Taught by a 25-year professional trader

Learn to trade with structure, not signals

Trade Algorithm teaches a structured trading methodology — weekly structure, session discipline and capital preservation — led by Ross Burland, who has traded in the City of London since 2001. Elite, our automation platform, exists to prove the method is mechanical enough to execute the same way every time.

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Professional trading: 25 years
Trustpilot: 4.8 / 5
Platform support: Multi-platform
Registered company: UK

The methodology

Three pillars, taught in order

Every lesson, live session and piece of software sits inside one of these three pillars. Nothing is taught in isolation, and nothing is automated until you can explain it.

Weekly Structure

Decide where the market matters before the week starts.

Higher-timeframe levels, the prior week's range and the open of the current week define a small number of locations worth trading. Everything else is noise you have permission to ignore.

Weekly and daily levels mapped before Monday's open
A written bias with the conditions that would invalidate it
A shortlist of pairs, not a watchlist of forty

Session Discipline

Trade the hours where your edge exists, then stop.

Asia builds the range, London breaks it, New York extends or reverses it. Knowing which behaviour belongs to which session is what turns a level into an entry with a defined window.

Session-by-session playbook for London and New York
Defined windows rather than all-day screen time
Rules for standing down on low-quality days

Capital Preservation

Survive long enough for the edge to show up.

Risk is fixed before the trade, not negotiated during it. Position sizing, maximum daily loss and drawdown limits are the parameters the whole methodology is built around.

Fixed fractional risk defined per trade
Daily and weekly loss limits set in advance
Rules for reducing size after a losing sequence

“Markets only ever do three things: continue, reverse or compress.”

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Ross Burland, COO and Head Coach at Trade Algorithm

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Who teaches this

Ross Burland, COO and Head Coach

Ross has traded professionally since 2001 — twenty-five years in the markets, including ten years on institutional foreign exchange desks in the City of London. That combination produces a particular kind of trader: one who thinks in levels, sessions and risk budgets rather than in setups and signals. The question he asks before every trade is simple: “Where is the trap?” Context before direction — before deciding where the market is going, Ross first works out what it is trying to achieve.

He has commentated on currency markets for FXStreet and appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC discussing foreign exchange. That public record is deliberate — it means the person teaching you can be checked, which is not true of most trading educators.

Everything taught at Trade Algorithm is the process Ross uses himself, written down and sequenced so that someone with a job and a few hours a week can follow it without needing to sit in front of a screen all day.

Expanded bio and weekly rhythm Check the public record

Supporting proof — not the offer

Elite exists to show the method is mechanical

Elite is the automation layer: TradingView indicators, backtesting and webhook execution into your broker's trading platform. It is not a shortcut, a passive product, or a reason to skip the education. It is evidence that what you are taught can be written down as rules.

Indicators

The structural levels and session windows you are taught, rendered on the chart in TradingView so that your analysis and your tooling agree.

Backtesting

Run the rules across historical data to see how the methodology behaved in different conditions — including the conditions where it performed poorly.

Webhook automation

Alerts pass through a third-party bridge into your broker's trading platform with the risk parameters you defined. It runs server-side, so your own devices do not need to be on. You set the parameters, you monitor them, you can switch them off.

Be clear about what automation is not. It does not remove risk, it does not remove your responsibility, and it does not replace understanding the methodology. Automated execution can fail, misfire or behave unexpectedly, which is why members are taught to supervise it rather than leave it alone.

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Qualification

This is not for everyone, and that is deliberate

An introductory call is a fit conversation. It is faster for both of us if you can rule yourself in or out before it.

This is for you if

You want to understand markets, not be told what to click
You can commit several hours a week for at least a year
You accept that losing periods are part of a working method
You are trading capital you can genuinely afford to lose
You want a checkable teacher with a public professional record

This is not for you if

You are looking for signals to copy without learning
You want someone to trade your account for you
You need a specific income figure from trading
You expect automation to remove risk or effort
You are trading money you need for something else

Due diligence

Check us before you speak to us

Trading education attracts people who cannot be verified. Here is what you can independently confirm about us in a few minutes.

Registered company

A UK company filed at Companies House, with filed accounts and named officers. A matter of public record and searchable by name.

A checkable trainer

Ross Burland's commentary for FXStreet and appearances on Bloomberg and CNBC exist independently of this website.

Verifiable reviews

Our Trustpilot profile is public, links straight from this site, and includes critical reviews alongside positive ones.

No return claims

We publish no performance figures, income claims or projections. Anyone who does is telling you something they cannot know.

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In members' words

Individual experiences, not typical results

We publish quotes as text rather than screenshots of profit. None of the below is a promise, a projection, or an indication of what any other person should expect.

“The part that changed things for me was being told which hours to trade and which to leave alone. My week finally had a shape instead of being a constant reaction.”

James H.Member since 2023 · United Kingdom

“Ross explains why a level matters, not just where it is. That is the difference between following someone and being able to do the work yourself.”

Priya S.Member since 2024 · United Kingdom

“I came in expecting signals. What I got was a process for planning the week, and a much more boring, much more repeatable routine.”

Daniel R.Member since 2022 · United States

Questions

Honest answers, including the awkward ones

Do I need trading experience before I start?

No, but you do need time. The methodology is taught from first principles — market structure, session behaviour and risk — and complete beginners work through the same sequence as experienced traders. What we cannot compress is the screen time it takes to internalise it.

Is Elite a way to trade without learning?

Not quite. Elite executes rules — the ones you are taught, or, if you already trade a defined strategy of your own, the ones you set. Experienced traders do use the platform on their own judgement, and that is a legitimate path. What automation cannot do is supply the thinking behind a setup: if the structure is not understood, automating it only makes the same mistakes faster. So we still recommend understanding the framework you are executing, whether you learn it here or already have your own.

Do you make any claims about returns?

None. We do not publish return figures, income claims or performance projections, and any member quote on this site is one person's individual experience rather than a typical or expected result. Trading carries a substantial risk of loss.

Do you trade my account for me?

No. We are not a fund, we do not offer managed accounts, and we never take custody of client money. You choose your own broker or proprietary trading firm, you fund and control your own account, and you remain responsible for every decision taken in it.

What does it actually cost to run the automation?

Beyond your Trade Algorithm membership, the webhook bridge that connects TradingView alerts to your broker's trading platform is a third-party service that typically costs $15–30 per month, paid directly to that provider — not to Trade Algorithm. A TradingView plan capable of webhook alerts is also required.

How much time per week does this take?

Most members plan on Sunday or Monday, then review sessions for 30–60 minutes a day. The weekly rhythm is designed to work alongside a job, which is why the structure is defined in advance rather than reacted to intraday.

Keep reading

Where to go next

MethodologyThe three pillars in depth and the Monday-to-Friday rhythm.How Elite WorksThe three components of the automation platform, and their limits.InsightsWritten notes on structure, sessions and risk from Ross and the team.

Next step

Book an introductory call

Twenty minutes to talk about where you are, what the methodology involves and whether it is a sensible fit. If it is not, we will tell you.

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Education and software only. No financial advice, no managed accounts, no return claims. Trading carries a substantial risk of loss.