Duration: 12 Weeks - 84 hours (with Lifetime Retake Option)
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Overview
XLT-Stock Trading builds upon the lessons taught in the Pro Trader Course and provides you with the knowledge and skills to properly manage risk in trading the US Stock markets. This interactive course transforms powerful Pro-Trader course information and theory into real world trading. XLT-Stock Trading combines key skill-building sessions with practical application sessions in a live market environment. The skill-building sessions deliver advanced lessons that give you an important competitive edge needed for success in the competitive Stock trading arena. You will gain the knowledge required to build an effective rules-based strategy focused on objective market information. Learning how to use a solid set of rules to operate in the live market gives you the ability to unemotionally identify trading opportunities and execute with the precision needed for successful trading. As an XLT-Stock Trading student, you will observe and interact with an expert trader/instructor utilizing the trading tools taught in the course to identify, execute and manage trading opportunities in real trading market situations. This course covers various styles of trading including day, swing, and position trading which are essential for the complete market driven trader. Ongoing continuing education is the key step in the process of becoming a successful self directed stock trader.
Audience
This interactive, live market environment course is for students of all experience levels, all personality types, all trading styles, who are serious about generating income and wealth in the stock market. The course is designed to shorten the learning curve of the new trader as well as sharpen the skills of the experienced market speculator.
Program Format
- Course is delivered using a live, interactive virtual online classroom, providing an environment for optimal learning
- 42 sessions in the 12-week subscription period
- Sessions are approximately 2-hours in length
- Approximately 40% of the sessions will deliver skill-building lessons that apply to all styles of trading
- Approximately 60% of the sessions will apply the skill-building lessons learned, and focus on trading and analysis in the live markets
- Specific trading and analysis sessions will be dedicated to the intraday, swing, and longer term position trader
- A community of students participating in an environment where teamwork and support is fostered and encouraged
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course you will:
- Master the core foundational concepts including:
- Price Action Support and Resistance
- Use of Volume
- Dynamic "real time" Trend analysis
- Trading Candle Formations
- Impulsive vs Corrective market environment
- In depth Risk Management planning
- Application of additional trading tools to enhance decision making
- Be able to consistently identify low risk/high reward opportunities in the market
- Complete and implement your personal trading plan based on our patent pending supply and demand trading strategy
- Have a clear understanding of the markets, and time frames that best fit a style of trading to your personality, life style, and risk tolerance
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have successfully completed the Pro Trader Course as well as have a firm understanding of the basic operations of the US Stock Markets.
Course Outline
The following detailed outline contains the topics and subtopics covered in the XLT-Stock Trading course.
Week 1: Supply & Demand
- Quantifying 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 timeframes
- How to understand turning points in trends
Week 3: Odds Enhancers
- Strength of a level
- Profit margins/risk and reward
- Time and price
Week 4: Risk Management
- Using a stages progression to minimize your risk
- How to position size your trades correctly
- Where does risk come from and how to reduce it
Week 5: Gaps
- Trading Gaps
- Professional Gaps
- Novice Gaps
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: Moving Averages
- Moving Averages as Support and Resistance
- Trading the Trend with Moving Averages
- Stops and Risk Management with Moving Averages
Week 10: Indicators
- In Depth signals for momentum indicators
- Positive and negative divergence
- Use of Indicators to confirm supply and demand
Week 11: Oscillators
- Identifying Turning Points with Oscillators
- Adapting Oscillators for Trends
- Use of Oscillators to confirm supply & demand
Week 12: Trade Plan Development Part 2
- Polishing the core components of your trade plan
- Additional components to add to your plan
- Final Exam