Sessions

The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each session, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.

Each session is hands-on work applying that week's lecture — placing a simulated order, reading a chart, sizing a position, building or critiquing a trade plan — rather than a repeat of the lecture material.

Weeks 01–03

Foundations

Why limited capital and its costs bite harder than they look — how an order actually fills, why the displayed price isn't the executable one, and why holding period decides which costs and risks apply at all.

  1. W01Welcome to the MarketThe first session — orientation to markets in general, and to how this course will move through them22 February 2027
  2. W02How a Stock Trade Actually HappensPlacing and tracing a simulated stock order end to end, from order type to fill1 March 2027
  3. W03There Is More Than One Way to TradeMapping investing, swing trading and day trading against a student's own time, temperament and goals8 March 2027

Weeks 04–05

Reading Markets

Chart structure exists here to set entries, invalidations and stop levels, not to predict direction. Paired with the risk toolkit every later week assumes: position sizing, drawdown asymmetry, and risk of ruin.

  1. W04Reading PriceA chart-reading workshop — candlesticks, volume and trend, read on real historical charts without acting on them15 March 2027
  2. W05Risk Before StrategyA position-sizing workshop on paper, before any trading style is asked to use the numbers22 March 2027

Weeks 06–07

Trading and Execution

Swing trading first, as a case study in multi-day exposure — gaps, event risk, capital tied up across days — then day trading, where liquidity and slippage turn execution friction into a real share of the outcome.

  1. W06Swing TradingBuilding a simulated swing watchlist and one full trade plan against it29 March 2027
  2. W07Day TradingWalking through a structured intraday trade plan on simulated data, at day-trading speed5 April 2027

Weeks 08–11

Leverage and Derivatives

Margin and forced exits enter on an ordinary stock, then reappear built into futures, options and crypto — each instrument shortening, in its own way, the distance between an account and a liquidation.

  1. W08Short Selling, Margin and LeverageWorking a simulated margin call by hand, so leverage stops being an abstract multiplier12 April 2027
  2. W09FuturesPricing and margining a simulated futures contract by hand19 April 2027
  3. W10OptionsA payoff-diagram workshop comparing a simulated call and put against the Week 9 futures contract26 April 2027
  4. W11Cryptocurrency MarketsA market-structure lab applying the course's risk and leverage ideas to a simulated crypto position3 May 2027

Week 12

Personal Rulebook

A synthesis week: every survival mechanism from the semester — sizing, leverage limits, instrument restrictions, and the conditions that stop trading altogether — converted into rules a small account would actually hold to.

  1. W12The Small-Account Survival RulebookA drafting session for the Personal Market Rulebook, synthesising the whole semester10 May 2027