89 items, and every borrowed framework named. Your file makes a claim about your trading that your own log can prove wrong.
Six ability scales from the framework behind modern cognitive assessment, adapted for the trading chair. The borrowed frameworks are named, and so is what we built ourselves. Read the methodology.
You have already tried the courses, the journals, the trading-psychology shelf. The setups improved. The results did not. That gap has a cause, and it is not the market.
The human brain is a survival machine optimised over fifty millennia for a world without screens, leverage, or P&L. Left unexamined, that ancient wiring runs your account on instincts built for a different game: chasing the shiny object, fleeing the loss, mistaking dopamine for an edge.
The largest study of retail accounts found the deficit was rarely in the picks. It was in the operator placing them, and the operator is your wiring: the same hand over-trading, holding losers, cutting winners. TIP is the instrument that measures yours.
Basis · Barber & Odean, “Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth.” No performance promises. A read on the mind, not the market.
What you can see, hold, and act on: the raw processing under every decision.
The edges and pitfalls in your decisions, where conviction becomes recklessness, patience becomes paralysis.
How composure holds, and the exact step where it gives way under live risk.
The dispositional baseline underneath everything: the settings you brought to the desk before you placed a single trade.
Around question 42, your provisional archetype, one of 19, appears on screen.
Real pages from an actual TIP dossier, archetype The Chart Cartographer. Not a mockup, not a teaser render. Yours will read differently; the instrument behind it is the same.
Cognitive assessment of traders is not new. Prop desks, funds and family offices have been mapping how their traders are wired for a long time, working with psychologists who specialise in trading populations.
What has been missing is not the science. It is the access. That work happens behind a hiring process, a desk seat, or an hourly rate set for institutions, and it is built to answer the firm's question, which is whether to allocate to you. The retail side got the same handful of biases repeated across books and course modules, with the integration left to the reader.
TIP takes the frameworks that work already sits on, the ability model, the reflection test, the regulation research, and points them at the trader who never had a desk to sit at. Same research foundations. Different door. You are the one who commissioned the file, so it answers your question rather than a firm's.
Scope · TIP is in normative development against its live cohort and makes no performance claims. How TIP sits between institutional and retail.
I put real money on a live account back in 2016, blew it up, and spent the better part of a decade circling the same problem, in and out, never quite solving it.
Most traders do. We blow an account and blame the strategy. We blow another and blame the market. After enough damage, we start looking at the variable we'd been avoiding all along: ourselves.
The strategy was learnable. Anybody can learn a strategy. The hard part, the part that took nine months, was learning to manage the one person who shows up to every single trade. Me.
TIP is the operating manual I wish I'd had when I first started. Some of it will be hard to read. The hard parts are the ones that change you.
This is early. I'd rather show you the actual report and a few real reactions than invent a crowd. What you find won't change the markets. It'll change how you meet them.
I hope this saves you the years it cost me.
Unedited. These are early readers' reactions, not paid reviews.
“My pitfall has literally been my life.”
“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.”
“I looove everything that has to do with trading psychology. Reading the full PDF to my husband was like describing myself to him in real-time. Nice touch with the crisis card and personalized rules to follow based on your wiring!”
TIP is grounded in the actual literature of cognitive ability, judgment under uncertainty, emotion regulation, and personality, drawn from the same frameworks academics use, adapted to the one context they never covered: the live trade.
It is precise, honest, and allergic to hype. No win-rates. No “secrets.” No performance promises. Just a defensible read of how you trade, that you keep, reread, and run against.
No testimonials sold as proof. No screenshots of winning trades. The proof on this page is the instrument and the document itself: examine both, then decide.
No. TIP is 89 items grounded in three peer-reviewed frameworks: the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model of cognitive abilities, the Big Five Inventory-2, and the Cognitive Reflection Test. It scores you across four dimensions and 21 measured sub-components.
No. TIP is a self-awareness instrument, not advice and not a strategy. It does not predict performance or guarantee profitability. It maps how your mind decides, then shows where your wiring and your current approach are at odds. What you do with that is yours.
Published research: the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model, Kahneman and Tversky, Damasio, Soto and John, Frederick's Cognitive Reflection Test, and Barber and Odean. TIP is not affiliated with or endorsed by these researchers, and the instrument is in normative development against the live cohort. The full research lineage, with every researcher named, is on the methodology page.
The free assessment reveals your archetype on screen. The $49 report is the full document: letter grades on every ability, axis, and category; your one of 19 archetypes; a 90-day roadmap; seven personalized rules; and a one-page reference card. Delivered immediately, as a PDF you keep.
Fourteen-day money-back, no questions asked. The report is yours to keep either way.
Your brain was built to keep you alive, not to make you money, and the two reward opposite instincts. The wiring that did the keeping fires before you consciously decide, and it makes the next system or setup always feel like the fix. In the largest study of real traders, the problem was rarely the picks. It was the operator. The 89 items ahead map how your wiring shows up when you trade, across three research traditions.
Six channels (pattern recognition, chart vision, working memory, decision speed, risk math, market knowledge) scored independently. The Cattell-Horn-Carroll model is the framework behind modern cognitive assessment.
Four axes (conviction, patience, discipline, disposition effect) map to prospect theory and dual-process cognition. They explain why two traders with identical reads make opposite trades.
Eight categories (drawdown resilience, FOMO resistance, recovery speed, tilt resistance and four more) identify which emotional pressures your system absorbs and which deserve mechanical compensation.
Answer truthfully, not aspirationally. The sharpest profiles come from gut-instinct answers, not the answers you wish were true.
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You've completed the Cognitive Ability section. Now we measure your Risk Personality across 4 dimensions.
Two channels fire first when you look at a chart. Most traders don't know theirs. You just named yours.
Two channels fire first. Four others trail. Both matter.
Knowing the leaks is half the work. Knowing where the wiring runs cleanest is the other half. We mapped your wiring across six instrument families. The two it fits cleanly are named below.
Two families fit your wiring cleanly. Three more fight it every day you trade them.
Your primary cognitive ability gives your wiring a specific, measurable advantage in the markets. It also creates a specific vulnerability when bandwidth tightens. Knowing both is how you go from self-aware to strategically self-aware.
The problem was rarely your picks. It is the operator running them, and the operator is your wiring. It repeats the same outcomes until you can see it. You’ve seen the shape. The full profile is the operating manual: every leak in the order it compounds, the instruments your wiring fits, and a 90-day plan calibrated to it.
A read on how you decide under live pressure, and a 90-day system built around it.
You've seen the surface: your archetype, your top-2 abilities, your two biggest leaks. The six phases below are what's underneath.
Every section is calibrated to your archetype. Quick Draw and Horizon Trader receive different rules, different exercises, different roadmaps.
One payment of $49. Yours to keep.
This will not improve your P&L on its own, it is not a substitute for reps, and it guarantees no outcomes. It names your wiring and your failure modes. You still trade the trades.
The scores are directional, not decimal-precise. A test claiming pinpoint certainty about your mind would be the one to distrust. No testimonials sold as proof, no screenshots of winning trades: the proof is the instrument and the document itself.
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