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  Trader Development

Course Profile

Our Trader Development course is designed for trading across multiple market sectors. It offers a comprehensive curriculum that provides complete instruction for beginner through intermediate and advanced levels. This program focuses on three core elements - methodology, money management and psychology, and is designed to establish a sound overall foundation in essential trading skills. Through our integrated course structure, students can select a package that includes their market sector of choice (forex, commodities, stocks, options, bonds), as well as specific training modules for their charting platform and brokerage execution system.

The Trader Development course is suitable for beginners wanting to learn, as well as those with some trading experience that want to improve their skills and take their trading to the next level.

The course is offered in a convenient, blended e-learning format that provides multiple methods of computer-based internet information delivery including:

  • Self-paced instruction through flash-based multimedia presentations
  • Quizzes designed to help solidify and confirm key concepts and principles
  • Interactive web-conferences featuring live, virtual classrooms utilizing dynamic white board technology, text chat, and two-way voice communication between the instructor and other participants.
    (The duration of each live class is 90 minutes.)


The Trader Development course offers a high degree of hands-on involvement as well as scheduling flexibility for busy people. Each individual can customize their own schedule with the 90-minute live, virtual classroom modules offered at various times during the week and repeated regularly throughout each month. Students are welcome and encouraged to re-attend these classes to as many do to review and reinforce their education.

Course outline

All essential aspects of trading are covered including trading psychology, money and risk management, and technical analysis. The course consists of approximately 20 hours of self-paced instructional material and eight live 90-minute virtual classroom sessions.
The scope of subjects covered includes:

  • Fundamentals of trading
  • Basic trading analysis
  • Technical indicators
  • Advanced trading analysis
  • Order types/management
  • Money management
  • Trading psychology
  • Trading plan development

One Year Access
All Trading Post Financial Services training program clients will have access to applicable course materials through the Client Services Portal for their person review for one year from their original date of program purchase, as a free service. Access to this free service is subject to change and Trading Post Financial Services does not make any guarantee of this free service availability for this one year period.