Study with your own AI

Every Options Playbook ships with study files built for AI assistants. Plug one into your own AI — ChatGPT, Grok, Muse, whichever you use — and it teaches you the lesson and quizzes you on it, one lesson at a time.

No new app, no new subscription. The file does the teaching; your AI just runs it. The free Starter includes the study pack, so you can try it before you spend a dime.

Every book now also includes the Knight Trader MCP Study Server. Connect it to an MCP-capable AI assistant — Claude and others — and study interactively: look up any pattern, pull the full lessons, run drills, and take quizzes, right inside your own AI. It comes with every book on this page — the free ones too.

Options, explained through pictures.

Trade what you see, not what you think!

Most trading education buries you in jargon. Knight Trader teaches the other way: one picture, one idea per page — candlestick patterns and options mechanics you can actually see, drawn the way the charts really look.

Start with the free Starter Edition of the Options Playbook. Ten visual pages, plus a study pack that lets your own AI assistant teach and quiz you, one lesson at a time.

About

Knight Trader is the education arm of Set Free Capital LLC, founded by Robinson Joachin — a trader and trading educator who has been trading since 2009.

I learned this craft in the Boston area: mentor-led lectures at MIT first, then time in a Waltham trading office, learning the way you learn in a room full of traders — by watching the charts all day, every day. Before the markets, I was on television: I did a TV show in Orlando, Florida, on Brighthouse Network from 2006 to 2008. I have also worked inside the trading-education industry, and I saw how much of it runs on hype. Knight Trader is built to be the opposite of that.

Everything here comes out of the trading manual I authored — the source of the 32 Candlestick Patterns collection and the Options Playbook. One picture, one idea per page, drawn the way the charts really look.

Think of this page as your market weatherman. Every weekday I read the weather — the indexes, the VIX, rates, and the economic calendar — and report what the charts say, in plain English. No hype, no stories. I tell truth, not stories.

Trade what you see, not what you think! And remember: I show what the charts say — you decide.

Find me daily on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok (@knighttrader7150), and X (@rob50427).

How I read a chart

People ask what I actually look at before a pattern means anything to me. It is the same five steps, in the same order, every time:

1. Trend first. I decide which way the chart is already moving — up, down, or sideways — on the timeframe in front of me. A pattern only means something inside its trend; the same shape in a downtrend is a different animal.
2. Mark the level. I draw the line price has to deal with: the high it must break, the low it must hold. If I cannot point to the level, there is no setup yet.
3. Find the pattern. Only now do I look for the shape — a flag, a base, a breakout bar. The pattern is the last thing I check, not the first.
4. Name the invalidation. Before anything else, I fix the price that proves the idea wrong. If price gets there, the read is over — no debate, no moving the line.
5. Size it small. Position size comes last and stays small — small enough that being wrong is a lesson, not a wound. Trade small, trade often.

What that looks like in practice

The walk-through below is an illustrative example of the process — how I read, not a trade result. No trade is being reported here.

Take a textbook bull flag. A stock in a clear uptrend makes a fast, steep run — that is the pole. My first step is already done: the trend is up. The stock then drifts sideways-to-slightly-down in a tight channel on visibly lighter volume. Buyers resting, not sellers taking over. The level is the top of that channel, just under the pole's high. The pattern is the flag itself. The invalidation is a close below the channel's low — that would tell me the pause has become a reversal and the read is wrong. And the size stays small, because a flag can fail like any other pattern.

Notice what is not in that walk-through: an entry price, an exit, a profit. The process is the product. The outcome belongs to the market.

Standards & corrections

• Education only. Everything published by Knight Trader — this site, the books, the daily market weather — is educational material for self-directed traders. It is not financial advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Your trades are your decisions.
• Corrections. If we publish an error — a mislabeled pattern, a wrong fact, a broken link — we correct it in place and note the correction on the page. Spotted one? Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
• Illustrative examples. Charts and walk-throughs on this site are teaching illustrations of how to read a pattern. They are not trade results, account statements, or promises of what any pattern will do next.
• No performance claims. We do not publish win rates, return figures, or income claims, and this is not a signal service. I show what the charts say — you decide.

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Education

Visual-first books for self-directed traders. Serious mechanics, simple pictures — and the Options Playbook line is built AI-readable, with a study pack your own assistant can teach from. Every book here — free ones included — now ships with the MCP Study Server, so your assistant can teach, drill, and quiz you interactively.

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