Trading education from first principles

Learn why markets move before you learn when to trade

Full programmes, FX and gold courses, and the skills every market demands, from technical analysis and risk management to the psychology of following your own rules.

Trading books translated: 26+
Training programmes written: 16
Universities taught at: 4
In the industry since: 2012

Start with a full programme

Three independent flagship programmes. Choose one as the backbone of your learning.

I Am a Trader

Flagship · 4 stages · 24 lessons

Technical analysis, risk and psychology in one sequence, built from first principles. No prior knowledge needed.

399 USDT View course

Positive Expectancy

Flagship · 12 chapters

Build and keep a system with a positive expectancy through many market cycles, run as a long-term business.

299 USDT View course

Trading System Design

Flagship · purely quantitative

Edge, regime filters, backtesting without overfitting and survival risk management. Data, not narrative.

399 USDT View course

Which market do you trade?

Two intermediate courses. Each runs in a fixed order of 4 stages and 8 modules, and no module is taught apart from the one before it.

FX CFD Trading

Intermediate · 4 stages · 8 modules

How currency pairs are priced and what trading friction costs you, rate differentials and central bank policy, then three execution scenarios across the trading sessions.

399 USDT View course

XAU/USD Gold Trading

Intermediate · 4 stages · 8 modules

How gold CFDs work, real interest rates and the dollar index, liquidity through the Asia, Europe and US sessions, then position sizing and a pre-trade checklist.

399 USDT View course

Core skills that apply to any market

Three courses, each in 4 stages and 8 modules. Take them on their own or alongside a market course. All three together cost 399 USDT, which is 48 USDT less than buying them one by one.

Technical Analysis

4 stages · 8 modules

Price, volume and time as raw data, market structure as an auction, indicators with transparent formulas such as EMA and Ichimoku, then a trading plan tested against data.

149 USDT View course

Risk Management

4 stages · 8 modules

Why a string of good trades can still ruin an account, margin of safety, asymmetry and hedging, then circuit breakers that stop a bad day from becoming a bad year.

149 USDT View course

Trading Psychology

4 stages · 8 modules

Why survival instincts misfire in front of a chart, thinking in probabilities, rules written before the market opens, then consistency you can keep for years.

149 USDT View course

Further skills, and practice after the course

Four more courses to fill a specific gap, and an eight-week live programme that checks you actually use what you learned.

Philosophy for Traders

Core skill · 8 sessions

Buddhism, the Tao Te Ching and Stoicism from primary sources, with a 5-step protocol for testing a view.

149 USDT View course

Statistics and Probability

Core skill · 4 sessions

Expectancy, losing streaks, sample size and Monte Carlo: know whether your edge is real.

149 USDT View course

Macro and Intermarket

Core skill · 5 sessions

Rates, the dollar, the economic calendar and risk rules for high-impact news.

179 USDT View course

Intraday Trading

Advanced · 4 stages · 8 modules

Read the session as an auction, know when daily highs and lows form, then drop to M5 and M1.

199 USDT View course

Supervised Practice: 8 weeks live on Zoom, graded on process, not profit · 349 USDT

Who teaches

In the industry since 2012, not on the strength of a certificate

I came into trading in 2012 through a gold brokerage in Vietnam, and worked in sales, analysis, training and management at international brokers before leaving the CFD business as a Country Manager in 2020.

I have translated more than 26 trading books into Vietnamese, among them Naked Forex and Best Loser Wins, and I teach Risk Management and Trading Psychology at Green Chart, a CMT exam preparation provider. I hold no academic finance qualification, and I say so on every page that matters.

About Ival

Ival holding a microphone, teaching at a training session — Ival at a training session.

What students say

Ival teaches Risk Management and Trading Psychology at Green Chart, a Vietnamese provider of CMT exam preparation courses.

Both students took the Vietnamese courses. Their words are translated from Vietnamese.

A dedicated teacher with deep experience and very broad knowledge of risk management and the psychology of investing. The material is strong and practical in a way you rarely find on the market.

Nguyễn Thành student

The Buddhist and psychological material was new to me. The lessons apply directly to real trading.

Thiên Long student

Two layers behind every course

One is a way of reasoning. The other is three named philosophical traditions, used only where discipline breaks down.

Layer 1

First principles

A candle is four numbers recording an auction, not a symbol to memorise. Every course starts from what a thing is and the mechanism that produces it, before it goes anywhere near how to use it.

Layer 2

Three named traditions

Buddhism, the Tao Te Ching and Stoicism, each brought in only to solve a specific psychological problem of trading. Named sources, not "Eastern wisdom" in general.

How the two layers work

Three partners, three things we do not do ourselves

We teach. Automated trading tools, CMT exam preparation and the account you trade on come from partners we name openly. How we work together.

QuantTrading

Quantitative trading technology

Builds automated trading products and publishes the track records of its live accounts on Myfxbook. It can backtest your trading idea and turn it into a product you can run. The team works in Vietnamese, so ask us first and we will make the introduction.

Visit quanttrading.vn

PU Prime

CFD broker

A plan is worth nothing until it reaches the market. PU Prime has run as a CFD broker since 2015, on MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and its own app. Referral link: we may earn a fee, no course depends on it.

How we work with PU Prime

Green Chart

CMT exam preparation

Runs preparation courses for all three levels of the CMT (Chartered Market Technician) exam, taught by CMT charterholders. Ival teaches Risk Management and Trading Psychology there.

See the course at Green Chart

How the courses work

Video lessons in English

Ival teaches every lesson in English. Each module comes with the slide deck used in it.

No expiry date

You get a personal viewing account, and your access does not expire. Watch whenever it suits you.

Fees in USDT

Fees are paid in USDT. FX CFD, XAU/USD and the three core skills: all five courses together cost 1,099 USDT, which is 146 USDT less than buying them one by one. Your account is created once your payment is confirmed.

Not sure which course fits?

Message us with the market you trade and where you are stuck, and we will point you to the right course.

01Tell us what you trade The market, your experience, and the part that is not working.
02We confirm the course and fee A single course, a bundle, or a suggestion to start somewhere simpler.
03Pay in USDT, then start We create your viewing account once the payment is confirmed.