Element Trading Equity Training

The professional equity trader wakes up every day ready to do battle. He is not armed with protective gear or weapons, but knowledge. He knows the reports he needs to read and analyze. He knows how to utilize the Internet to find the essential facts for the stocks he is ready to trade. He has analyzed the trends of the general market and has reviewed his plan of action for his favorite stocks and the stocks which are on the morning hot lists. He is ready for the opening bell.

This professional was not always ready. There was a time when he had no training. Trades were just a mouse click away and it was easy to buy and sell, just not easy to decide when and where. This is precisely the purpose of the equity course from Element Trading. This course teaches where to buy and where to sell.

The equity trading course is divided into separate sections. The first section covers in detail the trading and management of a longer-term stock portfolio. The bear market of 2008 proved that it is time for every investor to take control over their portfolio, whether it is their 401K, IRA, or other retirement account. This course was created to give the active investor the confidence to grab the steering wheel and take control over their financial future.  

The first three days cover a tremendous amount of material in a short period of time so students beware. This is not a few days listening to trader stories or a restatement of common technical facts. This course covers the basics, but easily one-half of the course is Element Trading’s own unique material.

During the first three days the course (EQ1) will cover:

• Fundamental Basics
• Macroeconomics 101: economic conditions, interest rates, inflation, employment and other major financial factors affecting economic growth
• Individual stock fundamentals: PE ratios, sector strength, dividends, sales, and other important company criteria

Technical Analysis Basics

• Support and Resistance
• Moving Averages
• Trend lines
• Fibonacci Retracements
• Classical Chart Formations

These essentials were fine decades ago, but the new age of quantitative analysis and advanced technical studies have raised the bar on what every trader and investor needs to know today to be effective in timing their market entry and exit.

The Element Trading course introduces

• Average True Range Measurements
• Break Out Strategies
• Range contraction and expansion
• ATR Profit projections
• Differentiating corrections from changes in trend
• Optimized profit projections and stop placement            
• Advanced money management strategies

This three day segment of the advanced trading course is specifically designed for the longer-term trader and our students are provided specific entry and exit suggestions for several separate trading strategies:

• Swing Trading
• Position Trading
• Break Out Strategies
• Building ETF Portfolio’s including inverse ETF selection

The 3 day course is a complete discussion of strategies and concepts that can be used by the active investor or trader who wishes to only trade the markets from the longer-term perspective. Our promise is to give the students the confidence to analyze daily and weekly price charts and manage their investment portfolio better than the empty promise of buy-and-hold.

The Advanced Short Term and Day Trade Course (EQ2) immediately follows the previously described investor course.

 This section is focused on short-term trading strategies for stock day trading. The course is a fire hose of information offering many separate strategies for trading stocks for short time periods. Rather than teach one or two methods for trading, we recognize that every trader is different and the new trader needs to be exposed to a wide variety of methods that are used by professional traders to engage the markets on a daily basis. This course covers:

• Gap Trading
• “Morning Hot List” trades
• Momentum
• Morning Breakout
• Intraday trend following
• Support and Resistance
• Individual stock relative strength
• Classical corrective patterns
• Retracements
• Popular technical indicators:
• Fast and slow Stochastic
• MACD
• Moving averages
• RSI
• ATR
• ADX
• Bollinger bands
• Others upon student request
  

In the process of discussing these individual strategies, we surround the discussion with a backdrop of money-management strategies that help control equity draw down and consecutive loss. Once the entire strategy is written with a sound trade plan, the new trader is confident he has found his individual niche and can continue to develop his individual style as a trader.

The main purpose of the Advanced Trading and Investor Course is to give the student complete confidence that they understand price trends and that they can quickly analyze the price trends of the stock indexes, favorite stocks and important commodity trends. Once the student is confident in their analysis of the marketplace, the student can make critical adjustments in their investment portfolios to avoid a disaster similar to the bear market of 2008 and even spot profit opportunities from time to time for their active trading account. The short term trader can utilize his skills as an accomplished market analyst and add these skills to those gained as an active day trader. The combination of skills can lead to a consistency in performance that is the goal of every trader.

When the course content is joined with the student support built within the Element Trading website, the entire course sets in motion a pathway for every trader and investor to better understand the stock market, individual stocks, and a process to spot profit opportunities for either long-term trades and investments to the minute by minute activity of the professional stock day trader.