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MOOK CAMP — Day Trading Academy

Four weeks with Major Mook. You don’t leave the same.

A four-week options bootcamp for people who’ve never placed a trade — run by a trader who did it the hard way. No hype, no gurus, no lottery tickets. A phase board, a daily drill, and rules you don’t get to bend. Your only weapon: the device you’re holding right now.

See the phase board Enlist → ▶ YouTube
💻 NO GUNS IN THIS ARMY.
Our only weapons are the devices we trade from — a laptop, a tablet, the phone already in your hand. We load charts, not rounds. Train. Trade. Graduate.
📈 Live market training 📱 Mobile trading 📋 Tablet access 🤝 Community support 📊 Trading ammo: charts & setups
Who runs this

I’m Major Mook. This is my camp.

I trade options every morning with my own money — and I learned most of this the expensive way. I lost thousands of dollars before anyone told me my charts were running fifteen minutes behind real time. Nobody sat me down and explained order types, or position size, or why the first two hours are the only ones that matter. I figured it out one costly mistake at a time.

Camp is the thing I wish somebody had handed me: the whole path, in order, before the money’s on the line. You don’t lose money in options because you’re stupid. You lose it because you started clicking before anybody showed you the ground.

You belong here if

  • You’ve never bought an option, or you have and it went badly
  • You can give two hours a morning, five days a week
  • You’ll put in reps — ideally a couple weeks on the simulator — before real money moves
  • You want financial freedom — a second stream that doesn’t need anyone’s permission
  • You want the option to stay home — with your kids, your health, your own life — instead of selling every hour to somebody else’s schedule
  • You’d rather build the skill now than hope the layoff list skips your name
  • You want a method you can repeat, not a hot tip

Stay home if

  • You’re comfortable letting a corporate plantation hand you a way to pay your bills until you retire
  • You like devoting your entire life to a job just to struggle
  • You believe loyalty to a corporation gets you ahead
  • You think you can retire getting it out the streets
  • You think overtime and a 401k match is a retirement plan
  • You’ll drop $200 on the weekend but call a skill that pays you for life “too expensive”
  • You’ll scroll three hours a night but won’t give one to a chart

Close the door on the corporation
before they slam it on you.

Join MOOK CAMP →

The phase board

Four weeks, in order. No skipping ahead.

Each phase assumes the one before it. That’s the whole point — most beginners fail because they start at Phase 04 on day one.

01
Week one

Ground school

What an option actually is. Calls, puts, strike, expiration, premium — in plain English. No charts, no trades, no dollars. You leave this week able to read a contract and say out loud what you own.

02
Week two

The language & the tickets

Long is a call, short is a put, bullish and bearish, bounce and reject and reclaim. Then order types — market, limit, stop-limit — drilled in your broker’s paper mode until placing and cancelling is muscle memory.

03
Week three

Reading ground & live fire

The five-minute chart and the only marks that matter: prior-day high and low, premarket high and low, round numbers, VWAP. Then first trades — fake money, real clock, 8:30 to 10:30 Central. Every trade journaled: the level, the trigger, the stop, the outcome. You will take losses this week. That’s the curriculum.

04
Week four

Size, survival & graduation

Risk per trade, position sizing, the two-percent rule, the pattern-day-trader limit, and when to stand down entirely — the week most trading rooms never teach. Then real money, smallest size the account allows, reviewed trade by trade with your journal open. You finish camp with a written plan, a sizing rule, and proof you can follow both.

Daily drill

What a morning in camp looks like

Same shape every day. Times are U.S. Central — the market runs 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM Central, and the drill uses the first two hours, when volume is heaviest and levels are cleanest — the Private ranks keep the room open through the close.

07:45
Boots onPremarket levels marked before the noise starts.
08:15
Roll call & planWatchlist locked. No new names added after this.
08:30
Bell — live fire opensTrade only what you mapped. Trigger, or no trade.
10:30
Weapons downWindow closed. No revenge trades, no afternoon rescue missions.
10:45
DebriefJournal every trade — level, trigger, stop, outcome, and what you’d repeat.
Camp rules

Six rules. None of them negotiable.

  1. Know your exits cold — and be fast. Before you risk real money, drill buying and closing an option on your own brokerage until it’s muscle memory — the exact taps to enter and to sell/close. In options the price moves in milliseconds; a fumbled exit turns a winner into a loser.
  2. Two percent maximum risk per trade. The trade that’s “different this time” is the one that ends accounts.
  3. Journal every trade or it didn’t happen. Untracked trades teach you nothing.
  4. Weapons down at 10:30. The market is open tomorrow. Your account might not be. The Private ranks keep the room open past 10:30 — that time is for watching and debriefing, not for chasing.
  5. No same-day-expiry lottery tickets in camp. You’re learning a method, not buying scratch-offs.
  6. You place every order yourself. Nobody at camp touches your brokerage. Ever.
Strongly recommended — not required Paper trade for about two weeks before you go live. It’s optional — but the recruits who skip it usually pay their tuition straight to the market. Do it unless you already know your platform and your setups cold.
Your kit

Show up with this on day one

A brokerage

Funded and options-enabled. $200 minimum; $500–$1,000 gives you room to size sensibly. You control it, always.

Charts

A charting account with real-time data, including the options feed. Delayed charts will teach you the wrong lessons.

Two hours

7:45 to 10:45 Central, five mornings a week. Camp doesn’t work in fragments.

A journal

Paper notebook or a spreadsheet — doesn’t matter. It gets filled in every single day.

Enlistment
MOOK CAMP Day Trading Academy enlistment poster - paper first, proven curriculum, discipline and risk management, graduate ready.

Pick your intake

Five ranks to enlist — each one buys you more of the same trading day — and one more to stay in after you graduate.

Free · get in

Civilian

Free to enlist

Boots on the ground — no card, no catch.

  • Your spot in the MOOK CAMP Discord
  • All the setup wizards — get your brokerage & charts live, hands-free
  • The Major Kit — free: the drills, calculator, sizer & journal
  • Camp News and the YouTube channel
  • The merch pages
Get in free →
One day · one-time

Recruit

$100 once

One full day at the very top — the same room the $1,000 rank sits in.

  • Everything in Civilian
  • One full trading day as a Private E-2 — the whole session, live Zoom video
  • The Major channels open for that day
  • Do this first: watch the videos and get your entries and exits cold on your own brokerage — read a signal, place it, close it, without thinking. Learn the buttons before the bell.
  • One call can cover the day. It can also go against you — nobody can promise you a green session. That’s exactly why you learn the mechanics first and watch a full day before you commit.
  • See exactly what you’d be buying before you buy it
Take the day tour →
Signals · monthly

Basic Training

$125 / month

Hear me call the trade, live, while it’s happening.

  • Everything in Civilian
  • You hear the calls live — I say the ticker, the strike and the entry out loud as I take it. You place your own trade, on your own brokerage.
  • The classroom — lessons, drills and homework
  • Trade recaps after the close
Start Basic Training →
In the room · monthly

Private E-1

$500 / month

In the room, every trading day.

  • Everything in Basic Training
  • The live room, every trading day — 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM Central, audio and text
  • Major channels unlocked
  • The group recap after the close — every trade, walked through
Enlist as E-1 →
All day · one term

Private E-2

$1,000 once
The whole session

The full market day, and I’m on screen for it.

  • Everything in Private E-1
  • 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM Central — full NYSE hours, open to close
  • Live Zoom video — my screen, my charts, my hands on the ticket
  • A weekly one-on-one with me — twenty minutes, screen share, your journal open. Just you and me, once a week, every week of your term
  • Graduate as a Captain and keep a free month of full E-2 access — then stay in on Major Access
Enlist as E-2 — $1,000 →
Graduates · monthly

Major Access

$100 / month

For Captains. You finished — now stay sharp.

  • Graduates only. Finish camp and you’re a Captain
  • The Major channels stay open — signals, classroom, recaps
  • Begins when your free graduation month runs out
  • Month to month. Leave whenever you want — the door works both ways
  • Not on sale to the public. Finish camp and I send you the link myself
Graduates — ask Major Mook for your link →
How the ranks work Every rank starts at the same 8:30 bell. Basic Training hears the calls. Private E-1 is in the room for the whole session — 8:30 to 3:30 Central, audio and text — with the Major channels open. Private E-2 gets all of that plus live Zoom video, and a weekly one-on-one with me: twenty minutes, screen share, your journal open. Terms run 4 weeks. Recruit is a single day at E-2 so you can see the room before you commit. Graduate as an E-2 and you’re a Captain: you keep full E-2 access free for one month — the month you’ll need it most — and after that Major Access keeps the Major channels open for $100 a month, for as long as you want them.
Enter the MOOK CAMP Discord →

Already enlisted? Step in and send Major Mook your Discord name — he flags your rank and the locked channels open up. New here? The lobby’s open; the Battlefield is earned.

Before you enlist Camp teaches a method — it does not promise income. Options can lose money quickly, including all of it. Nothing here is financial advice, no outcome is guaranteed, and every order is placed by you, in your own account. If anyone offers to trade it for you, walk away. All sales are final — no refunds.
Final step · Know your number

The Corporate Calculator

Before you enlist, run your own numbers. This puts your corporate job and your trading side by side — what each hour is actually worth, what you need per week to retire, and how many 40-hour weeks it takes to match what a trading week can do. No sales pitch. Just your math, in your hand.

💼 Run your numbers

Everything stays on your device unless you choose to send it to Major Mook at the end.

How are you paid?

No trading history yet? Put what you’re aiming for — camp will tell you fast whether it’s realistic.

Your verdict
—

    Projections only — straight arithmetic on the numbers you typed, with no investment growth assumed on trading profit. Trading income is not a wage: it varies, and losing weeks happen. Nothing here is financial advice or a promise of income.

    Why this tool exists

    “The math isn’t mathing.”

    Picture your Monday through Friday. You’re up for business hours like anybody else — but your shift is 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Central. Two hours. You take your option entries inside that window, and by 10:30 you’ve booked $200–$500.

    That’s a minimum of $100 an hour — and the reason you got to keep it is discipline. You locked the profit and shut it down, because you know the market opens again tomorrow with another opportunity. You didn’t get greedy. You got paid.

    Then you looked at the clock. Still three hours before you had to clock in at the $27-an-hour job.

    10 hours a week
    $1,000+
    Two hours a morning, five mornings. Yours. Paid same-day.
    vs
    40 hours a week
    $1,080 gross
    Minus child support. Insurance. 401k. State tax. Federal tax. Restitution. Fuel. And a thousand miscellaneous.

    Four times the hours for the same money — and that’s before they take their cut. The math isn’t mathing.

    That was the moment it got clear: the system was never designed for me to get ahead. I was working hard to struggle. And if you’re on a factory floor, pulling doubles on a nursing unit, driving a route, teaching a classroom, stocking a warehouse — you already know this feeling. You’re not lazy. You’re not bad with money. You’re running as fast as you can on a track that was measured for somebody else.

    Here’s the part nobody says out loud: you don’t have to get rich. That’s not the goal. The goal is a second stream — income that doesn’t need anyone’s permission — so you end 100% reliance on the corporate plantation.

    Because that’s the real exposure. When one company is the only thing standing between you and your bills, you are vulnerable. Layoffs don’t send warnings. Hours get cut. Plants close. Departments “restructure.” You did everything right and still got walked out with a box.

    Nobody is coming to make you an exception. So build the skill before you need it.

    Two hours a morning. Rules you don’t get to bend. Paper first, real money when you’ve earned it. Four weeks with somebody who learned it the expensive way so you don’t have to.

    If you want to be ready before the corporation slams the door — get in the camp.

    — Major Mook

    Straight answers

    Before you ask

    Do I need any experience?

    None. Camp is built for people whose honest answer to “what’s a call?” is “no idea.” Phase 01 assumes zero.

    How much money do I need to trade?

    Nothing for the first two weeks — it’s all paper. For Phase 04 you’ll want $200 at minimum in your own brokerage; $500–$1,000 is more comfortable. That money is separate from tuition and stays yours.

    Will you trade my account for me?

    No, and nobody reputable will. Camp never asks for your login, and you place every order yourself. That’s rule six for a reason.

    What if I fall behind a phase?

    You repeat it. The board is a sequence, not a schedule to race. Falling behind costs you time; skipping ahead costs you money.

    Is this financial advice?

    No. It’s education. You’re learning a repeatable method and risk discipline — what you do with it is your call and your responsibility.

    What happens after graduation?

    You leave with a written plan, a sizing rule, and a filled journal. Where you take it from there is up to you.

    How does Private E-2 work — the price and the term?

    Private E-2 is $1,000, paid up front, for a four-week live term — the full program, live, direct with Major Mook. When the term ends you’re a Captain and you keep one month of full Private E-2 access — free. After that, hold the Major channels on Major Access ($100/mo), re-enlist in Private E-2, or drop to Private E-1 ($500).

    What’s your refund policy?

    All sales are final — no refunds. Every tier gives you immediate access to digital material, live rooms and community, so payments cannot be refunded once you’re in. Know what you’re enlisting for before you pay. If you’re unsure, start free as a Civilian and look around first — that’s exactly what it’s there for.