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9/22/26 Replay: The Options Stock Repair Strategy
Watch avant garde's free educational webinar featuring former floor market maker and OIC instructor Ken Keating as he presents the “Stock Repair Strategy,” an options-based strategy using ratio spreads designed to help investors recover from a long stock position that has dropped in value. This strategy allows
9/17/26 Replay: The Stock Price Hidden in the Options Market
Listen to avant garde's free educational webinar featuring YellowTunnel's CEO Vlad Karpel and CIO Keith Harwood, covering synthetic positions and implied forward prices. Most retail traders watch the stock price on their screen. Institutional traders watch a different price; one that's hidden inside the
9/1/26 Replay: How to Find Consistent Income Opportunities
Re-watch avant garde's free educational webinar featuring guest presenter, Blane Markham of Markham Trading, as he covers How to Find Consistent Income Opportunities in Any Market Using Technical Analysis. Blane explains how he uses a rules based technical approach to spot trading opportunities in any type of
Trading Options with Keith Harwood, 10/13/26, 12pm CT
Sign up for avant garde's free educational webinar featuring Option Hotline's Keith Harwood covering options trading. Details to follow, so save your spot today to secure your recorded replay, ask questions live, and get a free trading e-giveaway from Keith. REGISTER HERE
Options with Hubb, 10/27/26, 12pm CT
Sign up for avant garde's free educational webinar featuring Hubb's Steven Camp covering options trading! Details to follow, so save your spot today to secure your recorded replay, ask questions live and get a free trading e-gift from Hubb. REGISTER HERE
8/20/26 Replay: Master Your Mind
Master Your Mind: Trading Psychology & Avoiding Common Pitfalls. Even the best trading strategies fail when emotions take control. Overtrading, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), revenge trading, and panic exits can destroy many accounts. In this webinar, guest presenter Vlad Karpel, dives deep into the psychological traps that trip up
AI Is Rewiring Retail Investing: Jim Swartwout on the Next Generation of Brokerage
In a recent episode of the RiskReversal Pod, Guy Adami sits down with Jim Swartwout, CEO of Prosperum Fintech Holdings, to discuss how technology and AI are reshaping the retail investing landscape. Drawing on four decades of experience across Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE, TradeMonster, Scottrade, Robinhood and others, Swartwout argues
8/4/26 Replay: How Do I Pick Options Strikes?
Watch avant garde's free educational webinar featuring guest presenter, Chief Options Strategist at Option Hotline Keith Harwood, covering how professional traders pick option strikes when structuring vertical spreads. When considering a vertical spread, many factors must be incorporated. Traders need to know how to pick both the long
TACOai Expands Enterprise AI Platform with Acquisition of Authava
Artificial intelligence is quickly moving beyond simple chatbots and TACOai is positioning itself at the forefront of that evolution. Today, TACOai, the technology company behind Avant Garde Trading's next-generation brokerage platform and a subsidiary of Prosperum Fintech Holdings (PFH), announced the acquisition of Authava, an enterprise conversational
Trading Options with Markham Trading, 11/10/26 12pm CT
Sign up for avant garde's free educational webinar featuring Blane Markham covering options trading. Details to follow, so save your spot today to secure your recorded replay, ask questions live, and get a free trading e-giveaway from Blane. REGISTER HERE
Can AI Trade Options for You?
AI is already reshaping how investors research markets, manage portfolios, and interact with financial platforms. The next question is whether AI could eventually take on an even larger role, serving as a personalized options trading assistant or even functioning like a digital broker.
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6/25/26 Replay: How Iron Condors Work
Learn about iron condors: a four-leg, defined-risk options strategy used by traders to pursue income from a sideways or range-bound market. Using SPY as the example, guest presenter Vlad Karpel, will walk through how the trade is structured, where to place each strike, and how to read
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6/9/26 Replay: The Rule of 16
Watch avant garde's free educational webinar featuring Option Industry Council instructor Ken Keating covering The Rule of 16! Implied volatility is an annualized metric, but markets move every day. This session introduces the Rule of 16 as a practical framework for translating annual volatility into an expected daily
Lunchtime Options Trading, 8/20/26, 12pm CT
Sign up for avant garde's free educational webinar featuring guest presenter, Vlad Karpel, covering options trading on your lunch break. Details to follow, so save your spot today to secure your recorded replay, ask questions live, and get a free trading e-giveaway from Vlad. REGISTER NOW
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6/4/26 Replay: What Every Options Trader Should Know About 0DTE.
Learn how 0DTE options work (contracts that expire the same trading day), the mechanics behind their rapid growth in popularity, and the key concepts every options trader should understand before considering them.
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5/12/26 Replay: Are Options Too Cheap?
Guest presenter, Keith Harwood, will explain how to evaluate whether the options market is appropriately pricing in the potential for large stock movement. Learn the readily available tools and indicators Keith uses to evaluate market positioning and investor expectations derived from the options markets. As a former options market-maker
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Replay: 5/7/26 Trading Option Put Spreads
Learn from guest presenter, Vlad Karpel, how trading put spreads may help generate consistent monthly income with defined risk and a high probability of success, even in volatile markets. Join us to learn about put spread basics and strike selection, step-by-step execution, and position management. This strategy could
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Replay: 4/21/26 Trading Directional Spreads Using AI
Listen again as guest presenter, Steven Camp from Hubb Ai, relays a foundational overview of directional spreads and how they compare to long call and long put strategies. It will cover the key advantages of spreads, including defined risk, improved probability, and more efficient trade construction across different market conditions.
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4/16/26 Replay: Using Probability to Successfully Select Strike Prices
Watch again as guest presenter, Vlad Karpel, teaches how the strike price of an option largely determines whether your trade will be successful. It can also dictate just how much or how little you’ll make on each play. Learn how to use probability to determine strike prices from Vlad
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Avant Garde Trading Securities Officially Launches New AI-Powered Trading Platform
Avant Garde Trading Securities Officially Launches New AI-Powered Trading Platform A completely redesigned experience for modern investors, now live with equities, full complex options trading, AI-embedded research and support, and access to private placements Avant Garde Trading Securities today announced the official launch of its new trading platform,
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4/7/26 Replay: Find Consistent Income Opportunities In Any Market
Join us to learn from guest presenter Blane Markham's rules based technical analysis approach to spot opportunities in any type of market; even the choppy and volatile markets of today.
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3/26/26 Replay: How To Manage Market Pullbacks
Successful trading is not about being correct most of the time, but about being disciplined in managing your positions during market corrections. When the market goes against you, as it often does, you need the proper management techniques to get your portfolio back on the profit track. In this session,
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3/17/26 Replay: Trading 0DTE Options
Trading stock or index options on the day of expiration, i.e., Zero DTE trading, is a hot trading topic today and one of the most important considerations when trading Zero DTE concerns risk. Listen in to learn how Kerry Given (Dr. Duke) manages risk when trading these types of