A Letter to the People Who Have Walked This Road With Me
I need to make a confession.
For many years, I have not shown up completely as myself in my work as a trading educator. I have always brought elements of my spiritual nature into what I do — references to gratitude, mindfulness, presence — but I held back the fullest, most honest version of who I am and what actually drives me.
That ends today.
Over the years I have launched and operated under several names — ALSI Trading Strategies, Trading Profit Lab, Antifragile Trading, Flow State Trader. Each of them carried pieces of the truth. None of them carried all of it. And I have lived with that tension long enough.
I am 48 years old. I have spent roughly two decades seriously practising and studying spirituality — beginning in a Christian context in my early twenties, and evolving over time into something broader, more generous, and harder to put in a box. Along the way I have had experiences I cannot explain rationally, received signs I cannot dismiss as coincidence — and I say that as someone who majored in Mathematical Statistics and understands probability well. These experiences did not stay outside my trading. They shaped it. Deeply.
For much of my trading life I struggled. About two years in, I believed I had all the answers. I was wrong, and I misled people who trusted me. My intentions were always genuine — but I was not ready. I own that.
What followed was years of being guided — sometimes gently, sometimes forcefully — toward clarity. Toward systems that actually work. Toward an understanding of trading that goes beyond charts and setups into something I could not have invented on my own.
That journey has a name now: Trading Mystic.
The Inner Path to Trading Mastery.
Trading Mystic is where I stop making my story palatable enough for everyone and start telling it honestly. It will cover everything I have always taught — price action, risk management, trading system development, funded trading — and it will do so without pretending that the inner work is separate from the outer results. Because in my experience, it never was.
For those of you who have been with me through one or more of my previous ventures — thank you. You have been patient with a version of me that was still finding his footing. What I am building now is the fullest, most honest expression of everything I have to offer.
I hope you will come with me.
And if the mystical dimension of this work is not for you — I understand completely, and I hold no ill will. This is simply who I am. I can no longer be anything less.
Dries