The XLT – Futures Trading course blends two types of sessions in a very structured environment. Lesson sessions make up approximately 40% of the course curriculum. Each lesson focuses on teaching a specific concept that continues your trading education. Trading and Analysis sessions make up the remaining 60% of the course curriculum and apply the knowledge you have gained in live market conditions. Trading and Analysis sessions are conducted during active market hours with the purpose of identifying real trading opportunities using a very objective rule-based strategy.
Forty-two sessions are delivered over a 12-week period, with each session lasting approximately 2 hours in length. Lesson sessions repeat every 12-weeks, providing solid learning reinforcement. Each Trading and Analysis session is unique as the instructor and students, together, proactively and dynamically respond to live-market conditions.
Course Agenda
Week 1: Market Timing With Supply and Demand
Quantifying and Demand and Supply – Order Flow
Identifying a Supply and Demand Imbalance for Opportunity
Understanding Who is on the Other Side of Your Trade
Psychology
Week 2: Odds Enhancers: Identifying High Probability Turning Points
Strength of a Level
Profit Margins / Risk and Reward
Time and Price
Time of Day
Stock / Bond Relationship
Supply and Demand Curve Extremes
Week 3: Core Strategy Development
Rules for Entries
Rules for Exits – Protective Stops and Targets
Rules for Trade Management
Day Trading with Futures
Swing Trading with Futures
Longer Term Trading with Futures
Week 4: Scanning For Opportunity
The “Top Down Approach”
The Routine
Scanning for:
Day Trades
Swing Trades
Longer Term Trades
Week 5: Global Futures Markets
Which Markets Should You Trade and Why
Market Specifications and the Global Exchanges
The Pro’s and Con’s of the Different Futures Markets
Which futures markets are best for:
Day Trading
Swing Trading
Longer Term Trading
Week 6: XLT Advanced Strategies – Futures
The All Star Entry
The opening Range Breakout
Trend and Counter Trend Setups
The “Trap” – Bull and Bear Traps, News Traps, Market Maker Traps
Breakouts
Week 7: Equity Index Futures and Globex
Choosing the Correct Symbol
Rollover
– Continuous Contract, Day Session, 24-hour Session, and More to Consider
Week 8: A Deeper Understanding of the Commodity Markets
Things You Need to Know
Strategies
Spread Trading with Commodities
Week 9: System Trading – Futures
Components of a Trading System – Automated and Signal Based
The “Switch”
The “Trigger”
System Building Traps
Week 10: Indicators and Oscillators and Candlestick Patterns
Identifying Turning Points with Oscillators
Adapting Oscillators for Trends
Use of Oscillators to Confirm Supply and Demand Entry Points
Use of Indicators to Confirm Supply and Demand
Moving Averages as Demand and Supply
Trading the Trend with Moving Averages
Stops and Risk Management with Moving Averages
Week 11: Risk Management
Using a staged progression to minimize your risk
How to position size your trades correctly
Where risk comes from and how to reduce it
Week 12: Trade Plan Development – Building The Trading Plan
Three step process
Core components of a profitable trade plan
Additional Components
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Ijad Sumodhee, August 2014
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Katy Lindsey, June 2014
“I have taken the Professional Trader, Futures class and the Platform Immersion class. The knowledge and execution skills are invaluable to me. I will also continue to use the XLTs to reinforce and enhance my trading skill set.”
Benjamin Clark, May 2014
“Typical Online Trading Academy experience (excellent). I came well prepared for this class by 4-5 weeks of viewing XLT trades and lessons - particularly lessons from this instructor. As a result, I had the skills for TradeStation and the major trade strategies (8-89, opening gap, etc). The value of the class was the reinforcement of the instruction and the refinement of techniques. This is the best way to prepare for these classes - particularly for this instructor.”
Robert Blizek, March 2014
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Aditya Bhattacharya, February 2014
“Actively attending XLT stock and futures classes helps me feel confident in trading supply and demand. My trading has gone from timid, almost frozen, to confidently taking trades off of good supply and demand levels. I just want to thank you for the great instructions in the XLT classes.”
Geoff Mouen, February 2014
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