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What a membership actually opens

Inside the library

Two libraries, written by one instructor who has been teaching since 1997. Below are real titles from both — not a summary of them, the actual articles waiting inside. We would rather show you the shelves than describe them.

230+Technical Talk lessons
330+Learning Curve lessons
2New every Sunday
1997Teaching since
AnyOrder you like

Technical Talk

How markets actually behave, and how to read what a chart and a set of accounts are telling you. Written to be finished in a sitting and used the same week.

01

Starting from nothing

If you have never done this before, these come first.

  • Price Definitions
  • Price Charts
  • A Closer Look at the Price Charts
  • Technical Analysis
  • Trading Terms Explained
  • Option Basics
  • Moving Averages
  • Support and Resistance
  • Can You Draw A Trendline?

02

Reading what the chart is doing

The patterns that come up again and again, one article each.

  • Japanese Candlesticks (Part 1)
  • Japanese Candlesticks (Part 2)
  • Head and Shoulders
  • Double Top Setup
  • Double Bottom Setup
  • Cup and Handle
  • Triangle Patterns
  • Continuation Wedges
  • Gaps (Part 1)
  • Gaps (Part 2)
  • Higher Highs and Higher Lows
  • Fibonacci Retracement

03

The indicators, one at a time

What it measures, what it looks like, and where it lets you down.

  • MACD Indicator
  • Relative Strength Index
  • Stochastic Indicator
  • Bollinger Bands
  • Money Flow Index
  • On-Balance Volume
  • Commodity Channel Index
  • Parabolic SAR
  • William’s %R indicator
  • Directional Movement Indicator
  • Ultimate Oscillator
  • Rate-Of-Change
  • Coval Indicator

04

Options, and getting paid to wait

The strategies the tools were built for, explained before you use them.

  • Elite Covered Calls
  • Iron Condor (Parts 1–5)
  • IncomeTrader Cash Spreads (Parts 1–5)
  • Option Volatility
  • Open Interest
  • Short Selling

05

The market above the stock

Why a good company can go nowhere for a year.

  • Dow Theory
  • Advance Decline Line
  • TICK Index
  • An Intraday Strategy Using the $TRIN Indicator
  • Volatility Index
  • Economic Indicators
  • Interest Rates
  • Bonds (Parts 1–5)
  • Exchange-Traded Funds (Parts 1–3)
  • Market Sentiment
  • Fundamental Analysis
  • CANSLIM

06

Once you are actually in a trade

The half that most teaching skips.

  • Stop-Loss (Parts 1–2)
  • Trailing Stops (Parts 1–3)
  • Exit Strategy
  • Managing Your Trades (Parts 1–4)
  • One Cancels Other (Parts 1–3)
  • Order Entry 101 (Parts 1–3)
  • Trade Setups (Parts 1–3)
  • Trading Plan (Parts 1–15)
  • Six Steps to Your Next Trade

A sample. Technical Talk holds more than 230 lessons in total, and one more is added every Sunday.

The Learning Curve

The part almost nobody writes about, because it does not sell as easily as indicators do: patience, losses, and staying rational with your own money on the line. Members tell us this is the one they stayed for.

01

Before you risk anything

Honest questions, asked early rather than late.

  • The Difference Between Trading And Gambling
  • What Is a Trader?
  • Are You Smart Enough to Be A Trader
  • Is Good Trading More About Intelligence Or About Temperament?
  • What Does It Take To Be a Successful Trader?
  • What, Who, How, And Why To Trade

02

Losing money, and what it does to you

The subject nobody wants to read about until the week they need it.

  • The Psychology of Loss
  • The Emotions Of Losses
  • The Vale Of Small Losses
  • Why I Love Losses
  • Is The Fear Of Loss Greater Than The Desire For Gain?
  • When Losing Money is OK
  • The Joy (?) of Loss
  • Fighting Remorse and Depression

03

Getting out of your own way

The mistakes that have nothing to do with the market.

  • Shooting Yourself In The Foot
  • Stepping On Our Own Feet
  • How/Why We Hold Ourselves Back
  • Hitting Your Foot With A Hammer
  • Never Play The Blame Game
  • The Definition Of Insanity
  • Trader Self-Sabotaging Phrases
  • What Holds Traders Back

04

Patience, and the long haul

Written for the second year, not the first week.

  • “Master Patience…Or Quit Trading”
  • The Three Stages of Trading
  • Advancing From Beginner To Mid-Level
  • A Maturation Process
  • The Value Of Longevity
  • When Do The Profits Start Rolling In?
  • Consistency
  • Tenacity
  • Procrastination Is Our Enemy!!

05

Risk, decided rather than felt

How much, how often, and how to live with it.

  • Intelligent Risk
  • Appropriate Risk Taking
  • How to Cope With Risk
  • The Inhumanity Of Taking Risk
  • The Risk Manager
  • Trading Size
  • Hot vs. Cool Money With Which To Trade
  • The Role Of Greed In Our Trading

06

And then there are these

Writing a fresh lesson every single Sunday produces some unusual ones.

  • Who Was Jesse Livermore?
  • Churchill Speaks On Trading
  • Elvis Speaks On Trading
  • Shakespeare Trades The “Spy”
  • Rocky Speaks About Trading
  • Polonius Speaks On Trading
  • The Gold Rush of 1849
  • A Trading Lesson From the African Queen
  • The Pillsbury Dough Boy on Trading
  • Somewhere, Over The [Market] Rainbow
  • Learning To Play The Guitar
  • Driving Miss Daisy

A sample. The Learning Curve holds more than 330 lessons in total, and one more is added every Sunday.

Why there is no module one

Because you are an adult with a question, not a student with a syllabus.

These are libraries, and that is deliberate. Nobody arrives wanting to work through forty lessons on candlesticks before they are allowed to look up a company they already own. You arrive wondering about one thing — whether your bank shares are expensive, what that indicator on your broker’s screen means, why you sold too early again — and there is an article about it, written plainly, that you can finish tonight.

Then next Sunday there are two more. That is how a library this size gets built — one week at a time, for a very long time.

What the library does not do

Saying what we are not is the clearest way to explain what we are.

  • We do not tell you what to buy. Companies we discuss are teaching examples.
  • We do not manage money, hold funds, or place trades. You trade in your own account, or not at all.
  • We do not give personalised advice. We do not know your situation, and it would be wrong of us to pretend otherwise.
  • We do not promise a result. Nobody honest can.

What we do is teach you to think a decision through, so the next one is yours.

Start anywhere. $0.99 opens all of it.

Both libraries, something new every Sunday, the weekly research walkthroughs, the market commentary, the Economic Forecast, and every one of the screening and calculation tools.

$0.99 for 14 days, then $24.99/month. Cancel online anytime.