educate2trade
Senior trader mentoring a student one-to-one at a live trading desk

1-2-1 Career Program

Bespoke mentorship for your trading career

One-to-one sessions with our lead educators — tailored, personalised training appropriate to your level that fits around your schedule. Depending on the package, your course takes between 12–36 one-to-one sessions.

Technical & Fundamental Mentorship

A complete foundation, built around you

Your mentor works through the core skills every trader needs — from reading a chart to managing the emotions that affect decision-making.

  • Detailed introduction to trading
  • Psychology of trading & risk management
  • Building a trading plan
  • Fundamentals: interpreting news and economic data
  • Understanding the market environment
  • Candlestick patterns
  • Technical Analysis I: support & resistance, breakout & fakeout structures, trends & channels
  • Technical Analysis II: trend continuation, bullish/bearish structures, trend reversal & bilateral patterns
  • Fibonacci
  • Charting & technical analysis
  • Trading data & risk management
  • Portfolio & trade journaling

Advanced Market Insights

Go deeper with professional tools

For traders ready to refine their edge, we cover institutional-style market reading, volume analysis, news-driven execution and the psychology of performance.

Market & Volume Profile: Value Area range trades, breakouts, fakeouts, Point of Control shifts

Volume analysis: high-volume nodes, volume voids, sticky areas, Value Area shifts

News-driven trading: breaking news via X, economic data, bond auctions, central bank releases

Specialised strategies: Stop Runs & ICT, 0DTE option-data trading, option expiry & month-end adjustments, Market on Close, earnings season

Professional tools: TradingView, Bookmap, Footprints, Cumulative Volume Delta

Performance optimisation: managing drawdown and discipline

Correlations & open strategies

Meet Your Mentor

Chris Pollock

20+ years across metals, commodities and derivatives. Chris brings real desk experience from physical trading, running a City firm and now trading his own capital every day.

Chris Pollock, trading educator at Educate2Trade

Career timeline

  1. 2006

    Entered the market

    Joined a physical metal trading firm, specialising in precious metals during the Financial Crisis.

  2. 2009

    London commodities desk

    Set up a desk covering metals, energy, softs and agriculturals.

  3. 2010–2020

    Founded a City metals firm

    Ran a physical precious-metals firm in the City for ten years.

  4. 2020–present

    Independent trader

    Trading his own accounts across multiple asset classes.

  5. 2021–present

    Educate2Trade educator

    Joined Educate2Trade to help aspiring traders refine their process.

Trading Psychology

Performance coaching with Enzo Calamita

Enzo has over a decade in the markets and is a certified executive/behavioural coach. He works with traders to build resilience, manage emotions and optimise decision-making — so psychology supports your strategy instead of undermining it.

What psychology coaching covers

  • Managing drawdown and discipline
  • Building resilience under pressure
  • Emotional regulation during live trading
  • Decision-making frameworks for high-stakes moments
  • Habit formation and process review

Packages

Choose your level of support

Two tiers, both one-to-one. The difference is how much mentor time, floor access, psychology coaching and funded-account support you receive.

Tier one

Platinum Package

24 one-to-one sessions

  • Beginners & Advanced Online Course + strategy content
  • 6 months' membership (Telegram group, morning newsletter, market analysis)
  • 2 daily EU & US market-open webinars
  • Weekly market analysis & trading psychology webinars
  • 6 hours of 1-2-1 with senior traders (12 × 30 min)
  • 2 weeks' trading-floor access
  • $5k instant funded account
Most completeTier two

VIP Package

36 one-to-one sessions

  • Beginners & Advanced Online Course + strategy content
  • 12 months' membership (Telegram group, morning newsletter, market analysis)
  • 2 daily EU & US market-open webinars
  • Weekly market analysis & trading psychology webinars
  • 12 hours of 1-2-1 with senior traders (24 × 30 min)
  • 4 hours of 1-2-1 with a trading psychologist (8 × 30 min)
  • 1 month's trading-floor access
  • $100k evaluation account for 12 months

Placements

Where our students are placed

We work with you during and after the programme to open doors across our partner network.

  • Synergy Markets
  • Marex
  • JBDH
  • Paragon Trading
  • Livesquawk
  • BGC
  • Pelican Trading
  • King & Shaxson

Ready for one-to-one mentorship?

Book a call and we will talk through your experience, your goals and whether the Platinum or VIP package is the right fit.