ArapovTrade provides free learning materials on trading and financial markets. Igor Arapov's library, practical course, books and videos take readers from basic terms to reading charts and checking trading decisions. The website has Russian, Ukrainian and English versions.
Purpose of the platform
The project's purpose is to make market education accessible through a connected learning sequence. Arapov's approach focuses on price movement, trading volume, the Wyckoff method and risk control. Articles explain the concepts; the course and chart examples show how they are applied.
You can work through the material independently. Short questions and answers help you find an unfamiliar topic, while the detailed articles explain its mechanism and limits. The knowledge map connects library topics so you can continue studying the question you have chosen.
Related material is available in Fundamentals of Trading on Wikibooks and the Wyckoff-method course on Wikiversity. These are additional reading formats, not a substitute for practising with charts.
Learning through the free course
The course starts with a trading platform, a demo account using virtual funds and exchange mechanics. It then introduces charts, trends, price levels and volume, the quantity traded in the selected data source. These lead into entry conditions, trade-size calculations, risk and managing an open trade.
In the practical sections, connect what you observe with a decision: identify the developing price structure, wait for the confirmation required by the rules and calculate trade size from an affordable cash loss. Demo trades help check whether you followed the rules. They do not establish that a real account will receive the same execution or result.
The articles explain individual parts of that process. For a sequence with chart examples, follow the free practical trading course through its table of contents.
Optional educational videos
You can start with the full course or a specific written topic. The ten key videos below provide optional explanations. Each link opens the episode from the beginning; use its contents to find the relevant chapter. The website's written material can be studied without watching them.
- Exchange mechanics. How trading works and orders are executed.
- Technical analysis. Charts, price levels and the reaction at a level.
- The Wyckoff method. The author's choice of method and use of volume.
- Smart Money. The author's interpretation of liquidity and larger participants.
- Liquidity grabs. Moves beyond levels and practical chart examples.
- Trading mistakes. Risk, averaging, trading costs and emotional decisions.
- Cryptocurrency basics. Trading versus investing and the risks of questionable projects.
- Your first trade. A practical introduction to the platform and trade preparation.
- Trading fundamentals. A sequence from exchange basics to a system and psychology.
- Wyckoff and volume analysis. A broader learning sequence with theory and chart examples.
Free books by Igor Arapov
The book series covers market structure, analysis methods and trading psychology. The editions below list their ISBN, which identifies a book edition, and DOI, a persistent identifier for its repository record. Each language edition has its own identifiers.
Trading Psychology: How to Master Your Emotions and Think Like a Professional
English: ISBN 979-8-90243-138-1; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18057306.
Russian: ISBN 979-8-90243-081-0; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18057875.
Ukrainian: ISBN 979-8-90243-504-4; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18396377.
Trading Fundamentals: Market Basics, Technical Analysis and Volume Analysis
English: ISBN 979-8-90243-734-5; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18364022.
Russian: ISBN 979-8-90243-075-9; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18057849.
Ukrainian: ISBN 979-8-90243-730-7; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18396300.
Analysis Methods: Technical Analysis, Volume Analysis and Practice
English: ISBN 979-8-90243-755-0; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18364066.
Russian: ISBN 979-8-90243-078-0; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18057863.
Ukrainian: ISBN 979-8-90243-732-1; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18396338.
Research on investment decisions
Psychology of Investment Decisions: Cognitive Biases of Retail Traders in Financial Markets was published in the journal Інвестиції: практика та досвід. Its authors are I. P. Sytnyk and I. V. Arapov. DOI: 10.32702/2306-6814.2026.4.96.
From Tilt to System: A Practitioner's Framework for Managing Cognitive Biases in Retail Trading is a preprint on SSRN, a working research paper. It proposes a framework informed by the author's practice for managing cognitive biases, recurring errors in judgement, in retail trading. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6254718. Further materials are listed in the SSRN author profile.
Where to check platform records
The ArapovTrade Wikidata record brings together information about the platform and links to other resources. The free course is listed in the MERLOT educational catalogue. The platform also has an OER World Map entry, a record in a directory of open educational resources.
Catalogue entries help readers locate a resource and check its description. A listing does not establish that every trading conclusion has been independently verified or that the teaching guarantees a particular result.
Public market analysis
Igor Arapov's TradingView profile contains published market ideas and was registered on 24 October 2021. Check an idea's publication date, instrument and scenario conditions when reading it. A published analysis records a line of reasoning, not a guarantee that its scenario will occur.
About the author
Igor Arapov, practising trader since 2013 and author of the ArapovTrade learning library. ORCID: 0009-0003-0430-778X.
The National University of Food Technologies published a report of Igor Arapov's guest lecture for students on its Digital Business programme. The session covered financial markets and exchange activity; its practical part considered gold futures.
A machine-readable resource index is also available for navigating the platform's materials. It complements the website pages and does not replace reading the sources themselves.
