Questions, answered plainly.
What’s the difference between RTM and RTM Academy?
RTM (readthemarket.com) is thirteen years of discussion and everything I’ve already written — a community, not a classroom. RTM Academy is personal coaching: a year working directly with me, with assignments built around you specifically.
Why are the prices so different?
RTM is open access to existing material and an ongoing community — €297 reflects that. RTM Academy is a year of my direct time and attention, which is a different thing entirely.
Will this work on any instrument?
The market moves in exactly the same way, wherever or whatever it is. Those who run price, run all prices, and they know exactly how to make the masses lose. We see them.
Is this for scalping, day trading, or long term?
Price is used to manipulate emotion. The same tricks are used in the same places, no matter the timeframe. It’s all about getting retail traders to move in the right direction, but too early — giving them a rollercoaster of emotion, then shaking them out at what we can predict to be the best turning points.
What does it cost?
RTM: €297 per year. RTM Academy: €24,997 per year (open admission), or €8,500 per year by application. See the Join page for how the application route works.
Do you still trade?
You may have noticed that I’m very busy with work which I find far more important than making money. I’m lucky, though — if I start running low, I can take a trade, and refill the coffers.
How does the read actually work?
Regardless of what you believe about bankers ruling the world, the market acts like they do. There’s an order to it — imperceptible to most, but visible once you know where to look. A hidden symmetry: the way a space lines up with a flag, a high lining up with a low. Something in the human mind already senses this. Most people just don’t know what they’re seeing. RTM teaches you how to see it.
Start from the premise that the market exists to take people’s savings, not protect them. It wasn’t benevolence that put charts in everybody’s home. We’ve already covered how price manipulates emotion until stops get handed over — exactly at the places we can see price is likely to turn.
Sometimes that turn happens inside a zone only a few pips wide. Sometimes it’s just a bounce. We teach you to profit from both: lock in the bounce so a real turn can win big, or — if your stop gets hit — still walk away in profit from the bounce alone. Sometimes you take the bounce only, and that’s the win.
Even our most experienced graduates have different appetites and risk tolerances. No two people trade this exactly the same way, and that’s by design, not a flaw in the teaching.
Can you guarantee I’ll win?
No. Anyone who guarantees that is selling something other than the truth.
What I can say is this: the method works because it’s reading something real — how price gets used against people, consistently, regardless of instrument or timeframe. That part doesn’t change. What does change is you: whether you can sit with a loss without abandoning the read, whether you can take the trade your analysis says to take when every instinct says otherwise. Most people who fail don’t fail because the method was wrong. They fail because they flinched.
That’s exactly why the application route exists for the cheaper tier — and why every applicant is reviewed personally either way. I’m not selling certainty. I’m selling odds, and the discipline to actually use them.