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Trend Dynamics Foundation Trading Course: Market Principles

  • The purpose of the Trend Dynamics Foundation Trading Course is to establish a theoretical framework based on market principles.

LESSON 1: Learn why successful traders find a core set of market beliefs more important than individual tactics - and learn the specific core beliefs that three market pros used to build successful trading careers.

LESSON 2: Learn the answer to the $64,000 question: What is the key difference between a valid trend change and a false breakout?

LESSON 3: How to eliminate 75% of whipsaw losses by correctly reading early-warning signs of the onset of a trading range.

LESSON 4: Learn three different ways pros dampen volatile swings in their account equity. And how profit-taking in trading ranges differs completely from profit-taking in running trends, and when to apply each strategy.

LESSON 5: How to select the best candidate to swing (or position) trade in such complexes as stock sectors, grains and currencies. Learn how to recognize when price is fully discounted - and how to sidestep major profit-crushing reactions.

LESSON 6: How does the canny trader correlate two different timeframes with precision? Learn how by studying a prototype intraday S&P day trading model.

LESSON 7: Learn how to detect when a trend is nearly exhausted. And learn to recognize four key patterns that can abruptly reverse major trends.

LESSON 8: One of the few ways to buy safely in a raging bull market.

LESSON 9: Learn when precise entry and exit patterns are reliable and when they are not, and why.

LESSON 10: Learn one of the few ways to trade successfully in trading ranges. And learn how to tell when trading ranges are about to terminate, and when a trend is re-emerging.

LESSON 11: Trading ranges have a great impact on the reliability of new trend changes: Learn which trends are OK to trade, which others you should avoid, and why.

LESSON 12: Don't let windfall profits slip away—learn to look for these warnings that alert you to adjust your price objectives immediately.

LESSON 13: Understand the key differences between systematic and mechanical trading approaches, and you'll become a much more savvy trader. Here's why...

LESSON 14: Ever wish there were rules of thumb on how some kinds of news (or the absence of news) affects the quality of a trend change? There are - learn them here.

LESSON 15: Learn two different types of counter-trend reactions, and the best entry tactics for each.

LESSON 16: Learn how correctly assessing gaps and volume in conjunction with specific price patterns can help you anticipate emerging trend changes in stocks or futures.

LESSON 17: How to spot and then capitalize on certain explosive divergences between a stock index futures market and its underlying cash market.

LESSON 18: How to capture high-probability trades by developing solid, profit-enhancing trading "scripts."

LESSON 19: Learn a completely new way of looking at support and resistance - "event resistance" - and how to use it as a trading tactic that will position you well ahead of the crowd.

LESSON 20: How to emulate the visualization practices of top traders. And how certain subtle changes in market structure foreshadow major trend reversals in stocks or futures.

LESSON 21: How "trend entropy" determines whether trends are orderly or chaotic, and thus which entry tactics to use, and when.

LESSON 22: Seven little-known forms of market risk that threaten every stock or futures trade you make - and how to maximize trading profits and minimize losses in the face of each one.

LESSON 23: Learn which natural and common human tendencies and misperceptions can ambush your trading, and how to successfully overcome and prevent every one of them.

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