24 courses.
One path to funded.
From your first trade to a funded account: the full HOC Academy, with lessons, quizzes, practice charts and a certificate for every course. Included with HOC All-Access.
Start here
How trading works, who is on the other side of your trade and how a market moves.
From zero to understanding how markets, brokers, orders, leverage and position sizing actually work.
Where everything lives in the terminal, and how to build a pre-market routine, journal and practice with it.
Choose your market
HOC trades futures, so that's the route we recommend. Forex and CFDs are here if you trade them.
How futures contracts work, what every tick is worth in ES, NQ, CL, GC and their micros, and how prop evaluations work.
How the currency market works, pips and lots, and what really drives exchange rates.
What a contract for difference is, how it's priced and what it really costs, and how CFDs compare with futures.
Core skills
Reading charts, key levels and indicators, then risk, execution and the psychology of performance.
Candlesticks, market structure, levels and breakouts, plus the moving averages and VWAP most traders watch.
The objective levels NQ and ES traders mark every day, ranked, and how to read price at each line.
Which few indicators are worth having on an NQ or ES chart, and how to test them instead of adding more.
Position size, R and expectancy, stops and targets, drawdowns and the emotions that break rules.
Order types, brackets, fills and slippage, managing stops, partials and trails on real platforms.
The habits of consistent traders: spotting tilt and biases, routines, hard rules and structured reviews.
What happens in the Asia, London and New York sessions, and how the open, news and the roll shape the day.
Market context
What moves markets before the open: the economic calendar, COT positioning and the options market.
Which releases and central bank events move futures and forex, why, and how to plan your day around them.
How rates, the Fed, the dollar and volatility influence NQ and ES, explained for day traders.
Read the weekly Commitments of Traders report to see how hedgers and speculators are positioned.
From calls and puts to the Greeks, gamma exposure and 0DTE, then turning options positioning into levels.
Choose your strategy
Auction and order flow is how we trade at HOC. Smart Money Concepts and the Fractal Model are here too.
Read the market as a two-way auction with volume profile, value areas, volume nodes and VWAP.
How TPO profiles build, the initial balance, open type and day type, and value area rules for a daily plan.
The DOM, the tape, footprint and delta, then absorption, exhaustion and traps as confirmed entries.
Market structure, liquidity, order blocks, fair value gaps, kill zones and complete time-based models.
Higher-timeframe candles aligned in time with a lower timeframe, swings confirmed with CISD, precise entries.
Get funded
Test your strategy honestly, learn how prop firm rules really work, then write the plan that gets you funded.
Turn an idea into testable rules and judge honestly whether it has an edge, with expectancy and sample size.
How evaluations and funded accounts really work, from drawdown types to consistency rules and payouts.
Write a plan and playbooks, test them properly, then pass and keep a prop firm account.
Every certificate has its own verification link you can add to LinkedIn. The Academy is included with HOC All-Access, together with the terminal, mentors and livestreams.
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