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Understand how you think and decide at the screen.

TIP maps how you think, react to risk and make decisions as a trader, then shows you your strengths, the patterns that may be hurting your trading, and practical rules you can test in your own trading.

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Report cover for a sample trader profile One-page reference card from a sample report What to check first page from a sample report
Real pages from a sample report. Yours will read differently.

Example from a sample report · The Chart Cartographer

Start here · 3 of 4

What to check first

Two candidate patterns, chosen from your result, each with a quick check you can run on your own recent sessions. None is a finding until your record says so.

AThe pattern in your archetype description

From the Chart Cartographer description · context, not a score

Letting a faster chart manage a trade that was planned on a slower one, or pressing an entry before price reaches the mapped level. The map can be right while the timing is not.

Check it. Look at your last 20 trades. How many were closed or adjusted because of a faster chart than the one the trade was planned on, and how many entries came before price reached your mapped level? If both are rare, this does not describe you.

FitsDoes not fitNot sure yet

BStaying with a winner as planned

From your own scores · Profit-Holding Composure 38, your lowest regulation score

Another scale may point the same way: your Disposition Effect score is 44, and lower scores there mean more reported tendency to sell winners early, hold losers long, or both. If it is the first, the two sets of answers agree, which makes this worth checking. It is still not proof that it happens.

Check it. In your last 20 winning trades, how many exits came before your plan's target, stop or exit rule, and what prompted them? Did you then re-enter the same setup? If early, unplanned exits were rare, set this aside.

FitsDoes not fitNot sure yet

How to choose

Use your journal, broker history or notes for the checks. Where no record exists, mark it unknown rather than rebuilding it from memory. Start with the candidate whose check came back clearly yes. If more than one did, start with B: it comes from your own scores rather than the archetype description. If none did, run one observation week: trade as usual, keep the process record, then run the checks again. Run one practice at a time; add a second only at the week-4 review, and only if the first was usable.

This is a sample profile, not your result. Your own report picks its checks from your answers.

Know yourself before you change your strategy.

See your trading strengths

Where your answers put you strongest: reading charts, holding a plan, sizing, deciding under pressure.

Find your failure patterns

Where patience, risk, conviction, discipline or emotion may be giving way, each with a check to run on your own trades.

Build around your wiring

Rules and a first practice built from your own scores, ready to test in your next sessions.

Your trading behavior, made visible.

Your answers become a report you can use when you build your process, pick setups and review your sessions.

What to check first, a page from the full report
What to check firstPatterns from your scores, each with a check
Report cover
Your archetypeOne of 19, and how close the others came
Seven rules for the archetype
Seven rulesWritten for your archetype
The 90-day cycle
The 90-day cycleOne practice at a time
One-page reference card
Reference cardOne page for the desk

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Sample pages shown for a sample profile, The Chart Cartographer.

The problem may not be your strategy.

Two traders can run the same system and still trade it differently.

  • One gets restless in a slow market.
  • One hesitates after a loss.
  • One sizes up when confidence runs hot.

TIP shows you which of those patterns come up in your answers, so you can build a process that works with them instead of fighting them.

More than another trading personality quiz.

TIP draws on published research in cognitive ability, judgment under uncertainty, emotion regulation and personality, then asks trading-specific questions about how you decide under pressure and risk.

A self-assessment, not a validated test or a diagnosis. It makes no promise about your results.

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What early readers said.

Unedited reactions from early readers of their own report. Not paid reviews.

Reading the full PDF to my husband was like describing myself to him in real-time.
Clement, early reader
My pitfall has literally been my life.
Agudelo, early reader
I really appreciate the fact that TIP measures Emotional Regulation as a pillar of the framework. It's such an under-rated thing as traders that we don't often think about.
Breakwood, early reader

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