E-Mini Trading Course Learning Outcomes
If you’re looking for an e-mini trading course, I have documented here what I think are the important aspects that a good course should teach you. I was a newbie when I started and have done quite a comprehensive course myself, here I think these are the things you should be learning.
Firstly, any e-mini trading course should be teaching you the technical aspects of trading. Of course, this will include a description of e-minis, how they are structured and how they work. But when it comes to the actual trading side of things the course should teach:
- Reading charts – this includes understanding the movements, the indicators, lines of resistance, and much more. If you can’t understand charts you will not be able to recognize when is a good time to enter and exit the market.
- Recognizing signals – as you learn to read charts you will be taught the signals that each trading company uses to determine when to enter and exit a trade. (That’s if your course teaches technical analysis, which I think most e-mini trading courses would).
- Using the trading platform software – this software is what you use to instruct your broker to enter and exit trades for you. It is an electronic system and it can take a bit of practice to get used to. You must master it so that you can enter the correct information and enter or exit a trade at the correct time.
- Developing a personal trading plan – a trading plan outlines your boundaries and expectations. You determine this yourself based on your available capital, the amount of time you have to trade each day, your risk tolerance, and your trading style. You will use this each time you trade, to keep yourself on track.
One aspect that I notice a few e-mini trading courses gloss over is the psychology of trading. The psychology of trading deals with how your emotions can influence your trading and how we must learn to control our emotions to stick to our well-defined trading plan. In my experience, all my technical prowess counted for nothing if I couldn’t control my emotions of fear and greed enough to push the button at the right time.
