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

It was never a discipline problem. Willpower was never the broken part.

Structure beats willpower.

You've journaled. Read the psychology books. Promised yourself tomorrow I stick to the plan. It keeps happening anyway. The edge underneath it was the broken part. 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
700+
1-on-1 sessions
Funded
Prop-firm trader
The method · edge → risk → psych
edge risk psych
Edgeproven first
Riskpredefined
Curve↗ by structure

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, showing up as emotion.

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 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.

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 verified. 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.

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 the psychology work has a system to apply to. On a verified edge with defined risk, it holds.

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 on the one thing that's breaking.

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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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 and execution. By the end, 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.

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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 full 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, written down and backtested.

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

A hard time window, 2-and-done and a stop-move check. Rules that hold on the days you'd rather not follow them.

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 one number.
✓
A Notion trading journalSet up with you — works alongside Edgewonk if you use it.
✓
Session recordings + summariesEvery session is 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.

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.

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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.

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Drift Candles

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

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