Smart investing,
explained simply.
Since 1997, IncomeTrader.com has helped everyday investors understand what they own and how the market works — with plain-English education, live teaching sessions, and professional coaching.
What we are, and what we are not.
IncomeTrader is an educational company. We teach people how to research stocks and options and how to use screening tools. We are not a broker-dealer, an investment adviser, or a financial planner. We do not sell securities, manage anyone’s money, or give personalized investment advice. Nothing we publish is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal. Read our full disclosures.
Our Services
From live teaching sessions to group coaching and powerful research tools — everything you need to understand your own investing decisions, all in plain English.
Live Teaching Sessions
A monthly subscription lets you watch us work through real trades live each week, with our reasoning explained as we go, plus archived webinars and our ongoing trade review page. You are observing and learning, not receiving advice, and you place no trades through us. 100% of the trading profits from these sessions are donated to charity. Available to members who have completed our extended training courses.
Group Coaching
Learn from our seasoned instructors. From opening an account to recognizing and adjusting a trade that has gone wrong — these weekly online sessions encourage full class participation. Coaching covers concepts and methods, not recommendations for your specific account. Available to members who have completed our extended training courses.
Research Tools
Two weeks of full access to our research toolkit: teaching examples, research charts, proprietary screens, automated support and resistance lines, Buffett-style discounted cash flow fair value estimates, the Coval Trend Indicator, and much more. Take the tour →
Meet the Team
Since 1997 our editors have been devoted to teaching investors how to understand their own portfolios.
Mike Coval
Editor & CEOMike has been teaching investors since 1997, specializing in covered calls, options strategies, and live instruction. He founded IncomeTrader.com with a simple mission — make stock market investing approachable for everyone. Mike leads live teaching sessions weekly and donates 100% of the trading profits from those sessions to charity.
Stacy Acevedo
EditorStacy brings a hands-on teaching style that has helped thousands of students move from confusion to confidence in the markets. She specializes in teaching students how to recognize a trade that has gone wrong and what the options are when it does. Stacy believes deeply that a student who understands the reasoning will make better decisions than one who is just following along.
Our Founders Have Created Content For
A small selection of the organizations our educators have developed course content for.
These names indicate past content contributions or speaking appearances by our founders. They do not imply endorsement of IncomeTrader by these organizations.
Why IncomeTrader?
Every business day in America, more investors decide to move from a passive role to a more hands-on one. In doing so they also commit to continuing their financial education. That creates a need for accurate, clearly explained information — the kind that helps someone actually understand what they own and why they own it.
Our goal is to introduce you to a new world of information, ideas, strategies, stocks, and options that you can learn from and apply yourself. Our website was built for the serious student of the market, but our stock analysis and detailed walkthroughs are written so that someone brand new can follow along.
What Makes Us Different
A major feature of our website is our trading ideas section, where we work through teaching examples in the open — how entry, exit, and adjustment points get chosen, and how you would weigh one strategy against another for a given situation. We cover the topics that surround those examples, whether that is stock splits, earnings, sector rotation, or what tends to matter inside a retirement account. These are teaching examples, not recommendations, and every decision remains yours. We donate 100% of the trading profits from our live classes to charity.
The Bottom Line
From beginner to advanced, our instructors will teach you how to think through a decision so you can make it yourself, with your own money, in your own account. We do not choose investments for you and we never will. At IncomeTrader.com — your understanding is what we are here for.
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