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Get Serious About Your Trading

We have two professional grade online training programs you can take. Each come with access to our private student-only (and prop desk traders) discord chat.

NADRO Academy

NADRO teaches a series of powerful frameworks for understanding market movement and opportunity. It’s objective enough to learn, yet flexible enough to make your own. It’s best applied to either intraday position traders (get in from a great spot and hold for much of the day if it’s working), or swing traders of a few days to a few weeks. You can take its frameworks and scalp, but we have a much more specialized scalping course for that. The real power of NADRO is learning to see what the market is attempting to do, and where there are advantageous situations in a market that give good risk-reward asymmetry.

Scalping Course

Scalping is a loose term, but the way we teach it is generally applied to hold times of 5 to 20 minutes. So pretty short term, but we’re not scalping for a tick here. The emphasis in this program is on orderflow. We teach this the right way, and go deeper in this than anyone else. We teach methods here for aggressively trading - quick decisions - scratching out - re-entering - and more. Scalping is a great skill to add to your toolkit.

For those who have completed either NADRO or Scalping training (or both) we offer hands on small group Mentoring.

We run a group quarterly and take on no more than five students in a group. There is no canned teaching, it’s purely direct mentoring based on your needs. It’s a 12-week program with weekly meetings, private discussion throughout the week, true professional oversight for every trade you take. Emphasis is on skill development, developing process, self-coaching, and developing your niche in the trading space.

Here’s what you’ll find in the NADRO training:

    • Introduction to Mental Framework

    • Most Traders Fail (Why?)

    • The Natural Human Trader

    • The Evolved Human Trader

    • How Process Fits In

    • Warning!

    • Developing the Mental Framework

    • Auction Market Theory and its applications

    • The 10 Laws of Market Dynamics you MUST Know

    • Charting & Getting Set up to Trade

    • Market Profile Basics

    • The Laws of Market Dynamics - Real Examples

    • How & Why we use Composite Profiles

    • Developing Narratives & Hypos (if-then scenarios)

    • Developing Your Ability To Profile Effectively

    • Introduction to Execution

    • Rhythm for Entries

    • The Importance of Acceptance

    • Developing Value

    • Risk and Trade Management

    • Building on Mental & Market Framework + Homework

    • Bonus: Execution Video Q&A

    • Developing the Full Narrative Using Higher Time Frame

    • How to use Multiple Long Term VWAPs

    • Handling LTVW Extremes

    • Ranking & Distilling Narratives

    • Handling Confluence and Dissonance

    • Live Trade Examples

    • Nightly Reports + Video Q&A

    • The Work and Documentation

    • Preparing for the Trading Day (Prep)

    • How to Journal

    • How to Conduct a Daily Review

    • Longer-Term Reviews

    • How to Use Statistics to Improve Your Trading

    • Skills to Develop This Week

    • The Basics of Order Flow

    • Identifying Strength and Weakness

    • The Tools We’ll Use

    • Cumulative Delta / Footprint Trading

    • Contextual Order Flow

    • Identifying Strong Buyers and Absorption

    • Delta Levels

    • How and When to Use the Footprint Chart

    • Live Examples Using Order Flow

Access to a community of traders that speaks the same language is every bit as valuable as the course itself.

NADRO comes with a community.

Trading is hard. This course will not make you an overnight success. NADRO + leaning on our community + a lot of very hard work… you’ll give yourself a fighting chance to eventually make it on to our desk.

Here’s what you’ll find in the Scalping Course:

  • This gets beginners primed for what’s to come, and advanced traders pumped and ready for this high tier training.

  • This is a DEEP dive into the world of orderflow. See markets like no one ever taught you before.

  • Scalpers can get a way with no higher timeframe context. But some level of context can be very helpful.

  • Managing Risk is critical

  • Enhance R/R and reduce adverse excursion by well timed entries.

  • Potentially the most important part of the course. This will define your style and your success.

  • Given the fast-paced nature of scalping, using some technology to aide the human can help keep your edge sharp.

  • Watch Merritt trade live, with full PL transparency on a retail brokerage account- showcasing the concepts from the course.

How hard will you train?

NADRO Academy

$2,995

  • 23+ hours of intense, professional training with no fluff or fillers. Follow each module at your own pace, and enjoy lifetime access to the materials. (You’re going to want to go through it more than once.)

  • Private Community (development site + discord server) access for one year. The community is nearly as important as the training material itself. You simply won't make it on your own- you need community, accountability, peers, ideas, help, and support. You get all that and more in our Apteros Community site + discord server. You aren't going to find any meme's here.

    Just wait until you see the people you can surround yourself with at Apteros. Get the help you need while you study, browse through other student’s journals or start your own for accountability.

  • Exclusive chartbooks

  • Bonus live trading streams

  • 10+ hours of Q&A sessions and review sessions.

NADRO Academy + Mentoring

$6,895

  • Get all the benefits from the full NADRO Academy including two years of free Private Community access, plus:

  • A 12 week, hands on, personalized Mentorship program

    • If NADRO Academy is ‘med school’ then this is your ‘residency’ - have someone look over your shoulder at your work.

    • Develop concrete process, get out of woulda-coulda-shoulda land.

    • Have every trade you make over the 12 weeks reviewed.

    • Understand your stats & use them as we develop you into a stronger trader.

    • Fill holes in understanding, help correct bad habits, improve mental frameworks, and so much more.

Scalping Course

$2,995

  • Course Accelerator Guide

  • Full Scalping Course

  • Private Discord Access

  • Lifetime recordings access

  • Perhaps you don’t have 8 hours a day to sit in front of screens and trade, perhaps you want to be able to take better advantage of volatility, perhaps you just gravitate towards shorter term trading. Welcome.

  • Add scalping to your skillset

FAQs

  • We've had hundreds of students - go try to find something bad said about NADRO or our mentorship.

  • Take a look at posts on X (twitter) from @apterostrading where for years we've posted our NADRO based premarket analysis on the S&P 500. You'll see fairly quickly... with timestamps.

  • NADRO training is recorded video you can watch and re-watch on demand.

    The mentoring program is all live.

  • We've had to remove ONE person from it since it's inception five years ago.

    People who come to Apteros just get it. This is hard stuff. We're here to learn, check the ego, and get better. Working towards making it on the desk.

We understand this is an important decision.

We also get that 99% of trader education out there is garbage. Ours is not.

If you’re not already aware of our brand and the things we stand for, and our professionalism and integrity - reach out with your questions. We’re here to help.