What Are We All About?
Who we are
UTS was founded by a group of passionate trader at UC San Diego. At UTS, our top priority is to educate our members about the market and hone their trading skills. Each executive member has spent hundreds of hours learning how to trade. Through their journey, mistakes were made. Capital was lost. Bad trades were taken. At UTS we strive to help our members avoid beginner mistakes.
What you will learn
Proper risk management and sizing techniques
Basic trading information and definitions
How to select the right stocks to trade
News and its effect market action
VWAP, Moving Averages, RSI, Volume, Price Action, Level 2
Different trading strategies (short, long, momentum, trend trend, support resistance, flags, wedges, fades, bounces, capitulation, etc)
How to deal with emotions
Swing Trading
How to use TD Ameritrades ThinkorSwim Platform
How to navigate TrendSpider
Demo Trading
Options Strategies/proper techniques
How to manage school, trading, and personal life all at once
Once all members have basic knowledge, we create teams of Equities, Options and Forex traders. Each team will open a TD ThinkorSwim demo account and start trading. Each team will have an exec member mentoring and explaining trades as we go.
We hope you’re excited to start your trading journey and hope you will come check out the Undergraduate Trading Society in the fall for recruitment!