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Don here.
I'm going to describe a trader's morning and I want you to tell me what's missing.
He wakes up. Pulls up one screen. Sees one price — the one that's going to decide the day. Places a single trade.
9:36 AM. He closes the screen.
Doesn't check it at lunch. Doesn't peek at 2 PM. Doesn't watch the close. He finds out after the fact how the trade went — because he wasn't there for any of it.
What's missing? Everything you've been told trading requires.
No watchlist. No scanning. No sitting there for six hours waiting for something to happen. No staring at candles hoping the move holds.
He calls his screen THE SWITCHBOARD. He's a Chartered Market Technician — 23 years in this business. 13 of those inside thinkorswim and TD Ameritrade building education for millions of retail traders. He had a career, a family, and no time to trade the way everyone says you're supposed to.
So he built a way that takes six minutes.
71 documented trades between May 5 and September 9. He wasn't sitting at his desk for a single one of them after 9:36 AM.
Here's what happened anyway:
$1,000 base. $1,903 at the end. 63.4% win rate. Five months, every one green. 11 trades went to zero — complete losses — and the account still closed at +90.3%.
Thursday, September 17 at 2:00 PM ET, I'm naming him for the first time. THE SWITCHBOARD goes on screen. All 71 trades — wins, losses, zeros — on the record live. And I'll walk through how a small group gets direct access to the screen after the event.
$2,000 in cash goes to one person watching live. Must be there when I draw the name. 500 seats.
Thursday, September 17 · 2:00 PM ET · Free
Don Kaufman
TheoTrade
P.S. You've spent years being told you have to watch every tick to trade well. He proved that wrong 71 times in a row. Thursday you see exactly how. Put me in the room