Structured trading courses, all free

Courses

• Quantitative trading

  Beginner to intermediate · 8 lessons · Free

  Quantitative trading means writing your decisions down as rules and testing them fairly before risking money. This course shows how to turn an idea into exact rules, how a backtest works and which numbers matter, why a fixed holdout period and the plateau rule protect you from overfitting, which data traps flatter results, how to move from a test to small live trading, and how to run the whole process in Clear Tape’s Backtest tab. It is honest about outcomes: most ideas end in “No edge”, and that is a useful answer.

• Growth stocks and relative strength

  Intermediate · 7 lessons · Free

  The largest gains in a bull market tend to come from a small group of leaders: companies with fast-growing earnings and revenue, steady institutional buying, a strong industry and superior relative strength. This course explains how to recognize them, how to read the RS line and quarterly results, why the market's trend decides most of the outcome, where the buy points are, how to sell and size positions, and how to run the process every week. Each lesson maps to the screens and preset trading systems in Clear Tape.

• Price Action and Wyckoff

  Intermediate · 8 lessons · Free

  Lessons 1 to 4 build the price-action toolkit: how swing highs and lows define a trend, where support and resistance form and how to grade them, how to read candles at key levels, and how to trade breakouts and the failures that follow many of them. Lessons 5 to 8 apply Richard Wyckoff's method of reading supply and demand through price and volume: its laws and market cycle, the phases of accumulation and distribution, and a complete volume-based trade plan. Each lesson combines original diagrams, rules for entry, stop, target and invalidation, and a short quiz.

• Swing trading: pullbacks and mean reversion

  Intermediate · 7 lessons · Free

  Swing trades last from a couple of days to a few weeks and come in two families: buying pullbacks within a trend, and betting that a short-term stretch snaps back. This course explains when each works, how to define entries, stops and exits for pullbacks, crosses, short-term dips and volatility squeezes, how to size and manage positions through gaps and earnings, and how to build and test a routine without overfitting it. Lessons 2 to 5 map to Clear Tape preset systems whose exact rules you can read, screen with and backtest.

• Trend following and breakouts

  Intermediate · 7 lessons · Free

  Trend following accepts many small losses in exchange for a few large gains. This course explains why the approach has worked across a century of markets, how to define a trend and a leader, how channel, 52-week-high and base breakouts are traded, how ATR stops and volatility sizing keep each loss small, how to exit without cutting winners short, and how to test and run the rules week after week. Each lesson maps to the preset trading systems in Clear Tape.

• Options income strategies

  Intermediate to advanced · 7 lessons · Free

  A structured path from what an option seller is paid for to a complete written trading plan. Each lesson adds one layer: the variance risk premium and tail risk, the Greeks that drive a short option, covered calls and cash-secured puts, the wheel, credit spreads and iron condors, volatility and earnings risk, and finally position sizing, rolling rules and when to stop. Every lesson has original payoff diagrams, worked numbers, rules for entry, exit and invalidation, and a scenario quiz, and it shows where to find each input on the Clear Tape Options page. Lessons 1 and 2 are free.