Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
Three pieces of work, each building on the last: the Market Mechanics Notebook checks the early mechanics, the Strategy Lab turns chart reading and risk into two trade plans, and the Personal Market Rulebook asks you to commit to rules across every instrument the course covers.
- 20%of grade
Market Mechanics Notebook
A short, low-stakes notebook checking that the basic mechanics of placing and reading a stock order have landed before the course moves on to strategy
- 35%of grade
Strategy Lab
A trading-style analysis and risk plan drawing on chart reading, swing and day-trading concepts from the middle third of the course
- 45%of grade
Personal Market Rulebook
The capstone — a personal rulebook synthesising the whole semester into the rules a student would actually trade or invest by