Trading Foundations Courses
Our Trading Foundations courses provide basic knowledge about trading and technical analysis. You gain access to recorded lectures on the material, as well as in-depth Q&A Sessions and live examples.
100 SERIES Trading Foundations: Understanding the Market
In addition to learning specific Trading Methods, we know there are many general trading topics that will help you in your trading. Here are the current semester Foundataion courses:
Our Trading Foundations courses are designed to provide important, relevant information that our students can apply to their trading immediately.
All of our instruction is conducted using real-world examples from the current market. These additional courses will round out your trading education, accelerating your path to trading success!
Individual Course Information
110 - Trading with Pivot Points
Pivot Points are one of the most versatile and powerful tools available to traders. They can help us identify trend reversals, trend continuations and great entries as well. In Trading with Pivot Points, Jeremy Williams will show you how to apply Pivot analysis to your trading. We start with the basic concept and then explore the basic Pivot Points in OmniTrader. We will continue the course by looking at the Pivots used in various OmniTrader plug-ins and how you can use them to improve your trading in any timeframe or market.
111 - Harnessing the Power of Heikin Ashi Charts
Many traders around the world view Heikin Ashi charts as the secret to their success. Heikin Ashi charts are designed to help remove the noise from regular candle charts, making all forms of chart analysis easier. Harnessing the Power of Heikin Ashi Charts will show you exactly how the charts are constructed and how they can improve your trading. Whether you use Heikin Ashi charts exclusively or in conjunction with other chart types, the Heikin-Ashi technique will help you see the true trend in the market and identify when a trend is about to change.
Archive of Prior Applications Courses
- 101: The Most Accurate Chart Patterns and How to Use Them
- 102: How to Use Economic Indicators in Your Trading
- 103: Understanding Technical Indicators
- 104: Profitable Trade Management
- 105: What Should I Be Trading?
- 106: Foundations of Technical Analysis
- 107: Understanding Fundamentals
- 108: Candlestick Patterns
- 109: Foundations of Trade Management
Individual Course Information
101 - The Most Accurate Chart Patterns and How to Use Them
Ed Downs, author of The 7 Chart Patterns that Consistently Make Money, has refined his original chart patterns work to encompass the latest research and techniques. The course will begin with a detailed discussion of the major chart patterns. We will cover how to identify the best pattern structure and discuss which patterns offer the best profit potential.
We will review all of the patterns, why they form and how to trade them. We will also review the result of many hours of pattern analysis to determine which ones are the “no brainer” patterns (i.e. when they say “buy”, you buy). This important course will help any trader regardless of which method they are trading.
102 - How to Use Economic Indicators in Your Trading
Economic reports can have a major effect across the global markets. These reports provide important clues about what is in store for the economy and how the financial markets could be affected.
In How to Use Economic Indicators in Your Trading, we will discuss the economic indicators that continually affect the market. The impact of employment numbers, consumer confidence and spending, housing reports and more are explained. But more importantly, you will know what these reports mean to the strength or weakness of the markets in the future.
By the end of course, you will have a solid knowledge of what these economic indicators mean, how to use them in your trading, and how to avoid the element of surprise that these reports can often deliver.

103 - Understanding Technical Indicators
This course removes the confusion about indicators by teaching you the different indicator classes and how to identify the best ones. With this knowledge, you will easily be able to decipher what the chart is telling you about current trading conditions. From ADX to Zig Zag, this course will give you the knowledge you need to successfully apply indicators to your trading.
104 - Profitable Trade Management
Successful traders will tell you that getting into a trade is the easy part. But knowing when to get out of the trade is what separates the winners from the losers. This course will show you how to maximize your profits on every trade, while making sure that you are in complete control of your risk.
You will learn the difference between profit stops, protective stops and time-based stops so that you can get the most out of every trade. This course is a must for any trader.
105 - What Should I Be Trading?
Investors are presented with a wide array of securities with which to engage the markets. It can be very difficult to determine which ones to trade given the trader’s objectives, time horizon, risk tolerance, and trading frequency.
Certain securities are more conducive to your trading goals than others. In What Should I Be Trading, you will learn how stocks, futures, ETF’s and other issues can help you realize your financial goals while providing you with an acceptable level of risk.
106 - Foundations of Technical Analysis
Are you new to technical analysis or just need a refresher? This course covers all of the basic tools used for successful chart analysis. Understanding chart types, basic chart patterns and indicators, and how to interpret volume information is the cornerstone for trading success.
Foundations of Technical Analysis covers basic technical analysis concepts and introduces you to more advanced analysis techniques.
107 - Understanding Fundamentals
Investors like Warren Buffet have made fortunes many times over by evaluating the strength and growth potential of a company’s financials. Whether you are using a top down or bottom up approach to determine a company’s intrinsic value, fundamentals help establish what its stock is truly worth.
From EPS to Dividend Yield, this course will teach which fundamentals the market is focused on, how to interpret them, and how to profit from them.
108 - Candlestick Patterns
Candlestick Chart Patterns were first popularized in Japan, and their use quickly spread to the West as technical analysts discovered how well they predict short term moves.
In Candlestick Patterns, we will discuss the different type of candlestick patterns and talk about how they are used for both entries and exits. Whether you want to trade candle patterns exclusively or enhance a different method, this course delivers information that you can profit from!
109 - Foundations of Trade Management
Successful traders will tell you that getting into a trade is the easy part. But knowing when to get out of the trade is what separates the winners from the losers. This course will show you how to maximize your profits on every trade, while making sure that you are in complete control of your risk.
You will learn the difference between profit stops, protective stops and time-based stops so that you can get the most out of every trade. This course is a must for any trader.