COO and Head Coach
Ross Burland
Twenty-five years in the financial markets, ten of them on institutional foreign exchange desks in the City of London. Market maker, dealer, analyst, educator — and the author of the methodology taught at Trade Algorithm.
Career
Twenty-five years, several careers
Ross Burland has spent twenty-five years in the financial markets, ten of them on institutional foreign exchange desks in the City of London, since 2001.
He began as a junior market maker, then moved into dealing — quoting prices, spreads and commission on institutional bank-to-bank desks. From there his career shifted toward analysis and education: writing market commentary, mentoring other traders, and eventually developing the structured methodology now taught at Trade Algorithm.
That path — market maker, dealer, analyst, educator, mentor, presenter, and now software designer — is unusual for a trading educator. Most either never left a trading desk, or never worked on one. Ross has done both, and the methodology he teaches reflects it: built from direct experience of how professional desks actually operate, not reverse-engineered from chart patterns alone.
Public record
A public, checkable record
Ross’s professional record exists independently of Trade Algorithm and can be checked directly. He has provided market commentary for FXStreet, and has discussed foreign exchange markets on Bloomberg and CNBC. These appearances predate Trade Algorithm and are publicly searchable — which is deliberate. A teacher who can be checked is not true of most people in this industry.
Teaching
Why he teaches
Ross has said the goal of his teaching is not to create traders who think like him, but traders who no longer need him — people who can read a market’s structure and behaviour for themselves, rather than waiting to be told what to click. That is why Trade Algorithm’s curriculum is built around a repeatable weekly process — weekly structure, session discipline and capital preservation — rather than daily calls or signals.
“Markets only ever do three things: continue, reverse or compress.”
“Where is the trap?”
Method
The methodology, in brief
The three pillars Ross built — weekly structure, session discipline and capital preservation — are taught in sequence, and nothing is automated in Elite until it can be explained without it. The full breakdown lives on the Methodology page.
Next step
Want to hear this taught directly?
An introductory call is a conversation about fit — the method, the weekly commitment and whether this is the right place to start.