Coach Lincoln joined us from Denmark this week as he visits family for the holidays.
But the message he delivered was universal: most traders are being held back by a lie they don’t even know they’ve accepted.
For decades, traders have been taught to chase better strategies, better entry signals, and better predictions.
But as Lincoln showed, that chase is exactly what keeps traders stuck. The market is random — but your process doesn’t have to be.
This session broke down the true source of predictable profitability, why randomness is the key (not the enemy), and how to build a trading framework that produces confidence instead of confusion.
TL;DR:
Most traders fail because they’ve been sold the wrong goal — prediction instead of process.
Randomness, when structured, creates predictable win rates and measurable expectations.
Gordon shared a new Papa John’s trade setup demonstrating the power of rules-based entries.
A 10% trading edge — like Venture Trader’s — can transform outcomes with the right system.
Your #1 job isn’t to make money… it’s to build (and follow) the machine that makes money for you.
The Lie That Steals Your Wealth
The “lie that’s stealing your wealth”: the belief that success comes from finding the right strategy, timing signal, or guru who can outguess the market.
Most traders unknowingly fall into this trap — buying courses, tools, indicators, and alerts that promise precision, yet fail to deliver predictable results.
What actually works?
Process.
The world’s most successful traders do not attempt to predict the future. Instead, they accept uncertainty and build a systematic framework that tells them:
How often they expect to win.
How much they expect to lose.
How much they expect to gain.
How their account should grow.
And whether they’re on pace throughout the year.
When traders shift their focus from “winning this trade” to “following the machine,” their results — and their stress levels — transform.
Market Spotlight: Gordon’s Papa John’s Setup and the Edge Behind It
Midway through the session, Head Quant Gordon joined to share a live example of process in action — a new trade setup in Papa John’s Pizza (PZZA).
While the chart itself looked weak and downward-trending, Gordon explained why Venture Trader’s algorithms identified a high-probability entry only at a specific price level — not where the stock had closed the day prior.
Buying above that level? No edge. Buying where the model says? A measurable advantage.
He broke down:
The risk-to-reward structure: risk $3.50 to make $1.85 (a risk-2-to-make-1 ratio)
The base win rate implied by randomness (about 65%)
The additional 10% trading edge Venture Trader’s research provides, pushing real win probability to ~75%.
And critically — Gordon reminded members that the goal is not to guess direction or chase breakouts:
“Even if it rockets at the open, you don’t buy it. The edge only exists at the defined entry.”
That’s the discipline of process.
He also shared that the Venture Trader model portfolio is up 8% in two months, outperforming the Russell 2000, S&P 500, and Nasdaq during the same period.
The Machine Behind Predictable Profits
Lincoln continued with a key reminder: the outcome of any single trade is uncontrollable — but your long-term results are absolutely within your control.
Through examples, calculators, and live demonstrations, he showed how traders can take random market movement and turn it into reliable profitability by using:
Base win rates (driven by stop/target ratios).
Trading edge (how often your entries outperform randomness).
Trade frequency (your engine for compounding).
Risk per trade (your emotional and financial stability lever).
Annual return predictions (your roadmap).
He illustrated how a trader can reasonably target a 40% annual return with:
a 60% win rate.
200 trades/year.
and a 1% risk/1% reward ratio.
With slight adjustments — such as risking 2% instead of 1%, or increasing to 300 trades/year — that return can climb exponentially, even surpassing 100% annual growth.
The magic?
It’s not timing.
It’s the compounding of the correct process.
Be in the Room Next Week
Coach Lincoln returns next Tuesday from Denmark at a special time — 8:30 a.m. ET — to continue building your personalized trading machine — including deeper dives into Trading DNA, win/loss alignment, and designing rules you can actually follow.
Gordon will also return with new trade setups emerging from his AI-powered models.
If you want consistent, confident results, don’t miss the next session.
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