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Trading education, brewed slow
Coffee & Chartsby Ved
Read the market the calm way. Context first, then confluence, then timing, then the entry. Risk management in every cup.
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Offline meetups
Charts are better with company
Small Sunday-morning sessions. We open the week's charts on a big screen, walk through structure and levels together, and talk about process over filter coffee.
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Risk Desk: write your position-sizing rules
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Replay Room: practise entries on bar replay
How a morning runs
Coffee and check-in
Grab a cup, meet the table. Bring a laptop with TradingView if you want to follow along.
Live chart walk
Weekly and daily context, key levels, and the sessions that matter for the week ahead.
Your questions
Journals, rules, mistakes. We review process together, never individual tips.
House rules
- No buy or sell calls, no stock tips, no selling of courses or signals at the table.
- Nothing discussed is personal financial advice. You are responsible for your own trades.
- Be kind to beginners. Everyone started with a blown account or two.
Learn trading
One process, five cups
Every trade goes through the same filter in the same order. Skip a step and you are guessing.
Zoom out before you zoom in
The higher timeframe decides which side you should even be looking for. The lower timeframe only decides where you get in.
- Trend first. On H4 or Daily, is price making higher highs or lower lows?
- Mark the map. Previous day high and low, weekly open, big supply and demand zones.
- Check the calendar. CPI, FOMC and NFP days move differently. Know them before the open.
- Then drop down. Only now open M15 or M5 to look for a trade inside the plan.
Daily trend → M5 zone
One reason is a guess. Three is a setup.
Tick what your chart shows right now. The circles only meet when the reasons agree.
Setup grade No trade
Confluence meter
The same setup, a different hour
A breakout at the London open and a breakout at 03:00 IST are not the same trade. Liquidity changes everything.
- Trade when the big desks trade. London open and the London to New York overlap carry the most volume.
- US index futures: the cash open is 09:30 New York time. The first 15 minutes are the wildest.
- Stand aside around news. Spreads widen and stops slip in the minutes around CPI or FOMC.
- Daylight saving moves the clock. These bars follow the real London and New York time, so they stay correct all year.
24 hours in IST
Break, retest, then commit
An entry is the last step, not the first. It only exists inside the context you already marked.
- Trigger. Price closes beyond the level. A wick alone is not a break.
- Confirmation. It comes back, tests the level, and holds.
- Execution. Enter, put the stop beyond the point that proves you wrong, set the target at the next level.
- Management. Never move the stop further away. Ever.
Break and retest · 1:2
Size the position from the stop, not from hope
Decide how much of the account one idea may cost, measure the distance to your stop, and let the maths pick the size. The example is a Micro E-mini S&P (MES) trade, where one point is worth $5.
Position size2 contracts
Max risk100.00
Risk per contract50.00
Actual risk100.00
DirectionLong
Target at 1R5810
Target at 2R5820
Rounded down to whole contracts, so you never risk more than your limit.
Ten losses in a row
It happens to every trader. What is left of a 100% account?
1% risk
90.4% · +10.6% to recover
2% risk
81.7% · +22.4% to recover
5% risk
59.9% · +67.0% to recover
Win rate you need to break even
Before fees and slippage. A bigger reward lets you be wrong more often.
| Risk : reward | Break-even win rate |
|---|---|
| 1 : 1 | 50.0% |
| 1 : 1.5 | 40.0% |
| 1 : 2 | 33.3% |
| 1 : 3 | 25.0% |
Tool kit
Everything on the desk
Small tools we use every session. Free, no sign-up.
Position size calculator
Account, risk %, entry and stop in. Contracts out.
Open Session clockTokyo, London and New York in IST, daylight saving handled.
Open TradingViewThe charting platform we use in every lesson and meetup.
Visit Economic calendarCheck high-impact news before the session opens.
VisitTrading journal template
A sheet for entries, screenshots and mistakes.
Coming soonLevel-marking guide
How we mark PDH, PDL and weekly open on any chart.
Coming soonPre-trade checklist
Tick all six or sit on your hands
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About us
Hi, I am Ved
Trader, educator and the person pouring the coffee. Coffee & Charts started as a few friends looking at Sunday charts together. It grew into lessons, tools and meetups built around one idea: a calm, repeatable process beats a lucky prediction.
Process over predictions
We teach how to think about a chart, not what to buy tomorrow.
Risk comes first
Every lesson ends with the same question: how much can this cost me?
Free to learn
Lessons and tools stay free, kept alive by people who buy a coffee.
Terms
Terms, conditions and risk disclosure
Last updated: 2 November 2026
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