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Student Trading Journeys

Watch how discipline transforms trading approaches across different markets and timeframes.

These projects aren't polished marketing materials. They're actual trading journals and analysis work from people learning to manage their psychology under pressure. Some made progress quickly. Others took months to find their rhythm. All of them discovered something important about themselves in the process.

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Trading journal analysis with detailed market annotations

Featured Work

Pattern Recognition Through Journaling

Isla Vangstad spent six months documenting every trade. Not just the numbers, but her emotional state, her reasoning, the market conditions she perceived. What emerged wasn't a perfect system but something more valuable.

She noticed she consistently overtrade on Tuesdays after losing Mondays. Her best setups happen when she's slightly bored, not excited. The patterns weren't in the charts alone but in her own behavior responding to those charts.

Her journal became a mirror. And mirrors don't lie, even when we want them to.

Project Categories

Students tackle different aspects of trading psychology based on their specific challenges and market approach.

Position Sizing Analysis

Learning to size positions based on actual risk tolerance rather than hope or fear.

Most traders blow up because they risk too much on trades they're uncertain about. This project forces you to track how position size affects your decision quality and sleep patterns. The data often surprises people.

Emotional State Mapping

Identifying which emotions lead to your best and worst trading decisions.

You'll rate your emotional state before, during, and after trades using a simple scale. Over time, patterns emerge. Some people trade best when calm. Others need slight anxiety to stay focused. There's no universal answer.

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Time-of-Day Performance

Discovering when your decision-making is sharpest and when it deteriorates.

Your brain doesn't perform consistently throughout the day. This project maps your performance against clock time, meal timing, and sleep quality. Some students discover they shouldn't trade after lunch at all.

Setup Selectivity Study

Training yourself to wait for genuinely high-probability setups instead of forcing trades.

You'll grade every potential setup you see, even the ones you don't take. Then compare actual results against your initial grades. The goal is calibration between what looks good and what actually works for your style.

Drawdown Behavior Analysis

Understanding how losing streaks affect your decision quality and developing response protocols.

Losses mess with your head. This project documents exactly how your behavior changes during drawdowns. Do you reduce size? Increase it? Change strategies? The patterns reveal whether you're adapting or panicking.

Revenge Trading Detection

Building awareness systems to catch yourself before emotional trading destroys your account.

Revenge trading is the fastest way to turn a bad day into a catastrophic one. Students develop personal warning systems using their own behavioral cues. What specifically happens right before you make your worst trades?

I thought I needed better indicators. Turns out I needed better self-awareness. My position sizing project showed me I was risking three times more than I claimed I was comfortable with. No wonder I couldn't sleep. Once I saw the actual numbers laid out over two months of trades, the denial became impossible. Changed everything.

Kester Drummond

Futures trader, completed program August 2024

Typical Project Development Arc

Most students move through these phases, though the timeline varies significantly based on trading frequency and self-honesty.

Data Collection

Building the habit of recording relevant information consistently across all trading sessions.

Pattern Recognition

Starting to notice recurring behaviors and emotional triggers that correlate with results.

Testing Changes

Implementing specific modifications based on identified patterns and measuring impact.

Refinement

Adjusting approaches based on what the data actually shows versus what you hoped it would show.

Comprehensive trading psychology analysis documentation

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Our next cohort begins September 2025. You'll work on projects tailored to your specific psychological challenges and trading style. The curriculum adapts based on what your data reveals about your actual behavior patterns.

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