Learn trading in a logical order — without getting lost in thousands of videos, courses and opinions.
RTA organizes trading education into structured Learning Paths and connects traders with carefully selected educational resources.
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Choose a Learning Path
Select the area of trading or investing you want to learn.
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Follow the Topics in Order
RTA organizes concepts into a logical progression, including prerequisite topics where appropriate.
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Learn From Selected Resources
RTA connects each topic with useful educational resources rather than leaving traders to sort through thousands of unrelated videos, articles and courses.
Start with the market approach that most closely matches what you want to understand.
Trading Foundations
Learn the essential concepts every trader should understand before risking real money, including markets, orders, charts, risk and trading terminology.
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Day Trading
Learn the concepts, tools, risk controls and market techniques used to open and close trades within the same trading session.
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Swing Trading
Learn how traders identify and manage opportunities that may develop over several days or weeks.
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Long-Term Investing
Learn the fundamentals of building and managing investments intended to grow over longer periods of time.
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Options
Learn options fundamentals, contracts, calls and puts, pricing concepts, risk and commonly used options strategies.
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Futures
Learn futures contracts, tick values, margin, leverage, contract specifications and the risks of trading futures markets.
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Risk Management
Learn position sizing, risk/reward, stop-loss concepts, drawdown management and techniques for protecting trading capital.
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RTA does not try to replace the enormous amount of trading education already available. Instead, RTA organizes what traders need to learn, identifies the order in which concepts make sense, and helps connect traders with useful educational resources.