Our Philosophy
Our mission at Jim Dalton Trading is to help you gain a competitive edge by honing your instinct for what drives markets and competitors, and to turn that instinct into practical, daily understanding you can really use!
We believe that the dynamic, immersive learning environment we create for our trading students is truly transformative.
We believe that true trading alchemy takes place when market understanding and self-understanding unite. Like any craft worth learning, success is not a destination but a continual dynamic process. And nowhere is that more true than with trading where it is easy — and dangerous — to measure oneself by daily gains and losses.
We believe that understanding trading as a practice and a craft that can be honed will profoundly change your learning. It starts with you. It’s not overnight. It takes focus, commitment and the willingness to adopt a learner’s mindset and put aside what you think you know. And once you get out of your own way and accept that there is often nothing rational about how traders think or act, you will be able to use that knowledge to your advantage
Most importantly, we believe that the trading wizard behind the curtain is really YOU! And we’re here to guide you on your path to discovering that for yourself and transforming your trading!
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Learn More about our signature courses: Introduction to Trading with the Market Profile e-Course and Mind Over Markets Continued: An Intensive in a World of Increased Volatility.
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About Jim Dalton
James F. Dalton has made trading and studying the markets his life’s work for over 50 years. He is the author of two seminal books on Market Profile Trading, Mind over Markets: Power Trading with Market Generated Information Updated Edition (2013) and Markets in Profile: Profiting from the Auction Process (2007).
Jim has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade as well as a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Senior Executive Vice President of the CBOE during its formative years. He is a discretionary trader and long-time proponent of employing the Market Profile® to facilitate trading.
He has been a sought-after speaker and educator throughout his career. In 2010, he decided to formally channel his insights into creating a curriculum for Market Profile Trading. That curriculum became his signature, sought-after intensive programs, which are designed to reach traders at all levels of mastery and help them take control of their own trading success.
About Jim Dalton Trading
Jim Dalton Trading is the authority in advanced trading mentoring and education. Our unique, immersive trading courses catapult our traders to a new level of learning and help them gain a competitive edge by honing their instinct for what drives ever-changing markets and competitors. And we turn that instinct into practical, daily understanding they can really use!
Market expert and author Jim Dalton has spent over four decades observing, labeling and incorporating market observations into daily trading decisions. His adaptive, hands-on coaching style has been developed thoughtfully to assist traders in learning and applying the observations he has developed over time. Yet, it is continually refreshed and applicable to current market conditions.
Our signature intensive trading courses offer a unique mentoring environment that is unparalleled in both its depth and breadth. We show traders how to cut through the noise, not with magical theories but with a potent combo of good old-fashioned observation and practical application to help them convert observations into probability-based trading decisions free of bad habits and trading biases.
In short: We put our traders in the driver’s seat!