It's not a discipline problem

You're not undisciplined.
You're trading an edge you never verified.

Structure beats willpower.

You've journaled. Read the psychology books. Promised yourself tomorrow I stick to the plan. It keeps happening anyway — because willpower was never the broken part. The edge underneath it was. Fix that, and the discipline takes care of itself.

Find your leak → See the method
$250 for one hour. Capped at 2 sessions.
15y
Trading NQ · ES · GC
8y
Mentoring traders
600+
1-on-1 sessions
Funded
Prop-firm trader
The method · edge → risk → psych
edge risk psych
Edgeproven first
Riskpredefined
Curve↗ by structure
The Problem

Most traders are fixing the wrong thing.

Three failures dressed up as one. None of them are about willpower.

01 — DIAGNOSIS

They blame their emotions.

Revenge trading, FOMO, cutting winners short — it feels psychological. It isn't. It's an unproven edge and undefined risk wearing an emotional mask.

02 — DIAGNOSIS

They trade systems they've never verified.

No backtest. No data. Just hope with extra steps. You can't be disciplined about a coin flip — there's nothing real to be disciplined about.

03 — DIAGNOSIS

Nothing is enforcing the rules.

Knowing a rule and following it are different skills. Without structure that makes breaking it hard, discipline fails on the one day it matters most — the worst one.

FIRST① Edge — prove the math
SECOND② Risk — systematize it
THIRD③ Psychology — in context
I FLIPPED THE ORDER. THAT'S THE WHOLE STORY.
About Constantin

15 years on the desk. 8 years teaching traders.

Constantin Pabst

For years I chased the psychology fix. Seven courses, journals, willpower drills — the standard prescription. None of it held when it mattered, because I was treating the symptom.

So I flipped the order. Edge first. Risk second. Psychology in context — applied to a system I'd actually verified, not bolted onto hope. That's when it stuck.

Now I coach the exact system I trade — the same NQ, ES and GC playbook, the same risk rules, the same checklist. No theory I don't run with my own money.

The Structure-First Method

Edge first. Risk second.
Psychology in context.

① prove the edge ② enforce the risk ③ then the head
01

Build & verify the edge

Prove the math before a single dollar is at risk. Backtest, sample size, expectancy. If it isn't real, no amount of discipline will save it.

02

Systematize risk & execution

Predefined limits. A hard checklist. Rules the environment enforces — not rules you have to remember at your weakest moment.

03

Train resilience in context

Now psychology has somewhere to land — applied to a real edge with defined risk, where the work actually sticks instead of evaporating.

Coaching

Two ways to work with me.

Start with a single session to find the one thing that's breaking. Step into the program when you're ready to rebuild the whole system.

The quick fix
1-on-1 · pay-as-you-go
$250
/ hour
One hour. One problem. One fix.

A focused diagnostic — bring one issue and leave with a concrete change to run. Capped at 2 sessions: if we need to go deeper, that's the program.

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Tell me the leak first, then I'll reply to set a time.
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The deep work
1-on-1 · private mentoring · 6 weeks
$2,000
/ 6 weeks
Build the system you'll actually run.

Six weeks through the exact system I trade — edge, risk, execution — until you own a defined, repeatable process, not a folder of notes. The shortcut past the years and the tuition I already paid to learn this the hard way. I don't promise profits — I promise a process you can run.

A handful of private clients at a time
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Free 20-min fit call first — no pitch. Invoiced only after.
Which one?

Take the single session if you can name the leak — "I keep moving my stop," "I can't pull the trigger on my setup." Take the program if the honest answer is "I'm not consistently profitable" — that's an unproven edge, undefined risk and nothing enforcing the rules, and an hour won't fix it.

What the six weeks build

the operator system · edge × adherence = realized performance
00 · FOUNDATION

Structure beats willpower

The principle the rest enforces: make breaking a rule impossible, not just unappealing.

01 · THE EDGE

The Mechanical Model

Direction, location, trigger, fixed 2R — what to do, proven before a dollar's at risk.

02 · THE DEMONS

How it breaks

FOMO, counter-trend, premature exits, revenge — the predictable ways a good edge gets executed badly.

03 · THE HARNESSES

What holds you in

Rules the environment enforces — a hard time window, 2-and-done, a stop-move check — not rules you must remember.

04 · THE TOOLS

What you run it with

The checklists, do-not-trade list, adherence tracker and sizing sheet — the system in your hand.

What you walk away owning

✓
Six 1-on-1 sessionsAlong the path above — edge, then risk, then execution.
✓
Setup playbooksThe exact setups I trade, written down.
✓
Execution checklistsEntry checklist plus the do-not-trade list.
✓
The adherence trackerDiscipline turned into a single honest number.
✓
A Notion trading journalSet up with you — works alongside Edgewonk if you use it.
✓
Session recordings + summariesEvery session, transcribed and yours to keep.

This is for you if

  • ✓You'll backtest before you trade.
  • ✓You'll follow a checklist even when it feels unnecessary.
  • ✓You can handle being wrong about what's been breaking your trading.

It's not for you if

  • ✕You want another psychology pep talk.
  • ✕You're hunting for a holy-grail system.
  • ✕You won't put in the work between sessions.
Tools

Indicators I built for my own desk.

Structure-first reads for the NQ session — all four free on TradingView.

NQ Open Edge

NQ session-bias map — read the open's directional tilt before you click.

Open on TradingView →

Weekly Initial Balance

Maps the Mon–Tue range that sets ~80% of weekly highs and lows.

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NQ 9 AM Hour Bias

First-hour read — quantifies how the 9 AM hour frames the rest of the day.

Open on TradingView → Free · Beta

Drift Candles

Trend, regime and pullback in one read — the system I trade live. Free on TradingView.

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Four free indicators on TradingView No email gate, no upsell — Drift Candles included.
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