The small group is mine, not a Drysdale product. Traders from all over the world and from very different lives: a firefighter, a police officer, retired people, corporate leaders. We meet every trading day on Discord, voice and video, and we act as each other’s accountability partners on the same VWAP Waveâ„¢ playbook.
Lesson 1
One Playbook, Every Day: How the Small Group Works
Traders from all walks of life, on Discord voice and video every trading day, grading each other’s execution and picking each other up. Built on the VWAP Wave foundation; not a Drysdale product.
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Build a Discord Server for Your Trading Group
Channels by time of day, three voice rooms, three roles, push-to-talk, and the paid tier that stops a futures chart…
A mentorship gives you the system. A handful of people who know your setups, your leaks, and your excuses, and who will call them by name in the middle of a session, gives you something else: it forces you to keep doing what the Inner Circle taught, every day, with witnesses. These lessons cover how the group runs and how to build your own.
Can I trade with a group like this from outside the US?
You already can. Our group is spread around the world and meets on Discord, which is free and works anywhere with an internet connection. The only American things in the room are the contracts: ES and NQ trade on CME Globex nearly 23 hours a day, so there is a session in every time zone, and someone awake for it.
Session times where you live. We post our pre-session plans before whichever session we trade; this is when the two big ones open.
| Where you are | New York open, 9:30 ET | Globex open, 6:00 p.m. ET |
|---|---|---|
| UTC | 14:30 / 13:30 | 23:00 / 22:00 |
| London | 14:30 | 23:00 |
| Berlin, Paris | 15:30 | 00:00 |
| Mumbai | 20:00 / 19:00 | 04:30 / 03:30 |
| Singapore, Hong Kong | 22:30 / 21:30 | 07:00 / 06:00 |
| Tokyo | 23:30 / 22:30 | 08:00 / 07:00 |
| Sydney | 01:30 / 23:30 | 10:00 / 08:00 |
Two times means US winter / US summer. US clocks change in March and November, not on the same dates as yours, so around those months check a time-zone converter. Sydney’s New York-open time is the next calendar day.
Globex is the natural session for Asia-Pacific mornings and European late evenings. Our voice channel is open for it, usually with me in it, because I hate mornings.
Questions from readers outside the US
Do I need to be in the US to join a trading group like this?
No. Ours grew out of the Inner Circle and the lessons here are how to build your own. Nothing in them needs a US address: Discord, a broker or prop firm with CME futures, and a playbook everyone has committed to.
Which session should I trade from Europe or Asia?
In Europe the New York open is mid-afternoon and Globex opens around midnight. In Asia-Pacific, Globex opens in your morning and the Tokyo open follows a couple of hours later; that is the session I trade too, from the other end of the clock.
Does Discord cost anything outside the US?
No. Discord is free everywhere; voice, video and screen-share are included. Nitro, which makes a shared chart readable, is optional, and Discord bills it in local currency in most countries.
Do the prop firms you use take international traders?
The ones I use publish a list of countries they can’t serve. Read it before you buy an evaluation, and check your own country’s rules on futures trading and prop-firm accounts. That part is yours, not mine or theirs.
Ready for the system itself, not just my lessons on it?
I explain the VWAP Wave Systemâ„¢ from a student’s chair. Chris Drysdale teaches it. Start with his free Core Setup Guide, read the book, or take seven days inside Drysdale Trading Groupâ„¢ and watch it traded live. All of it is online and in English, wherever you are.
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