Curriculum Overview

A clean beginner-to-advanced progression that builds the full six-layer stack.

Every lesson includes written instruction and a video walkthrough, plus an interactive quiz. Checklists and templates are embedded inside the lessons.

Self-paced73 lessonsQuizzes + checklists
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What This Course Builds

A beginner starts with: understanding options.
Ends with: regime-aware, volatility-aware, structure-aware, risk-controlled, process-driven trading.
Not guessing. Not predicting. Designing trades.
Curriculum path timeline

Table of Contents

Module 00 - Introduction and Course Onboarding

  • Intro 01 - What Trading Actually Is (and What It Is Not)
  • Intro 02 - Welcome, Course Outcomes, and How to Use This Program
  • Intro 03 - Risk Disclosure, Ethics, and Trading Education Red Flags
  • Intro 04 - Tool Setup and Study System - Broker, Journal, Data, and Review Rhythm

Module 01 - Survival and Integrity Foundations

  • Lesson 01 - The Prime Directive - Capital Survival Before Return
  • Lesson 02 - Conflict of Interest, Source Integrity, and Claim Verification
  • Lesson 03 - Risk Units, Position Limits, and Personal Loss Rules
  • Lesson 04 - Build Your Personal Trading Constitution and Kill-Switch Framework

Module 02 - Market Mechanics and Price Behavior

  • Lesson 05 - Price Discovery, Auction Mechanics, and Liquidity
  • Lesson 06 - Who Moves Markets - Participants, Flows, and Positioning Pressure
  • Lesson 07 - Catalysts, Narrative, and Reflexivity in Price Movement
  • Lesson 08 - Market Regimes and Transition Risk - Calm, Expansion, and Stress

Module 03 - Broker, Instruments, and Execution Infrastructure

  • Lesson 09 - Broker Selection, Account Types, Margin Rules, and Platform Safety
  • Lesson 10 - Instrument Roles - Stocks, ETFs, Futures, and Options
  • Lesson 11 - Contract Specifications - Expiration, Assignment, Exercise, and Corporate Actions
  • Lesson 12 - Order Routing, Slippage, Fees, and Execution Log Discipline

Module 04 - Technical Decision Frameworks

  • Lesson 13 - Market Structure - Trend, Range, Breakout, and Failure
  • Lesson 14 - Liquidity Zones, Support and Resistance, and Context Mapping
  • Lesson 15 - Trigger and Invalidation Design for High-Quality Entries
  • Lesson 16 - Multi-Timeframe Alignment and Technical Analysis Failure Modes

Module 05 - Options Mechanics, Greeks, and Probability

  • Lesson 17 - Options Payoff Intuition and Structure Building Blocks
  • Lesson 18 - Greeks for Live Decisions - Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho
  • Lesson 19 - Probability, Expected Value, and Payoff Asymmetry
  • Lesson 20 - Implied Volatility Fundamentals and Expected Move Construction

Module 06 - Volatility Pricing and Edge Context

  • Lesson 21 - IV Rank, IV Percentile, and Relative Volatility Expensiveness
  • Lesson 22 - Implied Versus Realized Volatility and Forecast Windows
  • Lesson 23 - Skew - Strike-Level Pricing Distortion and Structure Implications
  • Lesson 24 - Term Structure - Expiration Selection and Calendar Pricing Logic

Module 07 - Regime Alignment and Structure Selection

  • Lesson 25 - Regime Labeling Framework for Trade Selection
  • Lesson 26 - Signal-to-Structure Mapping by Regime
  • Lesson 27 - Cross-Asset and Macro Confirmation for Better Context
  • Lesson 28 - Pre-Trade Regime Checklist and Final Go Reduce No-Go Gate

Module 08 - Structure Design Toolkit

  • Lesson 29 - Long Convexity Structures for Directional and Event Opportunities
  • Lesson 30 - Premium Harvest Structures for Time Decay and Defined Risk
  • Lesson 31 - Hybrid Structures - Calendars, Diagonals, and Relative-Value Builds
  • Lesson 32 - Protection and Tail Engineering for Adverse Scenarios

Module 09 - Exposure and Position Engineering

  • Lesson 33 - Risk Curve Design and Scenario-Based Payoff Mapping
  • Lesson 34 - Delta Balance and Directional Exposure Control
  • Lesson 35 - Gamma Placement and Time-to-Event Positioning
  • Lesson 36 - Sizing, Scaling, and Correlation-Aware Exposure Stacking

Module 10 - Trade Lifecycle Management

  • Lesson 37 - Entry Rules and Readiness Scoring Protocol
  • Lesson 38 - Live Position Monitoring and Checkpoint Cadence
  • Lesson 39 - Adjustment Playbooks - Reduce, Recenter, Rebuild
  • Lesson 40 - Profit Harvesting, Exit Rules, and Post-Exit Review

Module 11 - Execution Quality and Regime Playbooks

  • Lesson 41 - Convexity Versus Theta Map for Structure Choice
  • Lesson 42 - Volatility Expansion Playbook
  • Lesson 43 - Volatility Compression Playbook
  • Lesson 44 - Integrated Skew and Term Structure Playbook

Module 12 - Risk Math, Psychology, and Consistency

  • Lesson 45 - The Real Causes of Trading Losses and Attribution Discipline
  • Lesson 46 - Risk of Ruin, Drawdown Math, and Recovery Constraints
  • Lesson 47 - Behavioral Failure Patterns and Decision Hygiene Under Stress
  • Lesson 48 - Consistency Framework - Process Adherence and Performance Review

Module 13 - Professional Operating System

  • Lesson 49 - The Six-Layer Trading Stack
  • Lesson 50 - Complete Decision Tree - Signal, Structure, Sizing, and Exit
  • Lesson 51 - Journaling, Tagging, and Post-Mortem Workflow
  • Lesson 52 - Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Operating Rhythm

Module 14 - Portfolio Construction and Allocation

  • Lesson 53 - Portfolio Construction Principles and Diversification Logic
  • Lesson 54 - Risk Budgeting and Capital Allocation Framework
  • Lesson 55 - Exposure Netting - Delta, Vega, and Theta Across the Book
  • Lesson 56 - Strategy Mix Design by Regime, Objective, and Risk Budget

Module 15 - Crisis, Liquidity, and Macro Response

  • Lesson 57 - Crisis Trading Protocols and Volatility Shock Response
  • Lesson 58 - Liquidity Event Playbook - Gaps, Slippage, and Execution Degradation
  • Lesson 59 - Macro Regime Framework and Event Risk Integration
  • Lesson 60 - Supplemental Forward-Looking Versus Backward-Looking Indicator Framework
  • Lesson 61 - Hedging Programs and Portfolio Defense Under Stress

Module 16 - Portfolio Mastery and Integrated Capstone

  • Lesson 62 - Portfolio-Level Convexity and Tail Control
  • Lesson 63 - Professional Risk Curve Shaping Across the Portfolio
  • Lesson 64 - Integrated Case Study - Calm, Transition, and Stress Regimes
  • Lesson 65 - Build and Validate Your Personal Trading Playbook

Module 17 - Course Summary, Deployment, and Continuous Improvement

  • Close 01 - Complete Course Debrief and Core Mental Models
  • Close 02 - 30-60-90 Day Deployment Plan
  • Close 03 - Paper-to-Live Transition Criteria and Safety Gates
  • Close 04 - Continuous Improvement Roadmap and Professional Development Path