XLT - Stock Trading Curriculum
The XLT - Stock 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 Identifying Demand and Supply
- Quantifying a supply and demand imbalance for opportunity
- Understanding who is on the other side of your trade
- Psychology
Week 2: Trend & Time Frames
- Identifying trend stages
- How trends act in multiple time frames
- Trends and Supply and Demand
Week 3: Odds Enhancers
- Strength of a level
- Profit margins / risk and reward
- Time and price
Week 4: 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 5: Gaps
- Professional Gaps
- Novice Gaps
- Gaps and Strategy
Week 6: Trade Plan Development Part 1
- Developing the core components of your trade plan
Week 7: Scanning For Opportunities
- The “Top Down Approach”
- Sources for opportunities
Week 8: Candlestick Patterns
- Identification of Common Candlestick Patterns
- Trading Signals of the Patterns
- Using Patterns to Confirm Supply & Demand
Week 9: Indicators - Moving Averages
- Use of Indicators to Confirm Supply and Demand
- Moving Averages as Support and Resistance
- Trading the Trend with Moving Averages
- Stops and Risk Management with Moving Averages
Week 10: Advanced Odds Enhancers
- Stock – Bond Relationship
- Time of Day
- Supply/Demand Curve Extremes
- Contrarian Indicators
- And More
Week 11: Oscillators
- Identifying Turning Points with Oscillators
- Adapting Oscillators for Trends
- Use of Oscillators to Confirm Supply and Demand Entry Points
Week 12: Trade Plan Development Part 2
- Polishing the core components of your trade plan
- Additional components to add to your plan