Why Trading as a Business Creates More Consistent Results

Most traders focus on indicators, entries, and setups.
Professional traders focus on structure.

If trading feels harder than it should—if your results are inconsistent despite “good trades”—the problem isn’t discipline or market conditions. It’s the way trading is being approached.

In this educational session, Martha Stokes CMT explains why treating trading as a business—not a hobby—is one of the most critical shifts a trader can make, and why most retail traders are never taught this framework.

This is not a motivational talk.
This is not about trading more often or taking bigger risks.
This is about how professionals structure trading for consistency.


Why Most Traders Stay Stuck

Many traders: Yet still struggle with:
Know technical indicators
inconsistent results
Can identify setups
emotional decision-making
Understand basic risk rules
overtrading or under-trading

confidence erosion after drawdowns

That’s because individual trades don’t create consistency—business structure does.

What You’ll Learn in This Session

In this presentation, Martha breaks down the professional trading framework most retail traders never see, including:

  • Why “good trades” can still lose money without a business structure

  • The key structural differences between hobby trading and professional trading

  • How professionals think about risk, capital allocation, and process

  • Why consistency is created outside individual trades

  • What it really means to trade like a professional—without quitting your job

Designed for Traders Who:

  • already understand charts and indicators
  • want consistency, not random wins
  • are tired of chasing signals and strategies
  • want to trade with clarity and confidence
  • are serious about improving long-term results

This framework applies whether you trade:


- swing trades
- position trades
- part-time or full-time
- in bullish, bearish, or volatile markets

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Saturday, January 17, 2026 @ 10:30 am ET

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  • Free
  • 1 hour of learning

Your Instructor

Martha Stokes, CMT has spent decades teaching traders how to succeed with professional-grade tools and strategies. Her proprietary Hybrid Indicators and Dark Pool tracking techniques have helped thousands of students trade with clarity and confidence.

CMT, CEO, Head Instructor Martha Stokes

Martha's life's work in her retirement years is to pass her decades of knowledge and experience in the markets onto her dedicated TechniTrader students. Martha Stokes CMT is a retired professional Buy-Side Analyst. She is a member of the CMT Association and earned the Chartered Market Technician designation with her thesis, “Cycle Evolution Theory.” She is a prolific author, having created over 40 stock market courses that include new, unique analyses: Relational Technical Analysis, Market Condition Analysis, and Spatial Pattern Recognition. Her focus for long-term investments is emerging displacement technologies that will have a significant impact on society, the economy, and the stock market. Martha ran a successful fund, has sat on both sides of the Venture Capital table, worked on an IPO, and has taught at several community colleges. Martha's articles can be found all around the web, i.e., Proactive Advisor Magazine, Stocks & Commodities Magazine, the CMT Association, Stockcharts.com, eZine and more.

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