- Many of my trades I enter without a plan and hope for the best.
- I’ve already spent too much time and money on trading education that didn’t work, if this doesn’t work I’m probably going to quit.
- I understand that successful trading is going to take work, but I’m not sure that I have a process that will work, even if I put in the time.
- I struggle with trading consistency. I have some winners, but my losers either erase my gains or leave me at a net loss.
- I want to know what market behavior to pay attention to and what behavior to ignore.
- I have the same expectation for trading opportunities in every session and I’ve often been disappointed when it doesn’t.
- I’ve been exposed to profiling tools and Auction Theory and I believe they work, I just haven’t been able to translate that into something actionable.
- When I put on a trade, I don’t know how to tell if I’m right and should stay in the trade or wrong and need to exit the trade.
- How can I use graphical profiling tools to organize market information and discern areas of interest?
- What behavior should I expect from the market when price enters an area of interest and what is unexpected?
- What kind of prep should I do before the market opens?
- How do I put together an actionable trade plan?
- What kind of review should I do of the prior trading session to prep for the following day?
- How do I determine a bias (long/short) for the coming trading session, and how would I know if that bias shifted mid-session?
- How do I determine price levels in the auction that offer a better probability of good trading outcomes?
- How do I construct trade ideas for the coming trading session?
- How do I know whether the trading session for a given product offers a good opportunity?
What kind of outcomes can be expected from working through the PROFILE TRADING DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY ?
- Gain a fundamental and rigorous framework for approaching markets that will be a foundation for continued growth and development.
- See the methodical and disciplined approach to markets that are needed in successful trading.
- See how to apply AMT every day in several futures products.
- Learn how to review auction activity in preparation for the coming trading session.
- Get feedback on your trade plans and execution to help you build your trade plan around structures and set-ups you can more easily identify.
- Learn how to identify good trading days from poor trading days.
- Traders begin their trial week on a Sunday to experience a full week of development alongside our team and others in the TRADEWITHPROFILE community.
- Traders begin by viewing Orientation Materials to prepare for participation in our PROFILE TRADING DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY (16 MODULE framework designed to help discretionary traders (1) understand the 4 behaviors present in every auction (and how to identify them) (2) the 4 questions every trader should answer before putting on a trade (and how to answer them) (3) Understand the 4 stages of trader competency (and how to know which one you are in))
- SUNDAY EVENING we publish a weekly outlook video with areas on interest for the coming week in 6 futures asset classes along with insight into expected auction behavior. We also distribute 1 pre-recorded module of our PROFILE TRADING DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY. Through the rest of the week, PATHWAY participants work on PATHWAY homework and examples to ensure mastery of the module content and how to use it in improving trading decisions. This core module recording is made available to all PATHWAY participants.
- MON, TUES, THURS & FRIDAY we post the TRADEPLAN worksheet and accompanying profile charts either by email (SELF-STUDY PATHWAY) or into the designated channel in Slack (GROUP & 1ON1 PATHWAY) each day. For GROUP & 1ON1 PATHWAYs, updates are made through the day in the slack as the auction structure evolves.
- TUESDAY MORNINGS we (GROUP & 1ON1 PATHWAY) trade live and look for trades based on the morning’s plan. Recordings are provided to all PATHWAY participants.
- WEDNESDAYS are #whatsyourplanwednesday? – PATHWAY participants focus on delivering their own plan for review and recommendations. TWP does not publish full plan worksheets (just updates to current plans) instead, encouraging participants to submit their own.
- THURSDAY MORNINGS we (GROUP & 1ON1 PATHWAY) trade live and look for trades based on the morning’s plan. Recordings are provided to all PATHWAY participants.
- Throughout the PROFILE TRADING DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY, we will offer demonstration trade ideas which are live trades taken by our facilitating team. TRADEWITHPROFILE does not provide trade recommendations (We do offer trade assistance and ideas with GROUP & 1ON1 PATHWAY). Instead, it calls to attention auction structure and the probable behavior that structure likely creates. Discretionary traders identify these behaviors and determine risk and size, entry, targets, and stops.
- GROUP & 1ON1 PATHWAY participants are encouraged to ask questions as the trading sessions progresse in SLACK, using the TRADEPLAN as a reference for questions and auction education.
- The PATHWAY was developed by our team of facilitators with 25+ years of full-time market participation expressed in both the institutional and retail space
- Email address.
- Some background on your trading (requested after joining).
- Access to monitor futures markets in real-time so that you can follow the markets in real-time.
- Insight into your trading objectives: part-time swing, professional daytrading, prop firm, CTA, self-directed.
- Market and Volume Profiling Software (If you don’t have profiling software, we can make recommendations).
- PARTICIPATE! Ask questions if something is not clear. This service is for your education. You’ll get out of it what you put into it.
- TRANSPARENCY. If you aren’t honest about what’s working and what’s not, you will likely deceive yourself and sabotage your eventual success.
- An attitude and desire to learn so that you can become independently competent. This is for those who want to think, not those who want us to do the thinking for them.
- A WEEKLY REPORT CARD to our facilitating team to keep you focused on systematic trading skill progress.
Our plans are designed to take you through the necessary steps to ACHIEVE OUR PATHWAY OBJECTIVES. Once the objectives are complete, we welcome you to remain part of our community (at a reduced fee), or graduate you to enjoy your new competence and confidence with the profile!
