About us

From Discord group to academy

MTA didn't start as a company, it started as a private Discord group of traders who took each other's charts and each other's mistakes seriously. What worked there became a method. What became a method became an academy.

Connection built on passion and awareness

Behind MTA is a team of day traders with a combined 25+ years of experience in the markets. We trade ourselves daily, mostly futures and forex, based on price action and ICT concepts. But what binds us isn't the technique. It's the conviction that calm, focus and self-knowledge matter at least as much as strategy.

That conviction comes from experience, not a marketing document. Everyone on the team has made the classic mistakes themselves: trading too big after a loss, cutting winners short, breaking rules we'd just written down. We know how the pattern feels from the inside. That's exactly why we train it in others.

Our mission

Teaching traders to execute under pressure. Not with promises of profit, because no one honest makes those. With structure, psychological training, and a coach who learns your pattern. What you develop here carries outside the market too: handling tension better, deciding more sharply, and looking at yourself more honestly.

  • Trading as a skill, not a gamble
  • Process over PnL: we measure what you can actually influence
  • Feeling emotion without acting on it
  • Honesty over hype, even when that sells less
The coaches

Meet your coaches

Jake Faassen, founder of The Mindful Trading Academy

Jake Faassen

Founder · day trader

Jake started in crypto, then went deep into forex and futures, with over four years of intensive screen time. He previously founded The Trading Pit Tribe, one of the largest ICT trading communities in the Netherlands with more than 850 members. Before every session he meditates for ten minutes: calm first, then the market.

"It's not just about how you trade, but who you become while learning it."

Edgar Salvador, coach at The Mindful Trading Academy

Edgar Salvador

Coach · day trader, former investment specialist

Edgar worked as an investment specialist at a bank before committing to trading full-time. He has traded for over four years, mainly index futures and forex swing trades, with thousands of hours in ICT concepts and models of his own. He coaches the way he trades: in silence, with focus as his superpower.

"You grow here as a trader, but also as a person."

Want to get acquainted?

Start with two minutes
of honest self-reflection.

Take the free self-scan and find out which pattern drives you under pressure, or book a free intake call directly with one of the coaches.