Advanced Stock Trading Course + Strategies

Explore why markets matter for investors and companies and how liquidity lets you sell assets quickly without price disruption, using three-month average volume to gauge stock liquidity.

Explore market making, where market makers provide bids and offers, earn from the spread, and manage risk while adding or removing liquidity through passive and aggressive orders.

Explore the history of exchanges and ECNs, from market makers to electronic networks, and understand how liquidity, pricing, and NBBO drive modern stock trading.

Learn how smart order routers pick ECNs, often the ones that pay brokers the most, and how latency and high-frequency traders affect fills and slippage.

Learn how dark pools enable large institutional trades without revealing liquidity, compare them with ECNs and lit markets, and examine NBBO constraints, frontrunning, and predatory algorithms.

Spot and avoid fake accounts impersonating the speaker on Instagram and YouTube. Never message first, share phone numbers or bitcoin, and report imposters to protect your stock trading community.

Explore valuation methods by comparing fundamental analysis and technical analysis, and learn when to apply each for short-term trading, long-term investing, and event-based opportunities.

Learn how the VWAP (volume weighted average price) uses traded volume to provide a meaningful intraday price, guiding entry points and potential support or resistance.

Explore fundamental analysis and how it informs stock pricing alongside technical analysis, focusing on financial statements, catalysts, and market supply-demand for short-term trades.

Explore how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements reveal a company's assets, liabilities, and equity, and show core operations, investments, and financing activities.

Discover fundamental ratios through a comprehensive example, linking balance sheets, income statements, and dividends to market cap and book value per share, driven by shares outstanding and price.

Learn how book value and price per book reveal a stock's value beyond the current price, using EPS and price-to-earnings. Evaluate growth versus value, ROE, and dividends to compare stocks.

Explore how current versus expected earnings shape stock valuations by comparing today’s earnings to next year’s eps and forward pe, and how prices react to earnings surprises.

Distinguish growth and value companies by high or low P/E and dividend yields. Use momentum for growth and mean reversion for value, and filter candidates with Finviz.

Learn how trend analysis uses fundamental data like earnings per share and financial ratios to identify continuing or breaking trends, informing institutions and portfolio managers' decisions.

Learn how benchmarking compares fundamental ratios across banking peers to identify undervalued stocks within a sector. See how prospectus allocations and institutional ownership shape buy and sell decisions.

Explore the dividend discount model (ddm) to value dividend-paying stocks by discounting future dividends to present value, incorporating growth and the discount rate.

Explore key stock metrics such as insider ownership and transactions, institutional ownership, float and short interest, and how they inform momentum strategies in stock trading.

Defines dividends, including cash and stock dividends, and explains regular versus special dividends, settlement (t+2), and record, ex-dividend, and payout dates.

Stock splits divide shares to lower price while preserving value, with common 1-for-2 or 1-for-10 splits; reverse splits raise price to meet minimum price requirements, and brokers adjust orders.

Explore what indexes are and why the Dow's price-weighted approach differs from the market-cap based S&P 500, which better reflects the economy and informs ETF-based exposure.

Learn how ETFs track indexes and offer sector exposure, with SPY as the archetype. Explore liquidity, volatility ETFs, and leveraged or inverse ETFs to trade broad markets.

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Explore the economic cycle and how expansions, peaks, contractions, and troughs shape the stock market, with drivers like gdp, unemployment, inflation, investment, political stability, and implications for traders.

Discover how monetary policy controls currency supply and interest rates to shape economic growth, including reserve requirements, via central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve and the FOMC.

Explore how the FOMC meets eight times a year to set monetary policy, including interest rates, reserve requirements, and bond purchases, shaping money supply, inflation, and stock prices.

Explore how fiscal policy uses taxes to regulate money circulation, government spending, and deficits, and how tax changes influence markets and short-term trades.

Explore four important reports, led by the EIA petroleum status report, and how oil inventories influence supply and prices; use the USO ETF to gauge weekly market moves.

Explore the leading economic indicator (LII), a ten-report index from the Conference Board that forecasts future growth through jobless claims, stock prices, building permits, and other data.

Observe coincident economic indicators such as average hours worked, non-farm payrolls, unemployment, and wages to gauge the current economy. Use leading indicators for early shifts and adjust trading accordingly.

Develop and implement a written game plan for each trading strategy to manage emotions, define holding periods, entry and exit signals, position sizing, stops, and bailout rules.

Execute the short squeeze strategy by targeting highly shorted stocks with rising volume and price breaks. Manage risk through a defined trading plan, stop losses, take profits, and bailout indicators.

Explore pair trading, a market neutral strategy that profits from price convergence of two similar stocks by going long one and short the other, regardless of market direction.

Learn how hedging reduces risk by using long and short positions. Apply ratio-based sizing for dollar-value hedging in pair trading to keep positions balanced.

Identify robust stock pairs using price behavior and fundamental relationships that move together, measure correlation with charts and r scores, and use Market Topology to find highly correlated peers.

Explore cointegration and mean-reverting spreads for pair trading by forming a stationary spread from non-stationary price series with a hedge ratio, and test integration with Dickie Fuller and Johanson.

Master mean-reverting pairs trading by pairing correlated stocks, using bollinger bands on the spread to enter long and short positions when divergence occurs, and manage risk with standard deviation settings.

Backtest a fair trading pair by testing two co integrated mean reverting stocks and confirm signals with Pair Trading Lab’s statistical tests; practice with paper trading before real money.