XLT - Futures Trading Curriculum
The XLT - Futures Trading course blends two types of sessions in a very structured environment. Lesson sessions
make up approximately 40% of the course curriculum. Each lesson focuses on teaching a specific concept that continues your trading education.
Trading and Analysis sessions make up the remaining 60% of the course curriculum and apply the
knowledge you have gained in live market conditions. Trading and Analysis sessions are conducted during active market hours with the purpose
of identifying real trading opportunities using a very objective rule-based strategy.
Forty-two sessions are delivered over a 12-week period, with each session lasting approximately 2 hours in length. Lesson sessions repeat every
12-weeks, providing solid learning reinforcement. Each Trading and Analysis session is unique as the instructor and students, together, proactively and
dynamically respond to live-market conditions.
Course Agenda
Week 1: Market Timing With Supply and Demand
- Quantifying and Demand and Supply – Order Flow
- Identifying a Supply and Demand Imbalance for Opportunity
- Understanding Who is on the Other Side of Your Trade
- Psychology
Week 2: Odds Enhancers: Identifying High Probability Turning Points
- Strength of a Level
- Profit Margins / Risk and Reward
- Time and Price
- Time of Day
- Stock / Bond Relationship
- Supply and Demand Curve Extremes
Week 3: Core Strategy Development
- Rules for Entries
- Rules for Exits – Protective Stops and Targets
- Rules for Trade Management
- Day Trading with Futures
- Swing Trading with Futures
- Longer Term Trading with Futures
Week 4: Scanning For Opportunity
- The “Top Down Approach”
- The Routine
Scanning for:
- Day Trades
- Swing Trades
- Longer Term Trades
Week 5: Global Futures Markets
- Which Markets Should You Trade and Why
- Market Specifications and the Global Exchanges
- The Pro’s and Con’s of the Different Futures Markets
- Which futures markets are best for:
- Day Trading
- Swing Trading
- Longer Term Trading
Week 6: XLT Advanced Strategies - Futures
- The All Star Entry
- The opening Range Breakout
- Trend and Counter Trend Setups
- The “Trap” – Bull and Bear Traps, News Traps, Market Maker Traps
- Breakouts
Week 7: Equity Index Futures and Globex
- Choosing the Correct Symbol
- Rollover
- - Continuous Contract, Day Session, 24-hour Session, and More to Consider
Week 8: A Deeper Understanding of the Commodity Markets
- Things You Need to Know
- Strategies
- Spread Trading with Commodities
Week 9: System Trading - Futures
- Components of a Trading System - Automated and Signal Based
- The "Switch"
- The "Trigger"
- System Building Traps
Week 10: Indicators and Oscillators and Candlestick Patterns
- Identifying Turning Points with Oscillators
- Adapting Oscillators for Trends
- Use of Oscillators to Confirm Supply and Demand Entry Points
- Use of Indicators to Confirm Supply and Demand
- Moving Averages as Demand and Supply
- Trading the Trend with Moving Averages
- Stops and Risk Management with Moving Averages
Week 11: Risk Management
- Using a staged progression to minimize your risk
- How to position size your trades correctly
- Where risk comes from and how to reduce it
Week 12: Trade Plan Development – Building The Trading Plan
- Three step process
- Core components of a profitable trade plan
- Additional Components