Discover your strongest areas and your biggest trading blind spots.
Answer 15 questions across five core areas of market understanding. Your results will show where your framework is already strong and where it can improve.
Building your market understanding profile...
Analyzing strengths, blind spots and the most relevant next step.
Developing Market Framework
Your Five-Area Profile
The NGS Framework
Every trading decision can be viewed through five connected areas. The assessment measures each area individually to identify strengths, blind spots and the next opportunity for improvement.
Where buyers and sellers meet.
Understand why previous highs, lows and key reference prices attract market participants and become important decision areas.
How price organizes itself.
Identify trends, ranges and structural transitions before focusing on entries or execution.
What shapes the market environment.
Understand how the US Dollar, interest rates, bond yields, volatility and capital flows influence financial markets.
Protect capital. Execute consistently.
Define position size, invalidation and execution rules before capital is committed.
Why participants behave the way they do.
Study expectations, positioning, sentiment, narratives and reflexive feedback loops to understand how participant behavior influences price.
Tools and Resources That Support Your Framework
The assessment shows where your understanding is strongest and where it can improve. These tools and resources help turn that understanding into a more structured and repeatable process.
Magic Keys
Simplify position sizing, order placement and trade management. Useful for turning predefined risk rules into consistent execution.
- Risk-based position sizing
- Faster order placement
- Structured trade management
Dominion Markets
A trading environment used within the NGS workflow for Forex, Gold, Indices and Crypto, with execution, analytics and performance review.
- Execution-focused platform
- Built-in journal and analytics
- Performance tracking
Recommended Books
Deepen your understanding of Liquidity, Market Structure, Macro, Risk & Execution, and Market Behavior through the NGS Reading List.
- Five books for five Framework areas
- Curated from direct study and application
- Built for deeper market understanding
Continue with “How to Think in the Markets”
A concise introduction to perception, bias and reflexivity. Use it as a free next step after completing the assessment.