Building Traders Through Real Market Experience

Our approach to technical analysis education is grounded in practical application. We don't just teach chart patterns — we show you how professional traders think, adapt, and manage risk in live market conditions.

Core Teaching Principles

Every lesson, every chart review, every trading simulation is designed around these fundamental beliefs about how people actually learn to trade.

Pattern Recognition Takes Time

You won't master support and resistance levels in a weekend. Our six-month program reflects the reality that your brain needs repeated exposure to different market conditions before patterns become intuitive.

Peer Learning Accelerates Growth

When you analyze charts alongside other learners, you discover approaches you wouldn't have considered. Our structured group sessions create space for those "oh, I see it now" moments that happen through discussion.

Context Shapes Every Trade

A bullish engulfing candle means something different on a Friday before a holiday versus a Tuesday morning earnings announcement. We teach you to read the full story, not just the technical setup.

Risk Management Comes First

Before we discuss entry signals, you'll understand position sizing. Before you learn breakout strategies, you'll calculate maximum acceptable loss. This isn't the exciting part, but it's what keeps traders in the game.

Real Markets Don't Wait

Theory matters, but application matters more. From week three onward, you'll be analyzing actual market movements and explaining your reasoning to the group. Mistakes in class are valuable — they're cheap lessons.

Emotional Discipline Is Teachable

Fear and greed don't disappear with experience, but you can develop systems that work despite them. Our curriculum includes decision-making frameworks that help when your instincts are screaming conflicting advice.

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Learning Through Shared Analysis

Individual study gets you familiar with indicators. Group work teaches you how different traders interpret the same chart in valid but different ways — and why those differences matter.

Weekly Chart Sessions

Every Tuesday and Thursday evening, the cohort reviews recent market movements together. You'll present your analysis, defend your interpretation, and discover blind spots in your thinking through respectful challenge.

Study Partner Matching

After the first month, we pair participants based on complementary strengths. One might excel at spotting divergences while the other has stronger volume analysis skills. You'll review each other's work throughout the program.

Scenario Workshops

Once monthly, we reconstruct historical market events. Your group receives the same information traders had at specific moments during significant moves, then decides collectively how to respond. The debrief reveals what actually happened and why.

Trading Journal Reviews

You'll maintain detailed records of every practice trade and analysis. During scheduled reviews, your cohort examines entries together, identifying patterns in decision-making that individuals often miss about themselves.

Meet Your Teaching Team

Three practitioners who learned technical analysis the hard way and now help others avoid the expensive mistakes.

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Finnegan Kjelland

Lead Instructor

Spent seven years as a prop trader before realizing he preferred teaching pattern recognition to executing trades. His specialty is helping visual learners see what experienced traders see instantly.

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Bryndis Solberg

Risk Management Specialist

Former institutional risk analyst who now focuses exclusively on position sizing and portfolio protection for individual traders. She's blunt about the math that keeps accounts alive.

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Tormod Bakkerud

Market Context Advisor

Twenty years analyzing Asian markets taught him that technical setups mean nothing without understanding what's happening across related instruments and time zones. He connects the dots others miss.

How the Program Unfolds

1

Foundation Phase (Weeks 1-8)

You'll learn to read candlestick formations, identify trend structures, and understand basic indicators. The pace is deliberate because rushing these concepts leads to confusion later.

2

Application Phase (Weeks 9-16)

Now you apply what you've learned to current markets. Daily chart analysis assignments, weekly group presentations, and constant feedback on your developing eye for setups.

3

Integration Phase (Weeks 17-24)

Simulated trading begins with paper accounts. You'll manage virtual positions, adjust to changing conditions, and experience the psychological pressure of decision-making before risking actual capital.

4

Refinement Phase (Weeks 25-26)

The final weeks focus on reviewing your journal, identifying your natural strengths, and building a personal trading plan that matches your schedule, risk tolerance, and analytical style.

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