Topics

Each topic gathers the strategies, guides, definitions, courses and calculators on one subject in a single place.

  1. 01 Technical Analysis

    Charts, indicators, retracements and the patterns traders act on.

  2. 02 Swing Trading

    Setups held for hours to weeks, sized from the stop and planned around the calendar.

  3. 03 Options

    Covered calls, the wheel, volatility and what a contract costs you.

  4. 04 ETFs

    Gold funds, inverse and leveraged funds, and swing trading with ETFs.

  5. 05 Dividends

    Yields worth trusting, dividend cuts, and where income stocks belong.

  6. 06 Prop Trading

    Evaluations, drawdown floors and consistency rules on a funded account.

  7. 07 Earnings

    Earnings calendars, volatility crush and holding a position through a report.

  8. 08 Investing

    Concentration, index overlap and how many stocks a portfolio needs.

  9. 09 Retirement

    Tax-free accounts, withdrawals, Social Security, tax traps and long-term care.

Where to start

Got a specific question? Go to the guides, where the short answer sits at the top. To trade a setup, open the strategies and read the setup sheet first. To learn a retirement subject in order, take one of the free courses. To check a sum before you trade or claim, open the calculators, which print every step so you can see where the answer comes from.

A topic gathers everything on its subject: the strategies first, with their verdicts, then the guides, the definitions and the calculators that go with them. Retirement is built around the free courses, because its subjects stack on each other and make more sense in order, starting with tax-free accounts and moving through withdrawals, Social Security and the tax traps to long-term care.

Subjects overlap. An earnings date matters to a swing trader holding shares, to an options buyer paying for implied volatility, and to an income investor whose company may change its dividend in the same release, so a question that starts under one topic often ends under another, and the links follow it there.