First Steps in Trading

This is our 'start from scratch' introduction to trading.

  • Learn to develop your own, unique approach to trading, starting from the basics.
  • Get new tools and insights from 33 in-depth videos.
  • Understand the essentials of trading edge, psychology, and market behavior.
  • Focus your time and energy on strategies that yield powerful results.

This course covers both theory and practice, looking at nine specific techniques that may find a place in your trading approach.

Take the First Step

The Trading Journey

  • Welcome
  • What Trading Can Do For You
  • What Trading Is Not
  • What No One Will Tell You

Risk

  • Why focus on risk?
  • Risks of trading
  • Intro to R
  • Understanding gains in R
  • Position Sizing

Adventure Begins

  • Adventure begins
  • How markets work
  • Edge
  • Developing your system
  • How much money?

Tools of the Trade

  • Setting up charts
  • Indicators 1
  • Indicators 2
  • Indicators 3
  • Order Types
  • Which order to use

How Traders Find an Edge

  • Finding an edge
  • Back & Forward testing
  • More on forward testing
  • From theory to real money
  • Trading Plan

Little Book of Edges

  • A little catalog of edges
  • Fundamental analysis
  • Technical patterns 101
  • Technical Patterns 102
  • Classical chart patterns
  • MA crosses
  • Donichian Channels
  • Big Moves
Take the First Step