About Directional Trade
Directional
Trade was founded to bring an honest and affordable
investment education choice to the general public- a
choice education in which anyone can make money and
protect their investments. A choice that is truly
affordable and does not falsely lead you to an
introductory seminar, or class just to be baited into
paying thousands of dollars to learn “the rest of the
courses”. A choice that teaches you first, the things
you need to know to be profitable, rather than saving
them for later classes that you need to buy. A choice
that gives answers to your unanswered questions,
including when to exit and how to trade with a small
account (only a few hundred dollars). We believe in a
solid, well tested and well communicated process of
instruction that ensures you fully understand what you
are seeing for yourself. We believe your initial
learning should give you knowledge that produces
immediate results.
What do we mean by Honest and affordable?
We believe you should be taught what works from the very
beginning rather than important pieces being withheld to
sell you more later. We won’t rush you through initial
training to try to convert you to trade Options. We
teach the charts,technical analysis, and the need for
proper money management from the begining, up front in
detail like no one else. That is what you need to know
first to be successful in evaluating any Stock, Option,
401K, IRA or retirement account. Our approach is to make
sure you truly learn and gain the confidence that allows
you to manage your own investments or have the ability to
keep an eye on someone that is doing it for you.
~
Beginners - Click here
~ Advanced Traders/investors
- Click here
~ Everyone - Click here
For the Beginner …
You
will learn how to read a chart so you can select the
best offerings from your company 401K or personal IRA.
If you choose to trade stocks and options you'll learn proper money management and technical
analysis sooner rather than later. As a beginning
investor or person closer to retirement, it is more important that you
protect your existing capital than to grow it at an
aggressive
rate. This makes it important to learn how to protect
your investment as you grow it. I’ve seen too many
people get wiped out from not being taught these things
first. We are all about your success so we teach you
the right stuff in the right order. We teach you how to
trade with a small account first. We believe if we teach
you correctly how to trade with a small account, then
you can increase the quantity of what you are buying and
selling as your account size increases. We teach you the
“high probability for success trades” right from the
beginning-it’s not something sold separately. We help
you learn how to invest regardless of the size of your
account- even showing you how to find money to trade
with, without turning you to creating debt to do it.
The
method we teach allows you to not only invest in the
markets, but what you learn from day one with us can
also allow you to check on your 401K, IRA, retirement
accounts, and know with confidence how they are
doing-even if someone else manages your accounts for you.
Directional Trade Technical Analysis gives you the
power
to protect your savings from market down turns,
dishonest money managers and Ponzi schemes alike. It also
gives you the skills to generate an immediate income to
be used for anything you wish from student loan
repayment to reinvested savings that will grow over
time. No one should be excluded from investing skills so
we make it affordable and understandable for everyone.
It is the wise approach to investing.
For the Advanced Trader \ Investor…
In
addition to everything noted for the beginning investor,
you’ll see one of a kind and never before taught
information, nuances and insights of technical analysis.
Because of our diligent study of the charts coupled with
a working knowledge and experience of the markets you’ll
be the first to get new cutting edge observations, like
“The Character Study of a Stock”. You’ll learn the
Directional Trade methods of getting better fill prices
when entering trades-How to forecast the future Option
fill price when you are anticipating a break in Stock
price and want to buy the Option at a future fair value.
You’ll also learn the Directional Trade insights to the
lost art of “tape reading” for identifying future price
levels of interest before they even happen. You’ll also
get our “How to Perfect the Art of Stops” so that you
are safely exiting trades without getting “stopped out”
due to high volatility just before a move in your
direction. These are methods developed, tested and used
by Directional Trade alone thus far and not available
anywhere else. If you think you are an advanced trader
now, just wait until you add the knowledge you can only
get here!
For Everyone…
Our
method is based on being able to invest with only a few
hundred dollars so anyone and everyone can participate.
You can always increase position sizes if you have a
larger account. I saw too many people being excluded
from the opportunities of investing because no one would
take the time to identify how to trade with a small
account- so I figured it out. We regularly test this
strategy and post it in the Trade Diary section of this
site. I saw too many other people that by the time they
paid for their investment education courses, they didn’t
have anything left to trade with. I saw too many
questions left unanswered, so I spent literally
thousands of hours studying the charts to identify the
answers. All these things made me want to provide an
alternative.
One of the other questions left unanswered was “how do
you know if a Stock is just pulling back in the current
trend, or if this is going to be a trend reversal?” I
evaluated hundreds of indicators and combinations of
them over several years to find the answer which
resulted in bringing Directional Trade Technical
Analysis into existence.
Our Teaching Makes a Real Difference:
In addition to all the advantages we offer in
Directional Trade Technical Analysis, our instructors
and format make the difference. You actually learn what
is happening and why. Understanding and a real knowledge
makes all the difference. This is especially true in
market analysis.
Consider this - Gasoline by itself has potential, and a book of matches by itself has potential. But the combination of the two of them together creates a whole new level of explosive potential. The markets are the same way. Some technical indicators and events have potential by themselves. But when you combine certain combinations of them together the effect and result is totally different and often has explosive potential.
Directional Trade Technical Analysis brings this
advantage. It goes beyond usual teachings of others
where you look at 3 or 4 indicators individually.
Directional Trade Technical Analysis reveals the exact
combination and interpretation of certain indicators
together that create explosive opportunities for
profits.
Our Explanations are kept understandable:
Our method is to give you exactly what you need to
profit and understand what you are doing first hand. We
teach that if you are investing your money, or allowing
a money manager to do it for you, that you require the
investment to have a ticker symbol so you can look at a
chart on it at any time. We will make reading a chart
something that you truly understand. Our instructional
methods are one of a kind. They are created as the
result of 30 years of training success using natural
examples that are easy to grasp. Here is an example.
Many people say “I could never read a Stock chart”. Look
at the 3 day weather forecast below.
By looking at the temperature you can clearly see it is getting warmer. It’s trending up. You see this because you know what to look for and how to measure it. You clearly see there is a three day up trend here. Looking at a Stock chart is the same approach. You just use the price as the measure instead of the temperature.
Now consider this. If these three days are the first week of winter, do you expect the warming trend to continue long term, or will it soon turn colder again? You know it will get colder because it does in winter. The same principle applies with reading the charts. You just have to know what to look for and where it is in the longer term timeframe.
Many may look at this example and say there is a lot more to it than that. The truth is, yes, there is a lot more available, but it’s not relevant and clutters what we are after, which is the price move. Successful Directional Trade Technical Analysis focuses on the few key items that are relevant when applied together. In the case of this 3 day weather forecast, we could have also looked at the pollen count, the humidity, and a list of other weather items, but they were not necessary for us to measure the temperature, which is what we were focused on. We make this same distinction when reading the charts and zero in on what we need to accurately identify the price and its potential movement.
Understanding this, you can learn Directional Trade
Technical Analysis and be confident in your financial
future.
Our Process is simple:
Our approach is designed to give you a solid foundation
and the ability to then use that
knowledge regardless of your available time. Here is an
overview:
• Sign up for our
Free Directional Trade Newsletter
to get free information about trading and an advance look at
the Directional Trade methods.
• Find out more and Learn the Directional Trade Technical Analysis method
by attending an "Introduction to Directional Trade
Technical Analysis". ( See the classes page to
schedule )
• Apply this learning to your existing savings,
investments or set up a trading account.
• Attend our "Foundation Course For Truly Successful
Investing" to learn the Directional Trade Method, and
register for our
Directional Trade Alert newsletter to
notify you of opportunities that meet the Directional
Trade criteria. This information being sent to you is great if
you have
limited time for research. Once you understand what
"Directional Trade Technical analysis" is, then you know
the research has been done when they are included in the
Alert.
• Manage your accounts and profit.
• Consider if based on your success you want to learn
more with any added value courses or options strategies.
These are not required to be profitable- It's up to you.
It’s just that simple. We teach you the process then we’ll even send you the trades that meet our criteria along with commentary on possible trades, and you decide from there how to proceed.
About Our Founder - Doug’s Bio
“I began at an early age to have an interest in
success and achievement. Growing up, I was encouraged
regularly by my Father who worked 14 to 16 hour days on
a regular basis and my mother who was always there for
us. From a young age, I use to go to work with my Father
so it was only natural that I pick up on his talents as
a manager and turn around specialist.
I found my initial career in restaurant management. I was promoted to the ranks of management by age 19 where I excelled in building sales, reducing costs, and improving operations and training in general. I became somewhat of a turn around specialist myself, going to units in need and then later overseeing multi units. While in restaurant management I watched a lot of good people work hard yet continue to struggle. I saw this in all age groups from students, to single mothers, to the retired. I always wished I could do more to help them, but I was restricted by the budgets of our business.
In 1997 I took an interest in Stock market trading. I read a book published in the 1950’s that was about charting patterns. It really caught my attention because I saw the examples in the book, like a steel company for example, have the exact same chart pattern that AOL, Yahoo, or Amazon did in 97. I started watching those Stocks and sure enough they responded the exact same way the steel companies in the 50’s did when they had the same Stock pattern. These chart patterns worked, so I started “pretend trading”. I’d pick a Stock and based on the pattern, I’d pretend to buy it at this price now. I later found out this was called paper trading, but the fact that I was on my own identifying professional strategies was a sign of things to come. After pretending to trade and watching my Stock picks make a lot of money, I felt like I was missing out and so I started trading Stocks for real. With 5,000.00 dollars, I opened an online trading account with what was then DLJ Direct and started trading Stocks in late 1997. Because of the uncertainty of the Y2K event, I closed all my trades and took the cash out in December of 1999. My 5,000.00 account was now over $31,000.00 in 3 years. (I only traded Stocks during this time, no Options.) We paid off our bills, bought my wife a new vehicle and then kept some to trade with again.
I pushed forward in 2004 and continued serious chart reading, advanced technical analysis and Options trading. I soon found a natural ability to transfer my former talents of the restaurant industry to Stock and Option trading. In the restaurants there were indicators that predicted business trends and identifying them made you more successful. I found the same to be true in the charts. I began to identify chart formations independently which I later found were also used by professional traders.-Yet I had identified them on my own-another testament of my insight to the charts which has continued since then.
I spent the next years very actively trading and studying charts literally hours every night- totaling thousands of hours. I enjoyed it. As I learned more I would start analyzing a chart and drawing on the chart where I thought the next day’s session would be to see if I was right. This was a lot of fun for me, and I found that I was right the majority of the time. I started applying the same analysis to the ticker symbols in my company 401K with great success. Word grew and I had coworkers say “show me what your charts say is going to happen with our 401K choices” - I showed them and it did.
Being very proficient with the wide range of technical indicators, I remembered all the unanswered questions I had heard others ask in learning to trade that they never received answers to, and I set out to find the answers in the charts. I did so through analysis, real trading, and lots of testing. While doing this I realized that there wasn’t an affordable investment education out there for many people. The big three investment education companies all charge tens of thousands of dollars. Then many of their instructors branched off to teach on their own but they still charged six and seven thousand dollars for a single course.
What was being offered in the market place just didn’t seem to be affordable to everyone in my opinion and the order in which they taught things was not arranged to the advantage of the student’s success but to the advantage of the one selling the classes. My prevailing nature to help people, to teach & train, and to be of service kicked in. I started doing technical analysis coaching in late 2006. Then in 2007 and 2008 I began to trade full time, and I finally responded to the many requests to define my systems, and put them in a teachable format. As I did this, I remembered those I had worked with that struggled to better themselves. I thought about the people I met that had turned to software packages and investment education companies looking for an opportunity and found that they either could not afford it, or that once mortgaging their future or going into debt to pay for it, their questions were not fully answered and they were directed to purchase the next class level. This is why I arranged my class structure in a way that the first thing you do is get the basics in a newsletter. Next, there is a single class (Foundation For Truly Successful Investing) that teaches you exactly what you need to be successful right out of the gate- and it is priced low so you can afford it- none of those thousand dollar courses. You can stop there and be a successful trader or trade with what you learned in the first class and use those profits to then learn more that will enhance your success- like Options trading. It's up to you. We identify as “core classes” the few things you really need to know to be successful. The knowledge and prices are stair-stepped together for the benefit of those learning.
For the more ambitious persons, we have other courses of “added value” available if they wish to pursue them for greater gains and knowledge. Each course is clearly identified as a "core item" or something that is “added value” meaning it may not be needed for everyone.
All this lead to the creation of Directional Trade.
Welcome….”
~Doug Montgomery, Founder and Lead Instructor