What is ITPM?

ITPM is a professional trading education company founded by Anton Kreil, a former trader at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and JP Morgan. Unlike the vast majority of trading education providers, ITPM teaches the methodology that professional traders and portfolio managers actually use in institutional finance.

The company offers a structured curriculum of courses that take students from foundational professional concepts through to advanced options and forex trading — all built on a macro-first, top-down investment framework.

The core premise of ITPM is that retail trading education is fundamentally broken. Most courses teach chart patterns, technical indicators, and day trading strategies — none of which are used as primary tools by professional traders at investment banks and hedge funds.

ITPM teaches the professional approach: start with the global macro picture, understand central bank policy and business cycles, then work down to sector selection and individual stock ideas. This top-down framework is how every serious institution in the world manages money.

The difference isn't subtle — it's a completely different way of thinking about markets. Professional traders think in terms of portfolios, relative value, and risk-adjusted returns. Retail traders think in terms of individual trades, win rates, and chart signals. ITPM bridges that gap.

At the heart of the ITPM methodology is top-down macro analysis. Every investment decision starts with understanding:

• 1.The macro environment — Where are we in the business cycle? What are central banks doing? What does the yield curve tell us?
• 2.Sector rotation — Which sectors tend to outperform in this macro regime? Where are the tailwinds and headwinds?
• 3.Stock selection — Within those sectors, which individual companies offer the best risk/reward?
• 4.Portfolio construction — How to combine long and short positions for risk-adjusted returns.

One of the most important concepts ITPM teaches is long/short portfolio management. Instead of simply buying stocks and hoping the market goes up, professional traders construct portfolios with both long positions (benefiting from prices rising) and short positions (benefiting from prices falling).

This approach reduces market risk, allows you to profit in any market condition, and forces you to think in terms of relative performance rather than absolute direction. It's the foundation of how hedge funds and professional trading desks operate worldwide.

ITPM courses are designed for anyone serious about learning how professional markets actually work:

• Retail traders who want to transition to a professional methodology
• Finance students preparing for careers in asset management
• Experienced investors looking to add institutional-grade frameworks
• Anyone frustrated with typical retail trading education that doesn't work

As someone with 25 years in institutional investment management, I can confirm that the ITPM methodology closely mirrors how professional fund managers actually think about markets. The macro-first approach, the emphasis on sector rotation, the long/short portfolio construction — these are the tools I've seen used at the highest level of institutional finance throughout my career.

That's why I recommend ITPM. Not because it's the most popular trading course, but because it's the most accurate representation of how professionals actually operate.