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E-mini Futures Curriculum (8 Days $2000)

 

Course Agenda

 

Day 1

Secrets to Successful Trading

Why Trade E-mini Stock Index Futures?

·         The Futures Contract

·         Futures Contract Evolution

·         Index Futures: Portfolio Management

·         The "Underlying" Products

 

Development of the E-mini Contract

·         S&P 500 E-mini Contract

·         Interconnected Markets

·         Products and Multipliers

·         Futures Contracts: Ticks

·         E-mini NAZ

·         Premium and Discounts - "Cash" vs. Futures

·         Contracts Months & "Rollover"

·         CME E-mini Trading Hours - (Includes GLOBEX: S&P, NAS, Russell, MidCap)

 

Live Data Trading Session

·         GLOBEX® - Global Electronic Trading System

·         Quotations: Stock vs. Futures

·         Platform Example

·         Charting Example

The Economy

·         Business Environment

·         Economic Indicators

 

Day 2

Technical Analysis

·         Charting and Price Movement

·         More Than One Possible Entry

·         Down Trends & Shorting

·         Short: Multiple Entries

·         Support and Resistance

·         Zones: Separating Ranges

Day 3

Charting the Futures

·         Trends & Trendlines

·         Trend Reversals

·         Trend Continuation

·         Opening Gap

·         Indicators

·         TRIN

·         Advancers vs. Decliners: Tick

Money Management

·         Risk Managemenet

·         Preparation

·         Stop Types

·         Controlling Exposure: Sizing, Duration & Frequency

 

Day 4

Developing a Plan

·         Margin (Performance Bond)

·         Marking to Market

·         Taxes - IRC 1256: Special Treatment

·         Some "downsides" of E-minis

·         Developing a Trading Plan

·         Write a Trading Journal

·         Connection Options

·         Computer Specs – minimums

 

Day 5

Technical Analysis II

·         Key Reversal Days

·         Analyze Different Time Frames

·         Entering on an Uptrend

·         Stops - Using Trend Lines & Previous Lows

·         Open Interest & Volume

·         Exit Strategies

·         Leonardo Pisano Bonaccio - Fibonacci

·         Fibonacci Retracement, Spirals, Extensions, Time Zones, Fans, Clusters or Confluence

·         Trading Strategies

 

Live Data Trading

·         Technical Indicators/Studies

·         Moving Averages

·         Exponential Moving Average

·         Simple vs. Exponential Moving Average

·         Momentum Oscillators

·         Relative Strength (RSI)

·         Stochastics Oscillator

·         Moving Average Convergence - Divergence (MACD)

·         Bollinger Bands

·         Momentum Indicator

Putting It All Together: Cross Referencing

·         Preparing for Live Trading

·         Laws of Trading Risk Management

·         Why a Trading Log

 

Day 6

Trading Skills

Your Trading Mission

·         E-mini vs. the Big Ones

·         Rollover Volume

·         Interconnected Markets

·         Dow Index Facts

·         E-mini Dow

·         Russell 2000 Index Facts

·         E-mini RUT

·         NASDAQ 100 Index Facts

·         E-mini NAZ

·         S&P Mid Cap 400 Index Facts

·         E-mini Mid Cap

·         E-mini Futures Movement Comparison

Live Trading Session

 

Day 7

Preparation for the Week Ahead

·         Learning through the Markets

·         Broad Market Review

·         Long Term Technical Analysis

·         Significance of Larger Price Designs

·         Surviving the Markets

Technical Analysis: Different Approaches

·         What Drives the Markets?

·         Understanding the Market Correlation Across Time Frames

·         Charting: Switching Pages/Layouts

·         Time Horizons

Live Trading Session

·         Regular Sessions vs. Intraday with Overnight

·         Globex/Overnight Session Swing Highs/Lows

·         Behaviors and Patterns

·         Broadening Formations

·         Trendlines, Channels and Fibs

·         Channel Break

·         Gapping, Filling & Traversing

·         Gapping: Visibility

·         Direction and Traversing

·         Short-Term Psychology

·         Speed

·         Reversals

 

Day 8

Quick Review of Futures

·         Long Term View Known & Clear

·         Correlation Across Time Frames

·         Cross-Referencing

·         Rotations: 2 Types

·         What to Look for in the Trade Indicators

·         Long Term View of VIX

·         NYSE STICK

·         Oscillators

·         Continuation Patterns

Live Trading Session

Managing the Trade in Review