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 evolved for a world without screens, leverage, or P&L. Left unexamined, those old instincts can run your account by rules built for a different game: chasing the shiny object, fleeing the loss, mistaking a rush for an edge.
A study of 66,465 brokerage households found the most active traders trailed the market by about 6.5 points a year after costs, mostly from trading too much rather than from bad picks. The cost sat with the operator placing them. A separate study found investors sell winners sooner than losers (Odean, 1998). TIP helps you see how your own answers line up with those patterns.
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 two strongest abilities appear on screen. Your archetype, one of 19, arrives at the end.
Real pages rendered by the same engine that builds your report, for a sample profile of The Chart Cartographer. Not a mockup. 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 has not yet been validated 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 draws on the published literature of cognitive ability, judgment under uncertainty, emotion regulation, and personality. Its questions, scoring and summaries are TIP's own application of that work to the one context it rarely covers: the live trade.
It is honest and allergic to hype. No win-rates. No “secrets.” No performance promises. Just a clear read of how you describe your trading, that you keep, reread, and test against your own sessions.
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 informed by three published frameworks: the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model of cognitive abilities, the Big Five personality framework (three traits, following Soto and John), and the Cognitive Reflection Test. The three reflection problems are Frederick's originals; the ability and personality items are TIP-written, worded for trading. It scores how you describe yourself across four dimensions and 21 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 you describe the way you decide, then shows where your answers and your current approach may be 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 has not yet been validated. The full research lineage, with every researcher named, is on the methodology page.
The free assessment reveals your archetype on screen. The $79 report is the full document: a score and a plain-language band on every ability, axis, and category; your archetype and how close the nearest alternatives are; what to check first on your own record and one practice to start with; seven rules for your archetype, a 30-day start and a 90-day cycle; 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. Those old instincts can move faster than your deliberate check, and they make the next system or setup always feel like the fix. In a study of 66,465 brokerage households, the most active traders lost the most, mostly to trading too much rather than to bad picks. The 89 items ahead map how you describe the way you trade, drawing on three research traditions.
Six channels (pattern recognition, chart vision, working memory, decision speed, risk math, market knowledge), each scored from how you describe it. They are named after abilities in the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model, the most widely used framework behind modern cognitive ability tests.
Four axes (conviction, patience, discipline, disposition effect) draw on prospect theory and dual-process cognition. They help explain why two traders with identical reads can make opposite trades.
Eight categories (drawdown resilience, FOMO resistance, recovery speed, tilt resistance and four more) suggest which emotional pressures you handle well and which may need mechanical safeguards.
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. Next, you'll describe your risk style across 4 dimensions.
This sitting raised response-quality flags, so treat the interpretation as provisional. It can help you choose questions to explore, but it does not establish a precise account of your abilities or trading behavior. Response quality checks attention and consistency in this sitting; it does not tell you whether the assessment itself is valid.
A rested, uninterrupted retake may give a clearer read; it is not guaranteed to change the result. It is free and takes about 20 minutes.
Your archetype and your six ability scores, in your inbox. The link inside opens your result for these same answers on any device, with nothing to retake.
Optional. One email with your read, then occasional field notes from Jon. Unsubscribe anytime.
No card at low response quality, the same rule the Full TIP Report uses for its completion record. A rested retake gives you one.
Archetype only. No scores leave this page.
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 is often not the picks. It is the operator running them, and the operator is your wiring: the patterns your answers describe. It can repeat 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 built around 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 and your six ability scores. The six parts below are what's underneath.
Page counts vary slightly by profile. The rules and practices are written per archetype, and what to check first comes from your own lowest scores.
One payment of $79. Yours to keep.
This sitting raised response-quality flags, and the full report is built from these same answers. A rested, uninterrupted retake may give a clearer read; it is not guaranteed to change the result. It is free and takes about 20 minutes.
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This will not improve your P&L on its own, it is not a substitute for reps, and it guarantees no outcomes. It describes the patterns your answers point to, as hypotheses to check against your own trading. 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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Full TIP Report
Your answers came back with low response quality, so the report reads as provisional. A rested retake is the best next step; the report explains why.
The report
A PDF of 40+ pages. Start with the section called Start here: four short pages that show what to check first and the one practice to begin with. The rest is there when you need it.
The web version
The link is in the email we sent when you bought, subject line "Your Trader Intelligence Profile is ready". It opens on any device and does not expire.
Your archetype card
Archetype only. No scores leave this page.
No card at low response quality, the same rule the report uses for its completion record. A rested retake gives you one.
Retake
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