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Lesson No. 122 · Learning & Community

Trade Review and Chart Grading

The fastest way to improve as a new trader… get your levels graded and your losing trades reviewed until you get it right.

Taught In 15+ Recorded Sessions
2022–2026
TEACHING LIVE SINCE APRIL 2018 LAST TAUGHT MAY 21, 2025 EVERY CLAIM LINKS TO THE RECORDED SESSION
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Trade review and chart grading is the loop that turns a new trader into a good one. You mark up your end-of-day chart, submit it, and George grades whether your levels are correct and where every long and short really lived. Then you fix what’s wrong and submit again. The traders who use this loop the hardest improve the fastest. Every time.

From the tape · Nov 22, 2025

“Ask for help. The least utilized member benefit in our group is a trade feedback.”

This page gathers what George teaches about feedback across hundreds of hours of live ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures sessions… how chart grading works, why the anonymous trade review stays anonymous, how public journals build accountability, and why members like Justin who ask for help climb fastest. Learning day trading alone is slow. Structured feedback speeds it up.

01

Grade Your Levels Before You Trade Them

Start here. Before you risk a dime on a Strong Level, you need to know you drew it in the right place. That’s what chart grading does. You send George your marked-up chart and he grades your levels… correct, or fix these. New traders send in their charts for exactly this reason.

From the tape · Jan 3, 2026

“Why is he sending me his charts? Because I will grade his levels. I want to make sure he’s marking his levels correctly. He wants to make sure he’s marking his levels correctly.”

Who else grades your work? Nobody. That’s the honest truth George gives every member. Feedback on your chart is part of what your upfront fee buys, because no one on the internet will sit down and check whether your levels are right.

From the tape · Nov 18, 2024

“If you join my group, please make sure you earn your badges. That’s part of your upfront fee you’re paying. I will give you feedback on your charts to ensure that you are drawing your levels correctly. No one else is going to do that, not a single person.”

Chart grading pairs naturally with your end-of-day chart review. Mark the levels, then let a second set of eyes confirm them before they cost you money.

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02

Submit Your Chart Until You Pass

Grading runs as a pass-or-resubmit loop. You go through the training, then you submit your chart personally and George tells you whether you passed, what’s wrong, and whether you need to resubmit. You keep going until it’s right.

From the tape · Jun 29, 2026

“You are going to go through the training and then you’re going to submit your chart to me personally and I’m going to go over your chart and tell you whether you passed, what’s wrong, whether you need to resubmit.”

What does the chart itself have to show? Every trade the day gave you. You pull up a 3-minute RTH session chart, draw each bounce level, and mark where every short and long existed. That forces you to see the setups you missed and the ones you took wrong.

From the tape · Jun 29, 2026

“You’re going to pull up a three-minute chart RTH and you’re going to show me where every short and long existed.”

Watching other traders draw those levels live turns out to be some of the most valuable teaching in the group. You see the exact mistakes everyone makes… and one shows up constantly. Traders flip a level upside down.

From the tape · Apr 16, 2025

“Watching other traders mark those levels is some of the most valuable videos in my group, in my opinion, because you see all the mistakes they make… sometimes you just get something flipped upside down. That’s very common and we got to get you flipped right side back up.”

03

Make Your Chart Look Like His

One rule keeps grading fast. Your chart has to look like George’s. Same color scheme, same settings, same up-and-down candles. Hand him a fuchsia background with pink candles and he won’t read it… he’s told members this straight for years.

From the tape · Oct 29, 2022

“At the risk of sounding rude, if you want me to look at your chart and make any critiques or anything, it needs to look like mine. I’ve tried to look at other people’s charts with different colored up and down candles and it’s just too much, so I don’t do it. So my rule is: if you want me to look at your chart, your chart needs to look like mine.”

This runs deeper than tidiness. When every chart in the room matches, the whole group reads the same levels the same way. George calls out road signs along the way, and everyone sees them together.

From the tape · Nov 18, 2024

“Are we all on the same train? Because it’s so much easier.”

Set your Strong Levels the way he sets his. A shared chart lets you follow the weekly Strong Levels and the Battle Plan without translating anything in your head. Everyone on the same train.

04

The Anonymous Trade Review

Chart grading checks your levels. The trade review checks your decisions. Post a genuine losing trade and George gives you free coaching on it. He keeps it anonymous on purpose, so exposing your worst trades feels as low-threat as possible.

From the tape · Nov 22, 2025

“I make it anonymous because I wanted to make it as least threatening as possible for you to get feedback on your trades. My gift to you.”

One condition. It has to be a real trade. A Core Strategy entry or a Battle Plan entry you genuinely believed in gets a full review. A prediction trade, a FOMO grab, or an over-levered gamble gets nothing… there’s no lesson to pull from a trade that broke every rule before it started.

From the tape · Nov 22, 2025

“Free coaching on every losing trade that’s a real trade. Now, if you prediction trade and FOMO trade and overlever, I don’t have anything for you. But if that was an entry that you believed was a Core Strategy entry or even a Battle Plan entry, post it inside of the anonymous trade review and I will give you a trade review.”

Yet this is the least-used benefit in the whole group. Why? Nobody likes showing a losing trade. That reluctance costs you the fastest feedback you’ll ever get. Learning to post a losing trade is its own discipline, close cousin to learning to be a professional loser.

From the tape · Nov 22, 2025

“If you don’t ask for help, I can’t help you. I don’t know what you need. I’m not a mind reader. So if you want help, you got to participate.”

05

Public Journals and Real Accountability

Some traders want more than private feedback. They want eyes on them. So they run public trade journals inside the group’s Discord, where a room of supporting traders watches their progress day after day.

From the tape · Apr 23, 2026

“If you would like a public journal inside of the Discord group like Jackie, Justin, Scott, and you’re wanting a place for a little bit of public accountability, you know, with a group of supporting traders.”

Here’s the part that surprises people. A public journal helps the whole room even when the trader is struggling. When a new trader posts bad discipline out in the open, it teaches everybody, because every trader has lived that same emotional fight in private.

From the tape · Oct 18, 2025

“It’s instructional, I think, for other people to see that, because I can promise you what he’s going through every trader has went through. He’s just doing it publicly.”

Keep the cadence tight. George runs these coaching check-ins weekly and drops the recording link in the journal so you can track progress over time. Spread them out and the momentum dies… memory and motivation both leak away between meetings. Public journaling is the accountability engine behind keeping a trading journal at all.

06

The Traders Who Ask Improve Fastest

Want the shortcut? Watch what the winners actually did. Justin ranks among the top traders in the group today. When he first joined, he attacked the anonymous trade review harder than anyone.

From the tape · Nov 22, 2025

“Justin, one of the top traders in our group, when he first joined, my goodness, that guy tore up the anonymous trade review. Tore it up.”

That’s the pattern behind every fast learner. Participation. And George spells out exactly what participation looks like… it’s simple, and it’s active.

How to participate in the group
ActionWhat it does for you
Post your end-of-day chartPuts your levels in front of the room and George for grading.
Ask for feedbackTells George what you need. He can’t read your mind.
Post your trade reviewsTurns your losing trades into free anonymous coaching.
Congratulate others’ winsBuilds the supporting room that makes public accountability work.
From the tape · Nov 22, 2025

“How do you participate? Well, you get into the group and you make posts. You congratulate other people on their success. You post your end of the day chart. Ask for feedback. You post trade reviews.”

None of this works in isolation. The whole loop needs a room to run in… which is the real reason to never trade alone. Feedback is why the live futures trading room shortens the years it usually takes to learn this game.

From the tape · Nov 8, 2025

“I can only say something so many times and it’s out of my hands. I can’t slap the mouse off your hand.”

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Q

Frequently Asked Questions

What is chart grading in trading?
Chart grading is when a coach reviews your marked-up chart and confirms whether your levels are drawn correctly before you trade them. In George’s group, you submit your end-of-day chart, he grades your Strong Levels, and he tells you what to fix. You keep resubmitting until you pass, so you learn the setups on paper before they cost you money.
How do I get feedback on my losing trades?
Post a real trade to the anonymous trade review. If it was a Core Strategy entry or a Battle Plan entry you genuinely believed in, George gives you free coaching on it. It stays anonymous so exposing a losing trade feels low-threat. Prediction trades, FOMO trades, and over-levered trades don’t qualify, because there’s no rule-based lesson to pull from them.
Why does my chart have to match the coach’s chart?
Matching color schemes and settings keeps grading fast and keeps the whole room reading the same levels the same way. George won’t critique a chart with different colored candles or an off background because it’s too hard to read. When every chart matches his, the group follows the same road signs and stays on the same train.
What is a public trading journal and does it help?
A public trading journal is a running log a trader posts inside the group’s Discord for accountability, watched by a room of supporting traders. It helps the journaler stay honest and it teaches everyone else, because seeing someone work through bad discipline in the open reminds every trader of a fight they’ve had privately.
What is the fastest way to improve as a new futures trader?
Use the feedback loop hard. Submit your charts for grading, post your losing trades to the trade review, ask for help, and journal publicly. The members who participate the most improve the fastest. Justin, now a top trader in the group, tore up the anonymous trade review when he first joined.
How often should trading review sessions happen?
Keep them weekly and record them. George runs coaching check-ins on a weekly cadence and saves the recording links so progress is easy to track. Spread the sessions too far apart and the momentum and memory fade between meetings.

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Parting shot · Nov 22, 2025

“If you don’t ask for help, I can’t help you. I don’t know what you need. I’m not a mind reader. So if you want help, you got to participate.”

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