Is NextWave Right For You?
NextWave Is Designed For:
Busy Professionals
You want to develop your trading skills without spending your entire day watching financial markets.
Beginners Seeking Clarity
You want a structured roadmap rather than a collection of conflicting strategies, indicators, and online opinions.
Analytical Thinkers
You prefer clearly defined rules, logic, and repeatable processes over impulsive decision-making.
Traders Seeking Consistency
You've already gained experience but struggle to apply your knowledge consistently and want a more structured approach.
NextWave Is NOT For:
Get-Rich-Quick Seekers
Trading isn't a shortcut to easy money. Developing trading skill requires time, practice, discipline, and an understanding of risk.
Screen-Obsessed Day Traders
If your goal is to spend every waking hour chasing short-term market movements, this approach probably isn't for you.
Signal Followers
If you want someone to tell you what and when to trade without explaining the whole process, NextWave isn't for you.
Anyone Unwilling to Learn
There are no shortcuts. You will need to learn the framework and understand the reasoning behind it.
NextWave Is NOT For:
My trading journey began in the late 1980s during the Japanese stock market boom, when I first caught the trading bug.
I immersed myself in everything I could find about the markets and began a long learning journey. Like many traders, I experienced periods of success followed by disappointment.
Over time, I discovered something important: many of the trading principles I had studied were simply too subjective to apply consistently in real time.
So I began developing, testing, and refining my own rule-based strategies.
The result was a fundamental change in the way I approached trading — replacing subjective decision-making with a structured process built around clearly defined rules, risk management, and disciplined execution.
That experience ultimately led to the development of NextWave Trading Academy.
— Howard Friend, CMT
From Market Enthusiast to Structured Trader
Trading looks deceptively simple. You buy. You sell. You make a profit or take a loss. But consistently making good decisions in an uncertain environment is considerably harder.
Many traders struggle because they:
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Don't have a clearly defined trading methodology
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Change strategies whenever results disappoint
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Risk too much on individual trades
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Enter or exit based on emotion
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Overtrade when markets become volatile
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Spend too much time watching screens
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Hold losing positions because they hope the market will turn
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Lack a repeatable process for evaluating opportunities
Without a framework, trading can quickly become an exhausting cycle of uncertainty, stress, and inconsistent decision-making.
It doesn't have to be that way......
Why Do Most Traders Struggle?
Ready to take your trading from the basics to real-world execution?
Trading Mastery combines structured modules with a personalized 1-hour live onboarding session tailored to your goals. At its core is TRIPWIRE—a fully disclosed, rule-based framework designed to remove emotion and guesswork from your trading.
The Objective:
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Replace guesswork with rules.
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Replace reaction with process.
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Replace screen-watching with a disciplined 30-minute daily routine.
What’s Included:
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Live 1-to-1 Bootcamp (Session 1): Take the controls on a practice account under direct supervision. Master platform mechanics, calculate precise lot sizes, and eliminate technical intimidation in your first hour.
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Capital & Funding Strategies (Session 2): Compare the true costs, pros, and pitfalls of trading your own broker funds, prop firm accounts, and "First Loss" accounts.
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Your Own Proven Edge (Session 3): Learn the exact rules of TRIPWIRE Europe—a real subset of a live institutional strategy—so you can spot opportunities yourself instead of blindly following signals.
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Institutional Risk Control (Session 4): Look behind the curtain of an 18-year back-test. Learn how to stress-test your strategy (factoring in realistic 3-pip costs) and manage drawdowns like a pro.
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Daily Routine & Automation (Session 5): Build a sustainable 30-minute daily routine and learn how to set up a trade copier to seamlessly mirror activity and put your capital to work.
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Live Market Access & Community: Get direct, view-only access to a live trading account and an exclusive Telegram channel tracking real-time positions, pending orders, and video updates.
A Structured Way to Learn
NextWave Trading Academy provides a progressive learning path designed to take you from understanding the fundamentals to developing and applying a structured trading process.
TRADING FOUNDATIONS - Your FREE introduction to the world of trading
Before risking your own money, you need to understand how the markets actually work.
Trading Foundations is our free, 18-module course designed to give you the knowledge base you need to make an informed decision about whether trading is right for you.
The course includes:
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Recorded video modules which you can complete at your own pace
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Quizzes to test what you have learned on each module
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Transcripts of the dialogue for each module for reading and translation
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Presentation slides for each module
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Glossary of technical terms used for quick reference
No prior trading experience is required. Anyone can do this!
NextWave Trading Academy provides a progressive learning path designed to take you from understanding the fundamentals to developing and applying a structured trading process.
TRADING FOUNDATIONS - Your FREE introduction to the world of trading
Before risking your own money, you need to understand how the markets actually work.
Trading Foundations is our free, 18-module course designed to give you the knowledge base you need to make an informed decision about whether trading is right for you.
The course includes:
-
Recorded video modules which you can complete at your own pace
-
Quizzes to test what you have learned on each module
-
Transcripts of the dialogue for each module for reading and translation
-
Presentation slides for each module
-
Glossary of technical terms used for quick reference
No prior trading experience is required. Anyone can do this!
TRADING MASTERY - Turn Knowledge Into a Trading Process
Ready to take your trading from the basics to real-world execution?
Trading Mastery combines structured modules with a personalized 1-hour live onboarding session tailored to your goals. At its core is TRIPWIRE—a fully disclosed, rule-based framework designed to remove emotion and guesswork from your trading.
The Objective:
-
Replace guesswork with rules.
-
Replace reaction with process.
-
Replace screen-watching with a disciplined 30-minute daily routine.
What’s Included:
-
Live 1-to-1 Bootcamp (Session 1): Take the controls on a practice account under direct supervision. Master platform mechanics, calculate precise lot sizes, and eliminate technical intimidation in your first hour.
-
Capital & Funding Strategies (Session 2): Compare the true costs, pros, and pitfalls of trading your own broker funds, prop firm accounts, and "First Loss" accounts.
-
Your Own Proven Edge (Session 3): Learn the exact rules of TRIPWIRE Europe—a real subset of a live institutional strategy—so you can spot opportunities yourself instead of blindly following signals.
-
Institutional Risk Control (Session 4): Look behind the curtain of an 18-year back-test. Learn how to stress-test your strategy (factoring in realistic 3-pip costs) and manage drawdowns like a pro.
-
Daily Routine & Automation (Session 5): Build a sustainable 30-minute daily routine and learn how to set up a trade copier to seamlessly mirror activity and put your capital to work.
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Live Market Access & Community: Get direct, view-only access to a live trading account and an exclusive Telegram channel tracking real-time positions, pending orders, and video updates.
TRADING MASTERY - Turn Knowledge Into a Trading Process
Built Around Your Trading Objectives
Whether you're interested in trading your own capital or preparing for a proprietary trading evaluation, the principles remain the same: Know your edge. Control your risk. Follow your rules. Manage your decisions.
💼 Prop Firm Preparation:
Learn how to approach the risk limits, drawdown requirements, position-sizing constraints, and psychological demands commonly associated with proprietary trading evaluations. The focus is on developing trading skills and discipline — not on promising or guaranteeing evaluation results.
🛡️Personal Account Trading:
Learn how to approach self-directed trading with an emphasis on selecting an appropriate regulated broker, controlling risk, and using predefined entry and exit rules.