A few months back, I was perusing on Questrade’s site and saw a free workshop for “Learn to Trade” with Online Trading Academy. I thought it would be helpful to pick up some tips as there was a free lunch. I have trouble passing up free lunch and education! Online Trading Academy is an affiliate of Questrade. One of the main reasons I went was that they said that the Professional Trader course is free and paid for by Questrade through a tuition rebate. More on that later.
The Online Trading Academy has been educating traders since 1997. They have multiple locations throughout the world.
So I signed up for their Power Trading workshop (a half day session). In the workshop, we got to meet with a professional trader and an instructor of their Professional Trader 3-7 day course. It was a good half day session. The trader tells us that he does his thing on the market for 30 minutes before he goes to work, and then he’s done for the rest of his day (and goes to his regular job- that’s the great thing about living on the west coast–the time difference!). I found that for myself, I’m more of a swing trader. I hold stocks and trade them in a matter of days to weeks. The Online Trading Academy was more advocating for a daily trade- they encourage not to hold overnight because you never know what might happen. They exert a lot of control with their trades. They teach you technical analysis and how to trade in any type of market (up, down, sideways).
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