Free Trader Profile: How You're Wired to Trade | TIP

Understand how you're wired to trade.

TIP maps how you think, react to risk and make decisions as a trader, then shows you your strengths, the patterns that may be hurting your trading, and practical rules you can test in your own trading.

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18 questions · About 2 minutes · Free

Report cover for a sample trader profile One-page reference card from a sample report What to check first page from a sample report
Real pages from a sample report. Yours will read differently.

Know yourself before you change your strategy.

See your trading strengths

Where your answers put you strongest: reading charts, holding a plan, sizing, deciding under pressure.

Find your failure patterns

Where patience, risk, conviction, discipline or emotion may be giving way, each with a check to run on your own trades.

Build around your wiring

Rules and a first practice built from your own scores, ready to test in your next sessions.

Your trading behavior, made visible.

Your answers become a report you can use when you build your process, pick setups and review your sessions.

What to check first, a page from the full report
What to check firstPatterns from your scores, each with a check
Report cover
Your archetypeOne of 19, and how close the others came
Seven rules for the archetype
Seven rulesWritten for your archetype
The 90-day cycle
The 90-day cycleOne practice at a time
One-page reference card
Reference cardOne page for the desk

Start free. Your free result includes your trader archetype and core profile. If you want the full picture, the 40+ page Full TIP Report is $79 one-time.

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Sample pages shown for a sample profile, The Chart Cartographer.

The problem may not be your strategy.

Two traders can run the same system and still trade it differently.

  • One gets restless in a slow market.
  • One hesitates after a loss.
  • One sizes up when confidence runs hot.

TIP shows you which of those patterns come up in your answers, so you can build a process that works with them instead of fighting them.

More than another trading personality quiz.

TIP draws on published research in cognitive ability, judgment under uncertainty, emotion regulation and personality, then asks trading-specific questions about how you decide under pressure and risk.

A self-assessment, not a validated test or a diagnosis. It makes no promise about your results.

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What early readers said.

Unedited reactions from early readers of their own report. Not paid reviews.

Reading the full PDF to my husband was like describing myself to him in real-time.
Clement, early reader
My pitfall has literally been my life.
Agudelo, early reader
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.
Breakwood, early reader

Find out how you're wired to trade.

Take the free assessment and see which patterns show up in the way you trade.

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18 questions · About 2 minutes · Free

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