The blog: ICT trading, prop firms and learning in Switzerland
What I wish I had read when I started: concrete articles on the method, prop firm funding and what the job is actually like, written from Geneva.
Choosing a broker as a beginner: what actually matters
Comparison sites rank brokers on headline spread and how good the platform looks. Those are the two least decisive criteria for a beginner. Here are the four that actually matter — including one almost nobody checks, which nonetheless decides whether you can apply sound risk management at all.
How long does it take to become profitable at trading?
Nobody can give you a date, and anyone who does is selling you something. What can be described precisely is the stages everybody goes through, in what order, and how you recognise that you have moved to the next one. That is far more useful than a deadline.
How much do you need to start trading in Switzerland?
The question comes up in every first conversation, and it is the wrong question. The real cost of entry is not counted in francs but in months — and the amount that actually matters is not an absolute figure, it is the ratio between your capital and the smallest position your broker accepts. Here is why.
ICT or classical technical analysis: what actually changes
Triangles, head and shoulders and RSI on one side; order blocks, liquidity and killzones on the other. The difference is not fashion, and it is not tribal: it is a difference in the question you ask the chart. And it has very concrete consequences for how you place a stop.
Anatomy of a London killzone session
Between 9 and 11am Geneva time, roughly the same thing happens every day — and almost never in the order a beginner expects. Here is what that window looks like from the inside: the preparation, the trap in the first thirty minutes, and the days when the right call is to do nothing.
Passing a prop firm challenge: what actually decides it
Most candidates fail, and almost never because they read charts badly. They fail on rules they had not read, on position sizing computed backwards, and on rushing. Here is how to approach an evaluation so that your method decides the outcome, not the rulebook.
Is trading legal and taxed in Switzerland?
Trading for your own account is perfectly legal in Switzerland. Tax, however, depends on a distinction many discover too late: managing your private wealth versus professional securities dealing. Here is the framework, with the official criteria — and why your specific case cannot be settled in an article.
Learning to trade in Geneva: the options, honestly compared
Self-taught, online courses, in person, mentoring: five possible routes, none universally best. I run a trading school in Geneva, so I have a stake in this comparison — all the more reason to say what each option does well, and who it is wrong for.