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Understand Why Price Moves
Learn the mechanics that drive every movement in the market, from the order book upward.
The Proximity — A Structured Trading Mentorship by Ritvik Vipin
Ritvik Vipin · Founder & Mentor
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The Proximity is a structured mentorship built on market microstructure, institutional behaviour, price action, order flow and volume profile — so you can read why price moves instead of guessing what happens next.
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Live Sessions
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Month Program
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Core Modules
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Community
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Why The Proximity exists
Most traders learn everything except why price moves.
Years are spent collecting indicators, candlestick patterns, random strategies, social media tips and buy/sell signals. The information keeps accumulating, but the underlying question is never answered.
The Proximity is designed to bridge that gap. Instead of teaching students what to think, the goal is to teach them how to analyse markets independently.
IndicatorsPatternsStrategiesSocial tipsSignals
The gap
Yet they never truly understand why price moves. Understanding comes from mechanics, not from memorisation.
HVN
Where the market spent time — and why it matters more than any pattern.
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What makes this different
The Proximity is built on mechanics, not opinions.
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Understand Why Price Moves
Learn the mechanics that drive every movement in the market, from the order book upward.
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Learn How Institutions Think
Study how professional market participants interact with liquidity and execute size.
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Market Mechanics Before Strategies
Develop a foundation in market microstructure before touching execution models.
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Build a Repeatable Framework
Create a structured decision-making process instead of relying on predictions.
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Practical Learning
Every concept is reinforced through examples, review and structured backtesting.
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Independent Decision Making
Become capable of analysing markets without depending on signals or opinions.
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Curriculum
Four modules, sequenced from mechanics to execution.
Each module builds on the last. Nothing is taught as a standalone trick — every concept exists because it explains the behaviour of the one before it.
Students begin by understanding how markets actually function — who participates, why they participate, and how their intentions show up in price.
Participants
- Market Makers & Market Takers
- Institutional Participants
- Arbitrageurs & Hedgers
- Passive vs Aggressive Participants
Market Microstructure
- Exchange Matching Engine
- Price Discovery
- Bid & Ask Dynamics
- Limit Orders vs Market Orders
- How Orders Move the Market
- How Candles Are Formed
The Order Book
- Depth of Market (DOM)
- Order Book Behaviour
- Hidden Liquidity
- Order Spoofing
- Book Sweeping
- Liquidity Consumption
Institutional Execution
- Institutional Order Execution
- Execution Algorithms
- VWAP & TWAP Execution
- How Arbitrageurs Influence Price
- How Hedgers Influence Price Indirectly
Reading the tape
The footprint chart, decoded.
A candle tells you where price went. A footprint tells you who moved it — every contract traded at every price, split into passive bids and aggressive asks.
Bid × Ask
Volume executed into resting bids versus lifted offers.
Imbalances
Diagonal 3:1 stacks that mark genuine aggression.
Point of control
Where the auction spent its size and found value.
Delta
Net aggression per bar — and where it diverges from price.
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Program structure
Two months. Learn it, then apply it.
01Month One
Live Sessions
- 8 Live Zoom Sessions
- Every Saturday & Sunday
- 4 Consecutive Weekends
- 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM IST
- Session recordings included
02Month Two
Application & Review
- Structured Backtesting
- Concept Revision
- Performance Review
- Framework Development
Beyond the batch
Students continue learning through a dedicated WhatsApp community that remains active even after The Proximity ends.
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Outcomes
Capability, not predictions.
The measure of this program is what you can do independently once it ends — how you read context, build a plan and review your own decisions.
- A deeper understanding of how markets function.
- The ability to interpret institutional price behaviour.
- Confidence in independently analysing charts.
- A structured trading framework.
- Professional risk management.
- A repeatable decision-making process.
- The ability to continuously improve through review and backtesting.
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Who this is for
Built for traders who want to understand, not to be told.
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Student testimonials
In the words of students.
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FAQs
Questions, answered.
Enrolment
Ready to Build a Deeper Understanding of the Markets?
If you're looking for a structured approach to understanding financial markets and developing your own decision-making framework, join the next Proximity batch.
This is an educational program. No returns, profitability or performance outcomes are promised or implied.