Constantin Pabst · Private Mentoring

How many people know what to do?

How many people then do it?

If you don't do it, does it matter if you know it?


You've already had this day.

Stopped out at the open. Instead of closing the laptop, you flipped short into a clear uptrend because you "felt" it was overextended. Sized up to get back to even. Got stopped. Flipped again.

By lunch, down 6R on a day that should've been -1R and done.

You didn't walk away angry. You walked away hollow.

Because every single one of those trades was a decision you'd made a thousand times before and sworn you'd never make again.


The cost isn't the loss. It's the pattern.

10-15 live trades a week. A 40-60% execution drift between what your plan says and what you actually do. At 2% average loss per bad exit, that's $600-$1,500 a month bleeding out of your account from trades you knew not to take.

Multiply that by twelve months. Multiply the last three years.

None of it was a strategy problem. You had the strategy. You broke your own rules. And now you're reading another book, buying another indicator, waiting for the missing piece that will finally make you execute.

The missing piece doesn't exist.


I didn't need another strategy. I needed something to force me to act on the one I had.

Here's the trade that broke me.

NQ. Stopped out long at the open. Instead of closing the laptop and coming back tomorrow, I flipped short into a clear uptrend because I "felt" it was overextended. Sized up to get back to even. Got stopped. Flipped again.

By lunch I was down 6R on a day that should have been -1R and done.

I didn't walk away angry. I walked away hollow. Because every single one of those trades was a decision I'd made a thousand times before and sworn I'd never make again.

For months I'd been telling myself I needed more. More screen time. Another psychology book. A better read on order flow. A cleaner edge. Somewhere out there was the missing piece.

The missing piece didn't exist.

A few weeks later I sat down to review a full week of trades. I wasn't looking for a pattern — I was trying to understand what the hell kept happening. What I found wasn't a surprise. It was worse than that.

On every single blow-up day, I'd broken the same two rules. Rules I'd written down months earlier. Rules I knew by heart.

So I stopped reading. Stopped journaling feelings. Stopped hunting for new setups.

I installed one thing: a hard daily loss limit with an automatic platform lockout. Not a mental rule. Not a sticky note above the monitor. An actual enforced shutdown at -2R that I could not override in the moment, no matter how "sure" I felt about the next trade.

Over the following 90 days, adherence to my own rules roughly doubled. Max daily drawdown collapsed. But the real change wasn't on the equity curve. It was that I stopped ending sessions feeling like I'd lost a fight with myself.

Then I built more of it. If-then protocols for every scenario I used to improvise through. Pre-committed sizing. Weekly reviews against written process, not against P&L.

Q1 2026 · 82 days · Private real-money account · Verified on FXBlue
+69.3%
Total return
3.30
Profit factor
13.2%
Max drawdown
2.58
Reward-to-risk

1.1 trades per day. 72.7% win rate. 70% of trades on one instrument (Gold).

Anyone can make 69% if they're willing to blow up. Making 69% with a ~5:1 return-to-drawdown ratio is a different game.

For context: that return would currently rank 3rd on the 2026 Futures Day Trading Championship leaderboard — the oldest live-trading competition in the industry.

None of that came from a new edge. The edge I have now is the same edge I had on that -6R day.

What changed was structural enforcement of what I already knew.


The equity curve is a straight line because the process is a straight line.

1.1 trades per day. Not 11. Not 5. One.

Same checklist. Same risk. Same rules. Same instruments. 82 days in a row.

No martingale. No grid. No "strategy stacking." No finding new setups each week.

It doesn't come from finding better setups. It comes from saying no to 90% of the setups you see.

The approach works. The question is whether you can sit through the boredom of running the same play 82 days in a row.

Most can't. That's the edge.


Private mentoring. You and me.

Six 1:1 sessions. Built to install the structural enforcement you've been trying — and failing — to install on your own.

It's not a strategy course. You already know enough strategy.

It's not a psychology course. That's the wrong level for this problem.

We build the operating system that makes execution inevitable, not effortful — around your markets and your failure patterns.

How the work builds

Session 1
Diagnosis + Edge
We go through your assessment results and your actual trades. Pick your ONE setup, document it, run the expectancy math. You leave with an Edge One-Pager and a repair order for everything else.
Session 2
Risk Architecture
% risk per trade, daily loss limit, drawdown cap, circuit breakers. Written down as your Risk Constitution — the document that decides, so you don't have to.
Sessions 3-4
Execution Structure + Strategy
Your daily routine, session boundaries, and the framework install — matched to your markets and time zone from my backtested playbooks (Weekly IB, RTH Breaks, session roadmaps). Adherence journaling replaces P&L journaling.
Sessions 5-6
Enforcement + Review System
If-then protocols for every scenario you currently improvise through. Drawdown response. Sizing rules. A review cadence locked into your week — plus your forward 90-day plan.

What you get

This is for you if…

  • You've got at least a year of live trading behind you
  • You know your edge exists — you just can't execute it consistently
  • You've read the books, done the psychology work, and your P&L still looks like a sawtooth
  • You're ready to admit that "I know what to do, I just can't do it" is a structural problem, not a character flaw
  • You'll do the work between sessions

This is not for you if…

  • You've been trading less than a year
  • You want signals or daily trade calls (this isn't that)
  • You want someone to hand you a strategy without building the structure around it
  • You expect the sessions to do the work — they set it up, you run it

Before you ask

"Why sessions and not a course?"
Because your failure pattern is specific. Two traders with identical strategies break in completely different places. A course averages over that. In six sessions we work on YOUR trades and YOUR override moments — nothing generic.
"I don't have time for another commitment."
You currently burn time on post-loss rumination, revenge trades, and session extensions you swore you wouldn't do. Adherence shortens sessions. The structure we build gives time back within weeks.
"My markets aren't NQ/ES/GC. Does it still apply?"
My backtested playbooks are futures-specific. The enforcement system — if-then protocols, daily loss lockout, sizing architecture, adherence journaling — transfers to any instrument. And because this is 1:1, the framework install is matched to what you actually trade.
"Can I try before committing to six sessions?"
Yes. That's what the single working session is for. $250, one hour, one concrete problem. If it's useful and you want the full build, we continue — the session counts toward the six.

Pick the size of the problem.

Working Session
$250
per hour · single session
One hour, one problem. Your risk rules, your enforcement layer, your review system — or a full diagnosis that maps your rebuild in the right order. Counts toward the mentoring if you continue.
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Private Mentoring · The full build
$2,000
six 1:1 sessions
The complete structural rebuild: edge, risk, execution structure, framework install, enforcement, review system. Small number of spots — mentoring time competes with my own trading.
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How it starts: you email me, I reply personally. If it's not a fit, I'll say so.

Scheduling: sessions at your pace — weekly works best, but the structure is yours.


How many people know what to do?

How many people then do it?

If you don't do it, does it matter if you know it?

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Six sessions · $2,000 — or a single working session at $250