LEARN TO TRADE LIKE A PROFESSIONAL
A Proven Process for Consistent Success in Financial Markets
Built on more than 20 years of trading and the experience of coaching and developing over 1,100 traders.
Featuring a Foreword by Professor Carol Alexander
“Learn to Trade Like a Professional brings clarity, structure, and integrity to a domain too often clouded by noise. It is not a promise of easy profits, but a guide to building durable skills.”
Professor Carol Alexander
Professor of Finance, University of Sussex Business School
Published By
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN · SPRINGER NATURE
390+ Pages • 13 Chapters • Preparation • Process • Practice
THE BOOK I WISH I’D HAD WHEN I STARTED
When I first entered the markets, I believed success would come from finding better trades. Over time, I learnt that sustainable trading has far less to do with prediction—and far more to do with preparation. The best traders don’t rely on secret information or certainty. They build strong habits, follow a repeatable process, manage risk and make disciplined decisions in an uncertain environment.
I wrote Learn to Trade Like a Professional to share those lessons and provide the structure I wish I’d had at the beginning of my own trading career.
— Sam Warner-Baker
Developing professional traders at OSTC.
WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK DIFFERENT?
Many trading books focus on:
- Live Professional Trading Education
- Additional learning resources
- Guidance on process, risk, and self-evaluation
This book focuses on something more important:
DEVELOPING THE COMPLETE TRADER
Because successful trading is not built on a single strategy. It is built on a repeatable process.
Preparation.
Build the knowledge, mindset, and understanding required to approach marketsprofessionally.
Process
Learn how professional traders identify, execute, manage, and evaluate opportunities.
Practice
Turn knowledge into skill through repetition, feedback, and continuous improvement.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
By completing the Foundations Series, you’ll develop the knowledge, mindset, and process needed to approach financial markets more professionally.
Inside the book, you’ll learn how to:
- Think about risk and uncertainty like a professional trader
- Understand how the major financial markets work
- Build a trading framework that fits your objectives
- Identify, assess, execute and manage opportunities
- Recognise the psychological forces affecting your decisions
- Avoid the common mistakes that undermine traders
- Review their performance honestly and consistently
- Take responsibility for their continued development
INSIDE THE BOOK
01
PART ONE: PREPARATION
Build your market knowledge, develop a professional mindset and understand how the major asset classes work:
- Fixed income
- Currencies
- Equities
- Commodities
- Energy
- Cryptocurrency
02
PART TWO: PROCESS
Learn the professional trading process used to:
- Identify and assess opportunities
- Plan and execute trades
- Manage risk
- Evaluate decisions and performance
03
PART THREE: PRACTICE
Turn knowledge into practical skill through:
- Professional checklists
- Trading drills
- Journalling
- Risk-management frameworks
- Deliberate practice
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
- Complete beginners
- Developing traders
- Self-taught traders
- Finance students
- Financial professionals
- Experienced traders seeking greater structure
INDUSTRY ENDORSEMENTS
Steve Ward
Performance Coach
A candid, hard-won journey from someone I’ve known since his university days: ambitious, grounded and genuinely invested in others’ progress in financial markets.
Mike Shirley
Head of Markets
Dr Alex Pitkin
Quant Trader
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sam Warner-Baker
Trader · Educator · Author · Coach
Sam Warner-Baker is a multi-asset trader and educator with more than 20 years of experience in financial markets. He has trained and developed over 1,100 traders, led an international trading academy and lectured at the University of Sussex Business School.
He founded Teach the World to Trade to make professional trading education more structured, practical and accessible. Then use four concise credibility markers:
- 20+ years in financial markets
- 1,100+ traders trained and developed
- Former head of an international trading academy
- Former University of Sussex lecturer
- Author of Learn to Trade Like a Professional
- Founder of Teach the World to Trade
Sam Warner-Baker
Founder, Teach the World to Trade Professional Trader • Author • University Lecturer
YOUR PROFESSIONAL TRADER DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY
Foundations of Professional Trading
Build your understanding of markets, risk and professional trading principle
Learn to Trade Like a Professional
Develop the mindset, framework and repeatable process behind professional trading.
The Protail Trader Programme™
Put the process into practice through structured coaching, accountability and continuous development.
READY TO APPROACH TRADING DIFFERENTLY?
If you are ready to move beyond scattered information and start building a professional trading process, this is the place to begin.
Available in paperback and eBook.