STMP Courses

Trading Foundations – Are you going to build your trading career on sand, or rock? This course lays out some very important principles and guidelines that every trader needs to consider. In addition, the course provides beginners with information and a proper foundation on various aspects of the markets and how they work.

Changing Your Paradigm – I have talked with thousands of traders in the past. Most traders are very similar to each other and have a very similar outlook on what they think spells success with trading. In this course, I provide you with strong evidence showing why these ideas make it very improbable for traders to reach their goals, and more importantly, a basis for changing your paradigm to put you on the road to success.

Self-Destructive Trader – How you live your life is probably a very accurate reflection of how you approach trading. If there are areas in your life that have caused problems outside of trading, those same areas are likely to cause problems with trading as well. How is it that 90% of all traders lose money? This is not a fluke. If every trader did exactly the opposite, wouldn’t 90% win and 90% lose? In this course, I offer 9-steps you can take to prevent self-destructing habits that can lead to ultimate trading disaster.

Smart Trading – So many are clamoring around for mutual funds that beat the S&P or mutual funds that beat extremely low-paying CD’s, or stocks that have great long-term outlooks. So many investors overlook one of the most logical investment vehicles for long-term potential growth. No matter how “low priced” a stock is, it can always go lower and ultimately bankrupt. No matter how safe a mutual fund is, it can always go lower. Sugar will never drop to zero. There will always be a demand for corn. When commodities drop in price, there are concrete reasons to be able to say “this is a low price for this commodity”. In my Smart Trading course, I teach you some GREAT strategies for spotting the long-term investment opportunities and then creative strategies for taking advantage of them.

Options for Profits – There are few things that are guaranteed in trading. When you know what those few things are, do everything you can to make them work for you! One characteristic that is guaranteed with options is that they will expire. They will expire and time value will run out…ALWAYS! The question is, how do you make this work for you? In this course, I go from A to Z with unique and easy to understand of how options work and why there are limited opportunities for both buying and selling options. I provide several strategies that have been deemed by Options for Profits students as the most logical and powerful options strategies they have ever learned. This course is for those who have never traded an option before in their life, as well as for those who have been trading them for years!

S&P Probability – The S&P is a unique market. Few traders realize how much influence short-term seasonal factors have on market direction. For example, few investors and traders know that on the first calendar day of each month, the S&P has moved higher 68% of the time by a net average of more than 4.00 points. In fact, this single day of the month makes up almost 50% of the entire move in the S&P from 1991 to current day!

Few traders realize how much influence most recent market action has on market direction the following day. For example, when the market’s price range is within the price range of the previous day AND the market closed lower, the market has moved down the following day 60% of the time. Further, if this occurs during certain times of the month, that percentage increases to 70%!

The S&P Probability course provides the foundation needed to take advantage of literally hundreds of different seasonals and market patterns that influence market action the following day. If you have any interest in trading the S&P E-mini, you will definitely want to take this course!

Mission Million Money Management – Money management is arguably THE most important aspect of trading. EVERY time you enter the market, you are making a money management decision. How much of your account are you going to risk on the next trade? Does it really matter? The fact is that proper money management strategies can increase the profit potential by as much as 10-fold or more! On the flip side of that, proper money management strategies can maintain the percentage at risk in the account despite the dramatic increase in growth potential. These are only two basic examples of many, many huge benefits of using proper money management strategies. This course covers this vitally important topic from A to Z and then some!

The Truth About Technical Analysis – Does technical analysis really predict market action? Those who make such claims aren’t quite accurate. It is not technical analysis that predicts market action, it is the trader’s interpretation of technical analysis that each trader uses to then predict market action. If you are going to take action based on technical analysis, you are going to have to understand that technical analysis isn’t about predicting, it is about PREPARING. Technical indicators are not magical, complicated tools. In fact, 90% of all technical analysis is basically providing you the SAME information! The Truth About Technical Analysis cuts through all of the junk and let’s you know how to properly understand and use technical analysis in your trading!

Developing Trading Systems – This is part II of The Truth About Technical Analysis. Taking technical analysis to the next step means building a viable trading strategy. There are many components to not only building a solid trading system, but analyzing the results to know what to realistically expect. If you know what to realistically expect, then you can realistically prepare.

By going through the DTS course, you will gain invaluable insight and knowledge from my extensive experience of creating well over 1,000 trading systems. Just as important as knowing how to properly create a trading system, is knowing whether that trading system is worth risking your money on. I have found that less than 20% of trading systems created are actually worth risking money with. There are clues and hints that can save you a lot of money if you know what to look for. I show you what those are and how to avoid the pitfalls associated with trading systems.

PowerTrade Trading System – The PowerTrade system is one of my most logical and robust trading systems. I have used it on all types of markets and a wide array of time frames. I have used it twice in publicly traded contests to achieve uncommon feats. The first was back in 1999. I was preparing the paperwork to enter the 2000 trading contest when I saw that 3rd place in the 1999 contest was only at 36%. I felt I had a solid chance to overtake third place even though there was only 3 weeks left in the contest. I picked a few of the best PowerTrade setups and ended up taking 3rd place with a 42% return during that 3-weeks. The following year, in 2000, I used the PowerTrade system to day trade the S&P and turned a $15,000 account into over $107,000 in less than 90-days.

The logic behind the PowerTrade method is determining a trend, waiting for a pullback within the trend and then entering the market on a resumption of the trend. Once involved in the market, PowerTrade attempts to let profits ride while cutting losses as soon as is reasonable. PowerTrade puts you in the position to achieve some substantial winning trades while overall risks are comparatively small. In this course, I provide the logic and exact rules for the PowerTrade method. I even offer suggestions on how the strategy might be improved to better suit your situation.

2-Day Option Turn-Around Strategy – This option strategy uses the logic and criteria taught in the Options for Profits course to capture a dramatic 2-day time decay in options. The benefits of this powerful option selling strategy are many, including virtually eliminating most of the risk management decisions that have to be made with longer-term option trades. The short-term nature of the trading strategy offers greater profit per day potential, less margin concerns and more efficient application of money management strategies, to name a few. I have done the research for you and provide you the exact criteria and rules to take advantage of this option trading opportunity.

Developing the Trading Plan for Success – Putting it all together. That is what this course is about. Once you have gone through the courses, you can begin to put together a powerful and dynamic trading plan to achieve your goals while preparing your account to not violate your risk tolerance levels. Properly creating the plan allows you maximize the profit potential through solid trading strategies, diversification and money management. The key is knowing exactly what you are going to do before you do it. Trading is a business and this course shows you how to prepare your trading account like a business