Trading Hours and Session Structure
Covers the nearly 24-hour futures session, where liquidity actually concentrates, and why trading the Globex overnight session is a different game than the regular trading hours. Explains why session choice is a risk decision, not just a scheduling one.
Liquidity Pools: Why Price Hunts Stops Before It Reverses
Explains the concept of resting liquidity above swing highs and below swing lows, and why institutional order flow is drawn to those pools. Uses a hypothetical session example a structured trader might study to illustrate a sweep-and-reverse sequence.
Fair Value Gaps and Order Blocks, Defined Precisely
Gives strict, repeatable definitions for fair value gaps and order blocks so they stop being vague chart art. Walks through identifying both on a hypothetical MNQ chart step by step.
Session Sweeps: London, New York, and the Judas Swing
Covers how session opens interact with prior session highs and lows to create false moves before the real directional push. Frames the Judas swing idea as a pattern to recognize, not a guaranteed signal.
Setting Up Your Charting Platform for Futures
A walkthrough of configuring a futures charting platform: contract selection, session times, tick charts versus time charts, and saving a clean workspace layout. Aimed at removing setup friction before your first sim trade.
Placing Bracket Orders Correctly on a Futures Platform
Demonstrates how to place an entry with an attached stop-loss and take-profit as a single bracket order, and why manual stop placement after entry invites hesitation. Includes a check for confirming order fill and stop attachment before walking away from the screen.
How Prop Firm Evaluations Work
Explains the standard two-step evaluation model used by most futures prop firms: profit targets, drawdown rules, and consistency requirements. Clarifies what passing actually earns you and what it doesn't.
Trailing Drawdown vs. Static Drawdown, Explained With Numbers
Compares trailing and end-of-day drawdown rules side by side with account-size examples, showing how the same losing streak can end an evaluation under one rule set and survive under another. Includes a note to verify current rules before relying on any specific number.
Reading a Prop Firm's Fine Print Before You Pay
A checklist for evaluating a prop firm's rules before purchasing an evaluation: payout structure, scaling plans, consistency rules, and prohibited strategies. Aimed at avoiding firms whose rules are engineered against typical trader behavior.
Position Sizing From Your Stop, Not the Other Way Around
Teaches the core sequence: decide your dollar risk first, find your stop distance from structure, then calculate contract size — never the reverse. Includes a full worked example on MNQ.
Daily Loss Limits: Building Your Own Circuit Breaker
Explains why a hard daily loss limit protects both your account and your decision-making, and how to set one relative to your evaluation's drawdown rule. Covers what to actually do once the limit is hit.
Risk-to-Reward Ratios: Why 1:1 Isn't Automatically Bad
Corrects the common myth that every trade needs a 1:3 or better ratio, using win-rate math to show how different R:R and win-rate combinations produce the same expectancy. Grounds the discussion in real position-sizing arithmetic.
Reading Market Structure: Higher Highs, Lower Lows, and Ranges
Covers the foundational skill of labeling swing highs and lows to determine trend, range, or transition. Uses a hypothetical NQ chart sequence a structured trader might study to show structure shifting in real time.
Support, Resistance, and Why Levels Fail
Explains how to draw meaningful support and resistance levels instead of arbitrary lines, and walks through the mechanics of why a level holds or fails in terms of order flow. Includes a hypothetical example of a level being tested three times before breaking.
Volume Profile Basics for Futures Traders
Introduces volume profile concepts — value area, point of control, and high/low volume nodes — and how they help locate where real trading interest sits versus where price simply passed through. Framed as a tool for context, not a standalone entry signal.
Revenge Trading: How It Starts and How to Interrupt It
Breaks down the physiological and cognitive sequence that turns one loss into three, and gives concrete interrupts you can use in the moment. Written from the trading floor, not a self-help script.
Boredom Trading: The Quiet Account Killer
Explains why trades taken out of boredom during slow markets are statistically worse than trades taken on a real setup, and how to build a pre-session checklist that filters them out. Includes a self-audit exercise using your own trade log.
Building a Pre-Trade Routine That Actually Sticks
A practical framework for a five-minute pre-session routine covering mental state, bias check, and setup confirmation. Designed to be repeatable on your worst day, not just your best one.