Who is the Ordinary Trader

It took me over a decade climbing the corporate ladder to reach a solid six-figure salary.  It took six months of focused learning to trade to earn the same.  That gap was hard to ignore and the contrast forced a decision.

I chose trading and went full-time. Not because it’s easy,  not because of money, but because it’s more honest.  It rewards skill, process, and consistency. It exposes your emotions, demands discipline, and provides instant and radical feedback in a way most careers will never do.

Project 1 Million

This is my own journey, my path to $1 million – and you’re welcome to follow along.

The money isn’t the point. The experiment is!  The challenge is whether discipline and repetition can be turned from something that feels impossible into… the Ordinary.

Ambitious? Yes. Unachievable? Let’s see…

My Simple Strategy

My trading approach is simple and disciplined. Every decision is rule-based, mechanical, and made without emotion. I focus on proven processes, clear risk-to-reward parameters, and well-defined trade plans before any position is taken.  This helps to minimise losses, maximise asymmetric returns, and remain calm and consistent across changing market conditions.

Trading should be Ordinary.
Not Exciting. Stressful. Emotional. Dramatic. Surprising. Intense. Erratic.

Rules of the game…

I knew that to succeed in trading I needed a framework as well as a strategy – one that would keep me honest, remove emotion from decision-making, and make the process as mechanical as possible.

You can read more about it, (and download) my Daily Trading Planner, here…

2 %

Max Daily Loss Limit
(Of Total Capital)

~5

Trades a day
(maximun)

+2 R

Daily Profit Target

The numbers don’t lie…

How can you optimise what you’re not measuring? You can’t. That’s why I track everything – every trade, every R, every mistake, and every improvement. It’s still early days, but performance since the start of the year has been encouraging. Win rate has remained consistent, risk-to-reward is improving, and the data is starting to show where edge exists and where it doesn’t. Because in trading, progress isn’t based on opinion or emotion – it’s built on evidence.  Jump in to see a breakdown of the analytics setup I use to measure and refine the process here.

+8 R

Avg Weekly
Risk Reward

72%

Avg Weekly
Win Rate

2.4

Profit Factor

0%

Guesswork

No Ordinary Indicators…

STRATEGY Indicator

Want every valid setup found, drawn and risk-calculated for you? The STRATEGY indicator automates the full Ordinary Trader method – when a setup forms, the entry, stop, target and risk-to-reward all appear on your chart. The trade is mapped before you decide whether to take it.

  • Auto Sequences

    every 5-step setup spotted and drawn the moment it forms

  • Planned Entries and Exits

    entry, stop, target and risk-to-reward (R:R) sit on the chart, ready to execute

  • Stackable Filters

    show only the setups that match your edge

  • Live Performance Stats

    gain confidence in how the methodology has performed on this chart before risking capital

  • Two Target Modes

    exit at the methodology’s natural target, or a fixed R-multiple of your choice

  • Realtime Alerts

    get pinged the moment a sequence forms or a flip is ready

KEY LEVELS Indicator

Want the prices that move markets always on your chart? The KEY LEVELS indicator plots previous day, week, month and year highs and lows, plus the times when Asia, London and New York traders are active – so you see exactly where price has reacted before and where liquidity is building right now.

  • Period Levels

    D/W/M/Y highs and lows, plotted automatically and never redrawn manually

  • Session Levels

    watch Asia, London and NY liquidity build in real time

  • Mitigation Tracking

    see at a glance which levels are still in play

  • Label Stacking

    when multiple levels cluster at the same price, labels stack cleanly so the chart stays readable

  • 50 Timezones

    Timezones, DST handled – sessions stay accurate year-round

  • 17 Realtime Alerts

    pinged the instant price reaches a level

FVG’s Indicator

Want every imbalance on the chart, scored and tracked for you? A Fair Value Gap is a price gap left behind when the market moves too fast in one direction – and price often returns to fill it. The FVGs indicator spots every one, ranks them by quality, and tracks what happens as price comes back.

  • Multi Time Frame

    see higher-timeframe gaps on your trading chart without switching timeframes

  • Strength Scoring

    only the highest-quality gaps stay visible, the noise filters itself out

  • iFVG Auto-detection

    once a FVG gap is filled, it flips into a reaction zone in the opposite direction

  • HTF Bias Filter

    only show gaps that line up with the higher-timeframe trend

  • Partial Fill Tracking

    see live how much of a gap has filled, for sharper entries

  • 6 Realtime Alerts

    for detection, fill, inversion and more

EMA’s Indicator

Want to see higher-timeframe EMAs on a lower timeframe? The EMAs indicator lets you lock the 50, 100 and 300 on whatever timeframe sets your bias – daily, 4H, 15m – then drop down to find your entry. The trend stays visible the whole way.

  • Multi-Timeframe Pinning

    your higher-timeframe EMAs stay visible when you drop down to execute

  • 3 Independent EMAs

    full control over length, source and visibility per line

  • Visual Smoothing

    clean lines on lower timeframes, no jagged stepping

  • Line or Stepline

    render the way you read price best

  • Clean Defaults

    no clutter on the price scale or status line

ZONES Indicator

Want supply and demand zones drawn for you, automatically? Supply and demand zones are the price ranges where buyers or sellers last stepped in with size – and price often reacts when it returns to them. The ZONES indicator maps both the big structural zones and the smaller intraday ones, so the areas that matter are always on your chart.

  • External Zones

    the larger zones where institutional buyers and sellers last engaged

  • Internal Zones

    intraday supply and demand without dropping to a lower timeframe

  • Direction Filter

    show only the side that matches your bias

  • Auto Last-N Limit

    chart stays clean as new zones form, no housekeeping

  • 4 Realtime Alerts

    for new bull/bear and external/internal zones

NEWS Indicator

Want to never get blindsided by news-driven volatility? The NEWS indicator marks every high-impact news event on your chart – CPI, NFP, FOMC and the rest – so you can flatten positions, widen stops or stand aside before the candles start flying and your setup gets trashed.

  • Visual Markers

    vertical columns at each event time, plus hover tooltips with the name, date and time of every release

  • 3 Impact Tiers

    events auto-sorted by importance so CPI, NFP and FOMC stand out from the smaller releases

  • Pre-Event Alerts

    get pinged on phone, browser or email a configurable number of minutes before each event (default 30)

  • Tier and Per-Event Filters

    mute the releases you don’t care about, both on the chart and in your alerts

  • Past and Upcoming

    3 months of historical events stay visible, plus 1 week of upcoming releases to the right of price

And finally…

Just to be clear, I’m not here because I’ve figured it all out. Far from it.  I’m still learning just like everyone else. I make mistakes, I log them, and I move on. Perfection isn’t the goal here. Progress is. Small improvements, repeated daily, might look insignificant in the moment, but over time they compound into something meaningful. This is about showing up, staying honest, and getting 1% better – again and again.

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