#pre-market-plan
Marcus posts his annotated plan at 8:15am ET every session — levels, thesis, invalidation, target. Pinned before the open, graded after the close.
The community
A trading floor,
not a hype channel.
Every Ashcroft program includes access to the same private community: 900+ active traders working the same playbook, a desk that publishes its plan before every open, and a culture where the journal — not the screenshot — is the unit of respect.
900+
Active members
8:15am
Daily plan, every session
1,600+
Trades reviewed in 2025
What’s inside
Six rooms. One standard.
The community runs on a private Discord server, organized the way a desk is — by function, not by noise level.
#live-tape
Real-time reads during market hours. Structure calls, liquidity notes, and the occasional "stand down" — the most valuable message a desk can send.
#trade-reviews
Post a journaled trade, get it dissected. Every review follows the same rubric: context, entry, risk, management, exit. No journal entry, no review.
#journal-club
Weekly accountability thread. Members post their week’s stats — win rate, average R, rule violations — and the streak leaderboard tracks consistency, not P&L.
#backtest-lab
Where Method students log their 100-trade backtesting protocol. Templates, edge-case discussions, and graduated students reviewing newcomers’ samples.
#off-the-desk
Books, setups (the hardware kind), and everything that isn’t a chart. Traders are people; this channel remembers that.
Daily rhythm
The same cadence, every session.
Consistency is the product. The desk has posted its plan before every US session since 2019 — including the sessions it said “don’t trade today.”
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8:15am ET
Pre-market plan drops
Levels, thesis, invalidation — posted before every session, no exceptions since 2019.
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9:30am ET
The open
Live structure reads in #live-tape through the opening drive — the setup window the Method is built around.
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12:30pm ET
Midday review
Morning plan graded against what actually happened. Wins and misses, annotated.
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4:15pm ET
The debrief
End-of-day recap and journal prompts. The day isn’t over until it’s written down.
House rules
The culture is enforced, not hoped for.
Most trading communities rot into screenshot contests. Ours doesn’t, because these four rules are moderated daily.
No P&L screenshots without the journal entry. A green number with no context is noise. Every result shared must come with the thesis and risk that produced it.
Losses get posted too. The community norm is set from the top: Marcus publishes his losing trades with the same detail as his winners.
No calls, no "signals" from members. Only the desk publishes trade ideas, and every one is logged publicly. Members share process, not tips.
Respect the stand-down. When conditions don’t fit the playbook, the desk says so. Pressuring others to trade a dead tape gets one warning.
How to join
Community access comes with every program.
There’s no standalone community fee — access is part of what each program contains.
The Ashcroft Method
12 months included
Full community access with your course enrollment.
The Signals Desk
Included while active
Community access for as long as your membership runs.
The Inner Circle
Included + private channel
Everything above, plus the cohort-only room with Marcus.
A note on trade ideas: ideas published in the community are educational examples of the methodology, not investment advice or recommendations. Past performance is not indicative of future results; trading involves risk of loss. See the full risk disclosure.