Trader Mentoring · Technical Analysis
Applied Market Analysis
Level II · 16 live sessions · 90 minutes each
Build a complete, testable technical decision-making framework using market structure, momentum, volatility, participation, relative strength, cross-asset context, and market regimes.
Fee
US$1,800
Payment for every course is 40% at enrolment, 30% after session 4, and 30% after session 8.
US$720 at enrolment · US$540 after session 4 · US$540 after session 8
Cancel before session 4: refund of 50% of the deposit.
Designed for
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.
Curriculum
16 live sessions
Each session includes a learning objective, practical work, and a competency demonstration. Session titles below are the full syllabus.
01From Technical Analysis to a Decision Framework
What you learn. Move beyond individual tools and combine technical evidence through evidence hierarchy, confluence, confirmation, contradiction, and redundancy.
Practical work. Take several technical observations and determine which provide independent information and which are different expressions of the same information.
Competency. Build an evidence hierarchy for a real market and explain which evidence matters, which does not, and why.
02Advanced Market Structure
What you learn. Study structural transitions, accumulation, distribution, failed breakouts, failed auctions, compression, expansion, and structural deterioration.
Practical work. Analyze historical transitions and identify the evidence available before the change became obvious.
Competency. Identify the current structural condition and define the specific evidence that would confirm or invalidate the interpretation.
03Relative Strength & Comparative Analysis
What you learn. Understand how relative performance can reveal leadership, weakness, rotation, and opportunity, while separating genuine strength from weakness elsewhere.
Practical work. Rank a universe of equities, sectors, or asset classes by relative performance and analyze the leadership structure.
Competency. Construct a relative-strength analysis and explain what it tells you and what it does not tell you about future returns.
04Breadth & Market Participation
What you learn. Understand advance/decline, percentage above moving averages, new highs/lows, sector participation, and internal market strength.
Practical work. Analyze breadth during trending, topping, and declining markets.
Competency. Determine whether a market move is broadly supported or increasingly dependent on a narrow group of assets.
05Volume, Participation & Market Activity
What you learn. Go beyond basic volume through relative volume, expansion/contraction, accumulation/distribution concepts, and limitations around intent and causality.
Practical work. Compare price-volume behavior across breakouts, reversals, trends, and failed moves.
Competency. Use volume as supporting evidence while distinguishing what the data demonstrates from what is inferred.
06Volatility & Expected Movement
What you learn. Understand volatility as a dynamic condition through contraction, expansion, ATR, implied versus realized movement, range normalization, and volatility-adjusted expectations.
Practical work. Adapt hypothetical stops, targets, and trade expectations to different volatility environments.
Competency. Given the same setup under different volatility conditions, explain how the trade structure and risk should change.
07Advanced Momentum & Divergence
What you learn. Advance the Level I momentum toolkit (including RSI, rate of change and MACD) into persistence, acceleration/deceleration, multi-timeframe momentum, confluence versus redundancy across indicators, and why divergence does not automatically imply reversal. MACD is not re-taught here; it is applied inside a decision framework.
Practical work. Analyze historical momentum behavior — including multi-timeframe MACD and RSI readings — before and after major market moves, and separate independent momentum evidence from duplicated signals.
Competency. Construct a momentum-based hypothesis using tools already mastered in Level I and identify the evidence required to confirm or invalidate it.
08Trend Following vs Mean Reversion
What you learn. Understand continuation and reversion hypotheses and why applying the wrong framework to the prevailing condition can be costly.
Practical work. Classify historical markets and determine whether continuation or mean reversion was more appropriate.
Competency. Select the appropriate hypothesis for an unfamiliar market and explain why the alternative is less suitable.
09Gaps, Events & Opening Conditions
What you learn. Understand gaps, opening ranges, overnight information, event volatility, continuation, exhaustion, and failed gap behavior.
Practical work. Analyze historical gap days and construct conditional scenarios from opening structure.
Competency. Develop a gap-day decision tree incorporating context, price behavior, volatility, and risk.
10Cross-Asset & Macro Confirmation
What you learn. Use rates, the US dollar, commodities, credit, and major risk assets as context without assuming correlation equals causation.
Practical work. Build a cross-asset dashboard around a specific market thesis.
Competency. Use cross-asset evidence to strengthen, weaken, or invalidate a technical hypothesis while separating confirmation from coincidence.
11Regime-Aware Technical Analysis
What you learn. Understand why the same setup behaves differently across regimes and how Regime Intelligence provides risk and market-condition context rather than a trading signal.
Practical work. Analyze identical technical setups across different regime environments.
Competency. Produce a regime-aware technical assessment explaining how the environment changes setup interpretation and risk.
12Setup Design & Rule Specification
What you learn. Convert a discretionary idea into a testable setup with conditions, trigger, filters, invalidation, exit, position management, and no-trade rules.
Practical work. Write a complete rule set for one technical setup.
Competency. Give another trader enough information to apply the rules without requiring your interpretation or discretion.
13Historical Testing & Avoiding False Confidence
What you learn. Evaluate a trading idea through look-ahead, survivorship, selection, hindsight, sample-size, overfitting, parameter-sensitivity, and robustness controls.
Practical work. Test a defined setup on a historical sample and document inclusion and exclusion rules.
Competency. Present what the evidence supports, what remains uncertain, and where the framework could fail.
14Execution & Dynamic Trade Management
What you learn. Translate a tested setup into execution through entry quality, slippage, partial exits, trailing stops, volatility change, thesis deterioration, and process drift.
Practical work. Manage a simulated position through changing conditions and compare planned versus actual decisions.
Competency. Demonstrate that management remains consistent with the framework rather than the latest P&L fluctuation.
15Technical Analysis at the Portfolio Level
What you learn. Move from individual charts to multiple positions and understand correlation, exposure clustering, sector concentration, simultaneous signals, and portfolio-level technical risk.
Practical work. Construct an exposure map for a hypothetical portfolio of technical positions.
Competency. Identify when apparently diversified trades are the same trade expressed through different instruments.
16Integration: Build Your Technical Trading Playbook
What you learn. Integrate structure, trend, levels, momentum, volatility, participation, relative strength, cross-asset context, regimes, testing, execution, and portfolio risk.
Practical work. Build a playbook containing market selection, timeframes, setups, evidence, entry, confirmation, invalidation, sizing, exits, management, no-trade rules, testing, and failure conditions.
Competency. Defend the playbook using historical or live-replayed markets and demonstrate consistent application without hindsight.
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