The story behind the method — and the person teaching it.
I've been drawn to trading since 2001. Like a lot of people, I came in through the myth — the Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, high-roller version of it. I wanted the fast money. What nobody told me back then is that trading isn't a shortcut and it isn't a hobby you dabble in. It's a business. And if you don't treat it like one, it will treat you like a tourist — I know, because it did.
I failed early, consistently, and expensively. Young, impatient, chasing quick money — I lost, lost interest, and walked away.
I came back around 2015. Older, more skeptical, and for a very specific reason: trading is one of the few things in life that is entirely on me. No boss, no team, no one else to blame or thank. Every success and every failure is mine. I've always gravitated to individual sports for the same reason — tennis growing up, then squash, then badminton — I never wanted my outcome to depend on anyone else. It's me versus me. Trading is the purest version of that I've found.
Quick thing about where I'm coming from, because it matters. I've got a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Texas A&M (College Station) and a master's from the University of Alberta (Edmonton) — and a day job I actually love and that's done well by me. I'm telling you that for one reason: this isn't a rags-to-riches story, and I'm not selling you a dream to pay my bills. Yes, I charge — $75 a month — and I make some money from it. But the value you get for that is worth many times more than what you put in. I keep things small on purpose, so I can keep the quality and teaching where I want it for everyone. I do this because I was there once myself, and I remember how frustrating and hard it is trying to figure it all out on your own.
I question everything. I don't take "trust me" as an answer — I want the data, the evidence, the proof it holds up. That instinct cost me time and money in the beginning: I burned through courses, watched endless YouTube, and chased a lot of noise before I found a few genuinely good mentors and communities. I won't pretend I did this alone — anyone who tells you they built their edge entirely from scratch isn't being fully transparent. What I did that was mine was take the fragments I understood — the ones that were sound in logic, that actually made sense to me — throw out everything that didn't, and assemble them into a single mechanical system. It was like putting a jigsaw puzzle together from pieces scattered across the trading world.
Mechanical was the whole point. Most traders — nearly all of them — lose to emotion, not to the market. And holding emotional discipline for years, let alone decades, is hard. So I built a method that removes as much of that decision-making as possible. That's Catch The Wick™.
It's built on logic, trend-following, and a strict set of entry rules. We follow price action and supply and demand in a simple trend-following approach — but only after confirmation. No guesswork, no limit orders, no betting against the market. Everything is a stop order, after confirmation, at the earliest sound entry. The rules don't change week to week or season to season, because that's not how markets trend. And because the framework repeats across every pair and every timeframe, it's consistent, repeatable, and scalable. I'm not a swing trader — that's not my style — but the method fits a swing trader just as well; you simply step the timeframe up.
I'm not one to make a claim I can't back. I collected years of data and archived my results on my Discord server — not because I expected anyone to take my word for it, but because I wouldn't take my own word for it without proof. Your journey is your own, and my results won't replicate yours — but from here forward, we'll start seeing the charts the same way.
I built the FortitudeFX™ YouTube channel because I love teaching, and I always will. This isn't a get-rich-quick gimmick — I have no patience for those. It's a skill set — one that lasts, that no one can take away from you, and that you can use to build additional income or work toward genuine financial independence, responsibly. I've always played the long game, in trading and in everything else: I'd rather build something that compounds for years than chase a quick win that fades. At $75 a month, investing in that kind of skill is one of the better deals you can make with yourself.
Watch on the FortitudeFX™ YouTube channelWrite to me, talk to me — I'm always happy to help.
A clear, stress-free mind is what makes any of this sustainable, so I train hard — gym, padel, tennis. I love sports cars, the outdoors, and travel; I've lived across every continent and met people from every level of society. Their stories are what genuinely inspire me. Trading may be me versus me, but the life around it is anything but solitary.