THE GROUNDED TRADER

A builder, learning to trade, honestly.

Going part-time to be home more, and learning to read the market properly. Traded by hand, documented in full. The rough bits included.

Capital at risk. Not financial advice.

01THE WHY

I didn't go part-time to get rich. I did it to be home more than I'm at a desk.

Tech has been my thing since I was sixteen. Trading is the new, humbling part. What makes this mine is that I don't just take trades, I build the tools around them as I go. The indicators, the automations, the honest self-analysis.

Trading's the long game that pays for the time at home. Small wins, stacked up, most days. Some days I give a bit back. That's the deal, and I'm alright with it.

Read the story
02THE JOURNEY

Learning to read it properly.

I spent a long time trying to automate my way to an edge. It didn't work. So I'm doing the slower thing instead: learning to read where price is being drawn, where the stops are sitting, and what happens when a level fails.

Every trade is taken by hand, on funded accounts, with nothing placing orders for me. Wins and losses get posted the same way. That's the whole point.

WHAT I'M LEARNINGBy hand
Inversion gap

A gap that gets closed through flips role. A floor that breaks turns into a ceiling.

Breaker

A level that failed and swapped sides. Support that gets closed through becomes resistance.

Liquidity sweep

Price spikes past an obvious high or low, trips the stops resting there, then turns. It is the trigger, not the edge.

Capital at risk. Not financial advice.

03THE TOOLS

The toolkit I built for my own head, opening up to members.

The journalMembers

Two minutes after a session: what fired, and what you did about it. One honest line is enough. The entries stack into patterns you can actually see, and that's where the head game starts to change.

Know Your ChimpMembers

A guided workbook built on The Chimp Paradox. Meet the part of your brain that grabs the mouse when a trade runs against you, give it a name, and write the plan for the next time it shows up.

Watch it happen, the honest version.

No secrets, no hype, no borrowed wins. Just a bloke from Nottingham learning to trade in public and building the tools as he goes. Follow along, or send a DM if you want to talk it through.

Capital at risk. Not financial advice.