Level 3 Index · Alpha Academy

Welcome to Level 3 — the specialist tier of Alpha Academy. Levels 1 and 2 taught you the whole market and how it works underneath. Level 3 is different: instead of going wider, you go deep in one arena and master it — its structures, its clock, its risks, and the daily routine of the traders who work it.

There are three tracks. They share one rule: Level 3 teaches arenas, not systems. Alpha Academy stays strategy-neutral on purpose — these tracks master the arena (0DTE options, futures, or swing trading) and the process around it, and they deliberately leave the entry method to you. Pair any track with the Worked Examples Library, where the trades are shown with every number worked.

Track A — 0DTE Mastery (The 0DTE Arena → The 0DTE Playbook)

Code	Document	What You Will Learn
The 0DTE Arena	The 0DTE Arena	Why same-day expiry is a different sport — theta cliff, gamma, SPX vs SPY
0DTE Structures	0DTE Structures	Buying premium, debit spreads, credit spreads, iron condors — full math
0DTE Timing & the Session Map	0DTE Timing — The Session Map	The day's zones, catalyst hours, and the sit-out rules
0DTE Risk Commandments	0DTE Risk Commandments	Daily loss caps, trade caps, hard exit times — the doctrine
The 0DTE Playbook	The 0DTE Playbook	One complete trading day, prep to journal

Track B — Futures Day Trading (The Futures Setup → The Futures Routine)

Code	Document	What You Will Learn
The Futures Setup	The Futures Day Trader's Setup	Day margin, real leverage math, picking ES/NQ/GC/CL, starting on micros
Futures: Trading the Open	Futures: Trading the Open	Overnight inventory, the opening range, open types
Trend Days vs Range Days	Futures Playbook — Trend vs Range	Day-type recognition, VWAP, and the two playbooks
Futures Risk & the Daily Stop	Futures Risk & the Daily Stop	Notional danger, the hard daily stop, the one-contract rule
The Futures Routine	The Futures Day Trader's Routine	The full professional day, hour by hour

Track C — Swing & Position Trading (The Swing Framework → The Weekly Swing Routine)

Code	Document	What You Will Learn
The Swing Framework	The Swing Framework	Timeframe alignment, entries, and sizing for overnight risk
Position Trading & Trend Following	Position Trading & Trend Following	Pyramiding into winners, trailing exits, the expectancy math
Swinging With Options	Swinging With Options	LEAPS, verticals, covered calls — structures matched to weeks
Managing a Book of Swings	Managing a Book of Swings	Total open risk, the correlation trap, the earnings audit
The Weekly Swing Routine	The Weekly Swing Routine	The weekend session and the low-maintenance trading week

How to Take Level 3

One track at a time. Depth is the entire point. Finish a track — including its risk module and a month of paper trading — before opening another.
Read the risk module twice. In each track it's the fourth or fifth document, and it's the one that decides whether the other four make you money or cost you money.
Live inside the Worked Examples. After each module, find its matching examples (0DTE days in Examples: Three 0DTE Days, futures tick math in Examples: Futures Trades, swing R-multiples in Examples: Swing Trades, and the disasters in Examples: Risk Disasters & Saves) and work the numbers yourself before reading the answers.
Then practice with the Practice Pack — the 30-Trade Paper Challenge, run on your track's arena, is the Level 3 graduation exam.