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Training Videos
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Educational Videos & Live Sessions
Setting up the Trading Environment
Getting started and setting up your trading environment and chart setup (Shows ThinkorSwim and Tastyworks setups with links to import my workspace)
Trading Platforms Overview (Live Session)
In this live session, we go over two of the top trading platforms for Options traders, ThinkorSwim and Tasty Works.
ThinkOrSwim: Setting up the Desktop app
In this session, we will walk you through how to do the initial setup of ThinkorSwim desktop app from TD Ameritrade, so you are all ready to put on your trades.
ThinkOrSwim: Using the Mobile App
In this session, we will walk you through how to use ThinkOrSwim mobile app for your daily trading. The mobile app is extremely powerful and lets you do most of the things you can do on the desktop app.
If you trade on the go like I do, learning how to use the mobile app properly can be a boon to your trading life.
Choosing the right charting platforms
In this session, we talk about how to choose the right charting platform for technical analysis. It is important to set up your platform correctly so you can follow the subsequent lessons on technical analysis where we will be taking a deep dive into indicators and charts.
The Bare Minimum: Opening and Closing Trades
Learn how to react to trade alerts and how to close your trades for the correct profit targets.
Opening/Placing Trades – Reacting to real time Trade Alerts
In this session, we will show you how to take proper action on the trade alerts you receive on our private Discord channel. When you get an alert, you may or may not be in front of your computer. But the trades I pick are not meant for you to copy them at the same exact moment. There is a time window of possibly hours and even days that you can react to the trade alert and put on a position which is similar to the one I posted. In fact, if you wait a little, you might even get a better fill or advantage over my own trade.
Closing Debit Spreads at Profit Targets
In this video we walk through the process of closing Debit Spreads for the profit targets we use for this trading method. We typically closed our trades at 90% – 94% ROI on the money invested. Although, debit spreads can make 100% profits, we don’t aim for that to avoid exercise and assignment scenarios.
We will cover Tastworks and ThinkorSwim, but the concepts used should be similar and applicable to any other trading platform like Fidelity, Robinhood, IB, eTrade etc
The Bare Minimum: Keeping track of your trades
Use the live Spread Tracker to keep track of your trades and also keep a trade log at the same time.
Using the Spread Tracker – Part 1
This video shows how to keep an eye on all your trades using the live spread tracker.
Using the Spread Tracker – Part 2
This video shows how to keep an eye on your trades using the live spread tracker. This is a continuation video from the Part 1 and shows you the changes in the “New Spread Tracker”. The new tracker acts both as a running trade log and a tracker all in one place!
The Bare Minimum: Anatomy of Vertical Spreads
I take only two kinds of trades. Bull Call Spreads when I am bullish and Bear Put Spreads when I am bearish on the markets. Watch the two videos below that show you the thought process that I go through when looking for these trade setups.
A Bear Put Spread on ANET
This video walks you through a real bear put spread that I took on ANET.
A Bull Call Spread on GLD
This video shows you the process that I go through when looknig for bull call spreads using a real trade example on GLD that our group recently closed for 94% ROI.
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS & CHARTING
In this series of videos, we will walk through how to properly apply technical analysis and identify the right trading opportunities.
Technical Analysis #1 – Introduction to Charting & Patterns
In this short intro session, we talk about what is technical analysis, why it works and how it compares to fundamental analysis. We will also compare it to options probability calculators and show you why just using a probability calculator, shows you only part of the entire picture.
Technical Analysis #4 – Using RSI to find mean reversion Trade Setups
In this video, we will talk about RSI (Relative Strength Index) and how to use it to spot great mean reversion trading opportunities. We will also learn how to avoid entering a trade too prematurely when finding these mean reversion trades.
Technical Analysis #2 – Choosing the right charting platforms
In this session, we talk about how to choose the right charting platform for technical analysis. It is important to set up your platform correctly so you can follow the subsequent lessons on technical analysis where we will be taking a deep dive into indicators and charts.
Creating automated scans and indicators using ChatGpt
In this session, I will show you how you can use an AI tool called ChatGPT to create scanners and indicators. I will use ThinkorSwim as an example for this video, but you can do it for other platforms and languages as well.
Technical Analysis #3 – Using Support & Resistance to find Post-Earnings trade ideas
In this video, we will touch upon how to read Candlesticks. We will discuss how I use a Doji candle to spot reversals in the market. And finally, we will talk about using Support & Resistance to find post-earnings trading opportunities.
Technical Analysis #5 – Using ADX/DMI to avoid getting caught in wrong trades.
In this video, I talk about how I use the DMI indicator to avoid getting into mean reversion trades at the wrong time.
Hedging: Protecting your portfolio from a market crash
In these videos, I talk about the techniques I use to protect myself from a market correction or crash.
Hedging your portfolio – PART 1
Losing is a part of winning. But a big part of trading success is avoiding portfolio blowouts or big losses when things turn against you. In this video I go over the techniques I use to hedge my portfolio
Hedging your portfolio – Part 2
This is a follow-up video to PART 1 in a QnA format, where I answer some of the questions that were sent to me by viewers after watching PART 1
Better than hedging – Managing Risk
In this video, I slice and dice through some numbers to demonstrate that trading success comes by managing risk and not some fancy high probability trading strategy at your disposal. By closing your winners at 94% ROI and cutting losers at 50% loss, you can generate north of 100% ROI in a year even with a measly 55% win rate.
Additional Videos and Quick Tips
The below videos are are designed to get you started and answer all the questions you may have to effectively learn our trading methodology.
The hidden secrets of Debit Spreads
In this video, we will show you why debit spreads are simple and yet so powerful when compared to buying calls, puts or just simply buying stock. We will also discuss how debit spreads react to price movement and why they are the best fit for small trading accounts and our trading methodology.
Stock Selection – Finding the right stocks to trade
Although, I have shared my watchlist with you, we will go through the process of creating your own watchlist. Selecting the right stocks you trade is as important as learning our trading methodology. Stock selection is not about getting “secret stock tips” from some online forum. The process has to be diligent and meticulous.
ThinkOrSwim: Settings Alerts to monitor your Trades
Alerts on ThinkorSwim is a powerful feature. Some people like to have more control over how their trades are closed. TOS can send you push notifications when your position goes up or down in value and hits a certain threshold.
Instead of using stop-losses or trailing stops, to automatically close your trades, you can get notified when it is time to take action.
Why is my Debit Spread not closing ?
In this video, I will talk about how debit spreads react to price movement and expiration date and why you need to give them time to reach full profitability
CALCULATORS
Tools and calculators to help your numbers questions without having to do the Math
CASE STUDIES
I have shared with you a full blown trading system which is a result of my own trials and tribulations over 15 years of my own trading career. But what you get out of it largely depends on your own discipline and how effectively you apply it to your own trading. I have compared and contrasted 2 traders from our group in the hopes that you don’t make the same mistakes as Trader#1 and replicate all the awesomeness of Trader#2 in your own trading.
Common mistakes new members make.
A trader reached out to me saying their account wasn’t making any progress even after 1 full year of joining our group. This is highly unusual despite all the corrections and crazy markets we have faced in this trading cycle. Without revealing who they are, I am sharing some of the things that they have not done right with the hope that you don’t make the same mistakes. We are all here to learn and grow together, so I hope one person sharing their mistakes helps many others.
Case Study of a “Poster Child”, a.k.a => Jesse
After the case study covering common mistakes was published, several traders reached out to me with their success stories and I was overwhelmed with the emails/DMs. Jesse in this case study seems like a “poster child” of the trading method.
He has been able to apply it to not 1 but 4 of his accounts with great success. See if you can pick some tips from his trading style.
Point of No Return (PNR)
(A method for avoiding full losers)
The 50% loss rule is as easy as it gets. But in real life, the rule is more nuanced than it appears to be. You will encounter many situations where the stock immediately turns against you and you are left wondering if you should cut the loser at 50% loss even when there are more than 15 days left to expiration.
Instead of closing a trade out of panic or gut feel, this case study explores a method which can help you figure out if a trade could become a full loser.