Zero Day Desk // October 2026

I’m opening the founding cohort for Trade With a Real Edge in 30 Days.

We start Sunday, November 1. There are 10 desks total, and enrolment closes Saturday, October 31 at 5pm ET, or when the 10 are gone.

Single intake. Everyone starts together. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

The goal is simple: over 6 weeks we build and prove a repeatable desk process for 0DTE SPX, across your live read, your execution discipline, and your session review.

No P&L promise. No “crush the market” nonsense. No screenshots of someone else’s account that may or may not be real.

This is about skill and process.

I’ve spent 15 years as a data analyst and programmer, including inside investment banks like Barclays Capital and Sarasin Chiswell in London, coding systems for traders. This desk comes from that same world: data, process, tools, and pressure.

I bought the full available four-year, minute-by-minute 0DTE options history direct from the exchange. Then I built a custom AI database around it so I could slice the market from every angle before turning it into a tradable desk process.

Real market history. Proper tooling. An unreasonable amount of testing before anything touched live capital.

I’ve only run this with three private traders before. This cohort of ten is the first time it’s gone wider.

You don’t have to take it on faith. You test it. You run it. You measure the difference in your own process.

You’re not a bad trader. Your read is probably fine. You’re leaking it after the money hits the screen.

That’s not a character flaw. Trying harder won’t fix it.

It’s a process problem. Process problems are fixable.

I built this for the trader who already knows the mechanics. You trade 0DTE SPX. You can read a chart. You can place a trade without someone holding your hand. You have real screen time behind you.

This initial desk is built for vertical credit spreads on SPX 0DTE.

Not iron condors. Not butterflies. Not a rotating list of setups ... yet. One market. One setup. Done properly.

You’re past the beginner stage.

The frustrating part is your after-close analysis is cleaner than your live execution. On replay you see it. The read was there. You also see where you hesitated, cut the winner, held too long, moved the line, or gave the morning back.

Then hopefully, you journal it. You tell yourself tomorrow will be different. Then tomorrow comes, money’s on the screen, and the same leak shows up again.

This is not for complete beginners. Not for gamblers, revenge traders, or action chasers. Not for anyone who wants signals, alerts, tips, or someone to trade for them. And if you’re looking for guaranteed returns, wrong room.

But if you’re competent and inconsistent, if you take this seriously, and if you’re sick of flying seat-of-the-pants from a home desk with no one next to you, this was built for you.

Especially if you’ve bought enough courses and tools to be allergic to guru nonsense.

Good. You should be.

As soon as you join, you’ll take The Pressure Test, so you can see exactly where your live execution leaks.

Then you’ll get set up inside the Desk software, so you’re not fiddling with tools alone before Day One.

The first move is The Read. You’ll build your Read Matrix and test it against real SPX history, so you know what you’re looking for before the session starts. Then you’ll run the Live Read Engine during market hours. It weighs and grades five separate indicators at the same time, so you’re not just staring at bars and guessing what’s happening underneath. You’ll be able to ask it what it’s seeing, why a read is strengthening or weakening, and what the indicators are telling you in plain English. Instead of reviewing the trade after the close and thinking “that was obvious,” you’ll get the read explained while the market is moving.

Then we build The Line. This is where discipline stops depending on willpower. You’ll define when to step out early for a partial versus when to hold to target, then use the Line Lock live so you don’t renegotiate just because P&L moved.

Then we build The Review. You’ll use the Drift Report to grade the session honestly, where process held and where it leaked. Then the Edge Ledger carries those lessons forward, so your edge compounds instead of resetting to zero every morning.

That’s the desk.

Read the market live with conviction. Hold your line under pressure. Review like a professional.

You’ll get the full 6-week live cohort, with short do-it-now modules each week. You’ll build the thing instead of watching lectures and pretending that counts.

You’ll get the Desk software for the first 3 months, including Helena, the AI coach. That gives you the 6-week cohort to build the desk with us, then another 6 weeks to keep running it on your own. You’ll build your trade diary as you trade, and turn it into straight feedback, without the journaling admin no one keeps up with. After that, keep it running month-to-month if you want.

You’ll join a weekly live Desk Session with the cohort, so we work through real reads, real lines, and real sessions together. Not theory from a safe distance.

In week one, you’ll get the Done-With-You Desk Build, worth $1,500. We set your desk up with you from day one: your strikes, your line, your limits, your review rhythm. Built for you and ready to use, not a blank screen. Each week’s module then brings that part to life and shows you how to run it.

I’m also including The Founder’s Edge, worth $2,000. That’s access to my own SPX 0DTE method, validated across the back-history of 0DTE data and traded live successfully for 2 years, not just back-testing fantasy.

I’m not going to show you a screenshot of my account. I’d be suspicious of anyone who made that the centerpiece.

A serious trader’s P&L is private. And in the age of AI and deepfakes, a number on a screen proves nothing anyway. Instead, you’ll get access to a back-testing tool tied into my AI database, so you can prove for yourself that the edge holds up on the history.

And what really matters at the end of the day is whether your process improves when you run the desk live.

The founding price is $3,000 paid in full, or 6 weekly payments of $600. Pay in full and save $600.

There are two ways to join.

The group seat is $3,000 and includes everything above.

The VIP Private Desk is $6,000 and includes the full group program, plus private 1:1 access to me: a 1:1 onboarding and desk build session, direct async access through the six weeks, and a mid-cohort private review. There are only 3 VIP Private Desk seats inside the 10.

Try the desk for 14 days. If you don’t like it, let me know and I’ll buy your seat back. No questions, no weirdness, no hard feelings.

You’ll need to actually do the reps. Show up to the Desk Sessions. Run the process. Log the sessions. If you want someone to hand you trades, you’ll hate this. If you want to build a desk and operate it properly, we’ll get on well.

No need to reply or wait for me if you want the group seat.

Step 1: Click here to lock your group seat for $3,000.

Step 2: You’ll get immediate access to The Pressure Test and desk setup.

Step 3: We start building your desk together on Sunday, November 1.

If you want one of the 3 VIP Private Desk seats, that’s available on the same link above also, if one is still available.

Stephen

P.S. The day you join, I’ll send you my First Live Read Checklist. It’s the simple pre-session check I use before hunting a 0DTE SPX setup, so before the cohort even starts you’ll have a cleaner way to separate “real read” from “I’m about to talk myself into something.” Five minutes. Saves a lot of stupid trades.