Traders' University

Traders' University offers a series of Flash-based courses designed to provide basic trading product knowledge. Unlike traditionally static book or seminar based trading courses, our courses are interactive and allow you to see first hand how your inputs affect the outputs. We encourage you to dive in and play, as that is the best way to learn the theory behind trading products.

In addition to our Flash-based courses we offer downloadable Widget and Gadget Trading Tools that you can add to your desktop. Novice and experienced traders alike should feel free to download our free desktop applications and use them to help evaluate your everyday trading.

Options 101: Pricing

The Options Pricing 101 course is designed to familiarize traders with the variables in options pricing models. To start the interactive tutorial, click the button below.

Options 102: The Greeks

The Options Greeks 102 course is designed to familiarize traders with a set of Greek risk factors used to monitor a portfolio's profile. To start the tutorial, click the button below.

Options 103: Strategies

The Options Strategies 103 course is designed to show how options work as a tool for hedging positions and how they can be used for speculative purposes. To start the interactive tutorial, click the button below.

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Mechanics of a Short Sale

The Mechanics of a Short Sale is a tutorial that is designed to show you the inner workings of how a Short Sale works. To start the interactive tutorial, click the button below.

Introduction to Technical Analysis

The Technical Analysis Tour explains the important role of the chart analyst and how technical and fundamental analyses differ. In this introductory tour, you will learn how to identify areas of support and resistance on a chart, the role of different time frames, and how to interpret basic trend formation. To start the interactive tutorial, click the button below.

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Mechanics of a Futures Market

This tour is designed to help you better understand the workings of the futures markets, why futures contracts exist, who uses them and what makes them tick. You will also learn the difference between on-and-off-exchange transactions and the benefits of trading through a regulated exchange where professional traders provide liquidity. Investors will learn the basics of how futures are priced and learn how to locate contract descriptions, specifications along with margin values using the Interactive Brokers website. We also walk viewers through some basic trade examples to illustrate the profit and loss calculation associated with leveraged derivative instruments.

Mechanics of Interest Rate Trading

This tour is designed to help introduce investors to key factors surrounding monetary policy, the economy and how interest rates are set. Investors will learn about yield curves, what causes the curve to change shape and how expectations about the future price of money play an integral role. We explain the key trading tools for anyone interested in watching or trading the interest rate markets and illustrate how monetary futures markets work. Whether you are a hedger, speculator or just want to expand your knowledge of trading futures and options this tour covers the international monetary space.

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Forex Markets 101

The Forex Markets 101 Tour is designed to help investors recognize the nature and needs of participants in the currency market along with how various foreign currency instruments have been developed to create the largest traded market around the globe.

Forex Markets 102

The Forex Markets 102 Tour helps investors better understand the mechanics, quotations and pricing behind currency trading and what makes the exchange of currency different from other types of investing.

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