Martin almost laughed. He’d read Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets . He knew what a head-and-shoulders pattern looked like. But knowing and doing were different planets.
For the first time, Martin wasn’t riding the emotional rollercoaster. He was standing on the platform, calmly pulling the lever.
He placed a conditional order: short SPY at $478, stop at $484, target $462.
Martin smiled. “Vervoort says: ‘Profits are not captured by courage. They are captured by a system that removes courage from the equation.’” Martin almost laughed
The next morning, the jobs report came in hot. Tech sold off violently. Within two weeks, NVDA was trading at $452.
He had learned, at last, to trap it.
Martin covered his short for a .
For three days, NVDA climbed. Martin’s paper loss grew. He felt sick. Then, on Thursday at 10:17 AM, NVDA ticked $495.02. His order filled.
“A Belgian systems guy,” his friend said. “No hot tips. Just math and patience.”
His wife asked, “Aren’t you nervous?” But knowing and doing were different planets
Sylvain Vervoort’s approach isn’t about being right—it’s about building a repeatable, statistical cage around price action. Capture zones, end-of-trend signals, and rigid risk management turn technical analysis from art into engineering. And engineering, not emotion, captures profits.
But Vervoort’s system—a combination of a slow stochastic oscillator, a 10-period RSI, and a proprietary “end-of-trend” signal—flashed .
One night, desperate, he opened Vervoort’s book. It wasn’t about predicting the future. It was about trapping the present. He placed a conditional order: short SPY at
The first test came with in late 2023. The stock was ripping. Everyone on Twitter was screaming “to the moon.” Martin’s gut screamed “buy.”