Free trading course
Trading Strategies
Breakouts, ranges, swing, day trading, scalping and your own system
- Intermediate
- 18 units
- 54 lessons
- 351 questions
From analysis to trading: breakout and mean-reversion strategies, swing trading, day trading and scalping, and finally building your own trading system with statistics, backtesting and forward testing.
What you'll learn
- Understanding Breakouts
- Trading the Breakout
- Managing Breakouts
- Reversion Basics
- Range Tools
- Range Risks
- Swing Basics
- Swing Setups
- Position Management
- The Trading Day
- Day Trading Strategies
- Managing the Day
- Scalping Basics
- Scalping Setups
- Scalper Discipline
- Building a System
- Trading Stats
- Backtesting and Forward Testing
Units and lessons
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Unit 1: Understanding Breakouts
- Types of Breakouts
- Real or Fake Breakout?
- Compression Before a Breakout
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Unit 2: Trading the Breakout
- Entering on the Break
- Entering on the Retest
- Confirming with Volume
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Unit 3: Managing Breakouts
- Where the Stop Goes
- Measured Targets
- Fakeouts as Opportunities
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Unit 4: Reversion Basics
- What Is Mean Reversion?
- Range or Trend?
- Stretching from the Mean
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Unit 5: Range Tools
- Bollinger Bands in a Range
- RSI in a Range
- Trading the Range Edges
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Unit 6: Range Risks
- When the Range Breaks
- Stop Losses in Mean Reversion
- The Trend Filter
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Unit 7: Swing Basics
- What Is Swing Trading?
- Swing Timeframes
- Spotting Swing Highs and Lows
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Unit 8: Swing Setups
- Buying Pullbacks in a Trend
- Bouncing off Daily Levels
- Swing Trading with Fibonacci
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Unit 9: Position Management
- Stops Behind the Swing
- Trailing Stops and Partial Exits
- Weekends and Gap Risk
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Unit 10: The Trading Day
- What Is Day Trading?
- Pre-Market Prep
- Prior Day Levels and the Asian Range
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Unit 11: Day Trading Strategies
- Opening Range Breakout (ORB)
- Trading with VWAP
- The London and New York Sessions
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Unit 12: Managing the Day
- Daily Risk
- Closing Out Before the Day Ends
- Reviewing the Day
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Unit 13: Scalping Basics
- What Is Scalping, and Who's It For?
- Costs: Spread and Commission
- The Best Time to Scalp
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Unit 14: Scalping Setups
- Scalping with the EMA
- Scalping from Levels
- Momentum and Quick Breakouts
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Unit 15: Scalper Discipline
- The Daily Loss Limit
- Fatigue and Overtrading
- Measuring Performance
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Unit 16: Building a System
- The Parts of a Trading System
- Measurable Rules
- Writing a Trading Plan
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Unit 17: Trading Stats
- Win Rate, Reward and Expectancy
- Drawdown
- Profit Factor
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Unit 18: Backtesting and Forward Testing
- Manual Backtesting
- Overfitting and Bias
- Forward Testing and Demo Accounts
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