PHASE4o4: Trading Mentorship
I’m Raymond, 42 years old, with eight years in the market. For three years, I was consistently losing, but I kept getting back up and trying again. Still learning from the market today, because learning never ends.
Like many traders, I was drawn in by the idea that trading could make me rich and give me the life I’d always wanted. The dream of becoming a trader took over my thinking. I thought it could be as simple as opening a long or a short position and making money.
Much of the hype I was seeing, especially around crypto, fed that belief. Stories of overnight wealth and gains of hundreds of percent made trading look like a shortcut to everything I wanted. It was easy to focus on the dream and overlook what I hadn’t learned.
The version of trading I had imagined was a mirage. I found out the hard way that picking long or short meant very little if I couldn’t explain why I was taking the trade, how I would manage it, or how I would handle myself when price started moving in a live market. I had thought about getting rich before I had learned how to trade. For the first three years, I was consistently losing.
There weren’t endless named trading styles to choose from back then. But if there was something I could study, I went after it. I moved from one approach to another, hoping I was getting closer. Each one seemed to explain part of the market. Then I would run into gaps, exceptions and decisions that depended more on interpretation than clear rules.
The more I learned, the more questions I had. I could find another concept or another explanation, but I couldn’t find clear answers to what I was seeing on the chart. Instead of getting closer to a process I could repeat, I often felt further away.
It felt like being stuck on a 404 page: “not found.” I kept searching, but the answers I needed never seemed to be there. That feeling of reaching a dead end became part of the story behind Phase4o4.
So I went back to the beginning and started studying the market itself. Candle by candle. I watched how price moved, went back through the charts and looked at the same situations again and again. Over time, I began to notice recurring footprints: how price approached liquidity, how a move developed, and what happened around reversal points. This is what I mean by studying the market makers’ blueprint: looking for the logic behind the move, instead of simply giving it a name.
Over time, as I studied the charts and kept practising, my questions became more specific. Why was I taking this trade? What conditions needed to be there? Where was the idea wrong? Could I make the same decision again, for the same reasons? I started turning what I was learning into a framework I could test, practise and review. That work became the foundation of Phase4o4.
It’s also why I keep sharing free lessons and chart explanations on Instagram and YouTube, and why I’ve put time into making the free PDFs. I remember how it felt to work hard without knowing what I should actually be looking for. I don’t want other traders to spend years collecting fancy concepts and feeling just as lost as when they started.
I want to help you begin with a clearer direction: understand what to look for, ask better questions and put your effort into building a skill. I share this material because I care about where that effort takes you. My hope is that you find a path you understand and can keep working on, with more purpose, fewer distractions and room to keep learning.
Where should you start?
Start with my Instagram page. You’ll find educational posts and highlights with examples from live charts as well as past price action. Work through them at your own pace and follow the explanations to get familiar with the way I read the market.
Then go through the PDFs below, one by one, alongside those examples. They bring the key ideas together and give you a starting point for understanding how the market works and what to focus on in your own learning.
The strategy
An introduction to the Phase4o4 trading approach and framework.
Open free PDF Resource 02PDFTypes of gaps
Explore gap concepts and their place in your chart study.
Open free PDF Resource 03PDFSession setup
Material focused on sessions and preparing for the trading day.
Open free PDF Resource 04PDFPsychology
A starting point for thinking about behaviour and discipline in trading.
Open free PDF1-on-1 Advanced
Mentorship
My 1-on-1 Advanced Mentorship is a fully live program built around my own advanced trading framework. This framework is specific to my private mentorship, not a method offered within other trading styles. It has no connection to Smart Money Concepts (SMC) or ICT. I have not taught its advanced concepts on my Instagram page.
You do not have to join a mentorship to start learning how to trade. The free material is there to study, practise and backtest as you develop your own setups. The advanced mentorship is for people who want to work more deeply on this approach and are prepared to take an active role in learning it.
How the mentorship works
Start by watching the Live Trades and Mentorship highlights on my Instagram. Look at the trades my students and I share, where we enter and how price moves afterwards. Those examples will help you put the explanation below into context.
We begin with the market itself. Why does price move from point A to point B, then from point B to point C? What happens as a move develops, and what changes at a reversal point? Memorising setups cannot answer all of those questions. You first need to understand the logic behind the movement and learn what to look for on the chart.
That understanding is the starting point. The next step is learning how to trade what you see. Calling a market bullish or bearish means little if you still do not know where to enter, when your idea is wrong or how to manage the trade. In the mentorship, we connect the explanation on the chart to a practical plan for taking the trade.
You learn to recognise the conditions for an entry, plan your risk and follow clear rules as price moves between key points. This is what I mean by a mechanical approach: knowing what must happen before you act, rather than making up a reason to enter while the market is moving. Understanding the movement and being able to trade it are taught together.
Look at the trades my students and I share. You’ll see entries where price turns, or just as a strong move begins. Some examples also show us trading around major news releases. (I do not recommend trading major news. These examples show how we use the method, not something I encourage you to copy.) Before the news, we mark the levels we are watching and plan where we expect price to go. We then wait for the entry conditions in our plan. Having a plan helps us decide what to do, but price can still move against it.
The commitment this mentorship requires
This is for someone who wants trading to become a serious skill in their life and is willing to make time for it. If you expect a few online sessions to do the work for you, or you are looking for a quick route to getting rich, this will not be the right fit.
A skill built through practice
Wanting to play football like Cristiano Ronaldo is not enough to reach his level. Even among professional players, very few reach that standard. It takes years of consistent training, discipline and attention to preparation, diet, recovery and the smallest details of performance. Natural ability and individual physical qualities play a part too. An interest in football, or knowing how the game works, cannot replace all of that.
Trading also demands far more than an interest in the result. It is a difficult skill to learn, and no formula can do the learning, practice or decision making for you. Understanding the rules is one thing. Recognising the right conditions on a live chart and following those rules under pressure is another. That ability develops through practice, repetition and reviewing your mistakes.
Your progress will depend on your own abilities, the time you put in and how you use what you learn. You can work on those skills and improve them, but you need realistic expectations about your pace and your results. Someone else’s progress is not a deadline for yours.
Support needs your participation
We work through the method step by step, with guidance and feedback to help you understand what you are doing and why. I bring serious attention to the teaching. I expect that same energy from you in the way you study, practise and engage.
To benefit from the support, you need to be active, bring your work into the discussion and apply what you learn. I can help you review your decisions and recognise mistakes. I cannot practise for you or make your decisions when the market is moving.
Mentorship beyond the charts
One of the most valuable parts of mentorship goes beyond the technical teaching. When you are learning on your own, you often do not know whether your work is right, whether a trade followed your plan or whether you are moving in the right direction. That uncertainty can affect your confidence and lead you to change a plan before you have given it a fair chance.
Having a mentor gives you someone to work through those questions with. I help my students look honestly at their trades, recognise what needs attention and keep their expectations grounded in reality. Sometimes that means correcting a mistake. Sometimes it means recognising that a well planned trade can still lose, or that pushing harder and taking more trades is not the answer.
This is how I work with my students, from those who joined two years ago to those who are just starting with me. In my day-to-day mentoring, I stay in contact, review the work and trades they share, and follow their progress. The purpose is to help them recognise when they are drifting away from their plan, understand what to work on next and build the confidence to make their own decisions.
What we’ll work on
in the mentorship.
Market structure & context
Read the bigger picture before focusing on an entry.
Directional bias
Learn which direction to look for and why.
Liquidity & price behaviour
Study where orders build up and how price moves around them.
Reversal & continuation areas
Recognise when price may turn or continue its move.
Your mechanical plan & risk
Plan your entry, risk and exit. Know when to stay out.
Practice, review & execution
Test your setups, record your trades and learn from feedback.
Student Feedback
More on InstagramRead what students have shared. Watch their trades and see how we trade as a team.
Student voice feedback
The feedback you see and the trades these students take reflect the time, practice and hard work they have put in. Results like these do not come easily, and joining alone is not enough. Real progress takes a serious commitment to learning and consistent practice. If this is the skill you want to build, be ready to put in the work.
Mentorship FAQ.
What should I know before joining?
I teach the advanced framework from its foundations, including its concepts, logic and application. You do not need to know this method before joining. You do need to be familiar with the basic tools used in trading: what a chart and a candle are, how to use charting tools in TradingView, and how to use the platform you plan to trade on.
If you have never worked with a chart or trading platform, starting directly with the advanced material will be difficult. There are plenty of introductory videos that cover these basics. Take time to learn them first, alongside the free resources, so you can begin better prepared.
How much time should I allow for the mentorship?
This mentorship is taught live. Allow at least six months for learning the method, with further time needed to develop your execution. Live sessions, exercises and feedback are part of that process. The quality of your learning comes first.
Many other courses give you a library of recorded videos that you can watch in a day. Finishing them does not mean you can trade. Learning, practice and reviewing your work need to move forward together. As you learn each part, you practise it, use feedback to adjust and keep improving your execution. Trading is a skill. There is no magic formula that can replace this process.
Is there a time limit on support?
Support is exclusively for active students. It has no preset time limit while I continue to provide the mentorship and you remain actively involved. If you become inactive, your mentorship support ends.
This is a commitment from both sides. I give my time and attention to students who are putting their own time and energy into learning, practising, sharing their work and making progress. Staying active is a condition of receiving support.
Which markets can I use the method in?
Understanding the logic behind price gives you a foundation for trading across markets. You do not have to stay with one pair or asset. You learn how to apply the same principles to the market you choose.
The practical choice depends on what your broker or trading platform supports, the spread and commission, and which market suits your trading conditions. You can see the range in the Mentorship highlights: some students trade Nasdaq-100 and gold futures, while others trade forex pairs such as EUR/USD and GBP/USD.
Is the mentorship a monthly subscription?
No. There is a single mentorship fee, with no monthly subscription. The current price will increase soon. Please confirm the fee with me before joining.
Will I join a Discord community?
No. Discord is set up as a private space for your own mentorship and direct communication with me. The purpose is to keep your attention on your own learning and progress. People develop at different speeds, and their trading results can look very different on the same day. Seeing someone else have a good day while you are struggling can make you doubt your ability or feel pressure to catch up. Your work is reviewed on its own terms, so you can focus on the next step in your development without constantly comparing yourself with others.
Will I have direct contact with you?
Yes. You communicate with me directly through your private Discord space. For nearly two years, I have made a point of supporting my students day to day, including weekends and holidays, and making time for their questions and work. You can see that experience reflected in their feedback. I also need time to rest, and there will be times when I am unavailable. I do my best to stay involved and support each active student, but replies will not always be immediate.