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Trading Strategies

Breakouts, ranges, swing, day trading, scalping and your own system

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.

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What you'll learn

Units and lessons

  1. Unit 1: Understanding Breakouts

    1. Types of Breakouts
    2. Real or Fake Breakout?
    3. Compression Before a Breakout
  2. Unit 2: Trading the Breakout

    1. Entering on the Break
    2. Entering on the Retest
    3. Confirming with Volume
  3. Unit 3: Managing Breakouts

    1. Where the Stop Goes
    2. Measured Targets
    3. Fakeouts as Opportunities
  4. Unit 4: Reversion Basics

    1. What Is Mean Reversion?
    2. Range or Trend?
    3. Stretching from the Mean
  5. Unit 5: Range Tools

    1. Bollinger Bands in a Range
    2. RSI in a Range
    3. Trading the Range Edges
  6. Unit 6: Range Risks

    1. When the Range Breaks
    2. Stop Losses in Mean Reversion
    3. The Trend Filter
  7. Unit 7: Swing Basics

    1. What Is Swing Trading?
    2. Swing Timeframes
    3. Spotting Swing Highs and Lows
  8. Unit 8: Swing Setups

    1. Buying Pullbacks in a Trend
    2. Bouncing off Daily Levels
    3. Swing Trading with Fibonacci
  9. Unit 9: Position Management

    1. Stops Behind the Swing
    2. Trailing Stops and Partial Exits
    3. Weekends and Gap Risk
  10. Unit 10: The Trading Day

    1. What Is Day Trading?
    2. Pre-Market Prep
    3. Prior Day Levels and the Asian Range
  11. Unit 11: Day Trading Strategies

    1. Opening Range Breakout (ORB)
    2. Trading with VWAP
    3. The London and New York Sessions
  12. Unit 12: Managing the Day

    1. Daily Risk
    2. Closing Out Before the Day Ends
    3. Reviewing the Day
  13. Unit 13: Scalping Basics

    1. What Is Scalping, and Who's It For?
    2. Costs: Spread and Commission
    3. The Best Time to Scalp
  14. Unit 14: Scalping Setups

    1. Scalping with the EMA
    2. Scalping from Levels
    3. Momentum and Quick Breakouts
  15. Unit 15: Scalper Discipline

    1. The Daily Loss Limit
    2. Fatigue and Overtrading
    3. Measuring Performance
  16. Unit 16: Building a System

    1. The Parts of a Trading System
    2. Measurable Rules
    3. Writing a Trading Plan
  17. Unit 17: Trading Stats

    1. Win Rate, Reward and Expectancy
    2. Drawdown
    3. Profit Factor
  18. Unit 18: Backtesting and Forward Testing

    1. Manual Backtesting
    2. Overfitting and Bias
    3. Forward Testing and Demo Accounts

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