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Five short answers, in plain words. About two minutes. No trading background needed.
The short version
Five answers before you decide anything.
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What this is
A place to learn how one long-time futures trader makes his decisions, and to practice making your own with feedback. Three parts: a written course, a private chat room with other traders, and software that scores your plan against a fixed set of rules before you act on it.
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What this is not
It does not tell you what to buy or sell. It does not place trades for you. It does not hold your money. You keep your own account at your own broker, and every decision in it stays yours. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Is it for someone brand new?
You are welcome here, and you should expect it to feel slow at first. Most people in the room already trade, and the course material assumes you will look words up. That is what the list below is for. Read it, take the free material at your own pace, and nobody will rush you.
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What it costs
There is a free tier and a paid one. Both are open today — you do not have to wait for an invitation.
- Free — $0. Public chat channels, the weekly recap email, the free chart indicators, and the first course module.
- Member — $29 a month, cancel any time. Or $228 for a full year, which works out to $19 a month. The yearly rate is held for the first 100 members.
- Larger tiers exist for experienced traders. You do not need one to start. The pricing page lists all of them.
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What happens after you pay
You connect your Discord account, you pay through Stripe, and your Discord account is given member access along with a message telling you where to begin. If you change your mind, ask for a refund within 7 days of payment and you get your money back, no questions asked.
The words
Every term you will hit in the first hour.
These are the words that show up in the free course and in the chat room. Nothing else on this site depends on knowing them ahead of time.
- Futures
- An agreement to buy or sell something — oil, an index, a currency — at a set price on a set date. Traders buy and sell the agreements themselves. Almost nobody ends up with a barrel of oil.
- Leverage
- Borrowed size. It lets you control a bigger position than your own cash would, which makes both the gains and the losses bigger. This is the main reason futures can lose money fast.
- R
- The amount you decided to risk on one trade before you took it. If you were willing to lose $100 and the trade made $200, that is "+2R". It lets traders compare results without talking about how much money they have.
- Drawdown
- How far an account has fallen from its highest point. A $10,000 account now at $9,000 is in a $1,000 drawdown.
- Trailing drawdown
- The same idea, except the floor you have to stay above rises as the account grows. Funded-account programs use it, and it is the rule most people break without noticing.
- Funded account
- A company lets you trade their money after you pass a test. They keep a share of anything you make and set rules you have to follow. Most people who buy the test never get paid.
- Higher timeframe
- The same price chart viewed over a longer stretch — a day or a week per bar instead of five minutes. Often shortened to "HTF".
- Compression
- A stretch where price moves in a narrower range than it usually does. Written as "the range is contracting".
One next step
Start free.
No card. You get the public chat channels, the weekly recap email, the free chart indicators, and the first course module. It takes about a minute.
Already sure you want the paid membership? You can join today — $29 a month, or $228 for the year.
Before you go further
The honest part.
Trading futures can lose you money, and most people who try it do lose money. Nothing on this site is investment advice, a recommendation to buy or sell anything, or a promise of any result. What you get here is teaching, tools, and other traders to compare notes with. Every decision in your account is yours.