In preparation · priced separately from the briefs

Options and stocks, explained in plain language.

Most trading education is either a glossary nobody finishes or a room full of people shouting tickers. This is neither. It is the first hour of a hard subject, taught the way it should have been taught the first time, and then the next hour after that.

Tell me when it opens See what it covers

Training runs in its own formats, recorded, small group, or one to one, and is priced on its own rather than as part of Pro. Nothing is on sale yet and no dates are set.

Three tracks, in order

Each one assumes you did not do the one before it, and each one is finishable in an evening.

Track one Start here

How markets actually work

The plumbing nobody explains, before any strategy makes sense.

  • What an exchange, a market maker and a spread each are, and who is on the other side of your order.
  • Order types, and the ones that quietly cost beginners money.
  • Indices and sector funds, and why SPY, QQQ and IWM disagree.
  • Reading a chart as a record of what happened, not a prediction of what is next.
Track two Core

What an option really is

The contract, its price, and the four things that move it.

  • Calls and puts as an agreement between two people, before any formula appears.
  • Strike, expiry, and why the same view expressed at two dates is two different trades.
  • Implied volatility in plain terms: the price of uncertainty, and why it collapses after news.
  • The greeks introduced as sensitivities you can feel, not symbols to memorise.
Track three Then this

Structure, size and risk

The part that decides whether anyone survives the learning curve.

  • Defined risk versus undefined risk, and how to tell which one you are holding.
  • Spreads as a way of paying for less, and what you give up in exchange.
  • Position sizing as arithmetic rather than instinct, including the maths of getting back to even.
  • Writing down the exit before the entry, and why the brief format works the same way.

The briefs are the practice

Training and the daily briefs are the same thing at two speeds. The course teaches you how to read a level and a question. The brief then hands you a new one every trading day, on the same eight instruments, and comes back to the last one.

That is deliberate. Concepts learned once and never used are forgotten in a fortnight.

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Format

  • Short lessons, finishable in one sitting.
  • Plain language before jargon, every time.
  • Worked through real instruments, not invented ones.
  • No trade calls, no signals, no room to shout in.

Who it is for

  • People who have an account and have never opened the options tab.
  • People who tried once, lost money, and never understood why.
  • People who can trade but cannot explain what they are doing.

Who teaches it

MacroTradeIQ is written by an expert in investment and trading, and in the enterprise technology industry, with over a decade in each.

No trading results, returns, or account performance are published on this site, and none are implied by anything above.

Be there when it opens

The first course is being built now. A free account gets you the Morning brief every trading day and the first word when the course is ready.

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