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The Divergence Playbook

By
Charlie Burton

Charlie Burton, FCA-authorised money manager with 28+ years of market experience and a BBC documentary feature, breaks down his complete forex trading system in three lessons. The H pattern, MACD divergence, top-down market context, and the exact entry, stop, and target rules he’s used across nearly three decades of trading the euro/dollar.

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What You’ll Learn in Charlie Burton’s Divergence Playbook Masterclass


This free masterclass is a complete breakdown of how Charlie Burton, a professional money manager with 28 years of market experience, trades one core pattern across any market. You’ll learn why market context is the missing link most traders never develop and how to use higher timeframes, from the quarterly chart down to the daily, to build a directional bias before you look for any entry. Charlie then teaches his signature setup, the H pattern confirmed with MACD divergence, used for both major reversals and pullback entries within established trends, with the exact nuances that separate a valid setup from one to skip.


The second half of the masterclass is pure execution. Charlie walks through the full rules for entries using two 5-period EMA bands as the trigger, stop losses set with his 2x measurement rule, and targets at the 50 and 100 moving averages. He covers how combining timeframes turns a daily entry into a multi-R position, how adding to winners compounds returns, and then does something refreshing: the final lesson is honest about the real downsides of the approach, including why it will often feel like you’re going against the crowd. He closes with live euro/dollar examples spanning nearly a decade of the same pattern repeating.

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What’s Inside the 

The Divergence Playbook

All Lessons

01

Market Context, the H Pattern, and MACD Divergence

53:00
02

Entry Rules, Stop Losses, Targets, and Adding to Trades

50:00
03

Downsides, Live Examples, and Building Your Playbook

53:00

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Charlie Burton, 7 figure forex trader

About the Instructor,

Charlie Burton

Charlie Burton is a professional trader, FCA-authorised money manager, and trading educator with more than 28 years of market experience. He went full-time in 2001, which makes him one of the most experienced traders on Chart Academy, co-founded EzeeTrader in 2002, and later built his Charlie Burton Trading community. He trades forex and CFDs as a swing trader, with about 80 percent of his trading in the euro/dollar, and uses a top-down technical system paired with strict risk management. He was featured in the BBC documentary Traders: Millions by the Minute and is a five-time undefeated live trade-off champion at the London Forex Show.


Charlie’s strongest message is that trading is mostly mental, maybe 80 to 90 percent. He credits his martial arts background for teaching him to get knocked down and get back up, and he talks about “desensitizing” your emotions down to a ripple instead of big peaks and troughs. He is open that he was naturally a greed-based trader early on, stuck in a cycle of building his account and then giving it back, until reviewing his own data showed him the pattern. He is also honest that even after 20-plus years he still has drawdowns, and that lasting in this business comes down to patience, discipline, and genuine passion for the game.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is forex?

Forex (foreign exchange) is the global market for trading currencies, where one currency is quoted against another in pairs like EUR/USD, GBP/USD, or USD/JPY. It’s the largest and most liquid market in the world, trading more than $7 trillion a day across the London, New York, Tokyo, and Sydney sessions, 24 hours a day Monday through Friday. Charlie trades it as a swing trader, with about 80 percent of his trades in the euro/dollar, using higher-timeframe context to time entries.

What is the Divergence Playbook Masterclass about?

A free three-lesson series with Charlie Burton covering his complete forex trading system. It covers higher-timeframe market context, the H pattern confirmed with MACD divergence, the full rules for entries, stops, and targets using the 50 and 100 moving averages, how to combine timeframes for multi-R trades, and live euro/dollar examples spanning nearly a decade.

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Who is Charlie Burton?

Charlie Burton is a professional forex trader, FCA-authorised money manager, and educator with over 28 years of market experience. He was featured in the BBC documentary Traders: Millions by the Minute and is a five-time undefeated live trade-off champion at the London Forex Show.

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What markets does the masterclass focus on?

Primarily the euro/dollar (EUR/USD), which makes up about 80 percent of Charlie’s trading. The core pattern and framework apply across any market, and he also trades the S&P, Nasdaq, gold, silver, and oil.

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What risk management does Charlie teach?

Charlie teaches a 1 percent base risk per trade for most traders, with stop losses set using his 2x measurement rule and targets at the 50 and 100 moving averages. He also covers adding to winners and dynamic risk sizing on your best setups once your mindset can handle it.

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Is the Divergence Playbook Masterclass free?

Yes. All three lessons are free to watch on Chart Academy.

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