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Platform Guide
A tour of every workspace, from the chart and Key Levels to Flow, Market Intel, Replay and the Trade Journal, with the plans that include each one, then a guided trade study that ties them together.
- 13 lessons
- 49 minutes
- 2 modules
- Free
What you’ll learn
- Find each tool and know which plans include it
- Check a panel’s time, scope and coverage before reading its numbers
- Build a session briefing from the calendar, the chart and the levels
- Review a decision with Replay and the Trade Journal, not just its outcome
Module 1 Tour the Workspace
Where each tool lives, what it shows, which plans include it, and what to check before trusting a number.
- Lesson 1: Set Up Your Workspace and Read the Status BarChoose your opening page, default ticker, theme and accent color, read the connection status, and build a dashboard layout around the way you work.4 min Completed
- Lesson 2: Scan the Market: Watchlist, Screeners and Market IntelKeep a short watchlist, narrow the market with screeners, and use Market Intel’s Market Map, Smart Money and News tabs for context.4 min Completed
- Lesson 3: Read the Chart Before Adding OverlaysPick a symbol, timeframe and session, read the latest candle and its time, then add only the overlays that answer a question.3 min Completed
- Lesson 4: Compare Key Levels, the GEX Matrix and Its 3D ViewKey Levels ranks each level by strength and distance from price; the GEX Matrix shows which strikes and expirations build it.4 min Completed
- Lesson 5: Read the Flow Workspace Without Assuming IntentFlow has three tabs: Summary for premium, volume and volatility, Orderflow for buyers versus sellers, and Unusual flow for the session’s most unusual trades.5 min Completed
- Lesson 6: Research the Business and the Calendar Around ItUse Research for a company’s financials, estimates, filings and valuation, and the Calendar for the events inside your holding period.4 min Completed
- Lesson 7: Use Alerts to Focus AttentionAlerts tell you when price reaches a level or the regime changes, so you can look again. They don’t place orders.3 min Completed
- Lesson 8: Turn Replay Into a Review ExerciseReplay steps through a recorded session with its levels, so you can pause before an outcome and write down what you see.3 min Completed
- Lesson 9: Review Your Portfolio and JournalPortfolio shows your holdings, exposure and risk; the Trade Journal records your thesis, results and lessons so you can review the process.4 min Completed
Module 2 Work Through a Trade Study
A classroom exercise from observation to review. The prices are hypothetical, and StratosHedge provides research, not order execution.
- Lesson 10: Start With a Question, Not a ContractSeparate what you observe from how you interpret it and from any decision to trade, and accept that “no trade” is a valid result.3 min Completed
- Lesson 11: Build a Session BriefingGather the events, the range and the levels around one ticker, then write two scenarios: one for continuation and one for rejection.4 min Completed
- Lesson 12: Read the Whole Option ContractBefore comparing prices, read every term of the contract at your broker, and choose an expiration that gives your scenario time to play out.4 min Completed
- Lesson 13: Grade the Process With Replay and the JournalPause Replay before the outcome, write what you see, then step forward. Record the study in the journal and grade the decisions, not just the dollars.4 min Completed
Educational content, not investment advice. Lessons describe how markets and models tend to behave. They don’t tell anyone what to buy, sell or hold. Interactive examples use illustrative sample data, and simulator results are simulated — not actual trading. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors.
Risk disclosureCharacteristics and Risks of Standardized Options (OCC) (opens in a new tab)
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