The Outer Box method

Read any market from the box it trades in.

Every chart is a box inside a larger box. Learn to find its high, its low and its center, the levels price keeps reacting to, and let the larger boxes tell you which way the odds lean.

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EUR/USD · 2025 yearly box The ladder
110%1.20922
R11.19181
90%1.17440
Price1.12020
C1.10474
10%1.03509
S11.01768
−10%1.00027
Price is above C, the center of the year's range, so the yearly bias is bullish. The next level up is 90%; a close back below C would turn the bias around.

How it works

One idea, every market, every timeframe.

01

Draw the box

Any period, a day, a week, a year, has a high and a low. Between them sits C, the center. Above C the bias is bullish; below it, bearish.

02

Climb the ladder

Thresholds at 10% and 90% mark where turns begin. Outside the box, 110% and −10% confirm a breakout, and the next ranges give the targets.

03

Let the larger boxes vote

The week, month and year each vote on direction. When they agree, a target is Strong; when they don't, you know before you trade.

Your path

Start where you are. Grow one step at a time.

Brand new? Begin with five-minute classes, small games and a quiz you can retake. Each course opens when you pass the one before, so nothing arrives before you're ready.

  • ✓Plain words: tap any trading term for a one-line meaning
  • ✓Practice rounds on real charts, with a score to beat
  • ✓Badges, streaks and a certificate for every course
  1. 1

    Start here Free

    First Steps, Market Basics, Forex Essentials, Risk and Money Management

  2. 2

    Reading the market Free

    Identifying a Trend, Trading Psychology

  3. 3

    The method

    The book and Outer Box Foundations: one unit a week, with a box to draw and a quiz

  4. 4

    Tools and practice

    Indicators read on the ladder, and the Outer Box study with graded targets

The tools

Everything the book teaches, ready to use on your charts.

The Ladder

Type a high and a low and see every level, where price sits and what it means.

Target Grader

The next level each way, graded Strong, Moderate or Weak by the larger boxes.

Pip Planner and journal

Stops, targets and position size for your risk, and every trade measured in R.

Indicators, free

The ladder on TradingView, thinkorswim, MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, cTrader and TradeStation.

Pricing

Start free. Pay when you're ready.

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$0

The Start here and Reading the market courses, Practice rounds, the first chapter of the book and every indicator.

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Book + Foundations

$150 once

$125 when you finish Start here first

All 22 chapters, the twelve-unit Foundations course with graded readings, the Ladder tool and a certificate.

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Membership

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New lessons as they come out, the Target Grader, Pip Planner, trading plan builder and journal. Cancel any time.

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The book

The Outer Box

Multi-Timeframe Analysis and the Ratio That Runs Every Market

By Pkale S. Robinson. Twenty-two chapters on the box, the ladder, the chain reaction from one timeframe to the next, and how to build a trading plan around them, for any market you trade.

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