Title: Delta - Intro to Trading Futures
Description:
This course aims to equip the students with knowledge and skills on trend following trading using MES/MNQ futures contracts. The focus is on developing a strong understanding of risk management techniques and maintaining a solid risk-reward ratio. The students will learn about essential concepts and tools for identifying trends, staying on the right side of the market, reading price action, and using key market-generated information to make informed trading decisions. The course will also emphasize the importance of treating trading as a business and implementing a disciplined approach to managing one's trading account.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the fundamental concepts of trend following trading using MES/MNQ futures contracts
- Use Delta Lingo to understand market trends and identify profitable trading opportunities
- Implement effective risk management techniques to minimize losses and maintain a positive risk-reward ratio
- Identify trend and range markets and make appropriate trading decisions based on market conditions
- Stay on the right side of the market and avoid getting caught on the wrong side
- Use price action analysis to make informed trading decisions
- Run their trading account like a business and implement a disciplined approach to trading
Course Resources:
- Trading Plan Worksheet
- Simple MES Stop Loss Calculator
Course Topics:
Module 1: Introduction to Futures
- Introduction to Futures
- The Value of Paper Trading
- Choosing a Futures Broker
- Proprietary Trading Firms (”Prop Firms”)
Module 2: Introduction to Delta Trend Following Trading
- Trading MES/MNQ Contracts
- What is Trend Following Trading?
- Delta Lingo and Common Abbreviations
Module 3: How to Build Long Term Consistency
- Importance of Treating Trading as a Business
- The Power of a Trading Journal - Your Roadmap to Success
- Implementing a Disciplined Approach to Trading
Module 4: Risk Management Techniques
- Importance of Risk Management
- Position Sizing and Leverage
- Risk-Reward Ratio
- Stop Loss & Profit Targets
- Strategies for Placing Stop Losses and Profit Takers
Module 5: Trend vs Range Days
- Identifying & Trading Trend Days
- Identifying & Trading Range Days
- Importance of Staying on the Right Side of the Market
- Harmonic Rotations
Title: Delta - Intro to Trading Futures
Description:
This course aims to equip the students with knowledge and skills on trend following trading using MES/MNQ futures contracts. The focus is on developing a strong understanding of risk management techniques and maintaining a solid risk-reward ratio. The students will learn about essential concepts and tools for identifying trends, staying on the right side of the market, reading price action, and using key market-generated information to make informed trading decisions. The course will also emphasize the importance of treating trading as a business and implementing a disciplined approach to managing one's trading account.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the fundamental concepts of trend following trading using MES/MNQ futures contracts
- Use Delta Lingo to understand market trends and identify profitable trading opportunities
- Implement effective risk management techniques to minimize losses and maintain a positive risk-reward ratio
- Identify trend and range markets and make appropriate trading decisions based on market conditions
- Stay on the right side of the market and avoid getting caught on the wrong side
- Use price action analysis to make informed trading decisions
- Run their trading account like a business and implement a disciplined approach to trading
Course Resources:
- Trading Plan Worksheet
- Simple MES Stop Loss Calculator
Course Topics:
Module 1: Introduction to Futures
- Introduction to Futures
- The Value of Paper Trading
- Choosing a Futures Broker
- Proprietary Trading Firms (”Prop Firms”)
Module 2: Introduction to Delta Trend Following Trading
- Trading MES/MNQ Contracts
- What is Trend Following Trading?
- Delta Lingo and Common Abbreviations
Module 3: How to Build Long Term Consistency
- Importance of Treating Trading as a Business
- The Power of a Trading Journal - Your Roadmap to Success
- Implementing a Disciplined Approach to Trading
Module 4: Risk Management Techniques
- Importance of Risk Management
- Position Sizing and Leverage
- Risk-Reward Ratio
- Stop Loss & Profit Targets
- Strategies for Placing Stop Losses and Profit Takers
Module 5: Trend vs Range Days
- Identifying & Trading Trend Days
- Identifying & Trading Range Days
- Importance of Staying on the Right Side of the Market
- Harmonic Rotations
Title: Delta - Intro to Trading Futures
Description:
This course aims to equip the students with knowledge and skills on trend following trading using MES/MNQ futures contracts. The focus is on developing a strong understanding of risk management techniques and maintaining a solid risk-reward ratio. The students will learn about essential concepts and tools for identifying trends, staying on the right side of the market, reading price action, and using key market-generated information to make informed trading decisions. The course will also emphasize the importance of treating trading as a business and implementing a disciplined approach to managing one's trading account.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the fundamental concepts of trend following trading using MES/MNQ futures contracts
- Use Delta Lingo to understand market trends and identify profitable trading opportunities
- Implement effective risk management techniques to minimize losses and maintain a positive risk-reward ratio
- Identify trend and range markets and make appropriate trading decisions based on market conditions
- Stay on the right side of the market and avoid getting caught on the wrong side
- Use price action analysis to make informed trading decisions
- Run their trading account like a business and implement a disciplined approach to trading
Course Resources:
- Trading Plan Worksheet
- Simple MES Stop Loss Calculator
Course Topics:
Module 1: Introduction to Futures
- Introduction to Futures
- The Value of Paper Trading
- Choosing a Futures Broker
- Proprietary Trading Firms (”Prop Firms”)
Module 2: Introduction to Delta Trend Following Trading
- Trading MES/MNQ Contracts
- What is Trend Following Trading?
- Delta Lingo and Common Abbreviations
Module 3: How to Build Long Term Consistency
- Importance of Treating Trading as a Business
- The Power of a Trading Journal - Your Roadmap to Success
- Implementing a Disciplined Approach to Trading
Module 4: Risk Management Techniques
- Importance of Risk Management
- Position Sizing and Leverage
- Risk-Reward Ratio
- Stop Loss & Profit Targets
- Strategies for Placing Stop Losses and Profit Takers
Module 5: Trend vs Range Days
- Identifying & Trading Trend Days
- Identifying & Trading Range Days
- Importance of Staying on the Right Side of the Market
- Harmonic Rotations
