Advanced Trading Workshop

Why should I consider becoming a professional trader?

As a professional trader, you can be your own boss. Professional trading is a relatively low overhead, location-independent business in which you can for the rest of your life. If you are well trained and appropriately experienced, you can build significant wealth. Bottom line: professional trading can be a path to freedom.

Should I believe the get-rich-quick by trading stories?

NO! Don’t believe the lies about trading your way to quick, easy wealth. Like every other potentially lucrative profession, trading requires significant training and practice to become consistently profitable. Remember, 95% of all those who attempt to trade professionally fail. If trading success were quick and easy, that would not true.

Key Questions

In preparing to become a professional trader, the following questions need to be asked and answered. We have only begun to sketch answers to these questions because there is so much information required to address them adequately and each trader is different. The ATW’s courses address all of these questions in detail.

What instruments should I trade: Stock Index, Currency or Commodity Futures; Individual Stocks; ETFs; Options; Foreign Exchange (Forex)?
And. what timeframe should I trade: Day Trading including Scalping and Intraday Swing; Swing Trading; Position Trading?

Most professionals are futures day traders because that decision best optimizes potential return, risk management, diversification, leverage, liquidity and tax treatment for most traders. However, each trader has a unique combination of traits and experiences that should be taken into account in make these decisions.

To trade, what services and equipment will I need?

You will need a broker, an account, appropriate computer hardware and software.

What should my starting account size be?
How much should I risk per trade?
At the start, how many contracts or shares should I trade?

In general, we recommend that the starting account size should be $10000 per stock index or currency futures contract traded and that no more than 1% of that account be risked on any one trade. However, this is a very individual decision, and the ATW offers several approaches to fit traders’ specific circumstances.

Against whom will I competing?

You will be competing against the best and the brightest. Those who survive as retail traders and the traders who work for the institutions have become experts through extensive training and experience. To compete against them successfully, you will also need extensive training and experience.

Should I practice before trading live?
And, how will I know when I am ready to trade live?

Before trading live, you should have one or more back-tested systems each with a defined statistical edge. Each system should define entries, position sizes, stops, profit targets, exits, and trade and risk management techniques. You should have achieved consistent profitability in simulated trading for at least a month.

What should I know before trading?

Review the detailed product description for our course. That exercise should give you an idea of how much there is to learn.
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How do I attain that knowledge?

We strongly recommend getting the best available professional training right from the beginning. It will much more comprehensive, thorough and time efficient, and it will greatly reduce the probability of blowing out your new trading account.

Why do I need professional trading training?

If you were ill, would you go to a doctor who had not completed medical school? If you needed legal help, would you go to an attorney who had not completed law school? Why, then, would you consider putting your trading account in the hands of someone, YOU, who had not completed professional training?

Most trading education firms promise you success if you learn just one new thing. If that were true, many more traders would succeed. We will teach you to become a trader  not just to trade a system.

Trader Education and Trading System Customization

No two traders are alike. What works for one may not work for another. A comfortable pace of learning for one can be much too fast or slow for another. One size does not fit all in trading. To be successful, you must customize a total solution that fits your personal style and objectives. At the ATW, we have a variety of powerful trading systems, tools and training programs so that you can create the combination that works best for you.

If you want to be a successful trader and think you have the raw capability, let us help you to accelerate your progress toward your objectives. Why not take the first step right now? Explore the rest of our website, and then contact us to put together the right Total Trader Training ^SM package for you.

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