1. We trade and we teach other people how to trade stocks, options, futures, and currencies using our unique proprietary method.
Our students have found this method to be effective in index future trading strategies and stock trading as well as how to locate high probability trades. We use this method to explain option trading and commodities trading futures – and then trade those products successfully.
Most trading schools focus on technical analysis, and while we feel that certain indicators are useful in confirming a market movement, we do not use them to identify a movement. We’d like to share that method with you so that you can have the same kind of success that our students have experienced.
And our method is not too hard to grasp. In fact, we’re so confident that you can learn it that we’re willing to make real trades in live markets with you – over and over again. Tom Busby and our DTI trained instructors are some of the very few traders in the world who regularly trade in front of a live audience. Does that tell you something about the power of what we’re teaching and our willingness to teach all markets and to share stock trading secrets?
2. We provide you with an education experience that is tailored to fit your unique situation.
The markets move fast making it a challenge for newcomers to learn. At DTI, we educate you and provide practicum experience that slows the market down to a pace that fits you. That’s what we call “Trading at the Speed of You.”
It starts with our proprietary RoadMap™ Profile and then follows our RoadMap process. The Roadmap™ Profile is more than just a confidential series of questions. It’s a scientifically developed tool for identifying the kind of educational experience that will best help you to make your desired outcome a reality.
In the markets, 99% mastery might not be good enough. It’s no wonder that the vast majority of traders and investors lose money over and over again. They start with a stock trading system and perhaps do most things right. But it’s that one mistake that can end the game painfully.
At DTI, our goal for you is that you achieve 100% mastery, nothing less. And we expect to you to play your part.
At DTI, we believe we provide the best futures, options, currency and stock market education in the world because of our method. We have refined trading to a level of precision that provides a significant edge in trading and investing because of our method. It is this edge that can be available to you every day to find trading and investment opportunities and predict trends.
Regardless of what financial instrument you trade, the outcome of our method is trading precision with managed risk and ideal entries.
At DTI, we know that everybody comes to trading with different levels of knowledge, personalities, risk tolerance and goals. Given that, it makes sense to tailor our education to fit your needs.
The first step is to build a unique RoadMap™ Profile of you. One of the main questions we’ll have is: What is the final outcome that you want to achieve?
Through a series of proprietary questions, we construct a RoadMap™ Route – a detailed plan of learning how to trade stocks, how to trade futures, and how to trade currencies or options that is laid out for you over several weeks to possibly even over a year, depending on your chosen outcome.
As you travel along this route, all the guesswork is removed. You’ll arrive at different Mile Posts during your education process which help us evaluate your progress and consider adjustments along the way. You do your part by studying, practicing, taking tests and setting up your Mile Post reviews with your Sales Consultant. We’ll be here for you.
There are many approaches to analyzing the markets. While we use and teach some technical indicators to give you a picture of our trading system, the DTI Method does not use conventional technical analysis. Rather, we use it as a stepping stone. Our own tools and analysis which were derived from over 30 years of real world stock, options, currency, and futures trading experience give us the best trading system we’ve found. We trade beyond technical analysis.
Whether you trade stocks, options, ETFs or any other market, we believe you will have a more precise edge in timing your trades if you follow the market index futures including the S&P, DAX and DOW. The index futures are dominated by professionals and institutions. Because they are traded by the “smart players”, the S&Ps tend to lead the rest of the market.
With financial exchanges around the globe, the savvy trader can trade or collect data virtually 24 hours a day. Because other markets trade in the evening and early morning hours before the U.S. stock markets open, they can exert a great deal of influence on evening and early morning trading in the U.S. The 24-hour Global Markets include the Nikkei and Hang Seng in Asia, and the Eurex, Swiss, CAC and FTSE in Europe.
We have a custom plan for people who want a better financial future while continuing to pursue their chosen career. At the same time, if your passion is to have the freedom of being a full or part-time futures, options, or stock trader and setting your own hours, we have totally different futures, options and stock trading programs just for you.
No worries. We’ve helped many people, just like you.
Some of the smartest and most accomplished people who’ve had successful careers in business or in professions such as medicine, engineering, or law -- come to the futures, options and stock trading classes and find that it’s not as easy as they thought.
Actually, the challenge is not so much that trading is hard. Rather, the futures, options and stock trading tips and stock market lessons that you learn in different professions are simply not always applicable to trading. We understand this, and we have a RoadMap™ Route, just for you.
DTI is unparalleled when it comes to supporting our students in areas such as trading, platform execution, psychology, and all matters pertaining to trading. There are several ways DTI strives to reach out to our students on a daily basis - we want to train you on a structure and a discipline that will last you for a lifetime of trading and investing.
Here is an overview of a couple of the things we have in place to help you "stay on the reservation." The DTI Pre-Market Planner is a daily email that is prepared in the night prior to your trading day. When you wake up, turn on your computer, and get prepared, we have it waiting for you in your inbox, on the website, and as a link inside your RoadMap™ Software. You will receive this planner for a lifetime upon signing up for the class.
The mentoring process continues with students for at least the first 10-12 trades, but our goal is for our students to be successful. Therefore, we make ourselves available to students for phone and e-mail consultation/mentoring. We also have continuing education for students who want to come back for additional training.
Futures trading is when one decides how to trade futures contracts, which then allows specific stocks, commodities or such assets to be traded at a pre-determined price in the future. A futures contract is a standardized contract, traded on a futures trading system called an exchange. It is a contract to buy or sell a certain underlying instrument at a certain date in the future, at a specified price. The future date is titled the delivery date or final settlement date. The price is pre-set and is titled: the futures price. The price of the underlying asset on the delivery date is called the settlement price.
A futures contract gives the holder the obligation to buy or sell, which differs from an options contract. An options contract gives the holder the right, but not the obligation. For example, the owner of an options contract may exercise the contract. Both parties of a "futures contract" must fulfill the contract on the settlement date. The seller delivers the commodity to the buyer, or, if it is a cash-settled future, the cash is transferred from the futures trader who sustained a loss to the one who made a profit. To exit the commitment prior to the settlement date, the holder of a futures position has to offset his position by either selling a long position or buying back a short position, effectively closing out the futures position and its contract obligations.
Benefits of Futures Trading:
Plenty of leverage
Most futures markets have available around-the-clock trading
Learning stock trading can be fairly simple; stocks are a share in the ownership of a company. When one buys a small part of a corporation they are then described as a stockholder or shareholder that can claim earnings on the corporations’ assets. As the shareholders or stockholders, traders reserve the right to claim ownership of part of the corporation they have shares in.
As the corporation’s earnings rise, so does the value of the stock. When one is a shareholder, he or she is entitled to the corporation’s profits and receive claim on the assets. Profits are paid out as dividends, and the more shares a stockholder owns, the larger amount of profits he or she receives.
Be careful, because on the other side of the coin, the corporation can go bankrupt. The claim on assets for stockholders becomes essential if a company goes bankrupt. In that case, the stockholder will receive only what is left after the creditors has been paid. In essence a stock’s value is determined by your ownership to a successful company’s assets and earnings. Be careful when choosing a stock.
Stock Trading Basics
Common Stock: The most common stock issued in the US. Owners are able to collect dividends if the company pays them and then the shares can be sold at a profit if the prices increase.
*Stock prices change so shares have the ability to lose value.
Preferred Stock: These stocks are equity investments which trade in a secondary market and are listed separately from a company’s common stock. Preferred stock is also traded at a different price, and stock dividends are guaranteed. Have a share in preferred stock allows for the shareholder to be more likely to recover from the investment if the company fails or goes bankrupt.
Three Stock Market Listings:
NYSE: New York Stock Exchange
NASDAQ: The NASDAQ stock market
AMEX: American Stock Exchange
Stock Risks
Stock trading can be risky due to the fact that there are no individual guarantees whether one is advanced or starting out as a beginner in stock trading. The value of stocks change as the market changes, and some companies are required to pay dividends and others are not. Taking on a risk however, can mean a great return in your investment in the future.
Options are viewed as opportunities in the market to make buy and sell decisions, these are opportunities based on if the market takes the right course. Options trading systems attempt to capitalize on a variety of strategies.
An option is a derivative trading vehicle that establishes a contract between two parties concerning the buying or selling of an asset at a reference price. The buyer of the option gains the right, but not the obligation, to engage in some specific transaction on the asset, while the seller invites the obligation to fulfill the transaction if so requested by the buyer. Hence, giving them the name; options. If a trader holds, or owns, an option, they are not required or obligated to exercise it – which means asserting the right to buy or sell.
Options Terms
Puts & Calls: In options contracts there are either puts or calls and a trader can buy or sell either type.
1. Calls: buying a call gives one the right to sell the underlying instrument (a specific price within a preset time period before the contract expires) from the option seller at the exercise price.
2. Puts: buying a put gives one the right to sell the underlying instrument to the seller at that price.
Selling calls means that one must be prepared to sell the underlying instrument at the exercise price, yet if a trader sells a put, he or she must be prepared to buy the underlying instrument at the exercise price. This is all apart of understanding options trading.
Pricing
1. Strike Price or Exercise price: this is what is paid if the trader exercises an option to buy the underlying instrument. It is also used as the price that is received if the trader exercises the option to sell.
The process of activating an option and thereby trading the underlying at the agreed-upon price is referred to as exercising it
2. Premium: The market price of the options contract and is tied to the current market price of the underlying relationship.
Most options have an expiration date. If the option is not exercised by the expiration date, it becomes void and worthless. Options are considered sophisticated trading tools, so a trader could benefit from having knowledge and a proper options trading education pertaining to options before entering options trades.
Benefits of Trading Options
Minimal cash requirement as compared to trading the underlying stock
Higher potential for returns
Provide more strategic alternatives because they offer more alternative investments and are a flexible tool
Commodities are defined as an object or resource that is produced from the earth. Most of commodities purchasing and trading is done through speculation. Commodities are considered a valuable resource, and are usually traded based on what is happening with the producer of that goods’ economy, climate, and production status. Example: if a tornado was predicted to blow through the Midwest, a commodities trader would want to contact his or her broker to purchase all the cattle before there could be a disaster in cattle health or beef production. Because commodities are not tangible objects, they are usually traded as commodities futures contracts or as options. Meaning, that like the futures trading systems and options trading systems there are agreements in place to buy or sell at an agreed upon price on a specific market.
The commodities markets are in Chicago (Chicago Board of Trade) and New York (New York Board of Trade, and the New York Mercantile Exchange).
Hot Topics in Commodities Today
Oil Prices: Oil prices are determined by: the current supply and demand of oil, what is available in oil reserves, and the speed of oil production. Another important aspect about oil to remember is that oil prices change daily, so a change in an economic standing in a nation that produces or relies heavily on oil will impact the commodities market. For the U.S. economy, oil prices impact almost every good and service, so this is an important commodity price to keep watch on.
Leverage means investing with money borrowed at a fixed rate of interest in the hope of earning a greater rate of return. For example, it is called “leverage” because much like a lever, leverage lets you use a small amount of cash to hopefully exert a larger amount of financial power.
Why use leverage?
When companies use leverage it’s called trading on equity. It’s when companies’ issue both stocks and bonds and the earnings per share increase because they expand operations with the money raised from bonds. However, some of the money raised must be used to pay back on the interest of the bonds. If you want to increase the probability of receiving a return on a stock investment, you have the option to leverage a purchase by buying on margin.
Buying on margin means borrowing up to half of the purchase price from a broker—if you can sell the stock at a higher price than what it costs, you have the ability to pay the loan, interest, commission and also have potential to keep the profit.
However, if the stock does drop in value, it is your responsibility to still pay the loan. Similarly, if the shares for less than what were paid, the losses could be larger than if you had owned the stock.
Margin account must be set up with a broker and the required minimum must be transferred to the account. After that, you have the option to borrow close to 50% of the stock’s price and buy with the combined funds.
A bit of trader’s knowledge: despite the potential rewards of buying on margin, it can be very risky. The value of the stock you buy could drop so much that you could lose the entire amount you invested.
The Foreign Exchange Market or currency market, known informally as “Forex” or “FX” is an over-the-counter trading instrument where one currency is traded for another. Forex offers unique and important opportunities: liquidity, leverage and the flexibility of capitalizing on any market condition real-time. Liquidity allows you to get in and out of the market with ease. Leverage allows you to participate in an investment using only a fraction of the cost (think: home mortgage). All investments allow you to buy the product first, but Forex makes it easy to sell first without owning and buy back lower at a later time. Forex can provide great control during strong or weak economic times. A FX course or FX trading education could help you take advantage of these benefits.
Benefits of Trading FOREX
Minimum capital requirements
Largest volume traded worldwide, Approx. 4 Trillion traded per day
Leverage and liquidity outmatches all other derivatives
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Are you just getting started in your trading and confused by the chaotic trading terms? At our futures, stock, option, and currency trading school, we give our students something every trader craves — education, REAL knowledge in a LIVE market in REAL time. Whether you’re interested in how to options trade, how to trade futures, how to start stock trading, or just getting started, we want our students to remember that while the markets change, our methods do not. Take a moment to learn some market basics with us.
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