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 34 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.

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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
  • Pullback Patterns
  • MA Crosses
  • Donichian Channels
  • Big Moves
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