The Seven Chakras of trading.
Seven short stages, from foundations to mastery. Your progress is saved on this device — no account needed.
Root · FoundationsMuladhara
What crypto is, how wallets and exchanges work, and how to stay safe.
Not started
Root · FoundationsMuladhara
What crypto is, how wallets and exchanges work, and how to stay safe.
A wallet holds the keys that prove ownership. Lose the seed phrase and the coins are gone for good.
Exchanges are convenient but hold your coins for you. Self-custody means only you are responsible.
Guaranteed returns, urgency and "send first" requests are the classic warning signs.
Read more about the Root chakra
Before any progress, build a firm foundation. The Root chakra is about security: safe storage, scam awareness and only risking what you can afford. When it is balanced you are far less likely to be caught out by fraud or wiped out by volatility.
Practice: Write down where every coin you own is held, who controls the keys and how you would recover it.
Sacral · EmotionsSvadhisthana
FOMO, fear and greed — and how they quietly move your decisions.
Not started
Sacral · EmotionsSvadhisthana
FOMO, fear and greed — and how they quietly move your decisions.
Chasing a coin after a big move often means buying from people taking profits.
Losses feel about twice as painful as equal gains, so we hold losers too long.
Wait 24 hours before any unplanned trade. Most urges fade.
Read more about the Sacral chakra
Crypto is driven by extreme emotion. The Sacral chakra helps you move with those currents without being swept away, so decisions come from reason rather than panic selling or FOMO buying.
Practice: For one week, note your mood each time you check a price. Look for the pattern.
Solar Plexus · DisciplineManipura
Plans, position limits and journals that keep you consistent.
Not started
Solar Plexus · DisciplineManipura
Plans, position limits and journals that keep you consistent.
Decide entry, exit and maximum loss before you trade, not during.
Never risk money you cannot afford to lose; many traders cap any single idea at a small share of savings.
Record why you traded and how you felt. Patterns appear within weeks.
Read more about the Solar Plexus chakra
In a space full of influencers and self-styled gurus, the Solar Plexus chakra gives you the confidence to do your own analysis and the discipline to follow your own plan, whatever the crowd is shouting.
Practice: Write a one-page plan: what you buy, how much, when you review and what makes you sell.
Heart · BalanceAnahata
Diversification, correlation and why most coins move together.
Not started
Heart · BalanceAnahata
Diversification, correlation and why most coins move together.
In sell-offs, most coins fall with Bitcoin. Holding ten coins is not always diversification.
Stablecoins can lose their peg. They are not the same as cash in a bank.
Match what you hold to when you might need the money.
Read more about the Heart chakra
The Heart chakra governs your relationship with the wider ecosystem. Balanced, you can enjoy communities without tribalism, appreciate many projects without becoming a maximalist, and keep a portfolio that is genuinely diversified.
Practice: Check how your holdings moved in the last big sell-off. If they all fell together, you are less diversified than you think.
Throat · ResearchVishuddha
Reading tokenomics, supply unlocks, liquidity and on-chain data.
Not started
Throat · ResearchVishuddha
Reading tokenomics, supply unlocks, liquidity and on-chain data.
Check circulating vs total supply. Big future unlocks can mean selling pressure.
Thin order books make prices easy to push around, in both directions.
Prefer primary sources — project docs, audits, on-chain data — over social posts.
Read more about the Throat chakra
Hype, misinformation and jargon are everywhere. The Throat chakra is about cutting through the noise: reading primary sources, understanding tokenomics and being able to explain clearly why you hold something.
Practice: Explain one coin you hold in three sentences, without mentioning its price.
Third Eye · ProbabilityAjna
Thinking in ranges, base rates and scenarios instead of certainties.
Not started
Third Eye · ProbabilityAjna
Thinking in ranges, base rates and scenarios instead of certainties.
A good forecast says how wide the uncertainty is, not just one number.
Ask how often something like this has happened before.
Know what your holding is worth after a 50% or 80% fall. It has happened before.
Read more about the Third Eye chakra
The Third Eye chakra is about seeing clearly: thinking in ranges and probabilities, spotting patterns without being fooled by them, and understanding the psychology behind price moves.
Practice: Before your next trade, write down the chance you think it works — then check back later.
Crown · MasterySahasrara
Reviewing results honestly and knowing when not to trade.
Not started
Crown · MasterySahasrara
Reviewing results honestly and knowing when not to trade.
Judge decisions by the process, not only the outcome.
Often the most disciplined trade is no trade.
Markets change. Revisit your rules every few months.
Read more about the Crown chakra
The Crown chakra is perspective: looking beyond short-term profit to how the technology is changing finance, reviewing your own decisions honestly, and knowing when the wisest move is to do nothing.
Practice: Once a quarter, review every trade. Judge the decision, not just the outcome.
What kind of trader are you?
Eight questions about how you react to markets. Get your trading personality and the chakra to start with, then try the situations matrix. Answers stay on your device.
What would you actually do?
Six real market situations. Pick what you would honestly do — then see how each choice tends to play out, and which inner and outer pressures were at work.
Go deeper.
Longer reads that expand on the chakras — from spotting scams to understanding boom-and-bust cycles.
Crypto trades 24 hours a day and moves fast. That combination is hard on money and on wellbeing. These are practical habits that help you stay in control.
Read the guide Guide · 9 min readMarket manipulation, explainedCrypto is more exposed to manipulation than most markets: trading is fragmented, open around the clock and lightly regulated. Knowing the common tactics is the best protection.
Read the guide Guide · 8 min readMarket cycles, explainedCrypto has moved in recognisable cycles of boom and bust. No two are identical, but knowing the phases helps you set realistic expectations and manage your emotions.
Read the guide Guide · 5 min readScam warningScammers target crypto users with fake websites, impersonation and "guaranteed" returns — and some pretend to be CryptoChakra. Here is how to protect yourself.
Read the guideCrypto jargon, decoded.
When one party controls more than half of a blockchain's mining or staking power and can reorder or block transactions.
Free tokens distributed to wallets, usually to reward early users or build awareness. Also a common scam lure.
Any cryptoasset other than Bitcoin.
Automated market maker: a smart contract that prices trades from a pool of tokens instead of an order book.
Application-specific integrated circuit: hardware built only to mine a particular cryptocurrency.
All-time high: the highest price ever recorded.
A sustained period of falling prices and negative sentiment.
A batch of transactions added to a blockchain.
A shared ledger of records, linked and secured with cryptography, maintained by many computers.
A service that moves tokens between blockchains. Bridges have been a frequent target of hacks.
A sustained period of rising prices and positive sentiment.
The number of coins currently available to trade.
Keeping keys offline, for example on a hardware wallet, to reduce hacking risk.
How a blockchain's computers agree on the ledger, for example proof of work or proof of stake.
How closely two assets move together. Most coins are highly correlated with Bitcoin in sell-offs.
Who holds the keys. Custodial means a company holds them for you; self-custody means you do.
Decentralised autonomous organisation: a group governed by token-holder votes.
Decentralised application running on a blockchain rather than a central server.
Dollar-cost averaging: investing a fixed amount at regular intervals rather than all at once.
Decentralised finance: lending, trading and other services run by smart contracts.
Decentralised exchange: trading directly from your wallet through smart contracts.
The fall from a peak to a low, usually as a percentage.
"Do your own research." Good advice, but often used to sell bad ideas.
Exchange-traded fund. Spot Bitcoin ETFs hold Bitcoin and trade on stock exchanges.
When extreme moves happen more often than a normal distribution suggests — true of crypto.
Fear of missing out: buying because others are, not because of a plan.
Fear, uncertainty and doubt: negative information, true or false, that moves sentiment.
The fee paid to process a transaction on networks such as Ethereum.
The four-yearly cut in Bitcoin's block reward, which halves the rate of new supply.
The total computing power securing a proof-of-work network.
Holding through volatility rather than trading. From a misspelt 2013 forum post.
A wallet connected to the internet. Convenient, but more exposed to hacks.
Initial coin offering: selling new tokens to raise money. Many 2017 ICOs failed or were scams.
The loss a liquidity provider can suffer when token prices in a pool move apart.
A base blockchain such as Bitcoin, Ethereum or Solana.
A network built on top of a layer 1 to make transactions faster or cheaper.
Borrowing to increase position size. It magnifies losses as much as gains.
When a leveraged position is closed automatically because losses have used up the collateral.
How easily something can be bought or sold without moving the price.
Tokens locked in a smart contract to enable trading on a DEX.
Price multiplied by circulating supply.
The waiting area for transactions not yet added to a block.
A token based on internet culture, usually with no product or cash flows. Extremely volatile.
Using computing power to add blocks to a proof-of-work blockchain in return for rewards.
Non-fungible token: a unique token representing ownership of a digital item.
A service that feeds real-world data, such as prices, to smart contracts.
The low and high ends of a range: a 10% chance of landing below P10 and 10% above P90.
The secret that controls a wallet. Anyone with it can move your funds.
Consensus where validators lock up tokens as collateral to secure the network.
Consensus where miners compete using computing power, as in Bitcoin.
Hyping a coin to push the price up, then selling to latecomers.
How much a price has actually moved over a recent period. The basis of our ranges.
When developers abandon a project and take investors' money, often by removing liquidity.
The 12–24 words that restore a wallet. Never share it with anyone.
The difference between the expected price and the price you actually get.
Code on a blockchain that runs automatically when conditions are met.
A token designed to track a currency such as the US dollar. It can lose its peg.
Locking tokens to help secure a proof-of-stake network in return for rewards.
An order to sell if the price falls to a set level. May not fill at that price in a fast market.
A digital asset issued on an existing blockchain, such as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum.
The economics of a token: supply, distribution, unlocks and incentives.
When previously locked tokens become tradable, often adding supply.
Total value locked: the value of assets deposited in a DeFi protocol.
How much a price typically moves. Higher volatility means wider ranges.
Software or hardware that stores your keys and lets you send and receive crypto.
Trading with yourself to fake volume.
A holder large enough to move the market.
Moving tokens between DeFi protocols to earn rewards. Often high risk.
Cryptography that proves something is true without revealing the underlying data.
Put it into practice.
Open a coin you know and read its range, red flags and crash scenarios.