Professional Trader Development

Develop yourself into an independent trader.

Learn to read the market. Develop your own trading approach within a professional framework and a structured process. Use evidence to guide your progress.

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THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
A repeatable cycle.Ongoing development.
No signals. No copy trading. No guaranteed outcomes.A structured process for developing your own capability.

Develop the skills your trading depends on.

A beginner can jump straight into strategies, indicators, setups or signals before learning how to read the market. An experienced trader can spend years collecting courses and strategies without ever building a coherent trading framework and process for deciding, executing, measuring and improving.

The answer is not automatically another strategy. The missing piece may be market-reading foundations, a clearly defined edge, evidence, a trading plan, risk rules, execution, review — or simply clarity about what is actually breaking down.

01
Market reading

Read the market.

Price. Structure. Conditions.

02
Your trading approach

Decide how to trade it.

Markets. Timeframes. Risk.

Market reading is transferable.
Strategy should fit the trader.

Read the market first. Then decide how you want to trade it.

TradeSmart separates market reading from trading strategy. The aim is to develop the ability to interpret price directly, understand market structure and conditions, and then build or refine a trading approach that fits the trader.

Different traders may use different markets, timeframes, entries, holding periods and risk structures. The objective is not to turn you into a copy of another trader. It is to give you the foundations and process to make increasingly independent decisions.

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Free trading guide

Before Your Next Trade

Practice reading the market before your next trade. Get five observation questions in a free four-page guide and practice worksheet.

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A professional process for developing as a trader.

TradeSmart organizes trader development around a repeatable cycle:

  1. 01

    Read

    Understand what price and market structure are showing.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Define the strategy, conditions, risk and rules before execution.

  3. 03

    Execute

    Follow the process rather than improvise around individual outcomes.

  4. 04

    Measure

    Log, journal and collect evidence about both the strategy and the trader.

  5. 05

    Diagnose

    Identify the most likely constraint instead of guessing what the problem is.

  6. 06

    Improve

    Make a specific change, measure it, and continue developing.

Learn the method. See it applied. Put it into practice.

Training

Build market-reading foundations and a professional trading framework and process.

Live Application

See how market analysis and preparation inform trading decisions in the Live Trading Room. Learn the process and apply it to your own trading.

Diagnosis

If you are already trading, the free Trading Performance Diagnostic helps identify the area most likely to need attention and the appropriate next step.

Private Implementation

Structured one-to-one implementation to help you create your strategy and trading plan, put them into practice, and develop as a trader.

Evidence before
confidence.

Confidence in your trading framework and process should increasingly come from evidence — not from positive thinking, a winning streak or somebody else telling you what to believe.

You should know what constitutes a valid trade, when your approach applies, when it does not, how risk is controlled, what the testing shows, and what repeated execution is actually producing.

01

Foundations
before strategies.

02

Process
before profits.

03

Diagnose
before prescribing.

Built to develop your independence.

Develop the understanding and process to make your own trading decisions. Choose training, live application or private support according to what you need next.

Sometimes the right next step is simply to practice, collect better evidence and reassess before making another change.

Publications & Speaking Appearances

Selected articles, webinars, and educational presentations by Simon Klein.

  • Finance Magnates

    Article contributor

  • Investing.com

    Webinar presenter

  • TimingResearch

    Guest presenter

  • Wealth365

    Summit speaker

  • TradersEXPO

    Conference speaker

  • Bogu International Investment Forum

    Forum speaker · China

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Simon Klein, founder of TradeSmart
Simon KleinProfessional Trader, Trading Educator & Trading Coach

Developed by a professional trader. Built to help you make your own decisions.

TradeSmart was founded by Simon Klein, a professional trader and methodology developer. His experience informs the training, while the objective is to help traders develop the understanding and judgment to make increasingly independent decisions.

About Simon & TradeSmart

Judge the process
by the evidence.

TradeSmart uses real charts, structured methodology, documented trading processes and genuine client experiences to show how the training is applied.

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Start where you are.

Start with what you need now. Take the next step in your development as a trader.

The development route

I want to develop properly as a trader.

Build or rebuild the foundations and professional trading framework and process.

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