RS Trader Academy

Learn to trade relative strength, properly

Nine schools, sixty-two lessons, in order, from what a market is to how to test whether any of it works. Risk comes second, before a single setup, because a trader who learns sizing after entries has already formed the habit that costs the most.

The whole curriculum is free and open. No account, no email, no upsell in the middle of a lesson.

School I — Foundations

What a market is, who trades in it, and what a trade costs.

  1. What a market is
  2. What price is
  3. The players and what they actually do
  4. What a stock is
  5. The plumbing: brokers, custody and what actually protects you
  6. Sessions and auctions: the shape of a trading day
  7. Indices and ETFs: what the yardstick is made of
  8. What moves markets
  9. What a trade costs
  10. Order types: what happens when you press the button

School II — Risk First

The arithmetic of losing, and the contract you sign before every trade.

  1. The Fastest Way to Lose Everything
  2. R: one unit of risk
  3. Position sizing: a short division problem
  4. Expectancy: what a system earns per trade
  5. Money stops: deciding the exit while you're calm
  6. Gap risk: when the stop can't save you
  7. The risk ritual

School III — Charts & Price Behaviour

Reading structure, volume and volatility without fooling yourself.

  1. Candles, bars and timeframes
  2. Trend anatomy: the four stages
  3. Support, resistance and bases — where technical stops live
  4. Volume: reading conviction
  5. Moving averages
  6. Volatility: the stock's own units
  7. Gaps on the chart
  8. Patterns, honestly

School IV — Relative Strength

Finding what is leading, and knowing when the market says no.

  1. The RS concept
  2. The RS line
  3. Leaders and laggards
  4. Sector and group RS
  5. Market regime: when the answer is nobody
  6. Screening for strength: building the focus list
  7. The lineage
  8. The model book

School V — The Trade

Entries, stops, management, and the journal that grades them.

  1. Entry types
  2. The setup checklist
  3. Stops as craft
  4. Trade management: scale-outs and freerolls
  5. Selling: into strength, on weakness
  6. The journal: your own model book

School VI — Portfolio & Campaign Risk

Open risk across a whole book, and the limits that hold it.

  1. Portfolio heat
  2. Correlation: when five positions are one trade
  3. Progressive exposure
  4. Campaign thinking and the drawdown protocol
  5. Scenario discipline: pre-computing the worst day
  6. Sizing for the bad year

School VII — The Mind

Why this is hard, and the systems that work anyway.

  1. Why this is hard
  2. Randomness: making peace with variance
  3. Process versus outcome
  4. The emotional cycle
  5. Discipline systems
  6. Circuit breakers
  7. The honest scorecard

School VIII — Verification

How to test a claim, including ours.

  1. Sample size and variance
  2. Backtests that lie
  3. Paper trading and forward testing, done properly
  4. Simple statistics for traders
  5. How to evaluate any guru, service or course
  6. Your own playbook

School IX — Context

Cycles, rates and earnings season, kept practical.

  1. Bull and bear anatomy
  2. Rates and liquidity, in plain terms
  3. Navigating earnings season
  4. IPOs and new-issue cycles