Imagine two traders who learn the same strategy from the same video. Both put the same indicators on the same timeframe. Six months later, one is happy with the method and the other has lost half of the account.
Their strategy was the same. The difference was in the two people. One had the time, the patience and the nerves the method needed, and the other did not.
The course helps you find a style that fits your time, your patience and the way you react to a loss. In it you will find a ten-question self-test, a four-step roadmap and a simple template for an emotions journal. With them you can build a strategy that you can follow calmly for years.
The six lessons
Strategy: the glasses you see the market through. Why a strategy that works for someone else can blur the market for you, and what research says about personality and trading.
The story of Nicolas Darvas: the dancer who made his own glasses. How a dancer lost money on other people's tips, then built a method around his own life.
Why copying someone else's strategy usually fails. Five reasons a copied strategy rarely gives you the result it gives its owner.
The four trading styles, and two more choices. What scalping, day trading, swing trading and position trading ask of you.
The ten-question trader self-test. Step 1 of the roadmap: ten honest questions and what each answer suggests.
Build, test and grow your own strategy. Steps 2 to 4: a one-page trading plan, a careful test with an emotions journal, and a strategy that changes with your life.
How to use this course
Read the lessons in order. Keep a sheet of paper next to you for lesson 5, because lesson 6 builds your trading plan from your answers.
The books and studies the lessons draw on are listed together on Sources of the Academy lessons.