0-DTE Foundations

0-DTE Foundations is the core training that underpins every strategy we teach. Before you ever place a butterfly, this course builds the way of thinking that makes the rest of it work—and then walks you all the way through to running strategies as live campaigns.

Most traders come to 0-DTE looking for a setup, an indicator, a signal—something to chase. This course does the opposite. You’ll learn to read how the 0-DTE market actually behaves, to think in probabilities and risk instead of predictions, and to position deliberately so the math is already working in your favor before you click. That’s the difference between guessing and anticipating—and it’s the foundation beneath everything we do.

This isn’t a strategy bolt-on. It’s the complete ground floor. The 0-DTE market has its own physics—concentrated time decay, dealer positioning, and volatility that has to be respected rather than forecast—and almost everything traders import from longer timeframes works against them here. Foundations rebuilds your model from the ground up: the logic of the asymmetric out-of-the-money butterfly, why we size width to volatility every session, why we cap what we pay, and why we measure success by process, not by today’s P&L.

Inside the course

• Welcome — Orientation, your first steps, and a plain-language introduction to the 0-DTE method.
• 0-DTE Foundational Principles — Knowing your edge, and the three places it comes from: price, time, and volatility.
• Morning Routine — The repeatable pre-trade process—reading morning implied volatility, setting direction and butterfly width, and timing your entry on market structure.
• 0-DTE Strategies — Matching the right structure to the conditions: the Classic OTM Butterfly, the Big-Ass Fly, the Batman for chaotic regimes, and the multi-day Time Warp.
• Volume Profile — Setting it up in TradingView and reading real market structure, so every level you trade is one the market has already proven it respects.
• Risk & Profit Management — Position sizing, drawdown control, and a profit framework that protects the asymmetry instead of cutting it short.
• Campaign Trading — Where it all comes together: running strategies as campaigns with a life cycle, executed as a repeatable, agile process.

By the time you finish, you’ll know how the 0-DTE market actually works, how to think in probabilities and expectancy rather than predictions, and how to run a complete daily process—from the morning read through trade selection, structure, and risk—with the discipline that makes the math pay off over a large sample, not just on the trade you want to take today.

Who it’s for

Whether you’re new to options or rebuilding your approach from the ground up, this program provides the framework, language, and decision-making model you need to trade with confidence and control. If you’ve traded before, expect to set a few old habits down—that’s by design.

Our goal is simple, and we mean it: make you Consistently Profitable, become an Independent Trader, and Trade at a Pro level. Foundations is where that begins.