About Kxianbi

This notebook is written for the version of us, a couple of years back, who sat staring at a screen full of red and green.

Every one of us started knowing nothing. We bought our first coin, opened the price page, and saw a wall of candles, a few coloured lines, and some little windows with bars hanging underneath — and couldn't make sense of a single thing. We went looking for guides, and they were either "a candle is just a candlestick", which tells you nothing, or they opened with "MACD bullish divergence with a Bollinger squeeze" and scared us straight off.

Eventually we each muddled our way through it, and looking back we realised: it isn't actually that hard. Nobody had just laid it out in an order a beginner could follow. So we took the things it took us ages to figure out and rewrote them into this notebook.

What we do, and what we don't

What we do: take the ideas that trip beginners up and explain them one at a time in plain words — green and red, body and wicks, moving averages, order types, right through to how to actually do things on the exchange screen. We check every note by hand on a real interface.

What we don't: we don't make calls, we don't post "signals", we don't predict that some coin is going up or down, we don't sell courses, and we don't run paid groups. We hold to one idea: reading a chart is for making fewer mistakes and knowing what you're betting on, not for fortune-telling. Anyone who claims they can reliably predict prices deserves your suspicion — we wrote that down in Why candles can't predict the future, and we hold ourselves to it too.

About "Chen Zhu" and the desk

Articles carry the byline "lead writer, Chen Zhu". That's a pen name our small editorial desk writes under — not a real-life expert. We're not licensed analysts, and we don't pretend to be. We're just a handful of ordinary people who got into this earlier and made more of the mistakes. Precisely because we aren't experts, we have a clear memory of where beginners get stuck. If you spot anything we've got wrong, write in — we'll fix it in the open on the corrections log.

How we make money (full disclosure)

Laying this out plainly is, to us, simply the right thing to do.

The site is free. We keep it going through exchange referrals. The "Practice on OKX"-style links you'll see in articles carry our invite codes — OK3188 for an exchange account, and OKX0211 for the OKX Web3 Wallet. If you sign up or use OKX through these links, we may receive a share of a referral fee from the exchange.

We have no affiliation, agency or partnership with OKX, and we don't use its official branding. We're just an independent, third-party information site.

Finding us

Questions, corrections or suggestions — write to [email protected], or see Contact. We reply to as many as we can get through.