Who this page is for — Readers who need to know where to start, how the disciplines connect, and which parts of Cyclepedia are already deep or still under construction.
Trading is not only chart reading. It is the interaction between instrument, market, order, risk, method, data, decision process and infrastructure. This is the canonical gateway to the vertical.
The areas of the vertical
| Area | Central question | Start here | Editorial status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Markets and instruments | What am I trading and what obligations does it embed? | verified initial cluster; legacy to consolidate | |
| Orders and execution | How does an order reach the market, which priority does it receive and at what price is it filled? | verified P0 cluster | |
| Microstructure and post-trade | Who provides liquidity, and what happens across matching, algorithms, clearing, settlement and custody? | verified core and advanced module; order flow remains to consolidate | |
| Risk management | How much can be lost per trade, sequence and portfolio? | three source-checked visual chapters, 35 canonical families | |
| Allocation and sensitivities | How are capital and risk distributed, and how do positions respond to factors? | source-checked visual third ring | |
| Portfolio and performance | How do objectives and constraints become weights, and how is the outcome measured against cash flows, risk and a benchmark? | source-checked visual chapter in 25 nodes and three languages | |
| Digital assets and crypto markets | What do you own, which network governs the transfer, and where do custody, leverage, and operational risk sit? | six-stage source-checked chapter in three languages |
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| Decentralized finance (DeFi) | Who controls keys, value, data, code, and the ability to exit a protocol? | 20 canonical glossary families + source-checked hub and visuals in three languages |
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| Technical analysis and price action | What does price behaviour show? | broad, sources to consolidate | |
| Volume, auction and order flow | Where does activity concentrate and how does the auction develop? | deep, partly verified | |
| Cyclic analysis | How is the time dimension of movements described? | deep, source retrofit | |
| Fundamental and macro | Which economic and company factors support price and value? | corpus to build | |
| Systematic trading | How are repeatable rules defined, tested and monitored? | 20-canonical, three-language source-checked chapter |
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| Psychology and process | How are decision errors limited and a process maintained? | fragmented | |
| Regulation and safety | How are intermediaries, protections, obligations, and fraud signals checked? | verified trilingual core | |
| History and schools | Which works and authors gave rise to the methods? | four main paths |
The status is intentionally visible: “present” does not mean “complete”, and
stable does not automatically mean “checked against sources”.
If you are starting from zero
- Trading: what it is and how it works — the definition, order chain and eight checks before real capital;
- Bronze path — the extended curriculum for vocabulary, prices, orders and risk;
- Markets and instruments — distinguishing exposure, contract and venue;
- Instrument types — what can be traded;
- Orders, execution and market microstructure — what you send, how it is matched and when the trade is final;
- Risk management — connect budget, size, exposure and capital survival;
- Technical analysis — reading price and context;
- Methodologies — choosing a school without mixing its rules.
If you already have experience
- Systematic trading — rules, validation and monitoring;
- Orders, execution and market microstructure — routing, costs, execution quality and post-trade;
- Risk management — leverage, drawdown, liquidation and risk of ruin; then risk measurement and control for tails, portfolios, liquidity and resilience; then allocation and sensitivities for capital, budgets, contributions and factor responses;
- Portfolio construction and performance — policy, asset allocation, rebalancing, returns, benchmarks, and attribution;
- Gold path — distributions, regimes, portfolios and performance;
- Traditions — original sources and later codifications;
- Case studies — applications read with context and limits.
The Options and volatility vertical is now complete: from contract to chain, from realized volatility to the implied surface, then parity, assignment, multi-leg strategies and Greeks. Portfolio construction and performance is now also a complete verified chapter. Fixed income and macro remain explicit editorial priorities; they will not be simulated by filler pages.
The Systematic trading, backtesting and validation vertical now connects specifications, signals, strategy families, point-in-time data, biases, costs, time-series validation, multiple testing, robustness, simulation and live governance in one visual path.
Traditions currently available
| Path | Core | Evidence status |
|---|---|---|
| Averages, movements, confirmation and the line | first source-checked cluster |
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| Profit Magic, cyclic tools and post-book tradition | broad coverage, uneven evidence | |
| Supply/demand, trading ranges and phases | broad path, source audit pending | |
| Auction, TPO, Initial Balance and Market Logic | partly verified |
Every new path follows:
original work → later codification → modern interpretations → controversies and limits.
Cyclepedia and the Emiciclo Method
Cyclepedia preserves trading knowledge in its documented formulations. The Emiciclo Method comes later and remains autonomous: it may develop or supersede earlier schools, but it is not used to rewrite their history.
Links between a historical rule and an Emiciclo idea will appear only in dedicated comparison pages, with explicit provenance.
Sources
- Cyclepedia, Editorial coverage matrix, version 1.3, 2026-08-03,
governance document
EDITORIAL-COVERAGE.md. - Cyclepedia, Editorial charter, document
EDITORIAL-CHARTER.md. - Cyclepedia, Cyclepedia schema, version 2.1, document
SCHEMA-CYCLEPEDIA.md.