Welcome to the hive!
Congratulations on taking the first steps to becoming a money manager! As you begin, please remember that success is not an overnight revelation.
It’ll take time, effort, and commitment to succeed. But as long as you do your part, we promise to support you in your journey!
Access the training and trade from anywhere in the world
The Apiary Fund website is your central hub for all your learning resources.
Ready to Learn?
As an Apiary associate, you can... • Access all Trader Development Program material • Watch hundreds of recordings of past discussions • Access Apiary’s library of ebooks and videos • Download Apiary’s MetaTrader software • Practice trading in a safe, simulated account • Utilize Apiary’s extensive statistics tools • Participate with the community in the Apiary Fund forum
How long will it take? Each of Apiary’s 12 courses are designed to take about a week, but every associate should learn at the pace that works best for them. Most everyone has a dayjob, kids, or some other aspect of their life that take the majority of their time. For this reason, the training is designed to work with as little as an hour each weekday, but there’s plenty more available in our Full Library. As you move through the courses, we encourage you to get to know the supplemental materials as well. From our live streaming discussions to our library of ebooks and training documents... we know you’ll have all the resources you need to succeed - so dive right in!
Welcome to your dashboard! This is where you come once you’ve logged into your Apiary Fund account. It’s the launching point to many of your training resources.
Calendar The calendar is how you’ll keep up to date with all the live trainings we have each week. There’s also a monthly calendar if you want to plan ahead! You can change the timezone by editing your settings.
Forum Get in touch with fellow hive members! Here you’ll find the most recently updated forum topics. Have a question? Ask away!
Statistics This is a snapshot of your trading account’s progress! There’s a link below the chart to see more detailed metrics.
Courses This gives you quick access to some of the coure Trader Development material. You can also check out the full library for even more discussions, videos, books, and a glossary.
The training is designed to be easy and personal.
Trader Development Program Some of the best material has been organized into 12 courses. Each course has been designed to be done in about a week, spending around 1 hour each day, but you’re free to go as fast or as slow as you’d like!
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Basic Training
2
Software Training
3
Market Basics
This first course covers currency market basics, forex basics, market structure, and more! It was created to help you learn all the essential information you need to know about the market.
As you begin on this week’s material you should also be getting started in your demo trading account. By the end of this course, you’ll have the software set up and running smoothly - just the way you like it!
In this course you’ll learn about position size, price movement, and leverage - all considerations you’ll use in your personal risk management system.
4
Reading Charts
5
Using Indicators
6
Beginning Strategies
7
Intermediate Strategies
8
Advanced Strategies
Learn to recognize expansions and contractions in the market. Your ability to identify patterns and characteristics of the market will go a long way in helping set up successful trades!
Learning to use tools in your trading will help you set up a perimeter around your trades. As you look for setups, you can use the Price and Time Cycles to analyze your findings and quickly see high probability trades.
The simplest strategies are often the best. Here you’ll learn about some of the basic ways to determine your entry and exit points.
Continue with more strategies including the tried and true breakout system. We’ll introduce more variables to influence your trading decisions.
These trading strategies implement more analysis elements like multiple trading indicators, or inter-market effects. You’ll be able to keep your system as simple or complex as you want.
9
Money Management Use multiple time frames to help hone your perspective on price action. Learn how analyzing your statistics will help you improve your trading.
10 Trading Psychology
You may be surprised to learn how psychology, habits, and emotional experiences factor into your trading. Sometimes it’s not the system, but the trader that needs consistency.
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Intermarket Analysis Intermarket Analysis is the tracking of world fundamentals that determine the flow of money through the various markets and currencies. Familiarize yourself with the state of world economics and how it will influence your daily trading.
12 Risk Manager Interview
This course is devoted to getting you prepared for a funded account. The Risk Managers of the Apiary Fund determine whether you have learned how to manage risk effectively while trading consistently toward profitability. Which brings us to the next section...
Track Record Statistics Going through the Trader Development Program, you’ll be practicing in a safe, simulated account. While you do so , detailed statistics of your progress will be sent to the website. You’ll be able to see trends in what works and what doesn’t for your trading style.
Don’t worry too much if your stats aren’t perfect. We understand that becoming consistent and profitable is a process and there will be losses along the way. In fact, many of our associates’ equity curves are a “smiley face,” starting out with losses before going through the training, adjusting strategies, and eventually figuring out a system that works for them.
Training is mobile-friendly
All That and a Bag of Chips As an Apiary member, you also get access to lots of other useful tools like proprietary indicators, expert advisors, an economic calendar, a trading sessions clock, and mobile apps.
We’ve Got Your Back! You also have access to our Trader Support department. The helpful folks of Trader Support are available to answer calls and emails with questions ranging from computer trouble to trading systems.
support@apiaryfund.com
1 801 701 1650
Apply your learning in the simulated trading account we provide you with and work toward meeting these account stats: • More winning trades than losing trades The pathway to a funded account starts with our specially designed 12 course curriculum. Go through the courses at your own speed as many times as you want.
• Average win is greater than average loss • No loss greater than 2% of account
Congratulations! You can officially trade the company’s After 90 days our risk manager will set up a telephone interview with you to discuss your trading
money and keep a portion of the profits. In time, you can qualify for larger account sizes and bigger payouts.
history and prepare you for becoming a funded trader.
Pathway to Funding
Funded Accounts
2.5k $1k
On the 20th of each month, the profits will be withdrawn
With a funded account, you’ll begin keeping 60% of the profits you make in the account.
and a check sent to you.
10k 5k
Keep 85% of your profits at the higher levels up to
Every 3 months, you can advance to the next level to work with more money and keep a larger percentage.
Ron, a Risk Manager for the Apiary Fund, discusses trading at a Traders’ Summit
$250,000.00
More Ways to Grow If you’re looking for some help with other subjects, a tutor, setting up a business, or learning other markets, we have optional products available to help you out.
Business Course Trading Group
Traders’ Summit
Premium Classes
Entity Creation
A live trading session at the September 2012 Traders’ Summit
Traders’ Summit Meet professional traders, instructors, and your peers face to face during 3 days full of live in-person instruction. See what we’ve got in store with the dates and location for our next gathering at apiaryfundsummit.com
$497
Trading Group Work with other people in a trading support group meeting to discuss and present your own trades.
• 24 hour chat room • Share your screen, microphone, or webcam • Personalized advice from a group leader • Support group of peers
$1164 and $97 per month reduced to $25
Business Course Learn to treat your trading as a business with this business model plan
• Learn which business type to choose • Write off expenses to save money on taxes • Treat your wins and losses as the imports and exports of your business
$497
Premium Classes Learn how to apply your trading knowledge to other instruments and diversify your skillset.
• Stocks • Options • Commodities • Futures • Bonds
$397 each
Entity Creation We’ll get your trading business set up for you by taking care of the paperwork and provide you with training to save money on taxes. This product is only available in the United States.
• Learn how to declare “trader” tax status to save money every year • Understand the benefits and types of entities
$697
Comprehensive Packages
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12 Courses 1000+ Recorded Webinars Training Library Simulated Account Account Statistics Phone & Email Support Forum Live Webinars Live Trading Room Business Course Premium Classes
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$997 $997
$497 $497
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Why do we do it? We know there are folks who charge five times as much for less training. One major difference is motivation. The Apiary Fund’s goal is to get you qualified for a funded account. Our purpose is to put financial freedom within reach for everyone -
“To help ordinary, everyday people become successful money managers.” To accomplish that purpose, we’ve built a comprehensive training program where everyone’s motivations are aligned. We built a distributive network so anyone in the world can participate in a positive community. We hold no information back and continue to work with you as long as it takes.
Head Trader Shawn Lucas accepts the Emerging Elite award from Mountain West Capital Network on behalf of the Apiary Fund.
We’re excited to work with you in our unique crowd-sourced community! Welcome to the hive and...
Happy Trading!
- Shawn Lucas
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