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Courses, coaching, and resources for the systematic trader.

Daily & Weekly Market Reports

Dr. Long's proprietary market analysis delivered to your inbox. Comprehensive MACD Season classifications, key level changes, trading setups, and risk assessments across multiple timeframes and asset classes.

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Long-Term Systems & Setups

$100/month
7-day free trial
  • Daily & Weekly reports
  • Monthly strategy podcast for core positions
Gold

Day Trading

$300/month
7-day free trial
  • Everything in Silver, plus:
  • Homestudy courses: day & swing trading
  • Campfire chatroom access
  • Basecamp collaborative learning area
  • Coaching for swing & day trade case studies
  • $250 discount each: Foundations, Swing, Day Trading courses

Courses & Coaching

Core Course — Lifetime Access

Foundations

5 courses in 1 with hundreds of hours of content, updated weekly. Psychology 101, Bootcamp (deep dives into all timeframes), Psychology 202, The 37 Strategies, and Research Q&A sessions. Learn the Supported Spring Crossing, Collapsing Dragon, and Owl patterns. Live weekly office hours, 1:1 help getting started, and lifetime access to all future updates.

$2,997 — Lifetime Access
Coaching

Small Group Coaching — Active

Weekly live coaching with Dr. Long in cohorts of 4–8 traders. See details below.

$2,997/year
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Coaching

Small Group Coaching — Observer

Access all coaching session recordings at your own pace, plus My Sage Advisor. See details below.

$997/year
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Daily Trader Briefing

A summary of Dr. Long's market briefing with key changes and concept explanations. Sign up now and get instant access to the Tortoise Glossary — 140+ trading concepts defined and cross-referenced.

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Small Group Coaching — How It Works

Weekly Check-In Structure

Each trader provides a weekly check-in where they outline:

  • Primary objective — your big-picture goal (e.g., 4R per day, 20R per week)
  • What did I do this week? — actual trading activity and results
  • What will I do next week? — planned actions toward the objective
  • Aha Moments — what's working, what you learned
  • What do I need? What am I missing? — where you need help from Dr. Long and peers

If you are not familiar with the "R" terminology: an R represents one unit of risk. If a trader uses $400 as their unit of R, then a goal of 4R per day means $1,600 per day on average. This standardized language lets traders at any account size compare process and results.

Evidence-Based Trading

Dr. Long strongly recommends evidence-based trading. Keep your risk measured. Build your R-histogram of trade statistics. Share it. Use it to drive improvement in your trading action to achieve desired goals.

Coaching members track and present their R-multiple distributions, expectancy by week, return by day, and win rate metrics. With 256 trades over a three-month period, you can calculate your exact edge with mathematical precision.

Personalized Coaching

Personalized coaching means just that. Ask your specific question, have it discussed during the session. Whether you're struggling with Collapsing Dragon identification, entry refinement on SSC setups, or the psychology of holding winners — Dr. Long addresses your actual trading situation, not generic advice.

Standard Trade Framing

Learn the standard way to frame trades across all timeframes: swing, day, and core. Every trade follows the same disciplined structure — Setup, Signal, Entry — with risk defined before execution. Coaching sessions walk through real trade case studies so you see exactly how the framework applies in live market conditions.

System Automation & Development

Venture into your work in system automation and get insights into your ongoing system development efforts. Coaching covers indicator configuration, backtesting methodology, and the transition from discretionary to systematic execution.

My Sage Advisor (MSA)

My Sage Advisor is a Google NotebookLM-based chat service included with your coaching membership. MSA is constantly updated with the evolving Owl Group trading knowledge base — it relies solely on Owl Group content.

See a coaching session topic that interests you? Type your question into MSA and get the most up-to-date knowledge before diving into the video archive. For example, if the January 14, 2025 session covered "Rule of 4," type "What is the Rule of 4?" into MSA for an immediate, detailed explanation grounded in Dr. Long's methodology.

See It in Action — 3 Hours of Gold

Watch a full Small Group Coaching session where Dr. Long walks through his complete daily trading workflow — market classification, MACD Season analysis, trade framing, position sizing, and the PPEA cycle applied to live market conditions.

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Session Archive — Sample Topics

All coaching sessions are recorded and available with lifetime access. A sampling of topics covered:

Swing trading details & Risk Z Swing trade framing in CLF SPY, SMA30, VWAP, VWAP w/BB Situational trade framing Story stocks The "Keep%" indicator Holding "x" days & Rule of 4 xR and pR explained RLs and trade framing Span of control Entry refinement & EWW Market classification Fractals & mental toughness Standard work in progress Performance review PSAR and RL30 power

Active

$2,997/year
  • Weekly live sessions with Dr. Long
  • Cohorts of 4–8 traders
  • Personalized coaching on your trades
  • Structured weekly accountability
  • Lifetime access to all session recordings
  • My Sage Advisor (MSA) access
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Observer

$997/year
  • All session recordings at your own pace
  • My Sage Advisor (MSA) access
  • Self-directed learning path
  • Upgrade to Active anytime
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Who Thrives at Owl Group Trading?

Our most successful students aren't defined by their background — they're defined by their mindset. Our ideal student sees trading not as a get-rich-quick scheme, but as a lifelong craft worth mastering.

Lifelong Learners

You're naturally curious. You've likely excelled in a demanding field — engineering, medicine, military, aviation, data science, or business — and now you want to bring that same level of discipline and mastery to trading. You value process, systems, and structured thinking.

Independent Thinkers

You don't follow the crowd. You understand that trading success comes from personal responsibility, not predictions. You're skeptical of hype, allergic to gimmicks, and looking for substance — real tools, real systems, and a path you can own.

Systematic by Nature

You believe in rules, logic, and iteration. Whether it's flight checklists, surgical protocols, or code deployment pipelines — you appreciate the value of frameworks. Owl Group's rule-based systems, like SSC and RLCO, appeal to your need for clarity, repeatability, and control.

Emotionally Self-Aware

You understand that trading psychology isn't about "fixing emotions" — it's about using them as feedback. You're open to mindset work, to exploring the Zero State, and to building the emotional resilience required for long-term success.

Purpose-Driven

You're here for more than money. You want control. Autonomy. A way to test your edge against the world while designing a life that fits your values. Whether that means managing your own retirement fund, adding a revenue stream, or building a full-time trading practice — you see trading as a pathway to freedom.

The Desire to Trade: Your Most Important Edge

Before systems, before setups, before sizing — there is one thing that matters most: the deep, inner desire to trade.

The genuine desire to engage with markets — to study them, adapt to them, wrestle with uncertainty, and express your judgment through action.

Systems can be learned. Rules can be taught. Indicators can be replicated. But no one can give you the desire to show up every day and face the market with open eyes and open mind. That desire is what drives the discipline to journal even on losing days, the patience to refine entries instead of chasing, the courage to cut losses and protect capital, and the hunger to keep learning long after the course ends.

Small Success: The Bridge Between Desire and Mastery

Desire gives us the spark. Small success keeps the fire going.

You must also like trading. You must enjoy the mechanics and rhythms of the process — whether it's placing trades, reviewing outcomes, reading charts if you're a visual trader, or optimizing systems if you're algorithmic. Enjoying the process is what sustains the practice.

Progress in trading isn't measured by how much you make — it's measured by how reliably you can repeat small wins under pressure, with purpose, and with control.

Small success looks like: framing a trade before it moves, executing a stop loss without hesitation, taking one high-quality trade instead of three random ones, journaling with detail after a tough day, showing up for drills every morning.

The Path to Mastery

Trading mastery doesn't happen overnight — and it doesn't happen alone. It starts with desire, a working system, and a coach. With those elements, small success becomes possible. You start stacking wins. You build momentum. You become a better version of yourself — on purpose, with practice.

To reach mastery, you'll need one more ingredient: resilience. Markets will test you. Drawdowns will shake your confidence. Mistakes will happen. That's why we train mindset and recovery — not just entries and exits.

Mastery is not perfection. It's persistence.
Desire → System → Coaching → Small Success → Resilience → Mastery

Trading Skill Progression

How traders evolve across skill levels based on realistic trading assumptions.

LevelAssumptionsNet ProfitTotal RReturn %Comment
Novice $100K, R: 1% ($1,000), 20 trades/wk, 35% win rate, Win/Loss: 0.8 -$48,100 -48.1 R -48.1% Overtrades, lacks risk control, emotionally reactive
Apprentice $100K, R: 0.5% ($500), 10 trades/wk, 50% win rate, Win/Loss: 1.0 -$1,950 -3.9 R -1.95% Beginning to follow rules, builds awareness of edge
Journeyman $100K, R: 0.5% ($500), 15 trades/wk, 60% win rate, Win/Loss: 2.0 $140,400 280.8 R 140.4% Disciplined, consistent, trades edge with precision

Trading ROI Calculator

See how small improvements in your edge compound over a year of trading.