Methodology
One method, taught in three pillars, repeated every week
Trade Algorithm teaches a single structured discretionary methodology rather than a library of strategies. It was built by Ross Burland across twenty-five years in professional markets, including ten on institutional trading floors, and is deliberately narrow: a small number of locations, a small number of hours, and risk defined before anything is placed.
Weekly Structure
Structure is the map. Before the week begins you decide which price locations carry information and which do not, so that intraday decisions become a matter of recognition rather than invention.
Higher-timeframe levels
Monthly and weekly highs, lows and closes are marked first. These are the levels where institutional interest historically clusters, and they change slowly enough to be planned around.
Prior-week range and weekly open
The relationship between the current price and last week's range, plus the location of the weekly open, gives a directional lean and a clear invalidation point.
A written bias
The bias is written down with the conditions that would prove it wrong. Anything not written before the week starts is a reaction, not a plan.
Session Discipline
Structure tells you where. Sessions tell you when. Each trading session has characteristic behaviour, and trading a level outside the session that respects it is the most common avoidable error.
Asia builds
The Asian session typically compresses price into a range. That range becomes reference, not opportunity; it is where the day's liquidity is stored.
London breaks
The London open is where the majority of qualified entries occur. Members are taught a defined window rather than an open-ended session.
New York extends or reverses
The New York session either continues London's move or unwinds it. Recognising which of the two is happening determines whether you manage, add or stand aside.
Capital Preservation
Risk is the only part of trading fully in your control, so it is decided first. The methodology assumes losing sequences will happen and is constructed to make them survivable.
Fixed fractional risk
Each trade risks a fixed, small fraction of account equity, defined before entry and never increased to recover a loss.
Daily and weekly limits
A maximum daily loss and a weekly drawdown limit end the session or the week automatically, before emotion becomes the position-sizing model.
De-risking after drawdown
After a defined losing sequence, size reduces until a run of process-correct trades restores it. Recovery is procedural, not emotional.
Who teaches it
Ross Burland
Ross began trading professionally in the City of London in 2001 — twenty-five years in the markets, including ten years on institutional foreign exchange desks. The desk environment shaped the method taught here: positions justified in terms of structure and risk budget rather than indicators, and a strict separation between planning and execution.
He has provided currency-market commentary for FXStreet and appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC. Those appearances are useful to you for one reason only — they can be checked by someone other than us.
As COO of Trade Algorithm, Ross leads the curriculum, the live coaching sessions and the rules encoded in the Elite platform. When the methodology changes, it changes because he has changed how he trades it, and members are told what changed and why.
He does not publish account statements or return figures, and neither does the business. A verifiable professional history is a stronger claim than a screenshot, and it is the only kind of claim we are willing to make.
The weekly rhythm
Monday to Friday, the same shape every week
The rhythm is what makes the methodology compatible with a job. Planning is front-loaded so that execution windows are short and defined.
- Monday
Plan the week
Mark higher-timeframe levels, define the prior-week range, write the bias and the invalidation. Produce a shortlist of pairs worth watching.
- Tuesday
Execute the plan
London window first. Trade only the locations mapped on Monday, at the session that respects them, with pre-defined risk.
- Wednesday
Mid-week reassessment
Check whether the week's structure is behaving as planned. Where it is not, reduce exposure rather than reinterpreting the map.
- Thursday
Highest-conviction day
By Thursday the week's range is usually established, which often produces the clearest continuation and reversal locations.
- Friday
Close and review
Reduce exposure into the weekly close, then journal: was each trade process-correct, independent of whether it made money?
Fit
Who the methodology suits
The method is narrow by design. That makes it a poor fit for some people, and it is better to know now.
Suits
- Working people who can plan on Sunday and trade defined windows
- Traders who want one process rather than many strategies
- People comfortable with weeks that produce no trades
- Prop-firm candidates who need strict, rule-based drawdown control
Does not suit
- Anyone wanting high-frequency scalping or constant activity
- Traders looking for entries to copy without the planning work
- People who need a fixed monthly income from trading
- Anyone unwilling to journal and review their own decisions
Questions
Methodology FAQ
How long before I can trade the methodology unaided?
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Most members need six to twelve months of consistent weekly work before the process feels automatic. That range is honest rather than encouraging; anyone quoting weeks is selling something else.
Which markets does the methodology apply to?
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It was built on major foreign exchange pairs, where session behaviour is most consistent, and members also apply it to gold and the major index CFDs. It is not designed for low-liquidity instruments or for very short-term scalping.
Is this discretionary or mechanical?
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Structured discretionary. Levels, sessions and risk are defined by rules; the decision to take a particular trade at a particular level still involves judgement. Elite automates the mechanical part so the judgement has less to fight against.
What happens when the method stops working?
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Every methodology has conditions it dislikes — in our case, thin, newsless ranges and violent event-driven days. You are taught to recognise those conditions and reduce or stand down, rather than to expect the method to work everywhere.
Do I need to trade every day?
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No. The weekly plan frequently produces only a handful of qualified locations. Days with no trade are treated as correct outcomes of the process, not as missed opportunities.
Next step
Talk it through before you commit
An introductory call covers the weekly workload, what the first months look like and whether the methodology matches how you can realistically trade.