Curriculum Growth Traders Toolbox

Each bullet point is an own video or lesson! There are more than 400 videos and lessons in this video course!!

  1. Welcome
    • How to use the video course
    • Golden rules
    • Reading list stocks and trading
  2. Risk Management
    • Intro
    • Goal of risk management
    • Knowledge: What is a draw down?
    • The 4 levels of risk management
    • Knowledge: What does 1% risk mean?
    • What is portfolio risk?
    • Build up portfolio risk slowly
    • Limit your portfolio risk to 5%
    • How many positions should a portfolio have?
    • Using margin
    • Learnings about portfolio risk management
    • What is cluster risk?
    • Capital concentration vs. diversification
    • Cluster risks in your portfolio
    • Example: Portfolio cluster risks
    • Learnings about cluster risk management
    • What is information risk?
    • 3 types of information risk
    • Take a 20% / 30% gap into account
    • Limit your position size
    • Example: Reduce position size before earnings
    • Avoid news driven or story stocks
    • Learnings about information risk management
    • What is single trade risk?
    • Risking 1% of your trading capital is enough
    • Knowledge: What is stop loss distance?
    • Example: The position size depends on the stop loss distance
    • How to calculate the position size
    • Knowledge: What is R in trading?
    • Always keep the risk at the same amount
    • 3 Examples of position sizing
    • Automatic risk adjustment
    • Learnings about single trade risk management
    • Risk management quiz
    • Risk Management Plan
  3. Stock Selection
    • Stock Selection Checklist
    • Intro
    • Goal of stock selection
    • Become a specialist in a small trading niche
    • The stocks we want to find
    • Knowledge: What are institutions?
    • Look for institutional quality stocks
    • Learnings about institutional quality stocks
    • Strong technicals is a must
    • Knowledge: What is relative strength?
    • Relative strength shows you the leaders
    • Only buy stocks in an uptrend
    • Exponential moving averages
    • Look for new all-time highs
    • Stocks that doubled can double again
    • Look for multiple weeks trading bases
    • Interpret the volume behavior
    • Learnings about strong technicals
    • Outstanding sales (and EPS) growth
    • Strong sales growth is a must
    • EPS is a must for mature companies
    • Avoid negative EPS
    • Strong EPS estimates are a big plus
    • Stocks matching all fundamental criteria
    • Young companies must have a higher growth
    • Examples of young companies with a higher growth
    • Learnings about fundamental criteria
    • Using stock screeners
    • 2 different screener software
    • MarketSmith: High RS screener
    • MarketSmith: High RS screener example
    • MarketSmith: IPO 1 year screener
    • MarketSmith: IPO 1 year screener example
    • MarketSmith: IPO 3 year screener
    • MarketSmith: IPO 3 year screener example
    • MarketSmith: Weekly unusual volume screener
    • MarketSmith: Weekly unusual volume screener example
    • MarketSmith: Topic screener
    • MarketSmith: Topic screener example
    • MarketSmith: Unusual volume screener
    • MarketSmith: Unusual volume screener example
    • MarketSmith: New 52 week highs screener
    • MarketSmith: New 52 week highs screener
    • MarketSmith: >10% week performance screener
    • MarketSmith: >10% week performance screener example
    • MarketSmith: >90 RS screener
    • MarketSmith: >90 RS screener example
    • MarketSmith: >100% year performance screener
    • MarketSmith: >100% year performance screener example
    • MarketSmith: EPS >50% screener
    • MarketSmith: EPS >50% screener example
    • MarketSmith: New RS high screener
    • MarketSmith: New RS high screener example
    • MarketSmith: Big EPS estimate screener
    • MarketSmith: Big EPS estimate screener example
    • FinViz: EPS estimate >30% screener
    • FinViz: EPS estimate >30% screener example
    • FinViz: Strongest stocks screener
    • FinViz: Strongest stocks screener example
    • FinViz: >20 sales growth screener
    • FinViz: >20 sales growth screener example
    • FinViz: >100% performance over 12 months screener
    • FinViz: >100% performance over 12 months screener example
    • FinViz: >10% performance last week screener
    • FinViz: >10% performance last week screener example
    • FinViz: High volume today screener
    • FinViz: High volume today screener example
    • FinViz: New 52 week high screener
    • FinViz: New 52 week high screener example
    • FinViz: IPO last year screener
    • FinViz: IPO last year screener example
    • Only put the best candidates on your watchlist
    • Tips to go through your screener
    • Daily and weekend routine
    • Go through sectors and industries
    • Go through sectors and industries – Example
    • Comparing two stocks
    • Sister stocks
    • Learnings about stock screeners
    • Require a disruptive theme or products
    • Update vs. innovation vs. disruption
    • Company lifecycle
    • Mid cap companies turning into large cap companies
    • Mid cap companies turning into large cap companies – Example
    • Future growth potential is important
    • Disruptive companies gain market share
    • Growth acceleration through events
    • How to do research about companies
    • How to do manual research for stocks
    • Best sources for research
    • Price is more important than any fundamentals or story
    • Major events and technology changes
    • Global technology changes
    • Example: Railways in the 19th century
    • Cycle for disruptive and innovative themes
    • Example 1: Electric vehicles
    • Example 2: 5G networks
    • Example 3: Telehealth
    • Example 4: Cloud software
    • Example 5: Semiconductors
    • Example 6: E-commerce
    • New companies take over the leadership
    • Learnings about disruptive themes and products
    • Product or service focused companies
    • Focused vs. wide range of products companies
    • How growth companies scale sales and profits
    • Scaling sales and profits – focused vs. wide range of products companies
    • Market dominance is an important factor
    • Entrepreneurial companies
    • Important facts about entrepreneurial companies
    • Examples – Introduction
    • Example 1: AMD
    • Example 2: NVDA
    • Example 3: TDOC
    • Example 4: AAPL from 2001
    • Example 5: TWST
    • Example 6: TTD
    • Example 7: ETSY
    • Example 8: FB (early years)
    • Example 9: CSCO (early years)
    • Example 10: COUP
    • Example 11: SHOP
    • Example 12: EBAY (early years)
    • Example 13: WMT (early years)
    • Example 14: AAXN / TASR
    • Example 15: ADBE
    • Example 16: SE
    • Example 17: VRSN
    • Example 18: FIVN
    • Learnings about product focused, entrepreneurial companies
    • Extra lesson: From macro to micro view
    • Stock selection quiz
  4. Watchlist Management
    • Tools you will learn about
    • My own experience
    • Limits help to focus and maintain consistency
    • 2 watchlists: Main and focus
    • Main watchlist
    • Weekend routine
    • Examples
    • Get a feeling for your niche by looking at the daily changes
    • From main to focus watchlist
    • List to the feedback from your watchlist
    • Learnings
    • Focused watchlist
    • Daily routine
    • Examples
    • Using alerts
    • Learnings
    • Theme watchlists
  5. Charts
    • Tools you will learn about
    • My own experience
    • Getting a first impression of a stock by looking at charts
    • Chart reading is a craft and art
    • Start every analysis with the chart
    • Weekly and daily charts
    • Indicators in the charts
    • Weekly charts tune out the noise
    • Learnings
    • What makes a good technical chart picture?
    • Staircase effect
    • Support at EMA 13 and EMA 40
    • Shakeouts
    • Tight trading bases
    • Clean and harmonic price action
    • Relative Strength to the S&P 500
    • Volatility contraction before breakout
    • Learnings
    • Accumulation and distribution in the daily chart
    • Accumulation and distribution in the weekly chart
    • Volume increase / decrease in the daily chart
    • Volume increase / decrease in the weekly chart
    • Monster volume or volume spikes in the daily chart
    • Exhaustion on monster volume or volume spikes
    • Monster volume as a sign for a start or end of a trend
    • Monster volume or volume spikes in the weekly chart
    • Learnings
    • Stocks have an own personality
    • Examples
    • Learnings
    • Chart patterns
    • Cup and handle
    • Knowledge: Tight vs. wide and loose consolidations
    • Double bottom
    • Flat base
    • Consolidation
    • Volatility Contraction Pattern (VCP)
    • IPO base (short)
    • IPO base (long)
    • Chart patterns develop in a correction
    • All chart pattern have something in common
    • Chart patterns are created by the ebb and flood of demand and supply
    • Chart patterns are created by the ebb and flood of demand and supply (example)
    • Institutions must sell into the rally
    • Learnings
    • Institutional support at moving averages
    • Pullbacks vs. corrections
    • Pullbacks can turn into chart patterns
    • Institutional support at moving averages (EMA 21 and EMA 65)
    • Institutional support at moving averages (EMA 200)
    • Institutional support at price levels
    • Learnings
    • Large gap ups
    • Breakaway gap
    • Knowledge: Overhead resistance
    • Avoid buying gaps in a base
    • Runaway gap
    • Exhaustion gap
    • Learnings
  6. Markets
    • Tools you will learn about
    • My own experience
    • Don’t trade all the time – trade in the right market!
    • Trading niche is more important than the indices
    • Indices, stocks and indicators are feedback tools
    • Stock market vs. indices
    • Most stocks follow the indices
    • Learnings
    • Helpful market indicators
    • Distance to moving average 200
    • How to add the Percentage Distance indicator to TradingView
    • New highs / new lows
    • How to add the new highs and new lows indicator to TradingView
    • How to add percent stocks above 50 and 200 day moving average to your TradingView chart
    • ADRN indicator
    • Learnings
    • Martz Market Trend System (MMTS)
    • How to add the MMTS to TradingView
    • Recognize the market environment in real-time
    • The right market environment
    • The wrong market environment
    • Exhaustion
    • Difficult market environment
    • Bear markets
    • Your trading statistics change with the market environment
    • Learnings
    • How to recognize a potential reversal in the stock market
    • Time your entries and exits
    • Monitor every rally attempt to spot a potential reversal
    • Follow through days
    • When it’s time to buy stocks again
    • Additional indicators to spot a potential reversal
    • A bear market is different from a pullback
    • Learnings
    • Extra lesson: How to add the Up volume and Down volume indicator to TradingView
    • Extra lesson: Seasonality in the stock market
  7. Buying and Selling
    • Checklist for stock entry
    • Tools you will learn about
    • Checklist for stock exit
    • My own experience with buying
    • 99% of buying right is preparation
    • Select only the best stocks
    • Technicals are more important than fundamentals
    • Buying a pullack
    • Further tips on buying a pullback
    • Learnings
    • Buying a breakout
    • Buying a cheater breakout
    • Learnings
    • Buying on a gap up
    • Intraday gap up fine tuning
    • Learnings
    • Intraday volume calculation
    • Further tips on intraday volume calculation
    • Start every position small and buy in multiple steps
    • Adding to your position
    • Identify the best trades and sell or reduce mediocre trades
    • Follow up buy
    • Pyramiding your winners
    • Trading around a core position
    • Learnings
    • My own experience with selling
    • Selling a stock properly means following rules
    • Cutting losses short and letting profits run
    • Hitting some home runs in a year
    • Stop loss keeps the losers small
    • Break out stop
    • Break-even stop
    • Time stop
    • Re-enter quickly if you get stopped out by accident
    • Getting stopped out on a gap down
    • Learnings
    • Letting your profits run with trailing stops
    • Look for the dominant moving average
    • Selling a stock with a trailing stop
    • Learnings
    • Selling a stock into strength
    • Learnings
    • The “red zone rule”
    • Learnings
  8. Additional Lessons
    • Sep 29, 2021 – Markets start to correct.
    • Sep 30, 2021 – Winning stocks in a bad market
    • Oct 04, 2021 – From market to sector
    • Oct 06, 2021 – Looking for signs of a market turnaround
    • Oct 07, 2021 – ABC correction pattern
    • Oct 08, 2021 – Doing research about $APP AppLovin
    • Oct 12, 2021 – Monitor your niche!
    • Oct, 14 2021 – Follow through day in the NASDAQ
    • Oct, 17 2021 – Using Average True Range (ATR) for stop loss and trailing stop
    • Oct, 20 2021 – Analysis of market turnaround
    • Oct, 26 2021 – How I handle stocks with a weak breakout
    • Oct 27, 2021 – Observing the market. Solar stocks are in the top list
    • Oct 27, 2021 – What do do if a stock explodes to the upside without you + Shakeout patterns
    • Oct 27, 2021 – $SNAP – Price is more important than fundamentals
    • Nov 02, 2021 – Observing your niche
    • Nov 05, 2021 – $UPST lesson of character change
    • Nov 07, 2021 – Looking at the market
    • Nov 10, 2021 – Observe the reaction to earning reports in your niche
    • Nov 11, 2021 – Stocks with increasing volatility is a sign to wait
    • Nov 20, 2021 – Shakeouts and Undercut & Reversals (U&R)
    • Nov 25, 2021 – Market and portfolio comment
    • Dec 03, 2021 – Risk Management and lessons from the correction
    • Dec 08, 2021 – Waiting for confirmation to start buying again
    • Dec 13, 2021 – Notice rotation from growth to value in the stock market
    • Dec 17, 2021 – Buying first test positions which failed
    • Dec 30, 2021 – Finding strong sectors / industries. Example: Semiconductors.
    • Jan 10, 2021 – Look at the market and short-term trades
    • Jan 17, 2021 – Sell failed breakouts early
    • Feb 15, 2022 – 50 / 80 rule
    • Trading cyclical stocks instead of growth stocks
    • May 25, 2022 – Look at the market, bear market & trading other markets
    • June 28, 2022 – Look at the market: How I assess the indices and current themes on the watchlist
    • August 16, 2022 – What I look for when I go through a FinViz screener
    • September 26, 2022 – 10 tips for part time traders
    • December 12, 2022 – Market trend and bottoms in the S&P 500
    • February 13, 2023 – Look at the market: New uptrend with leading semiconductor stocks
    • How to add the MMTS as an overlay behind your chart
    • 360° Stock Selection Checklist
    • October 10, 2023 – Deep Dive MMTS Indicator
    • May 18, 2024 – How we traded the market in 2024
    • February 6, 2025 – Chart Analysis with Julian 1
    • February 6, 2025 – Chart Analysis with Julian 2
  9. The Chart Book
    • How to use The Chartbook
    • Chartbook A – 1
    • Chartbook A – 2
    • Chartbook B
    • Chartbook C – 1
    • Chartbook C – 2
    • Chartbook C – 3
    • Chartbook D
    • Chartbook E
    • Chartbook F
    • Chartbook G – 1
    • Chartbook G – 2
    • Chartbook H
    • Chartbook I
    • Chartbook J
    • Chartbook L
    • Chartbook M to Z (coming soon)
  10. Additional Downloads
    • Important information
    • My personal 25 lessons of the stock market ebook
    • Does CANSLIM still work? From Boston IBD Meetup
    • “Know HOW to Hold ‘Em” Ajay G. Jani, CMT (Chartered Market Technician)
    • AMN Healthcare Svcs (AHS) Base Reading
    • Ambarella Inc. (AMBA) Picking, Managing and Selling The Climax Top
    • Basic Simple Sell Rules CANSLIM
    • Short Selling Principle & Techniques (Gil Morales / Chris Kacher)
    • CAN SLIM Basics Review Model Stock (WB)
    • GMCR Model Stock Review
    • Hansens Natural Model Stock Review
    • Margin Use Considerations For CANSLIM Investing
    • Maximize Gain, Minimize Loss, Keep Ego Out – Simply Doing The Best We Can
    • STUDY OF TRUE MARKET LEADERS
    • Short Selling By Debora O’Flynn
    • Sketchers Model Stock Review
    • Square Climax Top
    • Upper Channel Line Sell Signal
    • Amgen Model Book Stock 1990 to 1992
    • CAN SLIM Stock Portfolio Example Summer 2012 Rally
    • Ride in the Cockpit with the O’Neil Disciples
    • MoKa – Market Direction Model
    • VoSi Conference (Gil Morales / Chris Kacher)
    • IBD Americas Greatest Opportunities Collection
    • Buying IPOs