Level 5: Strategy & Execution
Intermediate Trading Strategy

Level 5: Strategy & Execution

Learn how to develop, test, and execute trading strategies with confidence. This course covers trading plans, entry and exit techniques, risk-to-reward analysis, trade management, and performance evaluation to help you trade with consistency and discipline.

What you will learn

Learn how to transform market analysis into a structured trading approach by creating a clear trading plan and executing trades with discipline. You'll discover how to define entry and exit rules, manage open positions, evaluate risk-to-reward ratios, backtest trading strategies, and review your trading performance. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills to build a repeatable trading process that supports consistent and objective decision-making.

Course modules

01

What Is a Trading Strategy?

A structured plan that guides every trading decision before the market opens.

15 min
02

Entry Rules

Learn the three parts every entry rule needs, why setup and trigger differ, and how confluence at the right location produces the strongest entries.

10 min
03

Exit Rules

Learn the three exit scenarios every trade needs, how to place stops and take profits correctly, and why written exit rules beat real-time decisions.

15 min
04

Stop Loss

Learn what a stop loss is, how to place it at structural levels, how it connects to position sizing, and why moving it against you is the costliest mistake.

15 min
05

Take Profit in Trading

Learn how to set a take profit correctly using structural levels and reward to risk ratios, why moving targets mid-trade destroys expectancy, and how scale-outs help.

12 min
06

Risk Reward Ratio

Most traders obsess over how often they win. The ratio determines whether that win rate actually matters.

14 min
07

Position Sizing

The formula that controls how much you actually lose, on every trade, regardless of the stop distance.

18 min
08

Trend Strategy

Trading in the direction of the market instead of fighting against it.

10 min
09

Range Trading

Most markets spend more time going sideways than going anywhere. Range trading is what you do in that time.

14 min
10

Breakout Strategy

Learn how breakout trading works, how to confirm a real break from a false one, when to enter on a retest, and how to calculate a measured move target before you trade

16 min
11

Reversal strategy

Learn how reversal trading works, what confirmation you need before entering against a trend, how to set the stop, and the mistakes that turn reversals into big losses

13 min
12

Back testing

You would not open a business without checking whether the idea had worked before. A trading strategy is no different.

16 min
13

Trade checklist

An inconsistently followed strategy is not a strategy. It is a collection of hunches with rules attached for the good days.

10 min
14

Journaling

Learn what a trading journal is, what to record in every entry, how to run a weekly review, and why journaling separates execution problems from strategy problems.

15 min
15

Improving Strategy

Learn how to improve a trading strategy using journal data, why most problems are execution not strategy, and the single change that fixes most losing records

15 min

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