Then he met a systematic trader with nine years of tested data, and asked to be taught from zero. He is learning the whole thing in public — every trade, every week, the losing ones included — with one goal: pass a funded account evaluation and take a payout. Start with the same two modules he started with.
No card. Modules 1 and 2 open in full — 7 lessons you can read today.
I used to think trading was gambling. I work in finance — Revolut before, private banking now — and I had watched enough intelligent people lose money to be comfortable with that opinion.
Then I met Michael. Nine years of building strategies and then trying to break them, and what came out the other side was two setups with rules tight enough that there is nothing left to guess in the moment. That is what changed my mind: not the returns, the method.
So I asked him to teach me, and I asked to record the whole thing. I am not a professional trader. I am learning this in public — every trade, every week, the losses included — with one goal: pass a funded account evaluation and take a first payout. You get to watch whether it works.
The first two modules are free. Start where I started.
60 seconds · no pitch · what the course is and is not
Three things go wrong, and all three are fixable with arithmetic rather than motivation.
Patterns get taught because they look good on a chart someone picked afterwards. We tested the common ones over nine years. The doji scores 0.965 — worse than entering at random. We publish that too.
Take profits quickly and you win 62% of trades and still lose money — we measured exactly that, at −4.33 dollars per trade. High win rates get beginners to size up right before the account dies.
Every trade starts 1.5 points down. On a 2-minute chart that is bigger than the entire edge. Same rules on a 15-minute chart: 1.25 profit factor. That one fact decides which charts are tradable.
Not twelve. Two — because the point is to get good at something, not to collect ideas.
The first 15 minutes of New York set a range. Three filters decide whether you trade the break of it, and you are flat at 15:00. One decision per day, 67 trades a year.
| Profit factor | 1.452 |
| Win rate | 35.0% |
| Expectancy | +0.322R |
| Years positive | 9 of 9 |
| Worst drawdown | $1,767 |
A pullback that runs out of steam and resumes: a moving-average break with a reversal candle behind it, in the direction of the trend. 136 trades a year on the 15-minute chart.
| Profit factor | 1.253 |
| Win rate | 48.1% |
| Per trade | +28.1 ticks |
| Years positive | 7 of 9 |
| Worst drawdown | $4,401 |
All figures include 1.5 points of cost per round turn and realistic stop fills. With a single MNQ contract these are roughly 1,700 and 1,900 dollars a year. Real, and nowhere near life-changing — which is why the prop firm module exists.
Nine modules, 35 lessons. Modules 1 and 2 are free with any account — no card, no trial timer.
What this course is, what it is not, and the handful of numbers that decide whether anything you do in this market works.
What a candlestick actually records, which patterns hold up when you measure them, and which ones are folklore.
How to read what the market is doing without drawing fifty lines: trend, range, levels, and what the higher timeframe is actually for.
Position sizing, drawdown, and the cost arithmetic that decides which charts are even tradable.
The first 15 minutes of the New York session set a range. This is how we trade the break of it, with every rule and every measured number.
A pullback that fails and resumes: the moving-average break with a candle pattern behind it, on the 15-minute chart.
How evaluations really work, the pass rates nobody advertises, and how to choose an account size that matches your stop.
One page of rules, a five-field journal, and a monthly review you cannot lie your way through.
The small number of mental mistakes that cost real money, and the specific rules that prevent each one.
We would rather you close this page now than pay for something that was never going to fit.
This is the part no one else shows you, and it is the most valuable thing here. Every number below cost us weeks to find.
Same rules, 2-minute chart, only the target changes:
| Target | Win rate | Profit factor | Per trade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 points | 62.3% | 0.706 | −$4.33 |
| 20 points | 47.8% | 0.797 | −$4.12 |
| No target | 30.1% | 0.909 | −$2.48 |
The more often you win, the more you lose. Taught in Module 9, lesson 1.
Identical rules. Only the timeframe changes:
| Chart | With real cost | At zero cost |
|---|---|---|
| 2 minute | 0.814 | 1.070 |
| 5 minute | 0.887 | 1.086 |
| 15 minute | 1.253 | 1.31 |
| 30 minute | 1.311 | 1.436 |
The logic works on fast charts. The toll is just bigger than the edge. Module 4, lesson 3.
Taught everywhere as an entry signal. Measured: −0.702R, profit factor 0.11 — the worst result in the whole study. What works is the opposite: agreement.
1.0× the previous body scores 1.112. 2× scores 1.055. The more impressive the pattern looks, the worse it did.
Tested three ways, lost every time. You get a better price on the moves that come back — and miss the ones that run.
No faceless company, no rotating team of coaches. One person who answers his own emails.
Founder · teaches every module · trades it in public
Adrian Fotik founded Traders With Fotik and runs it day to day. He works in finance — Revolut before, private banking now — and spent years convinced that trading was closer to a casino than to a job. A systematic trader changed his mind, and he asked to be taught from zero, on camera.
He writes every module, records the weekly trade review, answers the emails, and posts every trade he takes while he works towards a funded account and a first payout. He is not a professional trader and does not describe himself as one.
The two setups were built and tested by Michael, a systematic trader who stays off camera and has no interest in being on it. He ran the nine years of data and handed over the rules. Everything you see here — the course, the community, the weekly review — is Adrian's.
Everything is included, because splitting a course into tiers is a sales tactic, not a teaching one.
Forever. No card.
Cancel whenever. Keeps working while you do.
What Adrian took, why, what it did, and what he got wrong. No charts with arrows drawn after the fact.
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We do not know, and nobody who tells you otherwise does either. What we can tell you is what the setups did over nine years of real data with real costs: roughly 1,700 and 1,900 dollars a year with one contract. Whether you get that depends on whether you follow the rules, and most people do not.
No, and that is the point of the prop firm module. One MNQ contract needs a few thousand dollars at a broker. A prop evaluation needs a fee of a hundred or two. We show you how to size for both, and we publish the real pass rates — 5% to 15% — next to every affiliate link.
Setup 1 is one decision at 09:45 New York and one exit at 15:00. Setup 2 needs you at the screen during the session. If you can only give it fifteen minutes a day, trade Setup 1 only — that is a legitimate way to do this.
No. Never have, never will. Copying entries teaches you nothing and leaves you helpless the week the sender stops posting. You get the rules and the indicators that mark them on your own chart.
Neither, and deliberately so. We measured scalping extensively and it does not survive costs on this instrument — a 2-minute version of the same rules scores 0.81. The holding time here is hours, not seconds.
That is who this is built for. Modules 1 to 4 assume you know nothing. The first instruction in the course is to not trade for a week, and the second is to paper trade for another. Nobody is in a hurry here.
Any time, in one click, and you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. No calls, no retention offers.
Two full modules, the risk templates and the weekly email — free, no card, no trial timer counting down. Read something real before you decide anything.