Designed to teach you about investing through a methodical progression of learning, our core courses encompass everything from the Investing Foundation Course to the Advanced Forex Course. Interactive and Active Investing Classes utilize current market data to demonstrate how professional traders work and provide hours of hands-on practice. Using strategies implemented by professional investors, our Advanced Classes offer a strong concentration on application and execution. They are designed for students who are currently enrolled in the Master Investor Program or Program of High Distinction (PHD).
Investing Foundation: Take the first step toward financial freedom.
Learn the basic principles every intelligent investor should know and the Web-based tools that have changed investing. Both experienced and beginning investors find out how to streamline the stock selection process and actively manage their investment portfolios. The 7-Step Investing Formula™ is a repeatable step-by-step approach for finding, evaluating, monitoring, buying and selling stocks. The advantage is that you can rely on facts to make trading decisions—not emotions. And that means less guesswork and better results.
Your Investing Foundation Course entitles you to the following:
If you know what you're doing and follow a few simple rules, options are no riskier than stocks. In fact, in some ways they are less risky, because you can commit less of your money upfront. Learn a range of strategies—such as puts, calls, covered calls and LEAPs—that can create additional cash flow from your portfolio.
In the Basic Options course, you'll learn the following:
The basics of investing with options and how to build a solid foundation
How to evaluate whether an option is overvalued or undervalued—a skill that's critical to your success with options trading
How to use Investools Online to become more proficient at forecasting and reading charts for short-term moves in the market or individual stocks
Specific option trading strategies and how to apply them for maximum potential return
Advanced Technical Analysis: Understand exactly what the market is telling you.
Move beyond the red and green arrows and learn how to use technical analysis and advanced charting techniques to identify investment opportunities, mini- mize ambiguity and increase profit potential in almost any market condition.
You'll acquire the skills and discipline to interpret trends and identify trading opportunities based on technical analysis and charting techniques, including the following:
How to implement advanced charting techniques
How to identify buy and sell signals from the market's price action
Which advanced technical indicators work
How to develop entry and exit strategies for the markets or stocks you want to trade using a variety of technical indicators
How to develop higher probability buy signals to increase your percentage of successful trades
There's always money to be made. Learn how to prosper in all market condi- tions by applying simple and complex option trading methods like debit, credit, diagonal and butterfly spreads, index options, straddles and strangles. Find out how to control risk and develop entry and exit strategies for each trade. Learn the following:
When it comes to portfolio diversification, more and more investors are thinking globally. Why? Because on an average day, the global foreign exchange (forex) market's volume reaches $3.5 trillion—46 times all other futures markets combined! This massive volume creates opportunities for more flexibility, more liquidity and more cost-effective transaction amounts.
How the forex market functions
How to identify the currencies you want to trade
How to interpret foreign currency trends
How the forex market and economic fundamentals can affect stock and option profits
How to identify buy and sell signals from the market's price action
Advanced Forex: Harness the Power of the World's Largest Financial Market.
Go beyond a basic understanding of currency analysis and learn more advanced methods using an expanded range of technical analysis tools—from candlestick charts and identifying price patterns to new indicators that enable you to forecast entry and exit points. You'll learn the following:
How to manage your trades to maximize rewards while minimizing risks
How to create a personalized currency trading system
How to determine which technical indicators fit best with your trading style
How to incorporate news events into your trading
How to identify price continuation and reversal patterns and adjust your trades to prepare for coming price moves
How to confirm levels of support and resistance using candlestick analysis
This class refines the material presented in both the Investing Foundation and Basic Options Courses, while introducing new tools and techniques for active investors. It focuses on helping students understand various stock and option strategies and determine which strategies work best for their trading styles, managing investments for maximum return and minimum risk. The goal is to produce more efficient and effective option investors.
With guidance from an experienced instructor, you'll practice money management, evaluate and calibrate your risk tolerance, monitor your total cash flow and actively manage your portfolio growth—all in real time. And you'll apply these active investing practices using a live paper trading account.
This intensive, hands-on class takes advanced technical analysis beyond the basics. Because history repeats itself, students learn to use advanced charting techniques to analyze past performance, as well as backtest and apply these findings to today's market conditions. Information about specific trading systems is accompanied with explicit entry and exit rules for each system, which form the basis for placing these complex trades.
Active investing involves taking advantage of shorter term (intraday to one-week) price swings by closely monitoring the market during open hours and making numerous quick—but well-informed—decisions to buy, hold or sell. This aggressive trading technique is based primarily on technical analysis of volume, key indicators and technical chart patterns and formations.
Focusing on advanced option strategies implemented by professional investors, this class combines the best of Investools' technical analysis and options education with the risk analytics and probability analysis of thinkorswim. Includes four pre-session Webcasts, a three-day workshop, live online trading examples, a tour of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange and two post-session Webcasts. You'll experience the following:
Overview of basic concepts from the Advanced Options Course
Learn to navigate thinkorswim® trading software and employ its trading analytic tools in your own investments
Understand how to combine advanced strategies like vertical spreads, iron condors and butterflies to achieve a more balanced portfolio
Practice live trading under instructor supervision
Ready for something different? Diversify into futures, a sophisticated way to invest in equity indices like the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500. Find out how to combine basic methods of support and resistance, candlestick trading, bracket orders, risk-to-reward ratios and position size guidance. The innovative thinkorswim® trading platform is a great tool for implementing these strategies. In this one-day workshop, which includes a visit to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), you'll learn about the following:
Contracts, leverage amounts, tick values, and directional impact
Fast-paced decision making required for futures trading
Successful risk management and capital allocation techniques
How to open a futures account or add it to an existing brokerage account
“The Wall” Trading Experience: Live like a market maker.
The best way to learn is by doing. To put this motto to the test, you'll join a select group of traders and instructors who execute fast-paced live trading using strategies developed by option market makers and unleash your investing mojo in the thinkorswim® trading room, which features a wall of monitor screens for maximum information presentation. In this intense two-day workshop, you'll learn the following:
Advanced position management using greeks
Techniques for working orders to get the best price on fills
