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 

Trading with 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 Trading with 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. Foundations Of Trade Management  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.

110

Trading with Pivot Points

Pivot Points are on 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 time-frame or market.

111 

Harnessing the power of Heiken 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 Heiken 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 conjunctions 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.

201 

Creating Great Trading Signals w/ Strategy Builder

In Creating Great Trading Signals with Strategy Builder, we explore all of the tools available in OmniTrader’s Strategy Builder in order to get the best trading signals. From basic signal generation through confirmation and filtering, this course
covers each and every aspect of getting a strategy to generate the type of signals that you desire.

We begin by looking at how to get the best signal from a system or multiple systems. OmniTrader’s voting process provides us with a variety of ways
in which we can generate an initial signal, and we will look at each approach in detail. We will also cover how to confirm signals in various time-frames,
how to filter signals based on technical factors or performance, and how to create different signal paths for long and short signals.

202 

Boosting Profits w/ Options

Options have the potential to dramatically enhance any Trading Method. They can provide increased leverage to enhance returns. They can also be used to reduce risk and lock in profits, and generate income through the sale of option premium. The versatility of options makes them very powerful, but it also makes the subject complex. Boosting Profits with Options will focus on simplifying and illuminating
option trading concepts with the help of OptionTrader.

OptionTrader makes it easy for anyone to trade options effectively, but having a clear understanding of the various option strategies makes it easier to decide which approach to use within a given Method. In Boosting Profits with Options, students will gain a clear understanding of how to use options to enhance the profits of any of the Trading Methods we teach, and also how to create new Methods based on the application of option strategies.

203 

Trading with Advanced Chart Pattern Recognition Technology

In this course, we explore the Chart Pattern Recognition Module (CPRM) and Chart Pattern Systems (CPS) to show you how to pinpoint entries and exits with the most profitable patterns automatically. We will show you how to use CPRM in order to
evaluate which patterns are currently the most profitable, and then how to find those patterns.

We take this course a step further by creating a trading strategy with CPS. This impressive plug-in lets you configure your own pattern structure, so you are only generating signals on the exact patterns that you want to trade!

204 

Multiple Time-frame Confirmation Tactics

Great traders look to take the trades that offer the least technical risk. In Multiple Time-frame Confirmation Tactics, we show you how to confirm your trades so that you are only taking trades that show profit potential in multiple time-frames.

Multiple Time-frame Confirmation (MTC) can be done visually with the Setups feature and MTC Candles. You can also automate MTC in a trading strategy. This course will give you the ability to make sure that you are only taking trades that are aligned for success.

205 

Statistical Strategy Evaluation with Portfolio Simulation

Evaluating a Strategy’s performance accurately is important before you start actually trading a Strategy. This course will teach you which statistics you should use and how to interpret them to evaluate a Strategy’s true performance.

Using the Portfolio Simulation mode in OmniTrader, you will learn which statistics you should be focusing on and how to interpret them trade!

206 

Automating Trade Management with Trade Plans and OmniPilot

Trade Plans provide you with the ability to take the emotion out of trade management in any market and any time-frame. By automatically placing your exit orders at predetermined chart locations, you can manage your trades based on an initial reward/risk objective.

In this course, we will show you how to automate trade management from simple exits, taking windfall profits and even scaling into and out of trades. Every trader should take a systematic approach to trade management, and Automating Trade
Management shows you exactly how to do it!

207 

OmniLanguage Master Course

OmniTrader Pro owners will benefit from this course in which we show you how to turn any trading idea into an automated strategy! OmniLanguage also provides the ability to enhance any trading strategy with custom systems, filters and exits.

From the most basic system to a complete OmniLanguage Project, the OmniLanguage Master Course shows you how to use the various tools in OmniTrader to bring your trading ideas to life!

208 

Using Optimization to Maximum Advantage

Optimization can provide a major edge in trading. However, it’s important to know how to apply optimization properly. In Using Optimization to Maximum Advantage, you will learn how to tune your Strategies to the current trading environment.

We’ll explore Back test and Forward test settings, adaptive indicators, and Nirvana’s unique Dynamic Optimization to show you how to gain a decisive advantage in the market!

301 

Swing Trading for Consistent Profits 

In Swing Trading for Consistent Profits we will provide a complete approach to the market that takes advantage of short term trading opportunities. Swing trades typically last between two and seven days, as they capture quick profits from short term market imbalances.

The Swing Trading Method will start by teaching you how to identify profitable swing trading opportunities, and how to manage those trades to completion. The course then goes beyond simple entry and exit timing as we cover other tools that can boost the profitability of the Swing Method. You’ll learn how to get the best
possible List of stocks to swing trade, which Plug-Ins and Modules give us the best Swing Trading Signals, and a set of techniques you can use to manage a portfolio consisting of multiple Swing trades.

302 

Position Trading for Long Term Gains 

There are many advantages to trading with the longer term trends, including lower transaction costs and favorable tax treatment for trades held longer than a year. Holding positions to take advantage of a primary trend is called position trading. In this course, we will look at the best ways to successfully position trade with
OmniTrader and VisualTrader.

We will cover how to identify stocks and ETFs that are likely to trend, the best Strategies to use for entry Signals, how to apply multiple timeframe analysis and specific ways to protect profits and manage risk through portfolio balancing.
NTB Charts were introduced in 2012, and give users a powerful new way to evaluate longer term trends. In the course, we will cover which NTB Charts generate the best results, and how to apply Trade Management techniques to them.

303 

The Hedge Method: Stay Fully Invested and Sleep Like a Baby

The Hedge Method was first published by Ed Downs in 2001. Ed has updated and revised the Method to incorporate some of the newer tools in our platforms. 

The Hedge Method has to do with determining an appropriate mix of long/short positions to maintain a “market neutral” posture. When this is done, sudden adverse moves in the market do not affect the portfolio nearly as much as if it were weighted one way or the other. A specific way of determining the right position mix will be studied and used in the live market in this powerful course.

304 

Use Relative Strength to Balance Your Portfolio
 
Many money managers espouse the value of “balancing a portfolio”, which typically means selling the lower performing assets and buying higher performing ones. The problem is, this can lead to buying at highs and selling at lows. We want to do just the opposite!

In this ground-breaking course, we show how to use OmniScan to find candidates that are in a great position to outperform the market IN THE FUTURE, thereby
improving odds for long term success.

305 

Make Money No Matter Which Way the Market Goes with Fulcrums
 
The Fulcrum concept is very powerful. In the marketing piece promoting The Fulcrum Module, Ed Downs said, “It’s like drawing a line in the sand in your charts.” We can establish a Fulcrum at a chart level from which price is likely to move, and make a profit when the market moves in either direction away from the level.

Choosing Fulcrum Levels is the key to this Method, in addition to using Trade Plans that maximize Fulcrum results. We will apply the Fulcrum Method in the live market.

306 

Profiting from Opening Gaps

Overnight buying or selling can create strong market pressures. When the pressure is released, a market can temporarily become unstable as it seeks equilibrium.

This situation causes some specific chart patterns and behaviors that are VERY obvious, and that we can profit from. In this course, we will study the different Opening Gap scenarios, and then go into the live market and trade them!

307 

Enhance Your Returns with Covered Calls

Whether a trader is looking for leverage, protection, or preservation of capital, there is an Options Method that can accommodate the goal. In this course, we will explain how to sell Covered Calls against existing positions in our portfolio, for the
purpose of increasing income and reducing risk.

Covered Calls are normally used to enhance returns on long term positions. We will also explore leveraged, short term Covered Call approaches using LEAPs. This course will focus on these specific option trading Methods as we engage the current market with them.

308 

Profiting with E-mini Contracts in Real Time

The E-mini Contracts provide a great way for investors to participate in the extended moves indexes make 2-3 times a week.

In this course, we will look at Strategies that identify specific setups, different ways to enter positions, and how to protect capital. All of the primary E-mini Contracts will be covered, and we will trade them in the live market during the course.

309 

The Forex method: trading the fx market

The Forex Method is a comprehensive look at the basics of Forex trading. We will look at how to analyze and trade Forex in OmniTrader.

The course continues with a discussion of the strategies that we have provided in order to trade the Forex market.
We provide a Trade Plan to help manage our Forex trades and we will look at how to adjust this Trade Plan based on the current market.
We conclude with a discussion on preparation and trading for the US Forex session.

310 

The Trend Trading Method: Riding the tide

The Trend Trading Method is designed to provide our students with an easy to learn, and easy to apply, approach to trend trading. This course will concentrate on
long trades only as the market trends upward the majority of the time.
We will look at three different ways to trade with the trend, allowing you to choose the approach that best fits your own trading style.