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The Academy

Courses that take you from your first budget to options strategies, so you stop following signals blindly and start understanding why the desk took them.

Curriculum

What you'll work through

Start here

The Signal Playbook

How to read every field of a signal card, size a position with the 1% idea and set honest expectations for your first 30 days.

  • Reading a signal card
  • Position sizing
  • Stops and targets
  • Your first 30 days
Beginner

Money Before Markets: Personal Finance Foundations

The groundwork before you invest or trade: net worth and cash flow, a budget that works, an emergency fund, insurance and a plan for expensive debt.

  • Budget and cash flow
  • Emergency fund
  • Debt payoff plans
  • Investing readiness
Beginner

ETFs, Index Funds and Your First Portfolio

How funds work, what fees cost over decades, how to read a fact sheet, and how a diversified portfolio is built and rebalanced, with one fictional investor and fictional funds.

  • Funds and fees
  • Reading a fact sheet
  • Allocation and rebalancing
  • Bonds and leveraged funds
Beginner

Retirement Accounts and Tax-Smart Investing

How taxable accounts, 401(k)s, IRAs and HSAs work with 2026 figures, how gains, dividends and options are taxed, and which records matter. Educational, not tax advice.

  • 401(k), IRAs and HSAs
  • Capital gains and wash sales
  • Records and Form 1099-B
  • Withdrawals and asset location
Beginner

Stock Investing Basics

What a share is, the risks that come with it, and how to research, buy and hold stocks for the long term, with one fictional investor and fictional companies.

  • What a share is
  • Risk and behavior
  • Placing an order
  • Accounts and tax basics
Beginner

Fundamental Analysis and Valuation

Read the three financial statements, compare companies with P/E, P/S, P/B and PEG, and build a discounted cash flow estimate with every assumption in the open.

  • Financial statements
  • Valuation ratios
  • Discounted cash flow
  • Value traps and growth
Intermediate

Technical Analysis for Trade Timing

Read price, volume and momentum to plan entries, stops and targets, following one fictional chart from range to breakout to trend.

  • Support and resistance
  • Volume and momentum
  • Chart patterns
  • A written technical plan
Intermediate

Swing Trading and Day Trading Fundamentals

Choose a style that fits your time and account, know the account rules, then plan, practice and execute swing and intraday trades.

  • Accounts and the rules
  • Building a watchlist
  • Setups and execution costs
  • A one-page trading plan
Intermediate

Risk Management and Trading Psychology

The math of drawdowns, position sizing, stop types and scaling out, plus the habits and the journal that keep a trading account alive.

  • Drawdown math
  • Position sizing
  • Stops and scaling out
  • Trading psychology
Beginner

Options Basics: Covered Calls and Cash-Secured Puts

What an option is, how a contract is priced, and how covered calls and cash-secured puts work, with every trade-off shown on one fictional option chain.

  • Calls, puts and contracts
  • Pricing and the Greeks
  • Covered calls
  • Cash-secured puts
Intermediate

Directional Options: Buying Calls and Puts

Buying calls and puts with a plan: choosing the strike and the expiration, the Greeks in action, liquidity, and managing the trade before expiration.

  • Strike and expiration
  • Theta, vega and delta
  • Targets and stops
  • Sizing long options
Advanced

Options Strategies II: Spreads and Defined Risk

Vertical spreads, iron condors, calendars, collars and assignment, with every trade built on one fictional option chain and its risk defined up front.

  • Vertical spreads
  • Iron condors and butterflies
  • Volatility and calendars
  • Assignment and rolling
Intermediate

Market Structure, Macro and Options Flow

How orders meet in the market, what indices, sectors and breadth show, how macro data and earnings move prices, and what options flow can and cannot tell you.

  • Order books and spreads
  • Indices and sectors
  • The macro calendar
  • Reading options flow

How it works

Built to be finished, not skimmed

Every course is broken into modules with checkpoints, so you always know where you are and what comes next.

  • Structured modules with quizzes at each checkpoint
  • A final assessment covering the full curriculum
  • Animated diagrams and worked examples in every lesson
  • Progress saved as you move through the course

The Academy is for members

Every course, quiz and the final assessment are included in the membership, alongside the trading signals.

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