LIVE: The 3-Step Blueprint to Become an Elite Trader (0 to Pro) transcript

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This is Andre Shimi, >> Fabio Valentini, >> and today we're gonna host this masterclass [clears throat] to well present for the first time really uh publicly the new face of workass edge and how it is evolved into a completely different thing that it used to be um and the road map to trade like a professional. So we're going to share some slides now and we're going to get right in. So [clears throat] there is a gap in the trading world between average retail traders and professionals trading in the financial world.

The average retail traders typically find outs about trading through a guru and he trusts people with zero credentials, selling them the lifestyle dream with an MT4 screenshot because it's a more compelling and easy to believe [clears throat] change your life with this simple trading strategy. And you know that's why 90% of retail traders fail. Now, I was at the exact same point for the first two years of my trading, and then I've had the luck to be exposed to professional traders instead.

The first one I've been exposed ever being the guy on my left over here. And so, I've sat down with them, learned their approach to the markets, watched them trade. But not anyone can have that luck. So, that's why World War Edge was born in 2023, to try and bridge this gap. And this year, as many of you already have seen, Workclass [clears throat] Edge has gone one step further to make professional institutional level trading education available to everybody.

They say the volume is low. I I don't think the volume is low, guys. It should be it should be high enough. It should be high enough. Yeah, it's probably just for someone. And today you will learn what are the tools that professionals actually use, what are the types of strategy they actually use, and the series of steps you need to take to start approaching trading as a professional. And if you stay until the end of this master class, you'll also come to learn how you can do all of this for free on Workclass Edge.

So your host for tonight as always me you you guys know know us already. I'm I'm going to cut the presentation short and just before we start another special gift that we will put at the end of this live session to also get to try for free or for very low tools that professionals use and as you will see access to capital. So let's start from the very beginning and dive deep into what tools professionals use. And this is the first great step if you want to strive and and to become a professional and to put your trading path towards the professional realm.

Retail traders typically always starts with something like this uh technical analysis patterns, right? So you see these patterns in price and you kind of try and trade them and identify them through these very um discretionary geometrical shapes. I started like that at least and then you simply end up into fancier and fancier versions of the same thing. Still patterns, right? Patternbased traders. And this is the reality of I would say the majority of traders.

But professionals typically do not consider price patterns as at the as the starting point but mostly at the ending point right because patterns sometimes work and sometime don't. Uh maybe they work for a period of time then they stop working and they're very often hard to quantify. So a trader might see a triangle in a way or uh a liquidity sweep in a way. Another trader might see it a different way or a different fair value gap, a different area, a different zone, a different support and resistance, different supply and demand zone, whatever that is.

So professional trading typically doesn't start from how to read a chart. You know, it it it if you go in the academical space, it actually starts from the basics of finance from what moves price. So the first step is typically understanding the fundamentals of the market. And this might sound boring. This might sound like but it's actually super simple. It's actually way simpler than it seems. So most traders have absolutely no clue about what financial markets even are or how they work.

And they lack very basic financial education. Professional instead know the supply and demand dynamics that move every single market. the reason why behind price movements such as for example let's take one market for an example stocks right stocks are mostly riskon assets where people get to pour their money when they're they have a high risk appetite and they typically try to anticipate what the economy is going to do or how much money each public company will earn right the earnings being the key here so the entire stock market for example the S&P 500 this is a chart of 2008 it anticipated one of the biggest uh recessions in history and after that that's exactly what happened and when the government started stepping in saving the banks and you know started printing a lot of money that's when you had the bottom when the economy recovered and we got out of the bare market as well so the economy and how much money the companies are ing are the main driver of the stock market, right?

This is something very basic. So, they're driven by risk appetite and typically they anticipate the macroeconomic cycle or they try to. And so, if you're at a point where the Fed the Federal Reserve and the government are printing money and printing liquidity and the rates are at zero, so there's just a flood of money in the economy. Where can the market go? it's very unlikely that that we will go down. So 99% of the times in history this happened markets has gone up.

So if I know the macroeconomic landscape, I can say hey maybe now it's time to go for long strategies or to go for momentum strategies rather than mean reversion strategies, right? And kind of adapt with the regime. This is just a basic example. Another very basic example that it's probably the the the easiest macro trade one can do is if the Fed rates are low, the US bond market will also have low interest rates and less investors will have to live their liquidities like that in dollars and and just give it to the government for 0%.

So if the Fed's rates are low, the US bond market will have low interest rates and this typically brings the US dollar down. This was right after COVID. The Federal Reserve dropped interest rates and if dollars don't yield much, no one will want to hold a lot of dollars and the dollar had one of its biggest drops, one of the biggest bare markets of the last over the last few decades. And then as soon as they start mentioning that maybe they will hike rates in the future, guess what happens?

That's the bottom of the dollar. So if you're a forex trader, understanding how the central banks do things can help you anticipate the long trends. These are big flow of monies that are almost forced into the market. And again, if the US bonds, which is the the ultimate safe haven, right? lending money to the government is like the safest thing you can do for now. We'll see. Um, and if they don't have a good return, the next best safe haven against inflation, so the store of value is gold.

And typically in when there's rate cuts, you see gold going really, really high and pumping up, right? Whenever they're not hiking rates, that's what happened. We've seen the last year they stopped the rate hikes, gold went into the biggest run in history. now that they're starting to talk about maybe, you know, we might hike it again. Gold dropped, right? It's it's mathematical. There are some things that most retail traders don't even know that are a mathematical reason for capital to flow in the market and you can adapt your strategy like this.

So, professional traders understand which phase we are in the market cycle, where regime, which regime we are. Is it a volatile regime? Can I expect in this market in the NASDAQ in August to have a huge volatility when nothing in the macro landscape is really happening? Unlikely. You've seen unfortunately you know we've seen how the how choppy this the last few sessions were, right? Uh or the last month. So knowing where to find the best opportunities by understanding the overall landscape of financial markets is the key to find volatility which is the bread and butter of for example day traders.

Professional traders also know how to exploit low volatility environment by buying and selling volatility itself which is a it's a whole other edge that we will talk about. But this is the basics understanding the regime. This is something that's ignored by the most amount of people that or the most amount of retail traders I had the chance to encounter. So they know a trend following strategy will not work in a regime where the markets won't have a lot of volatility, a lot of momentum.

And they also don't trade one strategy in one market. You know, they know how to trade multiple strategies and they adapt to where the flow of capital is likely to be more aggressive. So the first step to be able is is to be able to anticipate where the biggest flow of money is reasonably likely to be going by understanding what moves money in and out of the market with fundamentals. So we do it through the so-called fundamental analysis and the second step is reading the flow and following the flow.

So as we discussed reading price action is the step that everyone knows and you use candlestick. If if you hear any person talking about any sort of candlestick patterns even the old school candlestick pattern remember the hammers and the engulfings and the uh what's the name? The the the bean bar >> the bean bar the evening star the morning star all this kind of stuff. You'll see them, you hear them talking here. Buyers maybe did not win the battle, sellers did.

Or you know, here um someone bought, someone sold, there was stop orders, blah blah. And you hear them talking about interaction between orders, >> but you don't see these orders, right? You just see candles, which is the result. [snorts] But not only bare technical analysis, price action analysis is typically the last step that the the timing tool but the also the way most people do technical analysis is extremely limited by the tools they use.

So where typically retail traders choose candlestick charts, price patterns, trend lines, oscillators, you typically see professionals using orderflow and auction theory, volume analysis to see the footprints of smart money or option flows and GEX in the case of for example stocks in the stock market or COT reports understanding what's the actual positioning long-term of big market participants or insider position analysis through the 13F filings, right?

So, for example, what the Congress people uh the congressmen and congress women are buying or selling the insiders of each company. >> No, they are just lucky. >> They're, you know, they're just lucky. Yeah, they outperformed every best investor of all time. Um, but yeah, you know, they they look at these key elements. They look at what behind the price patterns and that's the key. That's that's how you need to think in terms of how can I truly understand what's going on in the market.

Not just the candlestick pattern, not just the chart. The chart is the last step. It's the risk management tool because you can understand how much in terms of price you're willing to risk. What's the right timing, right? But that's not the starting point. And all of these things, the option flow, the order flow, the gam exposure, the cot report, the the 13F, it's less sexy for a beginner. I understand it. But this is how you truly follow smart money.

And I could argue that Orflow, for example, is not that complicated. It's a it's literally buyers or sellers. I mean, it's not it's not so complicated. It's bubbles buy or sell. It's it's actually easier than sometimes people make it seem. Um, so the tools is the first step. What I want to share with you also now and I want you to write some of these things down is what strategies professionals typically use because we've met a lot of them.

We've talked with a lot of them. Here on the channel we interview market makers, former hedge fund managers, former floor traders from global micro hedge funds like from all sorts of back >> soon politician. >> Soon politicians too, right? We're going to interview Nancy Pelosi one day. I hope we'll see her strategy so we can be confident in what we're saying here. It's not like, hey, this is used by a guy that knows a guy that my cousin told me because he worked at a bank in 1925, right?

This is actual stuff. Most retail traders, and I want to hear from the chat if if this is somehow your strategy, you look for some form of a support area. You look for an entry pattern with candlesticks and you try to put a stop loss below it and to find a high riskto-reward for a day trade in a prof challenge >> minimum 1 to 25 otherwise >> otherwise [laughter] no but tell me from the chat is your strategy looking some form of this support can be supply and demand fair value gap volume profile area like anything anything >> there are 20 seconds of delay yeah >> yeah there's 20 seconds of I bet my ass, Fabio, that most traders will trade some form of this high riskreward day trade price action.

Okay, this is this and I'm not saying this is wrong necessarily. I'm saying this most retail, for example, won't even consider a strategy with a negative risk-to-reward ratio because it feels like you're not making money. This is this is a huge bias in the trading space right now. But there's so many strategies that work extremely well with an average risk-reward that it's negative. Extremely well. You'd have no idea.

Or most retail won't even consider trading other markets or other instruments. They either trade forex like that that market or they trade NQ or ES. And this this closes this narrows down the amount of possibilities and opportunities that that you can find in the market to exploit volatility. So they will just stick, you know, and they just hop on a different strategy, but it it's it's just going to be a different variation of what already hasn't worked and it becomes a graveyard of burned account and prop from challenges burnt.

Most professionals instead um typically have a portfolio manager approach, right? They they apply multiple strategies. For example, they might have, you know, uh some macro swings, you know, swing trading with macro, some passive holdings, you know, they might buy some stocks, buy some, you know, Bitcoin, for example, >> dividends >> or dividends. And they might have holdings in stocks or bonds or gold, blah, blah, blah.

They have a part of their capital dedicated to day trading, a part dedicated to automated strategies, some trend following, some mean reversion, and some market neutral strategies like premium harvesting with options. They diversify. It's it's just like any business, right? It's just like treating it like any any sort of business. The more sources of cash flow you have, right? If some of these sources of cash flow stops working, you have the other one still working, right?

It's the same for trading. It's the same for growing your capital in the markets. If you have one, if you rely on one model, one market, one strategy, one entry pattern for your entire life, it's kind of risky, you know, because >> we see it. >> We'll see later what what because what if your strategy or your concepts stop working? I mean, it could happen. It does happen all the time. So, do you really feel comfortable relying on one model in one single market for your entire life?

Let me know in the chat. So, traders who not only survive but thrive in the long term are I I like to call them financial ninjas, right? They have this financial Iikido with where they know a little bit of everything and they're able to adapt to this huge heterogeneous entity that is the financial markets and they know when to do what when to switch on. You should see yourself as Eric Stuki said this and I hope we're going to have him on the channel very soon.

He said you should see yourself as the the coach of a football team >> and and sometimes you know you you put the team the 11 people there is the goal the goalkeeper which is your cover right your covering strategies there's the defensive strategies there's the attacking strategies and if if a player is not working you take it out of the field and you bring a new one in right it's the same concept but you know professionals they don't choose a strategy like they're rooting for a football team at the stadium And you know because then it becomes a it becomes a political party choice.

You know it it's like what's my flag? I'm an ICT trader. I'm an order of flow trader. I am this. I am that. And you identify yourself with the internet community as being that type of trader. Professionals don't don't don't care about this. Okay? They just follow the best ways to reliably extract money from financial markets. That's it. They don't care who says it. They don't care who did it. What? No, they just they that's the only thing they care about.

So what type of strategies they use? One example is instead of classic investors, right? Because you know in the finance world there there is a little bit of this stigma that uh accumulation plan on S&P 500 putting $500 a month there is the best way to approach finance, right? It's the easiest way. It can be the easiest way, but if you just don't even become a nerd of finance and find the IVRV ratio, best option premium harvesting strategies, but you just buy and hold with a little bit of smartness, a little bit of smart DCA, waiting for the dip, looking at the VIX, seeing when it goes up, or even a freaking EMA, right?

Long-term can optimize your long-term portfolio, right? It has typically better rewards. So this is something that they do in many different fashions. Right? This is the first very basic layer. The deeper layer is understanding global macro. And so taking advantage of long-term reliable trends where you don't have to put a super super tight stop-loss where there's less manipulation in these huge time frames. So you're less likely to get spiked out.

And they do a lot of long-term trading. long-term trading, boring global macro swings, two weeks, three weeks, even a few months, and we've done it with Fabio in front of all of our Italian community, >> one year live, >> for one year live, probably even more. And and it's just awesome. It's just a chiller way even of approaching the market. This is something you can do potentially in your weekends, right? When you're not day trading, when you're not in the session, in the hustle, that's a first way you can diversify, right?

Another amazing type of trading strategy is variance risk premium harvesting through options. So there is this structural edge in the way options are priced where the implied volatility which is the premium you cash in when you sell an option is statistically historically paying out the risk for actual volatility. So you basically cash in these premium, cash in these premiums and you have to be very careful of tail risk.

So it's just about managing tail risk and this is super super common in the professional space. We also do it oursel. It's it's a very it's like a also you've seen probably I uh that we interviewed also talking about this on the channel. It's it's it's another really cool structural edge that professionals use. Another one that also Fab will will mention later is the earnings surprise drifts, right? And taking advantage of trends that are structural again or and [clears throat] we go into also the discretional part using auction market theory and option flow for timing.

Right? You don't want to just look at the end result which is the candlestick but to refine the timing to find better entries. look at what moves the market. This is the this is the whole idea. We We're professional traders, we're not satisfied with looking at the surface. We want to go deep and see what's going on. We want to see who's putting the money. We want to see who is behind a move. What's the reason a move h the reason why a move happened or how much money there is behind a move.

And option flow for example is a great example of exploiting a structural need in this case of market makers. How many of you guys have heard of GEX of GAM exposure? We've talked about it over the last few weeks. Let me know in the chat. But it's a great tool because again what you're trying to do here is trying to take action where other participants are forced to put orders into the market. >> And this can be done in the higher time frames and in the lower time frames.

For day traders, for example, we've we've been using this for a long time now. I think the first video we posted was was with Fab on my channel uh where we were looking at the net flow of of options uh dealers and it was it was the first time we you know actually showcased option dealers hedging flows affecting the market in real time >> and how to predict some of the flows that will enter in the market. So [clears throat] that's one thing and another thing is using tools that allows you to see the footprints of informed traders in the market.

This is something still a lot of people are sleeping on. Most of the people who watch this are probably orderflow traders. I hope otherwise it means we didn't do a quite of a good job. uh but seeing what's happening behind the scenes, seeing the interaction between algorithms is the bread and should be the bread and butter of a day trader trying to be a part of an auction, right? And these are just some of the structural edges that you too can start exploiting as a beginner in the financial space.

And I strongly advise you to take every single one that we mentioned. Do your own research. Do not trust me, right? Just do your own research as always. and look at where the money could be. If you're if you're feeling stuck in one model, in one single time frame, in one single asset, widen your view. Broaden your view. It doesn't have to be that way. You're someone told you that's the strategy, that's it. Marry one strategy for life. >> That's Okay?

That's not how professional trading works. Okay? So this is things that you can research and that you can start using too to make your first step in the correct direction and strive to trade like a true professional. Now talking about developing an edge, Mr. Fabio has developed many throughout his career. He has trade so many different strate in investing or also in cryptos. like there's a lot of things behind Fabio other than scalping on NASDAQ.

So let's start talking about some of these. >> Hello everyone guys give me a one in chat if you can hear me properly and we will start with developing a trading edge. Now to start this live, I would like to to say that to survive in the financial space and in the trading world, you should detach yourself from the idea of a guru and you should do your own research on the model that you are actually trading understanding why this actual model work.

So let's go into how professional choose ideas and build models and competence. What's the core? How we start? Why should this opportunity exist? What evidence shows it is real? Does it survive cost and unseen data? And when does it work and when does it fail? And we will go over it. What is a regime change? All these question is something that no one ever ask. They marry a strategy. Sometimes me included. I have a love relationship with the IBB. and we will see when volatility goes away in the stocks and in the indices what happens.

Okay. So let's start with the idea of trusting a guru versus validating an idea. So following an experienced trader of course can help you learn. But the fact that a trader is profitable will not necessarily mean that by osmosis in English there is this word by osmosis >> you will become profitable. You still need to understand whether their approach deserve your confidence. So test what they are actually executing and you cannot trade the person.

You cannot say tomorrow I start trading Andrea Chimita. Tomorrow I trade Fabio Valentini. No Fabio Valentini it's not a model it's a pool of edges over different markets. So you need to understand and to select what you are going to execute. You need to trade an idea an hypothesis and that idea needs to be deeply understood. So let's go into the deep understanding. The previous reasoning the one that Andrea show you apply both to discretionary model with order flow with option flow with alternative data in poly market nowadays I'm watching crazy strategy there are the market makers that are entering in the prediction market and they are doing a ton of money because they know how to do market making in a new market we will open a topic later if you want but I've seen guys buying a data feed on tennis is front running the match by one or two second making crazy percentage so you can understand how much alternative data can be powerful also with in-depth studies and testing quantitative models you need to deeply understand the edge you are trading and the nature of the asset you are approaching if tomorrow you start to trade gold a super directional asset mean reverting I give you one or two months of survivability then your account will be gone.

This one for example, it's what I call the parallel of fundamental analysis for intraday traders. If you ask him what's the most valuable tool to time the direction on the intraday movement, it's option flow. Option flow makes 70% of the volume 65 70 but it's growing year by year on the zerodt and is becoming something that if you do day trading you cannot ignore specifically on levels like cold wall put wall the understanding of the regime and what the market is doing it's crucial for the intraday trading let's go on this one that you see here is not just lotto numbers on how to flip your account from $100 to 1 million.

This one is actually executed order. So if you are a discretionary trader, you should value as first to know that the data that you are watching it's reliable that you are watching data that are actual executed order not CFD extracted tick data. So start from a point and data that you can actually rely. Second point is to continuously questioning the model. Before adopting an idea, you need to examine the evidence and research.

Question the assumption and understand where this idea has failed. Now we will go through it because there is one concept called alpha decay. You cannot marry the strategy or the concept because market condition change and will change. If you have a strategy now and you are doing a good performance at the moment, it's sad to say that probably in 10 years you will need to adapt and you will need to understand how you build this strategy because if you take these strategies just by copying Andrea and Andrea is not there for you, you will not be independent in 10 years.

That's the reason you need to understand how to use discretionary data set like order flow and option flow or quantitative data set. So the approach that serve you well can become less effective even when you execute it correctly because this is something that I see a lot by traders. No. Oh, it's my fault. My mindset is not on point. What are you trading? Mean reverting on gold. It worked two days now I'm losing. I have a psychology problem.

Yes, you have a a psychology problem but it's bigger than trading. You don't understand data. This one, for example, it's a crazy example of alpha decay. The volatility breakout strategy worked crazy good for the last 5 to 10 years. Okay, they work amazingly. This year, I'm sure that a lot of intraday traders will be able to understand how much we have in the last four months half the volatility that we had before. NASDAQ keeps rotating around the same point for the full session. this market during the war is completely different.

And I think this guy is part of the problem because it's [laughter] continuously doing option premium harvesting. So it's it's compressing the volatility with other millions of traders doing it. Of course, it's a super profitable strategy, but you have an effect on the market. So as you can see models like the initial balance breakout, volatility breakout, IVB, so volume are performing really bad in 2026 compared to how they perform in the last five years.

This is an example of a strategy that start and benefit from a volatility regime that is not there. Maybe in one month it will start again. Maybe we will end the the best quarter of the year. But this quantitative strategy at the moment is still profitable. but is not performing as the previous year. This is an example of a strategy applied in a regime that at the moment is not rewarding you. Let's go on. This is another example.

I milked a lot of money out of the market because for those who don't know, I start as a crypto trader before being art by FTX. Sorry to say it. And [clears throat] I I I've been invited to the Formula 1 and then the day after I go to open the brokerage and there is no brokerage anymore. So you need to be careful also where you put your money, not only the strategy. This is an example of a strategy that disappeared at the moment.

This is the cash and carry strategy. The spot and perpetual arbitrage on the crypto I think a 26% per year. It's an amazing performance if you have enough capital specifically institutional. 20205 you had the 2022 that was low but then 2023 was nice. Now you have two years straight 2025 2026 where it's better to keep cash. It's not working even close to before. So this edge is being arbitrage at the moment. Doesn't exist anymore.

This is another example of alpha decay. >> So understanding the logic instead of copying someone else is crucial >> and it's benefiting what you do. Now let's go on over fitting versus structural edges. A strong back test. You have seen this equity line where they only go up. >> Yeah. I I I've started like this, okay? You search how to become a profitable trader. It was 10 years ago. Comes this guy, okay, on YouTube.

You watch the first 10 minutes of the video and you think, I got it. I'm leaving all the income that I have because I know how to become a millionaire. It's a moving average crossover strategy with a 95% win rate, one to 10. Okay, that's what they they sell. You know after the dream stops you understand that there is a concept called overfitting that you can fit the parameter for a strategy it's beautiful to see in the algo trading then you go live in auto sample and it's a money burner not a printer burner okay and then that is completely difference from structural edges one example you take the correct moving average set on crude oil the strategy is a straight equity line you change the parameter the strategy lose money you You are not the one that find the structural edge of crude oil.

Probably you have just stressed the data enough to get an edge. Okay, we have multiple example of structural edge. One example is the IVB, the volatility breakout strategy, the orb, the initial balance, the option premium harvesting, the earnings or price drift, the politician tracking. They are all different kind of edges. Okay, informationational edge, structural edge, volume edge where you can see what these players are actually doing.

This for example is the comparison between the buy and the IVB. As you can see, you can see also from the chart for someone that is more experienced, the sharp ratio is crazy good compared to buy and no. And it's a strategy that is already net of commission. Now in the last piece, so if you take the big picture, you think, okay, it's losing money in this volatility regime, but it's a profitable strategy. Now we need to consider also that NASDAQ is opening for 24 hours.

I'm really scared about this. Let's see what happens. I think the market will completely change. And another example of the earnings or price drift for example is what happens in the stock when you beat expectation. But you need to understand why. If tomorrow we have a micro microchip company okay produce microchip that beat the is estimate by a 400% in earnings what happens in the market that a lot of players wants to buy the stock.

If a lot of players institutional wants to buy the stock at a concentrated period of time they have one big problem that is liquidity constraint. they needs to pay not only for the commission but a huge slippage. That's the reason the majority of the time you have big data big data changes in the earnings you have a gap and that's the reason I build a full strategy out of it. But you as you can see you always start from an hypothesis.

You start from an assumption. You you try to understand why this edge exists. And there are countless research paper. You can find research paper on the earning surprise drift on the value of order flow on the predictive power of the option flow in a activity on the politicians on the 13F and all these kind of edges. So you know that at least you are applying something that is not only through your eyes through a pattern that you have seen three or four times on the chart and you say okay let me put money on it but you know that you are executing something that is actually valuable.

This is the earning surprise estimate on the announcement drift. And you can see pre-announcement and post announcement based on the earnings how much the volatility spreading and how much is directly correlated to the output of the earnings. And then crypto chain drivers. This is my main edge. I build the majority of of the wealth doing crypto investing. Okay? Because crypto is something that no other asset on the planet have.

They have full transparency over the blockchain. So you can see what the institutional players are doing in real time. You can track wallets that hold 10,000 bitcoin and probably if someone have 10,000 bitcoin knows more than you and your coin and the moving average strategy. You can track the data like the fren grid the valuation model and you can start from a point where before clicking you already have an edge that can be at least discretionary. you know that what you are doing works and you build your hypothesis and analysis on top or quantitative.

This is an example of all the previous years and the direct correlation of euphoria to profit taking activity and fear to accumulation activity. Then if you want to make a model that is complete you should add big portfolio and shrimp they are called the super small and some valuation model to have a model that is super solid for investing bitcoin. This is where I put the majority of the money for example at the moment.

So you need to ask yourself why should the opportunities exist? Because a structural hypothesis starts with how participants behave, what force them to trade and how the market absorb their decision. So you have the importance of diversification in professional desk. It's what Andrea was saying. I can have a strategy that perform amazingly for five years that in 2026 lose me money. Okay, it's possible. It's part of trading.

Also, if you go in Renaissance or you go in hedge fund, you will see that some models, some individual models lose money. And that's the reason you want to be diversified. Multiple markets or intraarkets uncorrelated strategy. Let me give you an example. You scalp the NASDAQ. Okay. The volatility breakout, try a mean reverting strategy that will have uncorrelated return like I don't know. Call and put wall with proper data. mean reverting strategy back to the fair value of the day using the volume profile.

Don't trade only directional because if you get the last four months then the strategy will suffer a lot. So this is alpha the correlation. Now I don't want to go too technical but you have the poorly diversified portfolio where you trade one asset one strategy and you pray that the market condition will always be the same. the regime will never change or you can trade individ individual asset with uncorrelated strategy like I was saying like you can trade NASDAQ scalping and at the same time doing intraday reverting on the call and put wall or you can go on efficient frontier.

So have a diversified portfolio at the position where me and Andrea are at the moment. Okay, working on the hedge fund working with seven figures of personal account. What we do is not put all the risk in one model. It can be the best model, it can be NASDAQ, it can be option, but you don't put your money all there. You diversify the strategy. >> This is not financial advice. >> Of course, [clears throat] to be honest, we are putting way too much heavy on the option side, but it's okay.

It's okay >> alpha the correlation. So you can see here how the sum of three profitable strategy the equity it's always better than the single equity uh alone and this is they say it's the real holy grail of finance is the diversification and five takeaways that I want you to bring home after this master class. Approach the markets with the curiosity of a child, not the certainty of someone who thinks they have all the answer.

And more than this, don't follow a single guru. Okay? Follow an hypothesis. Follow a concept. Follow the understanding of why this edge work. Understand the data set. Don't click buy and sell without understanding what you are doing. The second one is build enough knowledge to make your own decision. Not Fabio told me, Andrea told me, the other guy told me. You understand what you are doing. Third point, keep records that challenge your judgment.

If you have an amazing strategy and NASDAQ open 24/7, okay, 24 hours per day, sorry, and the strategy stop working, don't marry the strategy. continuing to execute the strategy even if you see that the strategy is not responding anymore. Okay, it's like in human relationship if you always fight with your wife. Okay, you will close the relationship. >> Which wife? >> One of the wife. Okay, one of the wife. The other point revisit your assumption where the evidence change.

So if data tell you no, you are doing something wrong, the risk is too high, change it. And the last point is breathe. Everyone is flexing. I made this, I made that. Everyone is super profitable on the social media. Breathe. You are in time. No one is rushing you. Okay. And trading is one of the hardest profession on the planet. So you are not behind. >> Yes sir. So you guys like this live session so far? Let us know in the chat. put a one in the chat if you enjoyed so far.

So guys, if I think we've we've touched on most of the important topics tonight. Um, but this is the road map and the steps that you need to take if you want to learn how professionals really trade. And you got to know after up to a few years ago even orderflow was not a big thing. You know most mo most traders will still sleeping on it and some are still sleeping today. But I feel fab like some form of a small revolution is happening slowly in the space.

There's awareness is coming out. a revolution that we humbly very humbly contributed to um and that we want to keep nurturing through workass edge this transition from retail slop because that's what we want to call it retail slop that's what it is to professionalgrade trading you started seeing more professionals trader coming up on social media uh even outside Fab outside you know workless edge even outside of this more and more professionals are starting to preach the right type of approach to trading in the industry and that's something very positive that's something I'm truly happy about because me in the first place I was approached in this industry by scammers by bad actors by fake gurus and I've lost a lot of money and a lot of sleep because of that and I'm honestly tired tired of that I hope you guys are too.

And I see a lot of the community is getting tired of this. And finally, the professional side of the industry is starting to step up. And this is what we're committing to do at Workass Edge to bring you more and more trading professionals here on the channel. Watch all the interviews if you haven't yet. They're master classes. So with Worldclass Edge, we want to facilitate this transition and help making institutional level trading education available to everyone.

So to achieve this, we decided that we could not just be like everyone else and again sell another course. So we decided to change the business model here at Workass Edge. I'm sure you guys have noticed. I don't how many of you guys are already in the platform? So, if you're not, World War Edge is now a 100% free trading education platform. Some of the best traders we could get our hands on, >> we just >> professionals, we just started, some of the the the best professionals me and Fabby have learned from >> with full entire master classes on their trading approach 100% for free.

And this is something no one has done before at the scale that we are doing it. And let's say with with with with an proper proper institutional focus. And [clears throat] this professional road map is not coming soon. It's already live guys at workclassedge.com. Uh there's the trading fundamentals if you're starting from zero, global macro investing, orderflow frameworks from Fabio, the entire strategy and [clears throat] other great master classes like trader DNA method uh orderflow edge from Serge the institutional approach with Mateo Coli and also the algorithmical side as well um tutorials on deep charts on prop trading.

There's literally everything you need and tonight the road map grows even more. So, we're announcing officially four new master classes that will be added as we speak. We're going to have Immra Gams uh option trader and global macro trader uh with his winning before the bell master class and it's a amazing masterass on predetermination, how to prepare before the market opens and then execute, how to frame the session in a professional way.

He is a trader that has worked with some of the most aggressive and high stakes global macro traders of all time Andy Kger in his fund. Uh it was head-h hunted by him and he was managing traders. He was coaching traders inside of the funds as well. So one amazing masterass for him is coming out. Another one is one dedicated to gamma, dedicated to gamma exposure and reading the storm before it hits with Freddy Sarento, former option uh market maker as well.

Uh not in not just options but also in forex uh for a London bank where he managed I think a portfolio rounding up to I don't know $2 billion or something. Anyway, amazing level professional. um and he's going to teach you how to use the Greeks and the volatility surface uh to predict where these uh hedging flows will happen. Then we have Patrick Nil, two times world trading champion. You guys know him. Every time we shoot an interview him with him, he it goes viral for some reason.

People just love him. He's he's he's he's just such a great trader and great guy. And he'll explain you how he uses the PBD setups from the World Trading Championships. And finally, it's not ready yet. It will be uploaded I think next week or so. We have Jan Smolen with his 360 trading system where he explained exactly how to use global macro to understand the sentiment of the market to understand the long-term flow and the short-term flow and where the institutional positionings are going.

So four brand new completely fresh amazing master classes that you can join now 100% for free guys. This is not a stack offer with with with with with a big price at the end. This is all for free, okay? And this doesn't even end here. Um, we spent the last few months developing a macro dashboard. Uh, very simple dashboard, easy to use that you can check inside of workclass edge in the platform that will basically give you an overall bias of how's the market feeling.

Okay, what's the regime of the markets? How are the commitment of traders positioned? So all the institutional traders from the coot, how they are positioned, how's liquidity, how's the economy like all of it. All of it in one single place. >> That is everything that uh Yensen also teach how to read all this kind of data set. >> Exactly. And more content will be added every single month to the platform and many other things will be revealed in the next month.

We don't want to reveal everything right now. So just stay tuned in all of our channels. Stay tuned here. And with all of this this workass edge thing, what we want to do is we want to give back to our community. Okay? And to keep it free, workass edge will be self-funded and will survive thanks to two main affiliate partners. Okay? Because doing all this thing with this level of production, it costs a lot of money. We've put it up front, me and Fabio, just to get it started.

But now we need also some form of support to keep this free and available for everyone. So two partners that summarize basically what a trader needs, which is a trading platform and access to capital. So the first one of course as you guys probably know is Deep Charts, which is a state-of-the-art orderflow software and option flow software. And we've seen, you know, all these option flow softwares today charging $600 a month for levels of data that, you know, vibe coded that we charge a few tens of dollars for. >> And I it is absolutely an honor to be able to provide this level of data because we have such a big audience.

We can make prices that are more affordable to everybody, right? And it's one of the few platforms that has an integrated risk manager in it. And you don't have to, you know, enforce proper risk out of your sheer will. You know, your your goodwill, but you can actually set a maximum loss for the day. You can actually set and enforce risk automatically and not do the mistakes that all the traders make, which is awesome.

And the e the other uh partner for workass edge is IQ capital which is a prop firm. Uh a lot of traders nowadays love prop firm. They're a great opportunity to you know for who's starting with low capital and IQ capital is uh a serious prop firm. We've met the founder. Uh he's also a Robins uh World Cup trading championship runnerup. uh it's a properform that has ant I call them anti-gambling rule because you have a maximum risk per trade of 1% with soft breaches.

So you're you're forced to do proper trading behavior and and enforce proper habits and aside from what is of course a part of the business model of the prop firm that we all know and we're all aware of. Uh the other reason why we chose it is because it has a scaling program that gives you access to real capital. So, and not only that, but professional trading support with the elite program. And we're very excited also about this.

And because you're here tonight, if you choose to continue your trading journey with our partners, okay, not only you get the best deals around, so you get the best prices here at Workass Edge, but also you help us in this mission of making professional level trading education available for everybody. And >> and guys, just one thing. If you have a trader that you want us to invite, someone that you think it's amazing, just let us know.

So, and to thank you again for your incredible support, we're 2,000 people live right now. Um, we prepare for you two gifts tonight. Uh so for the next 24hour only uh you have a 90% off coupon of every 50k futures challenge on IQ Capital and you can start your funded trading journey from as low as $9, guys. We could not make this more affordable than this. Okay, $9. Um and you can use the link in the chat. We're going to pin it and this is the first gift for you guys.

We're going to also send the details via email probably in the next few uh days and only for the next 14 days you can reserve a free 40 day 14 days trial of deep charts upcoming Deep Gamma web platform which is I'm so excited about this one Fabio I cannot wait for this to come out but we've basically from the one we've launched recently added some some you have no you have no idea. I want to spoiler it. >> We saw we saw it today.

Yeah, >> we saw it today. Like it's not that we have >> Antonio just called us and you showed us today. So um you can save it now with the links that we sent in uh in the chat deepart.com/event and you basically get 14 days of real actual CBOE data, not some naively calculated version with data scraped. coded, >> no vip coded and not using data scraped from a brokerage platform. It's actual data that we pay tens of thousands of dollar for and you get it for free for 14 days.

You cannot get this anywhere else. Okay, so um just for the next 14 days and this is it. You can put us side by side and these are the gifts for you. We want to thank you again for for your support for being here on the channel and for for you know being uh part of this movement of this uh trading community. And that's it. That's it for tonight. If you guys have any questions or uh want to interact a little bit with the chat or any last few comments also from you Fabio that's the time.

Just what I want to say guys is that as you understood we have an approach that it's anti-guru with Andrea. So we have an approach where we don't believe that one person can be a teacher of everything and that's the reason we invited a university teacher of finance a hedge found energy trader a multiple times world trading champion like Patrick hedge found market maker. We believe in building a team that is not separated by ah but this guy is there is not our partner.

We don't take money out of it. We invite every valuable trader here. And the mission started as let's put some money up front. Let's make sure that we can invite them, shoot with them and give to the community for free. So the only way to survive when you have a business model like this is with affiliate but at least you are able to provide this level of quality free to everyone. >> Yeah. If we were a guru like a classic retail guru we would have taken some of the money we made and bought a Lambo with it.

We spend it in white studios and cameras and flying people to Dubai and months preparing all the master classes to give them to you for free. We reinvested I think it was options premium. [laughter] >> We reinvested in the community and that's how we want to keep it. You guys know, you guys know we we've never ever done and never will lifestyle marketing and all this and and just, you know, reinvest in that way of the business to attract more chickens, right?

Um, we want to attract serious traders. We want to attract traders who understand the value of sacrifice, the the value of discipline, and are ready to put in the work. If you want to put in the work, we want to facilitate your journey as much as possible. So, thank you again guys. >> There are thousands of >> So, with IQ Capital, I have a membership with Deep Charts as well. There is some form of DP powered version of it.

Yes, but you can use it. You can connect IQ Capital to your Deep Charts platform and trade directly there. >> Guys, I promise you that I will come back on YouTube. We have been super busy. We are implementing new strategy in our personal trading. We are raising the size that we trade with. Andre Andre is teaching me something about his option iikido. So as soon as we finish all this stuff to do, I will come back on YouTube and I will make a huge auction market theory order friend option flow masterclass >> or maybe we just lost the passwords to the YouTube channel. >> Possible.

[laughter] >> Uh I have a question. I am a beginner trading now. I'm focusing on orderflow strategies. I'm trying to get orderflow data and tools uh for the lowest price. what you recommend. So, lowest price. Well, you get 14 days of gamma for free. Um, >> the problem is the data feed, guys. The data feed cost everywhere. It's not free. >> The data feed will cost you everywhere. But if there's a place to start, for example, is IQ Capital.

You get not the super powerful orderflow platform, but you get a good basics to start uh with Deep Charts web inside of it. So, that's a good place to start. $9. I don't think there is a place where with $9 you can get a data feed and a platform anywhere in the world. So if if your budget is truly tight >> yeah I want a simple focus trading process from planning to enter a trade exit without over complicating my learning.

Um yeah that's that's a good place to start solo. Uh it's not how professional trading works. Yeah, I strongly advise you to rewatch this master class because it has to be simple. I agree, but it's not easy. Deep charts on Mac. It's probably going to be available in the next few months. Like, we're very close, >> but it's a good idea to invite Einstein of Wall Street. >> Yeah, it could be. >> It will be amazing to we will try.

Guys, >> why you guys don't do live training on YouTube with us? There are countless hours on deep charts. >> Yeah, we also we we do we do >> awesome. Deep gamma does not use uh naive OE data. No. So the No, we just use CBOE data >> and the actual GEX the deep charts pro uses CBOE data. It's not inferred calculus. Okay. It's actual positioning for market makers. >> Yes. >> Unlike most of these other geeks platforms. >> No, it's not that you need to buy to have access.

You have access already. >> You have access. You just have to go to workclassedge.com, put an email in, that's it. And by the way, if you connect your IQ capital account to workclass edge, there is a leaderboard that you can access every single month. And if you win, you win really cool stuff. Like really cool stuff. So consider also doing that cuz it's awesome. >> Guys, give us some names of the traders we need to invite.

We need your help. >> Lance Brightstein. >> Let's invite him. >> Yes. Will deep gamma web will be a separate subscription. You're going to have both options. >> H this is ah Nazrian they want. That's You have to call him. >> I have to call him. I can He is the one He's the one that beat me in the World Trading Cup. He did a crazy performance like he did like 300 something was pushing like a Malaysian. >> He wanted Rico Stuki.

Yes. Yes. I'm going to screenshot this and send it to him. >> Yes. Stress him. >> I cannot wait to have him in workass edge. >> Larry Williams. George Soros. It's not so easy to arrive to Soros, but we can try. >> We can ask uh Andy >> Tomard is not easy to catch, but I think he will come to Abu Dhabi and we will invite >> Jim Carson. I I would love >> Michael Hardlesson ICT maybe. No, but we just have just verified traders, guys.

Sorry. >> No, but I think guys, I I need to say it. I I like the communication of Michael. Like I think he's the best guy communicating on the social media. At least communicate. >> He's got he's got a skill for sure. I don't like it though. I'm gonna disagree on this one. Ray Dalio would be awesome. >> Awesome guys. >> Paul to Jones. Uh >> Paul Tudor Jones. Yes. We can invite without any problem. >> Awesome guys. So thank you very much for being here.

This was workassed. We'll see you at workclassedge.com inside of the masterclass into the new episodes of the podcast that we're going to post here on the channel and much much more to come. Thank you everyone again.