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Investing for Kids is a plain-English, educational guidebook for parents and caregivers who want a calmer way to think about long-term family goals like college costs, a first car, and early adulthood expenses. Instead of treating “investing for kids” as a single decision, this book frames it as a practical planning process that can stay understandable as life changes. Inside, readers may learn about how families often separate goals into clear buckets, map realistic time horizons, and compare common account paths without hype or forecasts. The book explains diversification in everyday ...

0DTE options, economic releases, central bank days, and earnings windows create some of the most compressed and confusing hours in modern markets. Prices can move fast, volatility can reprice in minutes, and the market’s reaction can appear to “disagree” with the headline. 0DTE Options Trading on Red Folder Days is an educational study of how expectations may become embedded in short-dated options prices before scheduled events, and how outcomes can diverge from reactions once the information hits. Rather than treating event days as single moments, this book frames them as timelines: ...

Trading Decision Traps is an educational study of how retail decision-making can shift in fast-moving markets. Rather than focusing on tactics or outcomes, this book examines the psychological patterns that often emerge when speed, noise, and urgency shape judgment. Fast markets tend to compress attention, amplify emotion, and encourage certainty before enough information is available. Under these conditions, thoughtful people can find themselves repeating familiar decision patterns that feel reasonable in the moment but difficult to explain afterward. This book refers to those patterns as ...

VWAP for Beginners provides a clear, calm introduction to Volume Weighted Average Price in intraday markets, with a focus on understanding rather than prediction. This book explains what VWAP measures, how it forms during the trading day, and why it is commonly referenced by market participants. Instead of presenting rules or strategies, this book approaches VWAP as a contextual reference. Readers are guided through how VWAP reflects participation, how time of day influences its behavior, and why the same VWAP line can describe very different sessions. The emphasis is on observation, ...

Fixed income can feel confusing: bonds, interest rates, Treasury bills, and cash alternatives can move for different reasons, and headlines often leave out the details that matter. Fixed Income in Plain English is a beginner-friendly guidebook that explains the core mechanics behind bond pricing and the everyday language used in modern markets, without hype or predictions. Topics include: The price-and-yield relationship and why bond prices can change as market yields change Maturity vs duration and how time sensitivity is commonly described in fixed income Treasury bills, notes, and bonds,...

0DTE options credit and debit spreads for beginners, explained in plain English with a contract-first, diagram-free approach. This educational guidebook explores vertical spreads, same-day expiration mechanics, and how option premiums behave as time and uncertainty change. Readers may learn about: What credit spreads and debit spreads are in simple, word-based terms Strikes, widths, and “expiration zones” without payoff charts Intrinsic vs extrinsic value and why 0DTE premiums can shift quickly Delta, gamma, theta, and vega as descriptive sensitivities, not formulas Bid, ask, and ...

0DTE options volatility, intraday indicators, and technical analysis foundations - explored in a calm, educational framework for interpreting compression, range expansion, and session behavior in modern markets. This book studies how commonly used tools such as ATR, bands and channels, moving averages, momentum indicators, volume, breadth, VWAP, and key session reference levels can be used to describe volatility states and intraday context without turning charts into promises. Readers may learn about: How “volatility” differs from direction, and why range and pace can change without ...

Same-day expiration index options (0DTE) are a widely discussed part of modern derivatives markets, especially around SPX index options. Understanding 0DTE SPX Index Options is an educational, plain-English study of how these contracts are structured, how pricing can behave as expiration approaches, and why intraday volatility can feel different when time is measured in hours rather than weeks. Readers may learn about: What “0DTE” means in practice and how the shrinking clock can change option sensitivity Core SPX index option features, including cash settlement and expiration mechanics...

0DTE options risk management can feel different when time is measured in minutes and hours instead of days. 0DTE Options Risk Management Foundations for Beginners examines intraday options through a practical, plain-English lens: what a position is exposed to, how that exposure can change quickly near expiration, and how “what could go wrong” thinking helps reduce confusion in fast markets. This book stays focused on descriptions and market mechanics rather than predictions. It separates risk into clear lenses - premium as cost, notional exposure as relationship, and scenario loss as ...

Market makers, liquidity, and short-term price behavior are often misunderstood. Many traders study charts, indicators, and news yet still find price acting in unexpected ways. This book explores why that confusion is so common by examining markets through the lens of liquidity, participation, and market structure rather than prediction. Think Like a Market Maker is an educational study of how price often behaves in modern markets, especially during moments of volatility, false breakouts, and sudden reversals. Instead of offering strategies or instructions, it focuses on interpretation - ...

Understanding the Tape: A Beginner’s Guide to Level 2 Market Data is an educational introduction to reading Level 2, market depth, and the order book—so you can better understand how liquidity and order flow behave in real time. Inside, you’ll learn: What Level 2 shows (and what it doesn’t) How bids/asks shift, stack, and thin as price moves How to combine Level 2 with Time & Sales (the tape) for clearer context The role of market makers, ECNs, and common order-book behavior Practical examples and repeatable exercises to help you build pattern recognition This book focuses on market...

Gold futures and options are widely discussed but rarely explained in a way that feels clear, grounded, and realistic for beginners. This book takes a calm, educational approach to understanding how gold is traded in modern financial markets through futures and options, without promises, shortcuts, or hype. Gold Futures and Options for Beginners is a descriptive guide to how gold derivatives work, how futures and options differ, and why prices move the way they do. Rather than focusing on predictions or outcomes, the book emphasizes structure, mechanics, and interpretation. It is written ...

ThinkorSwim Scripting for Beginners Unlock the Power of ThinkScript — and Let ChatGPT Help You Do It. By Max Koren Have you ever looked at custom indicators or strategy scripts on ThinkorSwim and thought, “I wish I could build something like that”? You can — and it’s easier than you think. ThinkorSwim Scripting for Beginners is your complete, beginner-friendly guide to learning ThinkScript—the powerful coding language that drives ThinkorSwim’s custom charts, scans, and alerts. Written in plain English and packed with real examples, this book takes you from absolute novice to ...

Options feel confusing for one reason: most traders try to trade them like stocks. They focus on direction—then get blindsided by time decay and implied volatility. That’s when you hear, “Theta crushed you,” or “IV collapsed,” and it sounds like a mystery. It’s not a mystery. It’s exposure. Options Greeks Explained is a practical, beginner-friendly guide that teaches you how options actually behave—so you can stop guessing and start managing trades with a simple, repeatable framework. Inside, you’ll learn how to diagnose any option’s movement using the only three ...

Day trading tests more than your strategy—it tests your psychology. Day Trading Psychology explores the mental patterns that can disrupt execution, from bias-driven decision-making to emotional escalation during volatile sessions. Max Koren presents practical, process-focused frameworks to help readers build stronger standards, improve discipline, and reduce rule-breaking under pressure. You’ll learn how to: Spot common mental traps and bias patterns Respond to FOMO, revenge trading, and tilt more effectively Strengthen your routine for planning, execution, and review Build habits that ...

Most traders don’t fail because they’re “not smart enough.” They fail because they trade the E-mini S&P 500 (ES) with no structure—no environment filter, no risk framework, and no repeatable execution rules. This book is the antidote. If you’ve ever felt like the ES market moves too fast, stops you out “for no reason,” or punishes you the moment you click—this is your blueprint to trade with the mindset and structure professionals rely on. Inside, you’ll learn how to approach E-mini S&P 500 futures and options the right way: not by predicting the market… but by ...

Interest Rate Cycles and Asset Allocation offers a clear, grounded look at how interest rate changes shape financial markets, without hype, predictions, or instructions. When the Federal Reserve discusses rate cuts, headlines multiply and opinions harden. Bonds are said to benefit. Stocks are said to reprice. Cash is said to lose appeal. Yet the real story is more complex, and often misunderstood. This book is written to slow the conversation down and replace confident slogans with careful interpretation. Using plain English and thoughtful examples, this book explores how interest rate ...

Zero DTE Options for Beginners is a clear, calm introduction to options contracts that expire on the same trading day. Written for readers new to same-day expiration, this book focuses on understanding structure, mechanics, and risk rather than outcomes or instructions. Zero days to expiration options, often called Zero DTE or 0DTE, behave differently from longer-dated options. Time is compressed, sensitivity can change quickly, and prices often respond in ways that feel unfamiliar to new readers. This guide explains why those differences exist and how the market expresses them as ...

Order Flow for Beginners is an educational introduction to how market activity unfolds beneath price movement. Rather than focusing on outcomes or techniques, this book explores order flow as a way of describing how buyers and sellers interact in real time. It explains how transactions form, how participation changes, and how price responds when agreement shifts. Written in plain, everyday language, this book is designed for readers who are curious about what happens inside markets but want a grounded, non-promissory explanation. Concepts are introduced gradually, defined simply, and ...

Technical Trading Mastery Learn Market Structure, Indicators, and Chart Setups with Confidence By Max Koren Most traders don’t fail because they lack information. They fail because they lack structure. Technical Trading Mastery is a professional, framework-driven guide to understanding how markets actually behave—and how disciplined traders make decisions inside uncertainty. This book is not about predictions, shortcuts, or signal-based strategies. It is about building repeatable decision-making skills that apply across stocks, futures, and options. Rather than offering isolated setups ...