Twelve weeks. Live sessions with JP. A structured process for identifying, entering, and managing ASX equity trades — built around market behaviour, not market predictions.
General advice only. All information provided through Trade Profitably is general financial product advice only and has been prepared without considering your personal objectives, financial situation or needs. Consider whether it is appropriate for your circumstances before enrolling. John Pontikas is an Authorised Representative (AR 329302) of PGW Financial Services Pty Ltd (AFSL 384713).
You've read the books. You've studied the charts. You may have traded for years. And yet the results remain inconsistent — good weeks followed by bad ones, a process that holds until it doesn't, decisions made under pressure that you'd never make in a calm moment.
The issue isn't what you know. It's the absence of a structured, rules-based process that governs what you do — and what you don't do — before, during, and after every session.
Each week builds on the last. The first four weeks establish the structural and environmental foundations. Weeks five through nine cover stock selection, entry methodology, intraday timing, risk, and execution. The final three weeks apply everything in live market conditions and build the trading plan you carry forward independently.
Most trading courses bolt psychology on at the end, if they include it at all. In this cohort it sits at the midpoint — after students have enough technical grounding to understand what the material is describing, and before live trading at full size begins.
The reason is simple: technical failure and identity expression are not the same thing. A trader who knows the rule and breaks it anyway is not making a knowledge error. Something is operating below the level of conscious decision-making.
The market is the most unforgiving mirror available. The patterns that show up in your trading — the early entries, the held losers, the oversized positions — are not random. They are expressions of something that predates the trading account.
Twenty-six years in financial markets. The early part of that career was institutional — ABN AMRO Morgans, then RBS Morgans — where the standard for process, documentation, and professional accountability was set by the environment, not by personal preference.
In 2011, JP left institutional employment to found JMP Strategic Investments. What followed was a decade of building and refining a framework that could be applied consistently across real market conditions — not conditions carefully selected to support a system, but the full cycle. The dot-com collapse, September 11, the GFC, the European debt crisis, COVID. Each of those environments exposed every flaw in a process that wasn't genuinely robust.
The framework taught in this cohort is the result of that refinement. It is rule-based, documentable, and applicable to ASX-listed securities within a licensed, regulated context. Everything taught is delivered within JP's authorisation as AR 329302 under AFSL 384713. There is real professional accountability behind what is taught here — not because it is required by law, but because that standard was the starting point, not an afterthought.
The cohort is deliberately small. Fifteen people maximum. JP responds to every enrolment enquiry personally. There is no automated funnel, no sales call, no team. If you have a question, JP answers it.
General advice only. All information provided through Trade Profitably is general financial product advice only and has been prepared without considering your personal objectives, financial situation or needs. Consider whether it is appropriate for your circumstances before enrolling. John Pontikas is an Authorised Representative (AR 329302) of PGW Financial Services Pty Ltd (AFSL 384713).