A 12-month programme by Pro Trader

Become a trader.
Not a signal-follower.

One programme. 12 months. Everything I know in one place, in order, with feedback at every step. From your first valid setup to trading funded capital, with me beside you the whole way.

Hosted by Luke Lawson Trading since 2012 2,000+ traders taught ★★★★★ 4.7 on Trustpilot
What's out there

Somebody's always selling a shortcut.

Scams, shams, fluffy fads and shortcuts. You've probably seen a few. Here's why none of them hold up.

Signal groups

"Just copy my trades."

Until the person pressing the button burns out, gets wiped out or stops answering. You never learn why a trade was taken, so you can't take the next one yourself.

Trading bots

"Set it and forget it."

Until the market changes and the bot doesn't. A robot making your decisions is a very expensive way to find out you don't understand them.

The Magic Bullet indicator

"One line, all the answers."

There isn't one. I spent years looking. The fix wasn't a Magic Bullet indicator. It was structure.

Even if it works

Say you find the Holy Grail. Now your whole financial future runs on somebody else's button.

Nobody can cancel your subscription to a skill you own.

The A-to-Z Trader Roadmap

From "never placed a trade"
to trading as a profession.

When I started, nobody showed me the whole map, so I wandered for 7 years. This is the map. Ten steps, honestly drawn.

The Decision
Foundations
Risk Control
First Strategy
Screen Time
Consistency Proof
The Evaluation
Funded
Professional Rhythm
Trading as a Profession
You can walk these on your ownWhere most people stall alone
Steps 1 to 5

You can do these without me.

I mean that. Free resources, a demo account and honest reps will carry you a long way. If money's tight, that's your path, and I'll cheer you on.

Steps 6 to 8

This is where people stall alone.

Judging your own consistency. Choosing a firm. Surviving the evaluation. Staying disciplined once it's real capital. Almost nobody stalls at understanding the strategy. It's the feedback loop, not the information, that's rare.

So we built one thing: Ultimate Trader.

Inside Ultimate Trader

What the 12 months hold.

Everything I know, in order, with me in the room. The 6-box checklist is the front door, not the whole house.

Full Mastery access, unlocked

The complete curriculum, in order: every setup, trade management and self-review. Nothing held back for an upsell.

2 months of live trading, every day

Twice a year we trade the live market together, every session, for a whole month. Every trade logged.

Live with me, every week

A weekly live group session with me. Your trades, your questions and the charts that matter that week.

One-on-one, with me

Journal reviews, trade-log reviews and the "why does this keep happening" sessions, spread across your 12 months.

Scaling & Growth

The funded roadmap done properly: firm selection, evaluation prep, and the discipline layer for trading real capital.

The community

Traders walking the same map, in our Slack. Wins, questions and honest reviews. You never trade alone.

Daily Power Hour live trading session on a desktop monitor
Daily Power Hour live session on a phone
Daily Power Hour

A month of live trading. Twice a year.

An hour a day, every trading day, for a whole month. Not a highlight reel. Every trade I take, winners and losers, on a live account, with the log open.

Some months are negative, and I show those too, because you can't cheat that data. As far as I know, nobody else in trading education does this.

There's no faster way to build the skill than watching the checklist run on live price, next to someone who's done it for 14 years.

Luke Lawson portrait
One-on-one

Not a chatbot. Not an assistant. Me.

Trading is a rigorous journey to be on alone. Sometimes what you need is someone with the courage to pull you up on your BS, with love.

Whatever royal mess you think you've made, I've been there, probably ten times worse. No shame. Straight talk. And if you've got excuses for why you're not walking the path, I'll drag you along.

The Lifestyle Trader Method

6 boxes. 1%. Entry orders. Walk away.

A checklist that decides. Fixed risk that survives. Orders that wait so you don't have to. We trade what we see, not what we think, and a setup is either valid or it doesn't exist.

The whole job takes 1 to 2 hours a day. The afternoon is the point.

A calm trading desk at dawn with a laptop chart and a six-item checklist
BOX 01ConditionIs this market even tradeable?
BOX 02PhaseRuns and pullbacks.
BOX 03The LevelSupport and resistance.
BOX 04DecelerationThe when.
BOX 05The 50 EMAThe moving average that frames the move.
BOX 06The MarshmallowThe zone between the 20 and the 50.
1% FIXED RISKEvery trade. No exceptions. It's what keeps you in the game long enough for the edge to show up.
ENTRY ORDERSEntry, stop loss and profit target set from the start. The order can't panic. It just waits.
PROCESS OVER PREDICTIONNobody knows the next move, and nobody needs to. The checklist decides, not FOMO.

Half my orders never trigger.
That's not a flaw in my trading. That is my trading.

Built in-house

Tools I built to do the analyst work.

Proprietary trading tools I designed myself, built with the help of AI, to take a lot of the analyst legwork off your plate so you spend less time staring at charts. They do the legwork. You still make the decision.

Our stance on AI

Run by people, for people.

Yes, we use AI. It sharpens our workflows. But we don't outsource decisions, or our trading, to robots. Not now, not ever.

What it's not

Not signals. Not a bot.
Not done-for-you.

It's a skill, taught properly, with feedback. Done with you, never done for you. Everything in the programme exists to make you independent of me. That's the point of a skill.

It's for you if
  • You want a real skill and can follow a process, even when it's boring.
  • You've got 1 to 2 hours a day.
  • You're a beginner. That's fine. Commitment is the requirement, not past experience.
  • You've been burned before. You're especially welcome.
  • You think you've left it too late. Mark joined at 62. The market didn't ask.
It's not for you if
  • You want signals to copy.
  • You want a bot to do it for you.
  • You want results by Friday.
  • You'd be trading rent money.
  • I mean that kindly, but I mean it.
Your coach

Hey, I'm Luke.

I didn't come from money. Single-mum household in New Zealand, and at 16 I was living on $50 a week. At 18 I was a stockbroker on Martin Place in Sydney, and I hated it. So I started trading for myself, and spent 7 years doing it the hard way.

At 23 I put a $2,000 deposit on a credit card for Learn to Trade, Greg Secker's $40,000 programme. The financing they promised never came through. Neither did the deposit, or a single lesson. Part of why Pro Trader exists is so the next 23-year-old me meets the opposite of that.

I've also had over a million dollars of funded accounts frozen when firms went under. That's why I'll show you how to judge a firm before you give them a cent.

2012Trading since
2021Teaching since
2,000+Traders taught
Luke on a white sand beach

Some Tuesdays look like this. All real. All while the orders did the waiting. (That's Charlie. Found on the side of a road in Bali in 2020.)

From people who've done it

Faces, not stock photos.

Some of our funded Pro Trader members. Different countries, different ages, same six boxes.

Funded Pro Trader member
Funded Pro Trader member
Funded Pro Trader member
Posted in our Slack

Real members, real messages, from our achievements channel.

Slack message from a member announcing they are officially a funded trader
Slack message from a member about their first payout
What you won't hear

No income promises. Not here, not on the session, not ever.

You've just read real messages from real students. What you won't read is me promising you'll match them. Nobody can promise you income from trading, me included, and I refuse to imply what I can't promise.

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Five-star Trustpilot review from Quinton
Five-star Trustpilot review from Gary B
★★★★★Rated 4.7 on Trustpilot. The reviews are public.Go read them, including the one-stars

Trading involves risk. Results vary and are not typical. This training is educational and is not financial advice.

The investment, straight

A serious, four-figure investment. Not a $97 course.

I'll walk you through the exact figure, and how people structure it, on your roadmap session, once we both know it's a fit. Not before. That's not a dodge. It's respect for a decision this size.

And the promise

If it's not right for you, I'll tell you.

I'd rather say "not yet" than take money from the wrong person. No surprises, no ambushes, no high-pressure sales tactics. And I'm not going to be chasing you around.

How to start

Your next step.

Three steps, in this order. No step gets skipped, and every one of them is useful on its own.

01

Watch the free Masterclass

90 minutes, live, on the charts. The full method, the path to funded, and exactly what's inside Ultimate Trader. Stay live and the A-to-Z Trader Roadmap PDF is yours.

Live every Wednesday, 9pm New YorkSave my free seat
02

Book a free roadmap session

A conversation, not a corner. Where you're at, what you're building, and whether this is actually a fit. Both directions. A few short questions come first, so answer them properly.

With me, about 30 minutesBook my session
03

Start your 12 months

If it's a fit, you're onboarded, plugged into the community and walking the map with feedback at every step. If it's not, you keep the roadmap and a straight answer.

Done with you, never done for you
Questions

The things people ask me.

How much time do I actually need?
1 to 2 hours a day on the charts. Entry orders do the waiting, so you're not glued to a screen. If trading needs a 3am alarm, it's not a strategy. It's a night shift.
I'm a complete beginner. Is that okay?
Yes. Your level of commitment is the requirement, not your level of past experience. The curriculum starts at the front door and takes you through the whole house, in order.
I've paid for a trading course before and got burned.
You're especially welcome. Some of the people who rate us highest paid ten, twenty or forty grand somewhere else first. Come and watch the Masterclass before you decide anything. It stands on its own.
Do I need a big account to start?
No. Prop firms back traders who can prove skill, so you can get started without putting your own savings on the line to begin with. Evaluations have a fee, and passing is never guaranteed, which is exactly why we build the skill on demo first.
Can I get funded in 30 days?
Anyone promising "funded in 30 days" is selling you the fee. The skill takes what it takes, and rushing the first part is how people pay for the second part twice.
Is this a signal service?
No. Don't take a trade just because I'm taking it. Everything in Ultimate Trader is built to make you independent of me. You should be able to read the chart, run the checklist and make the decision yourself.
I'm in a different time zone. Does that matter?
Not much. Orders wait while you sleep. We've got students in New Zealand trading the London session in their sleep, and members all over the world.
What does it cost?
It's a serious, four-figure investment in a 12-month skill. I'll walk you through the exact figure, and how people structure it, on your roadmap session once we both know it's a fit.
What happens on the roadmap session?
Three things. Where you are on the map, honestly. What your next step looks like for your hours, your history and your goals, which is useful whether or not you join. And a straight answer: if it's a fit, I'll show you the programme and everything that comes with it. If it's not, I'll say so.
One last thing

If not this, then what?

I flip-flopped for years. Job, trading, failing, back to a job, back to trading. The question that kept me coming back was this one. I never found anything else with no boss, no customers, no staff, that I could do from anywhere.

The only way to be a trader is to be a trader.

Watch the free Masterclass