Course

The Wait: Course workbook

Eleven lessons on the trader in the chair: sitting through the wait, what losses do to judgement, certainty, complexity, hiding, and a protocol that holds.

The Wait, lesson 1: The wait is the job

Why replay feels easy and live feels impossible: the hardest part of trading is sitting with a question the market hasn't answered yet.

The Wait, lesson 2: Freeze and chase, one fear with two faces

The trader who can't pull the trigger and the trader who jumps in late are often the same person, running from the same feeling.

The Wait, lesson 3: How a loss changes the math

Loss aversion, the break-even effect and the urge to win it back: what the research says a loss does to the next decision.

The Wait, lesson 4: Anatomy of a blow-up

Six weeks of one trader's losing trades, taken apart week by week. A blow-up is a sequence, and it can be broken at the first link.

The Wait, lesson 5: When you're surest, stop

Why the feeling of certainty is a warning light, and how to build a stop sign out of the sentences you say right before your worst trades.

The Wait, lesson 6: The complexity trap

Adding indicators, timeframes and versions feels like progress. Often it is anxiety relief, and it fits the noise.

The Wait, lesson 7: The not-enough scanner

Hindsight, resulting and self-attack: how judging yourself by outcomes makes the next trade worse, and what to grade instead.

The Wait, lesson 8: Hiding the trade

Protocols rarely fail where the trader forgets the rule. They fail at the moment the trader decides nobody needs to know.

The Wait, lesson 9: Trades seven to twelve

A new plan usually holds for a handful of trades. Why it breaks soon after, and the if-then plans that carry it through.

The Wait, lesson 10: Read your own record

Memory flatters. Splitting your own trades by side, market, weekday and check-in shows where your edge is and where it leaks.

The Wait, lesson 11: The protocol and the check-in sheet

Everything in the course on one page: the check-in before the session, the rules during it, the review after, and a printable sheet.

The Map, lesson 11: The one-minute entry

The exact entry behind The Map's calls: direction, zone, trigger, stop, target, time stop and the add.

The Map, lesson 12: Grading a setup, and days to sit out

Five conditions that grade a setup, why The Map trades only the top grade, and the days it stays flat.

The Map, lesson 13: Sizing at fixed risk, and what the record shows

How The Map's calls are sized, the shape of its record, and how far to trust it.

The Open: Course workbook

Seven lessons on The Open, the rule that trades the morning’s move and is flat by the close: the idea, the rules, the routine, sizing and what a bad year looks like.

The Open, lesson 1: The idea and the research behind it

Why the first part of the day carries information, what an opening range is, and the published research behind The Open.

The Open, lesson 2: Why the morning sets the afternoon

Most morning moves are noise. Why the real ones tend to carry into the afternoon, and how a rule tells them apart.

The Open, lesson 3: The rules

A complete textbook opening range breakout you can test, and how The Open is built, part by part.

The Open, lesson 4: The daily routine

What to check before the open, how calls arrive, what flat means, and how NQ and MNQ compare.

The Open, lesson 5: The second trade

Why the day’s second trade is the one most traders skip, and what it has been worth.

The Open, lesson 6: Sizing for the worst drawdown

Four wins in ten means losing streaks. How to size The Open for its worst stretch, not its best week.

The Open, lesson 7: What a bad year looks like

Long flat stretches, losing streaks and long waits for a new high. What a bad year looks like for The Open, and what we do about it.

The Close: Course workbook

Seven lessons on The Close, from the idea behind it to what a bad year looks like, plus a test checklist and journal template.

The Close, lesson 1: The idea and the research behind it

The idea behind the rule, the public research it comes from, and what our own tests found, including where the edge is thin.