Alpha Traders Academy
We specialize in Stock Index Futures Trading.
Make money if the market goes up or down... at 12+ to 1 interest-free leverage!
What could be better?
Do you have a desire to trade for a living?
Part-time... Full-time... Anytime... Anywhere...
We'll show you several simple and complex trading techniques for Bull & Bear Markets...
Scalping, Day-Trading, Swing-Trading, and Long-Term Stock Portfolio Hedging...
Is it Simple? Yes! Is it easy to succeed? Absolutely not!
Are you ready for the next big move down?
Followed by an even bigger move up?
Again, at 12+ to 1 leverage!
We can help!
This website is new, but David, our founder and instructor, has traded stock index futures since 1984.
Watch the following introductory video for a sample of what we do...
All The Tools You Need To Build A Successful Online Futures Trading Business
In this video, we will show you how a 10% move in the stock market can return 100% to a trader on the correct side of the move, up or down. Of course, it can also result in significant losses if you are wrong and don't control risk. Teaching is what we do. Top 10% traders can make 100%, or more, yearly!
Trading can be fun and rewarding... so can helping others!
Do You Have Clear Trading Rules?
Do You Follow Them?
The number-one requirement to succeed in building, AND protecting, your wealth is to follow a proven set of trading and investing rules. Richard Dennis, Peter Lynch, Paul Tutor Jones, and every other superstar trader follow a proven set of rules and require their assistants to do the same. Want to be the best you can be? Make solid rules & follow them. Following rules will help you stay calm, cool, and collected during stressful periods. Download our PDF below and then add your own rules to ours.
Disclaimer: Trading futures and other highly leveraged trading instruments involves substantial risk, and we guarantee that every trader will incur losses. Some traders make fortunes, but many more lose a considerable portion — or even ALL — of their money. Again, the only guarantee we make is that you will have losses. Do everything in your power to control losses and maximize your profits.
Education, discipline, psychology, experience, risk management, and skills development are paramount. The following PDF rules will help you lay the foundation for trading success. Additionally, our professional video courses are structured as a comprehensive, step-by-step program that guides participants from foundational knowledge to a professional trading business.
This involves breaking the curriculum into modules from beginner to advanced trading strategies. Our Courses and Live Trading sessions will help build a solid foundation to succeed in a very tough business. Even professionals will find new tools for their trading toolbox.
For some students, the $249 investment in their index futures trading knowledge will return 10, 20, 100, or more times that cost. For others, it may save them a fortune in losses! We currently have a limited-time 80% discount on the full price, saving you $200.
Get our Courses while prices are this low. You'll be happy you did...
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OUR ONLINE VIDEO/TEXT COURSE
Alpha Traders Academy
The number one mission of this website is to master trading Stock Index Futures for a living. The top 1% of traders make more money than accountants, lawyers and even brain surgeons. Conversely, 80 to 90% of all traders end up losing money, and some lose all their money! Do everything you can to develop the skills necessary to be a top trader!
If you can learn to "Train your Brain" to develop your own successful trading strategies, you will be able to flow with the market's rhythms, control losses, and make more money than accountants, lawyers and even brain surgeons.
Take control of your Index Futures Trading with these comprehensive video/text lessons. You might be able to find free YouTube videos that could help, but it will likely be disorganized and far less extensive than what we provide. What will that search cost you in time and money?
Our founder/instructor, David Burdick, has been trading stock index futures since 1984, while serving as a VP at a major brokerage firm, when futures trading was exclusively in trading pits. To see pit trading in action, watch the hilarious 1983 movie, Trading Places, with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.
David has seen it all and done it all. In 1986, he even helped raise $50 million in trading capital for the first Drexel Burnham futures trading pool. It was managed by the legendary futures trader, Richard Dennis, who had turned $1,600 into $200 million in his first 10 years trading futures. In 1986, Dennis was up 50% in less than six months, so Drexel raised another $200 million for him to trade.
David was concerned that adding these new funds would be too much for Dennis to manage effectively, so he pulled his clients' funds to see how Dennis would handle the increased pressure. David made the right decision because Dennis lost 50% over the following six months and closed the pool. It proves psychology can wreak havoc on even the best superstar traders.
This website is new, but David has traded Stock Index Futures since 1984.
Module 1: Professional Trading Desk Setup
This video/text course explains and illustrates:
- How to set up a professional trading desk with several of the best brokers and how to use their platforms.
- An optimal setup would have three or more 43" 4K displays, along with a powerful CPU/GPU computer, reliable network connectivity, and a battery backup.
- Get started with the best brokers using the best trading equipment...
Module 2: How are we Different and Unique
This video/text course explains and illustrates:
- Many of our competitors make extravagant promises, but don't deliver valuable market and trading analysis.
- Additionally, the primary charts we use are based on ticks rather than time. Consider tick candles as combining price and a "form" of volume into a chart.
- Seasoned traders use a Volume Weighted Moving Average. Tick charts are better! More on the video...
Module 3: Futures Explained
This video/text course examines:
- Futures history: what futures are, specifically stock index futures, as well as many commodities such as gold, oil, and agriculture products.
- How margin works, and how high leverage can work for and against traders.
- Scalping, day-trading, swing trading, position trading, and stock portfolio hedging.
- Turn a scalp trade into a day trade, a day trade into a swing trade, and a swing trade into a position trade.
Module 4: Trading Psychology
This video/text course examines:
- Trading psychology may be more important than market analysis, trade mechanics, or planning, because it is the most critical and challenging aspect of achieving trading success.
- This course covers understanding mass-market and your own personal psychology. Emotions will greatly hinder success. Be calm, cool, and collected...
- Mastering this critical subject is paramount to a successful career in leveraged high-risk trading!
Module 5: Market Analysis & Chart Trading
This comprehensive video/text course will demonstrate:
- Both basic and advanced charts that we use, as well as how most of our trading decisions are made. We will also compare tick, timed, and Point & Figure charts.
- Will AI render human analysis of the markets obsolete? No more than computer trading programs did in the 1980s!
- Investing in the stock market is still simply investing in a collection of individual public companies.
Module 6: Trading Strategies & Mechanics
These video/text courses explain:
- There are no master indicators or holy grails. You are the master of trading and trading mechanics.
- The foundations of trading and trading strategies rely on a consistent, pre-defined set of rules for every aspect of a trade, including when to enter, when to exit, and how to manage risk for each trade execution.
- The main goal is to remove as much emotion as possible, such as fear and greed.
Module 7: Contract Sizing and Scaling
These videos will demonstrate:
- Standard vs. Micro Contracts: Micro contracts are ideal for traders with smaller accounts or lower risk tolerance, as they help manage risk, capital, and trading efficiency.
- Additionally, scaling into and out of positions is useful when initial confidence in the trade is not as strong as usual but develops positively.
Module 8: Risk Management & Portfolio Hedging
These videos add to Module 7:
- Some experts believe risk management is more critical to successful trading than charting and technical analysis.
- Determining initial stop-loss positions and moving them (trailing) as the market moves in your favor requires the same technical analysis of market structure, plus the use of ATR, or average-true-range.
Module 9: Developing a Trading Plan
This video/text course will help you become a business:
- You can trade part-time before or after your full-time job for an hour or more as a side gig.
- Like everything worthwhile, it just takes knowledge and practice.
- Part-time... full-time... any-time... anywhere...
Module 10: Tracking Performance Metrics
This course will introduce you to performance software:
- The trading performance program we use is excellent, easy to use, provides valuable metrics, and is one of the least expensive options available.
- We will demonstrate this software in this module and show you how to get the most out of using it.
Module 11: Simulated Money & Trading Prop Firms
Learn to master each step in your trading career:
- Most traders skip practicing with simulated money. DON'T!
- Also, Prop Firm trading has its place, but it comes with extra costs that should be avoided once your skills have been mastered and your account size has grown to a substantial level.
Module 12: Start Your Business Successful Trader's Mindset
This is the last, and along with trading psychology, the most crucial course we teach.
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See Our Limited Pre-Launch Special Offer... Save 80%
Limited to the first 300 purchasers. While we are creating our online Stock Index Futures Trading Course, 300 traders can sign up and purchase our existing and planned courses for just $49 — saving $200, or 80% off an already incredible value.
You will have immediate access to our completed courses and be notified as new courses are completed. Our offering is unique and provides unparalleled value at any price. In fact, this may turn out to be the best $249 you will ever spend.
If your time is worth more than a few dollars per hour, our courses will likely save you days, weeks, or even months in becoming proficient in trading index futures. Get started today...
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In 1977, David began his financial services career with SunTrust Banks of Florida. In early 1983, he approved a commercial real estate development loan for a limited partnership group led by a VP at Dean Witter Reynolds. This large national brokerage firm was acquired by Morgan Stanley in 1997.
Not surprisingly, he left banking in 1983 to begin his securities career with Dean Witter, reaching the level of Vice President in retail financial services and securities brokerage. He focused on traditional investments such as stocks, but specialized in trading stock index options and futures.
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