Traders with any size account — whether it's $5k or $5mm — who trade equities, futures, options, or forex
Traders who want a simple, proven trading plan to find, enter, and exit higher probability pullbacks without getting caught buying a dip that turns into a crash.
10 Principles of successful trading
Defining your edge with Market Pullbacks
How To Survive Highly Competitive Markets even as a part-time trader
The Evolving Markets
Small Edges For Big Results
How to profit when there is no “free lunch”
What Matters In Trading
Position Sizing Principles
How To Train Your Psychology To Win
How To Think About Probabilities
The Secret To Long Term Sustained Success
What we're looking for in good pullbacks
The Anatomy of a Pullback
How Trends and Pullbacks Relate
How To Enter A Different Points In A Trend
Examples of bad pullbacks
5 Mistakes traders make in pullbacks
The sweet spot to enter and avoid being too early or late
Proper sizing for controlling risk
When to exit and how to avoid holding too long (aka “greed”)
Taking pullbacks after climaxes (FOMO)
Ignoring failures on entry
Current market opportunities from the day/night before. All markets and timeframes.
Live Q&A
Trend structure and pullbacks
How to navigate the "impulse waves" of the market
How momentum impacts your pullback trades
Misconceptions about divergences
How trends begin and develop
How trends end and why this matters
What happens after a pullback?
Examples of both winning and losing pullback trades
Current market opportunities/examples
Homework
Q&A
Thoughts and principles for sizing
A quick look at “the trading questions”
Quick overview of different approaches to sizing
How to use fixed fractional sizing
The connection between risk and stop location
The lies of the trading community on “low risk”
Using R to manage trades
Reviewing the connection between stop location and risk
Choices for the initial stop
Choices for exit
Finding the best pullbacks
Putting everything we've learned into operation
Screening ideas for stocks
Intraday triggers
Homework
Q&A
Using options with pullbacks
Tradeoffs and opportunities
Managing time decay
Verticals
Holding period
Moneyness
Entry techniques
"Go with" entries
"Countertrend entries"
Scaling in
Using indicators to help time entries
Homework
Q&A
Trade management
Two broad categories: winning and losing trades
Initial stop location (mostly already covered)
Initial profit target location (also mostly review)
Trailing stops vs “all-out”
Scaling in
Going from paper to real money
Putting it all together
Review of trades that set up and happened since the start of the course
Q&A
Recap of all the training
Live Q&A
It's impossible for me to overstate the quality and depth of the Market Pullbacks Masterclass. I have been trading for years and done my fair share of courses. However, I've never encountered a course that provides such honesty, depth and breadth of information on the trading process. It really does provide a blueprint for a successful trading approach.
The only surprise for me is how affordable the fee is. Don't let that fool you, it is worth many multiples of that. It is hands down the best value training I've encountered and has already made an enormous positive impact on my trading
- Damian Clarke
MarketlLife Co-Founder & CEO
Adam Grimes is a prominent professional trader and advisor to hedge funds and institutions. In a prolific career spanning well over two decades, Adam has been at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), a senior prop trader and Chief Technical Strategist at a top-tier Manhattan firm, a hedge fund trader, VP of quantitative trading at an institution, and he currently works as the Chief Investment Officer of Talon Advisors.