141 W. Jackson Blvd
Suite 2210
Chicago, IL 60604
(877) 493-6877
The Chicago School of Trading provides option mentoring and training courses that let you use our experience to strengthen your future.

Learn to Trade From Experienced Chicago Floor Traders
A unique trading mentoring system: Options Mentoring and Futures Mentoring!

The Chicago School of Trading LLC is dedicated to teaching our students how to be successful options and futures traders in the Chicago Tradition. For generations, veteran traders have mentored new traders on a personal basis in the trading pits of Chicago's exchanges. Now that same one-on-one mentoring from successful veteran traders is available to you!

Before your mentoring sessions begin, you will be given an extensive course in the fundamentals of the options and/or futures market in video and text form. Your mentoring sessions will involve trading on a real-time simulated trading platform while your personal mentor evaluates your trading skills and strategy. Don't go it alone - Let us help you the way our mentors helped us when we started our trading careers.

The Chicago School of Trading offers:

Trading Options by Dan Keegan, a veteran 28 year options trader and a guest lecturer at Marquette University for Dr. David Krause’s finance class in the basics of options and for Dr.George Kutner’s derivative class in advanced options trading strategies. 

Trading Futures by Bill Gruzynski, CAIA, a veteran 35 year futures trader and a former lecturer and instructor in the Financial Markets and Trading Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business. 

Our programs include:
• An extensive online video course with accompanying text
• Simulated trading on real time virtual trading platforms
• 12 one-on-one mentoring sessions
• A Certificate of Completion 

We encourage you to read
our biographies . Our experience and expertise speaks for itself. Make us work for you. Our instructors and mentors are experienced traders who have traded on some of the largest futures and options exchanges in the world: the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. You will have access to insight previously only available to those who spent years working and trading on the floor and working in the offices of major clearing firms. 

Whether you plan to become a full-time or part-time trader, it is essential that you have a thorough understanding of what futures and/or options are, how they are traded, and the forces at work in the markets that will affect your trading strategy. The professional has the advantage over the amateur, and the educated has the advantage over the uninformed. The Chicago School of Trading, owned and operated by The Chicago School of Trading LLC, can help you gain the advantage.

Before you risk your assets in actual trading, The Chicago School of Trading will instruct you in the fundamentals of a competitive marketplace, provide a virtual trading platform for you to practice what you have learned, and evaluate your strategies on a one-on-one basis in a series of mentoring sessions. You will use our skills, knowledge, and experience acquired by years of professional trading, to build your future.

Futures and Options trading can be risky, but can also be extremely profitable with the proper training and mentoring. We are dedicated to helping you build your future as a trader.

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Week of March 8th, 2010

BIDU and MDVN

Last week, our chief options mentor, Dan Keegan talked about straddle opportunities in BIDU, the so-called "Chinese Google". On Tuesday March 9, Dan will explain that strategy further in a free webinar we are hosting, "Trading Straddles in a Volatile Market". Just click HERE to register. This week Dan looks at another stock that has been on the move, but in the other direction. 
On Wednesday, March 3rd some bad news came out for all of those families who have a member suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Medivation's (MDVN-Nasdaq) drug dimebon fared slightly worse than a placebo in testing. This was also terrible news for anybody who was long MDVN. Its price dropped from its closing price of 40.25 on March 2nd to an opening price of 12.88 the next morning. The current at-the-money impled volatility for April calls is 66.3 which is not a big change, while March volatility is trading around 70.00 - less than half its previous level. This anomoly occurs when there is crop report, earnings report, or as in this case, a drug-effectiveness study. These can be a great opportunities to buy time spreads, but in this case the seller of time spreads would be the winner.
    Meanwhile the VIX closed at the bottom feeding region of 17.42. Where will it close this Friday? 
If you sense that there is opportunity in what Dan says, but you don't understand the terminology or the concepts, just take our course and let Dan or one of our other mentors make it all crystal clear.

 

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Futures, options, forex, and securities trading are speculative, involve a substantial risk of loss and are not suitable for everyone.
Past performance is not indicative of future results.