Three course paths. Defined curricula. Demonstrated competency.

By the end of Trading Foundations, the objective is not simply for you to know trading terminology or understand individual concepts. You should be able to look at a market, understand what you are trading, identify the prevailing conditions, formulate a conditional thesis, construct a trade, define and manage risk, execute it correctly in simulation, and explain why you acted - or why you chose not to act.

Intended audience

Beginners and traders without a repeatable operating process.

Prerequisites

None. Basic computer literacy and access to a charting platform or broker demo account.

Build the ability to read price, structure, trend and market conditions, then use that analysis to construct conditional trading scenarios.

Intended audience

Beginners and developing traders who want to learn how to read markets systematically rather than rely on isolated indicators or chart patterns.

Prerequisites

Basic chart literacy. Trading Foundations recommended, but not required.

Build a complete, testable technical decision-making framework using market structure, momentum, volatility, participation, relative strength, cross-asset context, and market regimes.

Intended audience

Intermediate traders who can independently read charts, identify market structure, and use basic technical-analysis tools.

Prerequisites

Technical Analysis Level I or demonstrated equivalent competency.

Learn what options are, how premium and payoffs behave before and at expiration, how to read chains and select contracts with execution quality in mind, and how to build and defend one complete long call or put trade—including exercise, assignment, and settlement awareness.

Intended audience

Absolute beginners and developing traders who need option mechanics, chain literacy, and a first complete long call or put process before multi-leg strategies.

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of financial markets, price movement, percentage returns, and risk. Trading Foundations recommended.

Apply income, hedging, and vertical-spread structures; use put–call parity and time value disparity; introduce synthetics and PMCC; and defend strategy selection under exam conditions—including execution quality on multi-leg orders.

Intended audience

Intermediate traders who have completed Understanding Options and can read chains, manage long options, and reason about assignment and settlement.

Prerequisites

Understanding Options (Course 1) passed: session 16 exam, quizzes at or above course threshold, and course checkpoint—or demonstrated equivalent competency.

Analyze volatility (historical, implied, surface, and regimes), price options from model inputs, trade calendar and diagonal structures in vol context, and manage first-order Greek risk—with explicit model limits on the course exam.

Intended audience

Advanced intermediate traders who can construct and manage multi-leg positions and are ready for volatility context, time spreads, full first-order Greeks, and model-aware risk analysis.

Prerequisites

Strategy & Trade Construction (Course 2) passed: session 16 exam, quizzes at or above course threshold, and course checkpoint—or demonstrated equivalent competency.

Manage options at portfolio level: rolls and range/vol structures, event and tail hedging, multi-leg Greek aggregation, volatility risk premium framing, journal-based attribution, diversification and regime review, and cross-underlying selection—culminating in a portfolio capstone defence.

Intended audience

Advanced traders ready to manage rolls, asymmetric structures, vol-event risk, portfolio hedges, and multi-strategy books—at retail scale, without institutional desk content.

Prerequisites

Volatility, Pricing & Risk (Course 3) passed: session 16 exam, quizzes at or above course threshold, and course checkpoint—or demonstrated equivalent competency. A documented options journal or approved assessment is required before or during this course.