Your commitmentWhat the programme asks of you.
Private Mentoring provides the framework, the tools and the mentors, but nobody can do the reps for you. What it asks in return: 6 habits, integrity, and the willingness to be corrected.
Consistency over talent
The programme only works if you do. The framework, the tools and the mentors are all there, but nobody can carry you through the process or do the repetitions for you. Watch the lessons without reviews, questions and a journal, and you get the information but none of the corrections.
Most traders who struggle lose through inconsistency. They jump from setup to setup, skip their journal, avoid feedback, trade when they shouldn’t and make everything more complicated than it needs to be.
You don’t have to be perfect. You do have to be committed, and in practice that comes down to 6 habits.
The 6 habits
The habits come in 3 pairs. The first 2 are about preparation, the next 2 about getting answers, and the last 2 close the loop.
You know the reasons behind most of them from earlier in the course: why rushing and silent confusion slow you down, how a full-picture trade review works and why a journal only helps when you fill it in after every trade. The programme asks you to turn them into a weekly routine. Students who keep these 6 habits move faster.
Go through the lessons in order. Don’t rush, and don’t skip.
Use the terminal every week to build your view on which way a currency should move, and why.
Send trades in with your bias, why you entered and your journal notes, not just whether it won.
Ask early, ask often, and give context.
Log your trades, your results and your mindset. Your journal is your mirror.
Act on the feedback you get. Don’t just nod and move on.
Integrity
There is one more expectation: integrity. Don’t copy, leak or resell the course content, and don’t pass around material that isn’t yours to share. Treat the other students with respect, and add value in the group chats.
Above all, act like a professional. How you show up in a programme is how you will show up in the market. Keeping your word to a group is practice for keeping it to your own trading plan, which the lesson on integrity in the core values module covers in depth.
Expect to be corrected
You will be wrong sometimes, and you will be corrected. As the lesson on asking better questions showed, the moments when someone challenges your thinking are where the growth happens.
It only works if you are willing to listen, reflect and adjust. Say a mentor tells you your stops are too tight for the pair. You adjust them on your next trades and report back, instead of nodding and carrying on. The students who do well show up even on days when they feel unsure, apply feedback even when it challenges their ego, and care more about progress than about looking perfect.
You don’t need to be perfect. You need to show up, follow the process and own your development.
In short
- Private Mentoring only works if you do the reps. You don’t have to be perfect, but you do have to be consistent.
- It asks for 6 habits: lessons in order, a weekly bias, full-picture trade reviews, early questions, an honest journal and applied feedback.
- It also asks for integrity and a willingness to be corrected, because growth happens in the friction between theory and execution.
Questions
How do I know if I’m ready for it?
Look at the 6 habits and check whether your week has room for them right now. If it doesn’t, the free Academy and its practice tasks are a good place to build them first.
Key terms
- Bias
- Your expected direction for a market over a time frame: bullish, bearish or neutral. A bias is a starting point, not an entry signal.
- Trading journal
- A record of every trade with the reason, the numbers and a review. The basis for improving with facts instead of feelings.
- Mentor
- An experienced trader who reviews your decisions and tells you honestly what to fix, so mistakes get corrected before they become habits.
- Feedback loop
- A repeating cycle of try, review, adjust and repeat. Each round tells you what to correct before the next attempt.