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Welcome to GAR Capital
Carlos welcomes you to GAR Capital and lays out what this course covers and who it is for.
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Learn options the way we trade them. Live, explained, no fluff.
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Carlos welcomes you to GAR Capital and lays out what this course covers and who it is for.
A second take on the welcome: what to expect as you work through the lessons and how to get the most out of them.
The story behind GAR Capital: what the firm does, how Project Friday came to be, and the philosophy behind the trading.
Another look at GAR Capital: the mission, the community, and what makes the approach different.
How the course is structured and what you will be able to do by the end: read charts, manage risk, and understand options.
Setting expectations: the mindset, the work, and the honest reality of learning to trade options.
A look at a real trader's daily routine: preparation, market hours, review, and the habits that keep trading consistent.
The absolute basics: what a share of stock actually is, why prices move, and the vocabulary you will need going forward.
The most important lesson in the course: how to size positions, define risk before entry, and survive long enough to learn.
Options from zero: calls, puts, strike prices, expiration, and how a contract actually makes or loses money.
Candlestick anatomy: open, high, low, close, and what a single candle tells you about the battle between buyers and sellers.
Reading candles in context: patterns, momentum shifts, and what sequences of candles reveal.
The levels where price reacts: how to draw them, why they work, and how traders use them for entries and exits.
Mapping the trend: drawing trendlines, spotting channels, and trading with the direction of the move.
The trader's smoothing tool: what moving averages say about trend and momentum.
Fibonacci retracements: how traders map pullbacks and project targets within a trend.
The Relative Strength Index: spotting overbought and oversold conditions and reading momentum.
Tying it all together: how the chart tools combine into a real read on a stock.
Hard-won practical tips from years at the screen: the stuff that saves beginners money.
The big picture: how rates, inflation, and the economy move markets, and why traders keep one eye on macro.
The inner game: discipline, handling losses, and the mindset that separates consistent traders from gamblers.