New to TechniTrader? Start with introductory lessons in the Learning Center or explore the complete Methodology Essentials program.
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Begin with free mini courses and focused one-hour training covering stock market basics, swing trading, technical analysis, Dark Pool activity, stock indicators, risk management, and trading plans. These introductory courses let you explore individual topics before choosing a comprehensive stock market training program.
Build your foundation with complimentary video lessons designed for beginning traders and experienced traders who want to explore TechniTrader’s approach.
Introduction to Trading: Learn How to Trade Stocks
Learn stock market basics, compare trading styles, read stock charts, evaluate risk versus reward, and follow an introductory process for selecting and managing trades.
Introduction to Technical Analysis
Learn the foundations of technical analysis, including trends, timeframes, support and resistance, topping and bottoming patterns, and the market activity reflected in stock charts.
Swing Trading with the Professionals
Explore swing trading with candlestick entry signals, leading indicators, Dark Pool accumulation patterns, support and resistance, and risk-to-reward analysis.
Dark Pool Candlestick Signals
Learn how institutional buying and selling can leave recognizable footprints in candlestick patterns, including signs of Dark Pool accumulation and distribution.
Leading Hybrid Indicators
Understand the difference between leading and lagging indicators, how indicator categories work together, and how to select indicators for swing and position trading stocks.
Relative Strength Index Stock Indicator
Learn how to adapt RSI for swing and position trading, recognize leading RSI patterns, combine RSI with volume indicators, and use it in stock market scans.
How to Create a Professional Trading Plan
Discover the essential parts of a structured stock trading plan, including written rules for stock selection, entries, exits, profit targets, risk management, and simulator practice.
Trading Stocks as a Business
Explore how a disciplined, businesslike approach can help you choose an appropriate trading style, manage risk, and understand the basics of Trader Tax Status.
Go deeper into a specific stock trading skill with focused one-hour courses taught by Martha Stokes, CMT or get started on the Introductory course included with the Methodology Essentials. Each course introduces a practical part of TechniTrader’s methodology without requiring you to begin the complete training program.
How to Trade Stocks Intro Course: A Walk Around the Market
Build a practical foundation before buying your first stock. This 3.5-hour beginner course explains market terminology, investment types, how the stock market works, stock price movement, basic analysis, and the mechanics of trading. Available separately for $299 or included with every edition of Methodology Essentials.
Each focused one-hour course below is $99. Contact us to learn how you can take one free.
Introduction to Relational Technical Analysis
Learn how Relational Technical Analysis connects price, indicators, market conditions, and market-participant activity to reveal who controls price and strengthen stock trade analysis.
How to Find Dark Pool Activity
Learn to recognize Dark Pool activity using volume, candlestick patterns, Balance of Power, and the Cycle of Market Participants to identify institutional accumulation in stock charts.
Hybrid Stock Indicators
Learn how to select and customize hybrid stock indicators for your trading style and current market conditions, including Time Segmented Volume, MoneyStream, and Balance of Power.
Fast Stock Pick Analysis
See how scans, sorts, and screeners incorporating leading hybrid indicators can help you find stronger stock candidates for swing and position trading.
Precision Entry & Exit Signals
Learn how Professional Trader candlestick setups, leading indicators, and Market Condition Analysis work together to improve stock trade entries and exits before HFT-driven price moves.
Fast Track Your Trading Success
Learn to streamline chart analysis, identify stocks preparing for momentum moves, and manage trades using trend analysis, leading indicators, trailing profit stops, and exit strategies.
How to Trade Stocks into Year-End with Confidence
Learn how year-end portfolio rebalancing, sector rotation, profit-taking, and changing market conditions can affect stock selection, open positions, and planning for the new year.
Methodology Essentials is TechniTrader’s foundational stock trading program. It teaches a complete, step-by-step process for analyzing market conditions, evaluating stocks, identifying which market participants control price, managing risk, building a watchlist, and creating and practicing a personal trading plan. Choose from Standard, Premier, or Elite based on the depth of training, tools, and support you want.
Every edition begins with the same Methodology Essentials foundation and guides students step by step through market analysis, stock selection, risk evaluation, trade planning, simulator practice, and trade execution. Premier and Elite build on that core program with progressively more advanced training, charting tools, planning resources, and support.
| Edition | What You Get |
|---|---|
| Standard Edition — Core Training & Tools | The most direct starting point for beginners. Includes the complete core Methodology Essentials process, Standard scans and chart templates, long and short trading calculators, a Standard trading journal, and student support. |
| Premier Edition — Expanded Tools & Planning | Includes everything in Standard, plus the Market Structure Report, expanded scans and chart templates, the Trade Management Planner, an Advanced trading journal, and additional tools and support. |
| Elite Edition — Most Comprehensive Training | Includes everything in Premier, plus Elite scans and chart templates and advanced Relational Technical Analysis modules for identifying the activity and footprints of each market-participant group. |
Methodology Essentials graduates can continue into advanced courses focused on swing trading, position trading, options, technical analysis, candlestick charts, stock indicators, market corrections, selling short, retirement investing, and Relational Technical Analysis. These courses build on the foundational methodology with specialized rules, tools, and applications for different trading and investing goals.
Methodology Essentials is required before enrolling in most specialty courses.
The Definitive Guide to Position Trading
Develop a complete position trading process using Dark Pool activity, price patterns, indicators, fundamental analysis, risk evaluation, watchlists, and exit strategies for intermediate-term stock trends.
The Definitive Guide to Swing Trading
Advance your swing trading skills with market-condition analysis, Dark Pool tracking, entry and exit signals, support and resistance, risk analysis, stock scans, and style-specific trading tools.
Options Trading
Learn TechniTrader’s stock-first approach to options, including terminology, contract pricing, risk analysis, contract selection, long calls and puts, trade management, calculators, and simulator practice.
The Definitive Guide to Market Corrections & Selling Short
Learn how downtrends develop, recognize topping and selling signals, select sell-short candidates, use inverse ETFs, and manage trades during market corrections and bear markets.
The Definitive Guide to Candlestick Chart Analysis
Study advanced candlestick patterns for buying, selling, selling short, and buying to cover, including modern Professional Trader signals, market-condition analysis, and candlestick scanning tools.
The Definitive Guide to Stock Indicators
Explore every major category of stock and market indicator and learn how to build a balanced indicator set suited to your trading style and prevailing market conditions.
Relational Technical Analysis
Deepen your understanding of who controls price by connecting market participants and structure with price patterns, candlesticks, volume, indicators, support and resistance, and fundamental data.
Included in Methodology Essentials Elite and available as advanced add-on training for Standard and Premier students.
Relational Market Condition Analysis
Learn to evaluate evolving market conditions through the Market Participant Cycle, major indexes, trading conditions, market bias and energy, and TechniTrader’s Market Condition Analysis scans.
Investments & Retirement
Build a long-term investment and retirement plan using investment cycles, retirement accounts, income investments, fundamental and risk analysis, and TechniTrader’s Vertical Rotational Diversification™ method.
The Trading Entrepreneur
Learn the practical steps involved in establishing trading as a business, including business structures, Trader Tax Status requirements, state and federal filings, recordkeeping, brokerage accounts, and tax planning.
Continue your education with focused semester-format courses covering watchlist management, volume analysis, modern market structure, derivatives, market cycles, AI, and advanced indicator studies.
Elective courses are available to Methodology Essentials graduates.
The Professional Watchlist Method
Learn a rules-based process for building, organizing, reviewing, and refining focused stock watchlists for swing trading, position trading, investing, and changing market conditions.
Advanced Volume Analysis
Learn to interpret volume as a market-participant signature across stocks, ETFs, indexes, trends, reversals, and all six market conditions.
HFTs & Dark Pools
Learn how Dark Pool institutions and High Frequency Trading firms operate differently and how their distinct activity affects price, volume, liquidity, gaps, and stock indicator patterns.
Trading Flash Crashes and Reversals
Learn to recognize flash-crash precursors, manage rapid market declines, evaluate stocks at increased risk, and identify Dark Pool support that may precede a reversal.
AI and the New Market Paradigm
Explore how Buy-Side and Sell-Side institutions, HFT firms, and smaller funds use artificial intelligence for trading, portfolio management, risk analysis, and market competition.
Exchange-Traded Derivatives
Learn how ETFs and other exchange-traded derivatives are created, classified, selected, and analyzed for short-term trading, long-term investing, diversification, hedging, and risk management.
Cycle Theory & Analysis Techniques
Study Martha Stokes’ Cycle Evolution Theory and learn to use DPO, OBV, cycle deviations, and abnormal cycle patterns in short-term trading and long-term investing.
Balance of Power Indicator Study
Study Balance of Power patterns associated with Dark Pools, Professional Traders, HFTs, funds, and corporations, including applications for stocks, indexes, ETFs, and scans.
Time Segmented Volume Indicator Study
Learn to adapt Time Segmented Volume for different trading styles and combine it with MoneyStream, %B, ROC, volume, and BOP across changing market conditions.
RSI Indicator Study
Go beyond basic overbought and oversold signals by studying RSI settings, leading patterns, trading-style variations, and combinations with volume and other indicators.
Bollinger Bands® Indicator Study
Explore different applications and variations of Bollinger Bands® and learn how to combine them with other indicators to identify developing trade setups and leading signals.
Apply and expand your analytical skills through extended stock market lab classes. These courses explore subjects such as market participants, trading discipline, support and resistance, IPOs, market trends, sector rotation, emerging technologies, and the relationships among financial markets through detailed lessons and practical chart study.
Most lab classes require the foundational knowledge taught in Methodology Essentials. Lab Classes are also available as complimentary continuing education benefits for eligible Gold, Silver, and Bronze subscribers.
The Cycle of Market Participants
Study the Buy Side, Sell Side, Professional Traders, corporations, HFT firms, smaller funds, and retail traders—and how each group affects stock trends and market conditions.
The Psychology Behind Support and Resistance
Learn why support and resistance form, how their strength changes with market conditions and participant activity, and how to apply them to risk-versus-reward analysis.
Disciplined Trading & Investing
Develop clear trading rules and parameters while examining emotional patterns, financial self-worth, and habits that can interfere with consistent trading and investing decisions.
Sector Rotation
Study the relationships among sectors, industries, and Super Sectors and learn how market cycles, new technologies, and DPO analysis can reveal developing rotation.
IPO Lab Class
Understand the path to an IPO, the role of Buy-Side Institutions, warning signs, research methods, and the characteristics that distinguish stronger IPO opportunities from weaker ones.
New Technology Product Cycle
Follow emerging technologies through innovation, research, market introduction, acceptance, dominance, saturation, decline, and reinvention to evaluate their potential development.
New Technology Stock Cycle
Learn how each phase of the New Technology Product Cycle can affect a company’s stock and help identify more appropriate points for trading or investing.
This is the second class in the two-part New Technology Cycle series.
Interrelationships Between Financial Markets
Explore how bonds, credit, interest rates, commodities, currencies, real estate, derivatives, and emerging markets interact with one another and influence the stock market.
Understanding Inflation
Examine inflation, disinflation, and hyperinflation, including their historical causes, competing economic theories, and potential effects on financial markets, trading, and investing.
Globalization of the Financial Markets
Study world financial centers, monetary policies, population trends, global trade, GDP, and economic integration to understand how globalization affects traders and investors.
Methodology Essentials graduates can continue applying their training with current market analysis, trading and investing lessons, and searchable reference materials. These resources are included in TechniTrader’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze subscription packages in different combinations; they are not sold individually.
Daily Market Educator
Receive end-of-day market analysis and educational lessons that apply TechniTrader’s methodology to current conditions for swing, position, velocity, day, and intraday trading.
Included in Gold and Silver.
Morning Market Reports—Daily
Start each market day with premarket activity, current Market Condition Analysis, and practical guidance especially useful for swing, velocity, day, and intraday traders.
Included in Gold and Silver.
Position Trader Weekly
Receive Friday after-market analysis and educational guidance focused on position trading, changing market conditions, and managing trades with a part-time schedule.
Included in Bronze.
Morning Market Reports—Weekly
Get a detailed Friday update on market conditions and premarket activity to help position traders, part-time traders, and investors prepare for the coming week.
Included in Bronze.
Long-Term Portfolio Discussion
Follow weekly long-term market analysis, investing education, and updates on emerging technologies and the companies bringing new products to market.
Included in Gold and Bronze.
Gold Help Files: Subscriber Resource Library
Search a continually updated library of educational explanations and market examples drawn from the Daily Market Educator whenever you need help reviewing a particular topic.
Included in Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
| Resource | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Market Educator | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Daily Morning Market Reports | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Position Trader Weekly | ✓ | ||
| Weekly Morning Market Reports | ✓ | ||
| Long-Term Portfolio Discussion | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gold Help Files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Explore major economic, technological, and financial-market changes through extended virtual courses developed for active traders and investors. These topic-focused programs examine emerging industries, disruptive technologies, changing investment cycles, retirement strategies, and companies positioned within important areas of economic development.
Virtual courses are available to Methodology Essentials graduates.
Displacement Technologies: Within the Eye of the Storm
Study the early development of technologies including AI, machine learning, robotics, sensors, augmented reality, 3D printing, and advanced connectivity, with company watchlists for continued research.
Crypto Tsunami: The 4th Industrial Revolution
Explore how Distributed Ledger Technology, blockchain, and related financial technologies are changing commerce, monetary systems, and the companies participating in this transformation.
The Post-Pandemic Economy for Investors & Traders
Examine the economic changes that followed the pandemic, including inflation, monetary policy, FinTech, supply chains, sector shifts, and new considerations for trading and investing.
How to Pick Winners from the Latest New Technologies: The Global Financial Renaissance
Learn a research framework for evaluating emerging technologies and the companies developing AI, automation, Distributed Ledger Technology, advanced connectivity, extended reality, and related innovations.
New Technology Virtual Course Bundle
Get all four foundational virtual courses in one program covering displacement technologies, Distributed Ledger Technology, post-pandemic economic changes, and research into emerging technology companies. Includes Displacement Technologies, Crypto Tsunami, The Post-Pandemic Economy, and The Global Financial Renaissance. The Leaders of the Digital Economy case study is not included.
Case Study: Leaders of the Digital Economy
Follow a structured case-study process for researching industry leaders in AI, robotics, automation, electric vehicles, solar power, and Distributed Ledger Technology.
Supplement your stock market education with current sector research, an explanation of modern market structure, practical trade-planning tools, and group mentoring with Martha Stokes, CMT.
Use Martha Stokes, CMT’s technical and cyclical analysis to understand economic, sector, and industry relationships, identify developing growth industries, and research leading companies for trading and long-term investing in 2026–2027.
Included free with any annual subscription.
Learn how the modern stock market operates, including market participant groups, exchanges, Dark Pools, order flow, regulation, and the structural changes affecting self-directed traders and investors.
Available separately or included with the Premier and Elite editions of Methodology Essentials.
Turn your goals and available capital into a realistic trading plan by calculating trade frequency, share quantities, price ranges, and the profit needed per period to pursue your annual return objective.
Included with the Premier and Elite editions of Methodology Essentials.
Student Mentoring Webinars with Martha Stokes, CMT
Join quarterly group mentoring webinars featuring up to two hours of current market analysis, student-requested chart reviews, and live Q&A with Martha Stokes, CMT. Each session replay remains available for three months.
New Methodology Essentials students receive two sessions, while ongoing-education subscribers receive special subscriber pricing.
