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Module III: Active Trading
Module IV: Options
Module III: Active Trading
Position sizing: stocks
Module III
Position sizing: stocks
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Module I · Foundations
The Foundation
How money works: budgeting, debt, saving and credit. The basics every adult should know.
- 01What safe cash earns
The line behind this module is the 3-month Treasury bill: roughly what the safest cash pays. For ten years it paid almost nothing.
- 02What borrowing costs
Over the same years, credit cards charged 13% to 22%. Interest is one force, and it works for you or against you.
- 03$300 a month, saved
Kept in a drawer, in Treasury bills, or in an S&P 500 index fund. The dotted line is what it took just to keep up with prices.
- 04$300 a month, borrowed
The same $300 charged to a card every month and never paid down, at the average card rate. This is why debt comes first.
The light behind this module: the 3-month Treasury bill yield, December 2010 to October 2026: roughly what safe cash earned.
Real rates from the Federal Reserve (FRED): the 3-month Treasury bill, the credit card rate on accounts charged interest, and consumer prices. Index fund: SPY with dividends reinvested. Before taxes and fees. Past results don’t guarantee future results.
Module II · Character
Wealth Mindset & Psychology
Discipline, patience and faith: the person behind every trade.
- 01Fear, before the open
On 5 August 2024, Japan’s market fell 12.4% overnight. S&P 500 futures fell with it and hit their low at 8:32 AM.
- 02Two impulses
Fear says sell the low. Greed says chase the spike. That morning, each one was the worst price of the next hour.
- 03Size for the day you’re in
Each minute moved twice as far as on a normal day. The same dollar risk means a stop twice as wide and half the size.
- 04How the day ended
Price swung 159 points between the low and the high. A plan made before the open doesn’t have to guess which way.
The light behind this module: S&P 500 futures, minute by minute, on 5 August 2024, the day of the global sell-off.
Real S&P 500 futures (ES) prices, every minute from 4 AM to 4 PM ET. A normal day: every regular-hours minute in the first half of 2025.
Module III · Craft
Active Trading
Reading charts and price movement, and managing risk on every position.
- 01Stop first
Before you enter, decide where you’re wrong. Here, 2 points under the swing low, on real S&P 500 futures in October 2024.
- 02Size from the stop
Risk 1% of the account. The distance to the stop decides how many contracts that buys, and you round down.
- 03Target 2R
The target sits twice the risk away. This one took a month to get there.
- 04Losing is part of it
The next trade hit its stop within a week. At 1% risk that’s a small, planned loss, and losing streaks are normal.
The light behind this module: S&P 500 futures, every trading day from June 2010 to October 2026.
Real S&P 500 futures (ES) daily prices. Sized in Micro E-mini contracts ($5 a point) on an example $50,000 account, before fees. Losing-streak odds: exact maths at a 55% win rate.
Module IV · Craft
Options
What options are, how they’re priced, and how to use them with defined risk. Here are four real trades, drawn on the chart: where each one makes money, where it loses, and what actually happened.
- 01Long call
Buy a call: the right to buy SPY at the strike. You make money if SPY finishes above breakeven. The most you can lose is what you paid.
- 02Long put
Buy a put: the right to sell SPY at the strike. You make money if SPY finishes below breakeven. The most you can lose is what you paid.
- 03Iron condor
Sell a put spread and a call spread. You keep the credit if SPY stays between the two short strikes. The outer strikes cap the loss.
- 04A long call, in a quiet month
A call needs a move bigger than its price. In a month when SPY barely moved, the whole premium was lost.
The light behind this module: SPY, every trading day since January 1993, dividends reinvested.
Real SPY prices and real option quotes (bid/ask midpoint at 3:59 PM ET on each entry day). Profit and loss at expiry for one contract (100 shares), before fees.
Module V · Craft
Institutional Price Action
Market structure, and how the biggest players move price.
- 01Structure
Lower highs and lower lows: sellers in control. Nasdaq-100 futures, hourly, over three days in February 2024.
- 02Liquidity
Stop orders collect under an obvious low. Price dipped just below it, filled them, and closed back above.
- 03The shift
One strong candle broke the last lower high. That’s a break of structure: buyers took control.
- 04The imbalance
The move left a gap that only one candle traded through. Price came back into it, held, and went on to new highs.
The light behind this module: Nasdaq-100 futures, every session from September 2022 to October 2026.
Real Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ) hourly prices. The pattern was found by a fixed rule and drawn after the fact. Patterns are clearest in hindsight and don’t always work, which is why every trade still has a stop.
Module VI · Craft
Crypto & Alternative Assets
Digital assets and alternatives, approached with the same discipline.
- 01The ride
Bitcoin went from $27,945 to a peak of $124,720, then fell 53% in under nine months.
- 02The swings
Over three years, Bitcoin moved 4% or more in a day 109 times. SPY did it 4 times.
- 03Size for it
Risk the same $500 with a stop at twice the usual daily move, and the Bitcoin position is less than half the size.
The light behind this module: Bitcoin, every day from October 2023 to October 2026.
Real Bitcoin daily closes (Coinbase) and SPY with dividends reinvested, October 2023 to October 2026. The sizing is illustrative maths, not a recommendation.
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