Comprehensive trading curriculum
Explore the complete 12-module curriculum, from trading basics through strategies, advanced trading skills and commodities.
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Bring your learning, preparation and progress together through our most comprehensive programme. Explore the complete 12-module curriculum, supported by personalised guidance and regular reviews that help you identify what needs attention and approach your development with greater purpose.
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Inclusions
What's included
Structured learning, market insights and personal support to bring greater focus to your trading development.
Trade Desk & Insights
Explore market commentary and educational insights that put your learning into context and help you understand the forces behind market movements.
IncludedPersonalised development support
Work through questions, challenges and areas for improvement with closer guidance from the team, bringing greater focus to your next steps.
Personal guidanceSmart Online Trader Hub
Connect with fellow traders, take part in community conversations and find your Premium Performance Tracker learning material in one familiar place.
Free communityYour programme and support arrangements are confirmed with you before enrolment. The Hub community is free to join; programme material is provided through your membership.
Your development
Go deeper. Bring your learning into focus.
Explore the complete 12-module curriculum, with personalised guidance and progress reviews to support your development.
01Module 1: Trading Basics
The foundation every trader needs before anything else. This module sets both the mechanics and the mindset, from how risk and reward actually work to how the financial markets are structured, why protecting your capital comes before chasing gains, and how to read and act on a trade the right way. It is the groundwork the rest of the curriculum is built on.
02Module 2: Building A Foundation
With the basics in place, this module turns knowledge into the beginnings of a method. It introduces the instruments you can trade, structured risk approaches for different styles, and the core chart-reading skills, candlesticks, trends, and support and resistance, that let you start interpreting price rather than just watching it. This is where “what is trading” becomes “how do I read a market.”
03Module 3: Terminology
Fluency in the language of trading. Markets have their own vocabulary, and misunderstanding a term can cost you a trade. This module makes the essential terms second nature, from pips and spreads to long and short positions and how orders are placed, so nothing in a platform or a strategy leaves you guessing.
04Module 4: Advanced Trade Tech
An introduction to technical indicators through two of the most practical tools traders rely on: the Average True Range (ATR) for reading volatility, and the Average Directional Movement Index (ADX) for gauging the strength of a trend. This module focuses on what each indicator is actually measuring and how to use it as objective input to your analysis, so you learn to read momentum and volatility with intent rather than treating indicators as automatic buy or sell signals.
05Module 5: Laws Of Economics
The bigger forces behind the charts. Prices do not move in a vacuum, and this module steps back to the macro picture: how the financial system works, how globalization connects markets, what drives financial crises, and how inflation and interest shape trading conditions. Understanding these forces helps you see why markets move, not just how.
06Module 6: Trading Psychology
The inner game, where most traders are truly tested. This module tackles the behaviours that quietly undo good analysis, from FOMO and overtrading to the value of a consistent pre-trading routine, and includes a session on the psychology of trading with master life coach André Retief. Discipline and self-awareness are treated as core skills, not afterthoughts.
07Module 7: CFDs And Stocks
An introduction to CFDs and the equity markets. This module covers how CFDs work, what earnings season means for price, and the major indices that traders follow worldwide, including the Dow Jones, S&P 500, Nasdaq and DAX. It gives you a grounded view of the instruments beyond forex.
08Module 8: Cryptocurrencies
An orientation to crypto as an asset class. This module looks at why traders consider holding cryptocurrencies and at the forces shaping the current crypto landscape, giving you a balanced, informed starting point in one of the market’s fastest-moving areas.
09Module 9: Fundamental Trading Strategies
Where the economic data that moves markets becomes something you can actually trade. This module works through the major releases, interest rates, inflation via CPI and PPI, and US employment through the NFP report, and shows how to read each one and position around it rather than be caught out by it. It closes with a practical look at the TradingView tools for crypto, forex and stock analysis, so you can put the fundamentals into a live analytical workflow.
10Module 10: Technical Trading Strategies
A structured library of named, rule-based technical strategies, graded from beginner to expert. From foundational setups like Trend Signal, Tunnel and Fractal, through advanced approaches such as Wave Tracker and ZigZag, up to expert plays like T-Chaser, Fibo Trap and Zoom-In, each strategy comes with a quiz to confirm you have grasped the logic before moving on. The goal is a progression of concrete, repeatable setups you can test and make your own.
11Module 11: Advanced Trading Skills
This is where the individual skills come together into a complete, professional approach. It covers building a proper trading plan, understanding currencies and correlations, advanced candlestick and chart-pattern reading, trading with supply and demand, and mastering the art of technical analysis, alongside the timing of when to trade. By the end, technical and strategic thinking work as one process rather than as separate techniques.
12Module 12: Commodities
A full, structured commodities course that takes you from the ground up. It covers what commodities are and why they have mattered for centuries, what actually moves their prices, the analysis toolkit that applies to them, and how to execute and manage risk in a simulated commodities environment, before finishing on the professional edge and a dedicated look at gold. It is the complete grounding for treating commodities as a serious, understood market rather than an unknown.
Assessments & Certification
Complete a module. Demonstrate your understanding. Earn your certificate.
Each module ends with an assessment to check your understanding. Pass successfully to receive your certificate for that module and progress to the next stage of your programme.
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Work through the module
Complete the learning material and build your understanding of the topics covered.
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Complete the assessment
Put your understanding to the test in the assessment at the end of the module.
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Earn your module certificate
Successfully pass the assessment to receive a certificate recognising completion of that module.
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Progress to the next module
Move forward once you have passed, repeating the process through the modules included in your programme.
Successfully passing the assessment for your final module completes the last module in your programme.
Follow the complete 12-module curriculum, with an assessment and certificate recognising each module you successfully complete.
Rewards & Rebate Programme
Make your progress count.
See how your membership journey connects to the Rewards & Rebate Programme, from your first step to meeting the requirements for simulated trading credit.
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Start your journey
Choose a qualifying membership and take your first step towards structured learning, practical development and rewards.
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Make your progress count
Work through your programme, complete the required milestones and track your progress towards reward eligibility.
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Turn progress into trading credit
Meet the qualifying requirements to unlock simulated trading credit and continue putting your skills into practice.
Explore the Rewards & Rebate Programme
Rewards are subject to programme eligibility and terms. The credit itself cannot be withdrawn.
Who it is for
Who Premium Performance Tracker is for
Committed traders who want the closest Smart Online Trader support
Your next chapter
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Tell us where you are in your trading journey and what you want to develop. Together, we’ll explore how Premium Performance Tracker can support your next steps.
Support along the way
People behind your progress.
Bring your questions, work through challenges and keep your development in focus with support from the Smart Online Trader team.
Personal guidance
Closer support for the areas you want to develop, within your agreed programme arrangement.
Trade Desk & Insights
Market commentary and educational perspectives inside the Hub.
Member assistance
Help with programme and membership questions at enrol@smartonlinetrader.com.
Discuss your goals and support needs
Your learning programme, review arrangements and support are discussed with you before enrolment, so you can understand the proposed programme before deciding whether to join.
Enrolment starts with an application and a conversation. Support arrangements, including session frequency, are confirmed before you join. Strategy Suite is available through a separate subscription.
Invest in your development
Your next step starts here.
Explore a more personal approach to your trading development. Speak with our team about your goals, discover the programme and get clear answers before you decide to join.
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- Review your payment options and full commitment before enrolment.
- Ask questions and decide whether the programme is right for you.
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