Intermediate

Trader Essentials

Deepen your trading knowledge through four focused modules covering fundamental strategies, technical strategies, advanced trading skills and commodities. Connect your learning with expert-led group support and market insights as you build a more structured approach.

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Inclusions

What's included

Bring your learning together through Modules 9–12, practical educational tools and a team to help you work through the concepts.

Modules 9–12

Explore fundamental trading strategies, technical trading strategies, advanced trading skills and commodities.

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Expert-led group support

Bring your questions to the Smart Online Trader team and work through trading concepts with guidance in a group learning environment.

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Trade Desk & Insights

Explore educational market commentary that helps you connect the concepts you study with the forces shaping market movements.

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Chart Pattern Lab

Study chart patterns beyond the textbook. Explore their structure, confirmation and invalidation, then investigate examples through historical testing.

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Macro Reaction Lab

Investigate how markets have reacted to economic releases, explore historical scenarios and practise thinking through events before revealing the outcome.

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Smart Online Trader Hub

Find your programme material, connect with fellow learners and take part in community conversations that support your learning journey.

Free community

The Hub community is free to join. Your Trader Essentials membership provides your programme material and the included member resources.

Curriculum

Inside the curriculum

Explore Modules 9–12, with focused learning across fundamental analysis, technical strategies, advanced trading skills and commodities.

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.

Approved sample certificate of completion awarded to Alex Morgan — Sample module certificate. This image illustrates certificate presentation and does not represent an overall programme qualification.

Progress through Modules 9–12, completing an assessment and earning a certificate for each module you successfully pass.

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's for

Give your learning a clear direction.

For learners who want to connect their knowledge, deepen their understanding and develop with the support of a trading community.

Bring your knowledge together

Move from scattered information to a structured programme that connects the foundations with more advanced concepts.

Learn with guidance

Ask questions and work through challenging topics with expert-led group support from the Smart Online Trader team.

Connect learning with the markets

Explore market commentary and interactive educational tools that give context to the concepts you study.

Your learning experience

Learn the concepts. Explore the context.

Work through the curriculum, revisit the topics that need more attention and use the included educational resources to deepen your understanding.

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Build your understanding
Follow Modules 9–12, covering fundamental strategies, technical strategies, advanced trading skills and commodities.
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Explore the concepts
Use Chart Pattern Lab, Macro Reaction Lab and Trade Desk & Insights to examine patterns, economic events and market context.
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Work through your questions
Use group support and community discussions to explore the topics you want to understand more clearly.

Support along the way

Keep learning with support.

You don’t have to work through every question alone. Connect with the team and community as you progress through your programme.

Expert-led group support from the Smart Online Trader team.
Educational market commentary through Trade Desk & Insights.
Community conversations inside the Smart Online Trader Hub.
Member assistance at enrol@smartonlinetrader.com.

Membership details

Support is delivered in a group setting. Strategy Suite is a separate subscription. Live trading through a broker is optional and requires a separate account.

Before you pay

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