I live in Atlanta and would like to take some trading courses. I go to Georgia Tech, but cannot find any there. Any advice would be great. Their backtesting results are sometimes impressive. There are many finance classes, but those are always notoriously out of date.
Active trading is necessary to keep up with the market.
Academics generally do not, and have not, traded actively with their own money. You might see if Georgia Tech will authorize the Bright Trading internship program in Atlanta. We have credit programs at several universities and colleges. Whenever there is good liquidity, there is usually room for some momentum trading. Most of the money made trading futures is made by the floor traders and the arbitrage firms.