Ever looked at a cryptocurrency chart and wondered how one trader sees a story while everyone else sees a plate of spaghetti?
One candle is green. The next is red. Bitcoin shoots up, falls down, does a little dance, and suddenly your mate Marius, who bought a coin because its logo looked cool is explaining market cycles to you.
Meanwhile, you’re staring at your screen thinking:
“Am I supposed to buy this thing, sell this thing, or phone someone who knows what on earth is going on?”
Welcome to cryptocurrency trading!
But before you throw your computer out the window, meet Wendy Landman, founder of the HODLNOTS trading method, and the rather unusual gang that could change the way you look at a chart forever.
There is Pinkie. There is the Green Mountain. There is Barney, the Lagging Span and Wendy’s very best charting buddy. There is Flowie Uppie and Downie. There are Neon candles that glow like they’ve had three energy drinks.
And somewhere in the wilderness, a Black Bear Expert is waiting to show you what the market has been doing while everyone else was busy guessing.
This isn’t just another trading course. It’s a whole new way of seeing the market.
And yes, it gets gloriously ridiculous along the way.
🐾 Chapter One: The Trading Jungle Is Open — But Do You Know Your Way Around?
Picture yourself entering the cryptocurrency jungle.
Bitcoin is prowling through the trees. Altcoins are hiding in the bushes. Green candles are popping up everywhere, red candles are lurking around corners, and social media is full of people confidently predicting the next million-dollar Bitcoin price.
One influencer says BUY!
Another screams SELL!
A third has changed his mind six times since breakfast.
And you? You’re trying to figure out whether that little red candle is a warning sign or simply having a bad day.
Sound familiar?
Here’s the thing: the cryptocurrency market doesn’t reward you simply for being enthusiastic. It rewards preparation, discipline and informed decision-making — and even then, nothing is guaranteed.
You don’t need to know everything about crypto to begin learning. You need a sensible starting point, a method you understand, and the discipline to practise before putting your money at risk.
That’s where Wendy comes in.
Wendy didn’t want trading to remain a mysterious club where experienced traders speak in complicated technical language while beginners nod politely and secretly Google every second word.
She wanted to simplify the process.
Not by pretending trading is effortless. Not by promising that every trade will be a winner.
But by developing a way to teach traders how to read charts, recognise patterns, understand market movement and make more informed decisions.
And she decided that learning should be understandable, memorable and — dare we say it — FUN.
Because if you’re going to spend time studying charts, you might as well enjoy the company.
Especially when your best friend is a purple line named Barney.
💗 Chapter Two: Meet Pinkie and the Green Mountain
Every great adventure needs a cast of characters.
Wendy’s charts have a few of their own.
Meet Pinkie.
Pinkie is the HODLNOTS nickname for one of the EMA — the Exponential Moving Average that helps you observe price movement and potential changes in the market’s direction.
Pinkie isn’t there to look pretty, although she does add a little personality to proceedings. She helps you examine how price behaves in relation to a moving average, giving you another piece of information when analysing a potential trade.
Then there’s the magnificent Green Mountain.
That’s Wendy’s nickname for the EMA that drives a formation of moving averages that makes big explosive moves in coins knowing when it crosses over the big red line we watch for the TREND.
Think of it as a mountain range on your chart. Price moves around it, crosses it, climbs above it or slips beneath it. Observing how price behaves around these averages can help you understand the market’s structure and momentum.
And there’s more to the HODLNOTS EMA family, including the fastest EMA used, affectionately known as the Orange EMA. Our community differs on this color as yellow or orange so we just did not name this one yet.
Together, these three moving averages give you a visual framework to study price behaviour:
- 🟠 Orange – or Yellow for some
- 💗 Pinkie
- 💚 The Green Mountain.
Three lines. Three different periods. One more organised way to examine what’s happening.
Are the averages lining up? Is price moving with momentum? Is the market trending, hesitating or changing direction? Is it support or resistance? Are they up or down or sideways? Does it even matter?
These are the sorts of questions you learn to investigate.
Of course, moving averages are not magical. They can give misleading signals in choppy markets and fail to predict what happens next. HODLNOTS teaches how to look at them with different candles and price action to trade better. It can be a jungle out there!
But learning how to interpret them in context is a lot more useful than drawing random lines on your chart and hoping Bitcoin appreciates your artistic efforts.
💜 Chapter Three: Barney — The Best Friend Who Looks Backwards
Now, every trader needs a friend who tells them the truth.
Meet Barney.
Barney is Wendy’s nickname for the Lagging Span, a component of the Ichimoku Cloud system.
He’s the purple character in our story, and he has a rather interesting habit.
He looks backwards. However, Wendy will show you how to watch him work differently than any other course out there. Barney is your trading buddy.
While everyone else is staring at the latest candle and wondering what happens next, Barney helps you compare current price with historical price action.
He’s not a fortune teller. He cannot see the future. He doesn’t have a secret hotline to Satoshi Nakamoto. However, Wendy will teach you a way to read him to have a good idea where the price action is going. Its pretty incredible how your best friend loves to help you trade better.
And that matters because a chart isn’t just a collection of candles. It’s a sequence of events.
Price moves. Momentum develops. Levels are tested. Trends strengthen or weaken. And sometimes, what looks like a fantastic opportunity turns out to be a trap wearing a very convincing green hat.
Barney helps you look at the bigger picture rather than becoming hypnotised by the latest candle.
Wendy teaches you to put these elements together so you’re not relying on one line, one signal or one exciting-looking candle to make a decision.
Because a good trading method shouldn’t depend on one lonely purple line doing all the heavy lifting. You will be able to Barney when he is tired and down for the count, we use him to short the market nicely.
Even Barney deserves a day off.
🟢🔴 Chapter Four: Neon Candles That Glow — Because Apparently, Ordinary Candles Weren't Exciting Enough
Have you ever opened a trading chart and thought it looked like someone spilled a packet of crayons across your screen?
Welcome to the wonderful world of chart indicators. Some are so complicated you need a second monitor just to read the first one. Others are so crowded that the actual price candles are practically begging for a little personal space.
Wendy takes a different approach.
The HODLNOTS trading environment uses distinctive visual tools, including the Neon candles that glow, to make important chart information easier to recognise. The HODLFIRE is an amazing indicator that lights up and glows with increased volume.
Why does that matter?
Because when you’re learning, clarity is your friend. You want to understand what you’re looking at, why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.
Not spending forty minutes trying to work out whether a tiny flashing symbol means BUY, SELL, WAIT, or CONGRATULATIONS — YOU’VE JUST DISCOVERED ANOTHER INDICATOR!
The goal is to build familiarity with the chart and learn how to interpret the information your tools provide. You will still need to study context, market conditions and risk. A glowing candle is not a guarantee of a winning trade.
But when your tools are designed around a consistent method, learning to read a chart becomes a much more organised adventure. And considerably less like deciphering ancient hieroglyphics. Wendy loves to SIMPLIFY and make this FUN and easy to read.
⬆️⬇️ Chapter Five: Flowie Uppie and Downie Have Entered the Building
Let’s talk about market movement.
Markets go up. Markets go down. Sometimes they go sideways for so long you begin to suspect Bitcoin has forgotten its password.
Wendy’s trading vocabulary includes two memorable characters: Flowie Uppie and Downie. You can probably guess which direction each one prefers.
Flowie Uppie is our cheerful reminder to examine upward price movement but this refers to a very interesting indicator the Ichimoku Cloud, and how Wendy teaches you to read how the cloud is flowing – up or down and what that means. Flowie Downie reminds us to pay attention when price moves lower and you can see this on the clouds.
Simple? Absolutely.
Useful? It can be, especially when you’re learning to recognise directional movement rather than blindly buying because a coin has already gone up 20%.
The important lesson is not to memorise funny names. It’s to understand what the market is doing and learn how to respond to the conditions in front of you. Using these names helps us to remember what to look for and not over complicate the indicators.
Is price moving with a trend? Is momentum fading? Is the market consolidating? Could the apparent move be a false breakout? And, perhaps most importantly, does the potential opportunity justify the risk?
That’s the difference between learning a method and simply collecting trading jargon.
At HODLNOTS, the characters make the concepts memorable. The education helps you understand what to do with them.
And once you’ve learned to spot Flowie Uppie and Downie, you may find yourself looking at charts rather differently, and never trading again without your new best friend, Barney and the fun clouds flowing up and down and sideways.
Just try not to introduce them at your next family barbecue. Your relatives may already think crypto traders are a little strange.
🐻 Chapter Six: Enter the Black Bear Expert — MMBEAR Analysis
Now we’re getting to the part that makes this adventure particularly interesting.
Meet the Black Bear Expert. Wendy’s MMBEAR Analysis is part of her distinctive approach to examining coin patterns and price behaviour.
Instead of looking at a coin in isolation, you learn to pay attention to the patterns and characteristics that may be developing in its chart.
Because here’s something worth remembering:
Two coins can move in completely different ways, even when Bitcoin is doing exactly the same thing.
Some coins trend strongly. Others chop sideways. Some make convincing moves and promptly reverse. Others appear to sleep for three weeks before suddenly waking up and creating a trading opportunity — or a rather expensive surprise.
MMBEAR Analysis brings Wendy’s own approach to identifying and interpreting coin patterns into the learning experience. She has weekly training calls after the course where lightbulb moments are found with her unique way to see the charts and indicators.
It’s one of the aspects that gives her teaching its individual personality.
Rather than claiming that nobody else in the world has ever studied similar patterns, the point is that Wendy has developed her own way of presenting and applying this analysis within her trading method. You aren’t simply being told to buy every green candle or short every red one.
You’re learning to observe. To compare. To recognise. To ask better questions about what the market is showing you.
And to understand that a promising pattern is a reason to investigate a trade — not a guarantee that the trade will work.
The Black Bear Expert doesn’t need to chase every coin in the jungle. They are patient, they wait for the precise timing, they are quick to grab and take the profit managing greed to stay longer and lose some of it on the late exit. They manage risk.
The objective is to learn how to identify potential opportunities and decide which ones are worth your attention.
Now that’s a skill worth developing.
🎓 Chapter Seven: From Trading Newbie to Chart-Reading Ninja
Let’s be honest.
When you first begin trading, the learning curve can feel like climbing the Green Mountain in flip-flops. You hear about leverage, liquidity, support, resistance, stop losses, moving averages, scalping and market structure. Then somebody introduces Fibonacci retracements, Bollinger Bands and twelve other things before you’ve finished your coffee.
Suddenly, you’re wondering whether you should have taken up gardening instead.
But learning becomes more manageable when you follow a structured progression.
That’s the idea behind Wendy’s HODLNOTS Self-paced Foundational Course®.
It’s a self-paced video course designed to help you build your understanding step by step. Wendy uses her trained Trainers who all take part in the course to teach and train you how to trade their unique way.
You can revisit lessons, pause the videos, take notes and work through the material at your own pace. No need to pretend you’ve understood something just because the instructor has moved on to the next slide. You have 3 months to dig in and learn the materials. If you need to rewind, watch again, ask questions, do the homework and rewatch it again until your light bulb moment happens. The beauty of the self-paced online course is you can watch it on your own time and at your own pace.
The goal is to build your knowledge progressively, moving from foundational concepts towards more advanced trading skills.
You’ll explore concepts and tools that help you understand:
- How to read charts and examine market structure.
- How indicators fit into a trading strategy.
- How to recognise potential scalping opportunities.
- How timeframes affect your analysis.
- How do retracements and reverse retracements work.
- How stop losses can help manage risk.
- What trading style is best and how to trade a timeframe.
- How trading psychology and discipline affect decision-making.
- How to assess potential opportunities instead of chasing every market move.
And because learning doesn’t always end when the video finishes, the course also includes weekly live support calls. You are not alone on the Trading Journey. Live Trainers are on set calls every week for you to jump on and ask questions or review the material with you.
You don’t have to figure everything out alone.
The mission is to help you progress from confused beginner towards a more capable, disciplined and independent trader.
Expertise takes time, practice and experience. There are no instant transformations or guaranteed outcomes.
But having a roadmap is considerably better than wandering around the trading jungle hoping to stumble across a bag of money, or worse, lose it.
🚦 Chapter Eight: Why Learn NOW? The Market Isn't Going to Wait for Your Graduation Ceremony
Here’s the big question. Why should you learn to trade now?
Why not wait until Bitcoin reaches another all-time high? Why not wait for the next bull run? Why not wait until everyone on social media is suddenly a cryptocurrency expert?
Because by then, the market may already have moved.
And when prices are rising rapidly, excitement can make even sensible people forget the importance of planning. They see other people talking about profits. They feel left behind. They jump into trades they don’t understand.
Then the market changes direction.
And suddenly, the person who couldn’t wait to buy Bitcoin is desperately searching for a video called How to Recover from My Terrible Decisions in Seven Minutes.
Don’t be that person.
The best time to start learning is before you feel pressured to make money from trading. You can study when the market is rising, falling or moving sideways. You can practise identifying patterns without risking real money.
You can learn how to plan an entry, define where your trade idea is invalidated, and calculate how much you can afford to lose. You can make mistakes in a practice environment and learn from them before those mistakes become expensive.
And you can develop a process before the next exciting market move tempts you to abandon common sense.
No one knows exactly when the next major Bitcoin move will occur. Timing is something we watch the indicators and charts to manage knowing lows and highs for trading what you see.
No one knows which coin will outperform the market next month. HODLNOTS teaches the ways to find the running coins with their BB RIDER indicator and other watchlists to teach you where to find them when they do move.
But you can decide whether you want to spend the coming months learning — or spend them wishing you had started earlier.
You cannot control the market. You can control how seriously you prepare for it.
That’s why now is a sensible time to learn. Not because profits are guaranteed. Not because every market condition creates an easy opportunity.
But because knowledge, practice and risk management are worth developing before you need them.
💥 Chapter Nine: Scalping First. Leverage Later. Your Account Will Thank You.
Let’s address the shiny object in the room.
Leverage.
The word that makes some traders’ eyes light up like Wendy’s Neon candles.
Leverage can magnify market exposure without requiring the full position value as capital. It can also magnify losses, trigger liquidation and cause your account to disappear considerably faster than you expected.
In other words, leverage is not a magic money machine.
It’s a tool that demands respect.
Wendy’s teaching pathway emphasises learning the foundations and developing scalping skills before progressing to leveraged trading.
Why?
Because adding leverage before you understand the basics is rather like handing someone the keys to a racing car before they’ve learned where the brakes are.
Exciting? Possibly. Wendy loves to teach it and trade it to all new Black Bears.
Learning how to trade consistently well first is demanded. Wendy has developed an inside free program to master this trade skill to prepare you for that expert level of training to leverage. Join the 3M Minute Money Masters program after graduating from the HODLNOTS Foundational Course and take that fun trading to a whole new level, the right way. Wendy will teach you how she trades on leverage when you enter the BEAR CAVE.
Learn to analyse price movement. Understand entries and exits. Practise using stop losses. Learn to assess risk. Develop discipline.
Then, when your knowledge and experience justify exploring more advanced strategies, you can study how leveraged trading works and the additional risks it brings.
You don’t run before you can walk. It is the same with trading – it’s a life skill not a quick method to get rich quick. And you certainly don’t need to attempt a Formula One lap while still trying to locate the accelerator.
The aim is not to rush you into riskier trades. The key is to master consistency in profit taking. It’s to help you develop the skills and judgement needed to understand what you’re doing.
💰 Chapter Ten: Trading for Extra Income — Or Could This Become More?
Let’s talk about the dream.
More financial flexibility.
An additional income stream.
The possibility of building a skill you can practise around your existing commitments.
And for some people, the longer-term ambition of trading as a primary occupation.
These are understandable goals.
But let’s get one thing straight: trading is not guaranteed income, and it is certainly not easy money. Markets can be unpredictable. Profitable strategies can experience losing periods. Fees, funding costs, slippage and poor risk management can all affect results.
Some traders lose money, including experienced traders.
So why learn?
Because developing a skill gives you the opportunity to make more informed decisions about whether trading suits you, how you approach it and what risks you’re willing to take.
Wendy’s philosophy is to simplify the learning process so you can focus on understanding the method rather than getting lost in unnecessary complexity.
And once you have put in the work, practised consistency and developed confidence in your own process, some of the concepts that initially seemed overwhelming may begin to feel much more natural.
That’s when Wendy’s favourite spirit of “easy peasy” starts to make sense. Not easy peasy because the market always cooperates. Easy peasy because you have spent the time learning what to look for, how to analyse a setup and when it may be better to stay out.
Sometimes the smartest trade is the one you don’t take. Learning to know when NOT to trade is just as important to saving losses. And sometimes the most valuable thing you can do is close the chart, go for a walk and leave Flowie Uppie and Downie to argue amongst themselves.
🏆 Chapter Eleven: Your HODLNOTS Trading Adventure Starts Here
Let’s recap what awaits you in Wendy’s trading jungle.
🐻 The Black Bear Expert: Discover Wendy’s MMBEAR approach to examining coin patterns and potential trading opportunities.
💗 Pinkie and the Green Mountain: Learn how the EMA’s fit into chart analysis, alongside the TREND.
💜 Barney, Your Purple Best Friend: Explore the Lagging Span in a very interesting way, and Barney’s role in showing you his position and next moves.
✨ Neon Candles: Become familiar with distinctive visual trading tools within the HODLNOTS environment.
⬆️⬇️ Flowie Uppie and Downie: Make directional market movement easier to remember while learning how to analyse what price is doing by watching the clouds.
📈 Scalping Skills: Study chart reading, timeframes, potential setups, trade management and risk.
🛡️ Risk Management: Learn why protecting your capital matters just as much as identifying opportunities.
🎓 Self-Paced Learning: Work through the course at a pace that suits you, revisit lessons and build your understanding progressively.
🤝 Weekly Live Support: Get opportunities to ask questions and continue learning beyond the recorded lessons.
And there’s another important part of the HODLNOTS experience: the HODLNOTS Indicator, designed to support your chart analysis. AND, its free for a lifetime with the course, allowing 15 indicators to be claimed as one which simplifies the trading indicator experience and charting process.
The course combines education, a distinctive teaching style and practical trading concepts to give you a structured place to begin.
No crystal ball.
No secret guarantee of riches.
No promise that every trade will be a winner.
Just a learning journey designed to help you become more informed, more disciplined and more confident in how you approach the markets.
🌟 The Final Word from Wendy
Here’s something I want you to think about.
You can spend the next six months scrolling through trading videos, collecting random tips, jumping from one indicator to another and hoping that somebody eventually reveals the secret.
Or you can choose a structured path and start building your knowledge.
You don’t need to know everything today.
You don’t need to be a mathematician.
You don’t need to speak fluent Wall Street.
And you certainly don’t need to understand why your neighbour suddenly thinks he’s the next Warren Buffett because he bought a coin with a dog on it.
You need a willingness to learn, the patience to practise and the discipline to take risk seriously.
That’s where the adventure begins.
Learn from Wendy Landman, meet Pinkie, climb the Green Mountain, listen to Barney, follow Flowie Uppie and Downie, and discover how the Black Bear Expert approaches the trading jungle. Meet some great Trainers and Traders and a great growing trading community you can belong to and trade 24/7 for more fun sharing your great successful trades.
Start with the foundations. Build your skills. Practise before risking real money.
And let your knowledge grow before your ambition outruns your experience.
Because the real goal isn’t to become the loudest person in the crypto room.
It’s to become the person who understands what they’re doing — and knows when not to trade.
Your trading adventure is waiting. Are you ready to join the HODLNOTS?
🚀 READY TO START YOUR HODLNOTS ADVENTURE?
Meet Wendy’s teaching method and begin building your trading knowledge today.
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HODLNOTS — Learn. Practise. Trade. Grow.
Trading cryptocurrencies involves substantial risk. Leveraged trading carries additional risks and can result in rapid losses, including the loss of your entire trading capital. This educational course does not guarantee profits, trading success or an income. Always practise responsibly and never trade with money you cannot afford to lose.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is the HODLNOTS course self-paced?
Yes. The HODLNOTS Self-paced Foundational Course® uses video lessons that you can pause or revisit before continuing at your own pace.
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How long do I have access to the course materials?
You have three months to work through the course materials.
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Does the course include live support?
Yes. Weekly live support calls allow learners to ask Trainers questions and review the material.
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Does HODLNOTS guarantee profitable trades?
No. The course does not guarantee profits, trading success or an income. Indicators and chart patterns can give misleading signals, and markets can move against a trade.
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Does the course cover leveraged trading?
The teaching pathway places foundations and scalping skills before leveraged trading. Leverage carries additional risks and can magnify losses.
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Do I need to understand every technical indicator before I start?
No. The course is designed to build understanding progressively, beginning with foundational concepts and moving towards more advanced trading skills.
