Why this bundle exists, and why it is free.

The book

This bundle ships with Your Broker Is Lying to You: How the Trading Industry Sells You the Wrong Product — and What to Do Instead. By Mark Fields. Published by Last Page Press.

The book is a field manual. It teaches you what to think about when you trade: the dream that gets you in, the industry that takes your money while you are in, the asymmetry that keeps you in, the right self that might get you out. The book is approximately 22,000 words. It is short. It is direct. It does not motivate. It argues.

The book does not fit a spreadsheet. The book does not fit an AI prompt. The book is the field manual. It says what to do. It does not say how to operationalise it day by day.

This bundle is the operational layer.

Why the bundle is free

The bundle is free because the math should be free.

Position sizing is not proprietary. A formula for calculating how much to risk per trade is not a trade secret. The 2% / 5% / 20% drawdown rules are not a product. They are a discipline, written down.

AI prompts that make the AI your thinking partner are not proprietary either. They are six ways of asking an AI to help you think. The format is specified. The AI does not get to freelance. You paste, you read, you act.

The book is paid because the book took a year to write. The bundle is free because the bundle took an afternoon. The relationship between the two is that the bundle makes the book useful. Without the bundle, the book is a field manual you read once and forget. With the bundle, the book is a field manual you use every time you open a brokerage app.

The methodology

The bundle is built around one claim: you are statistically the loser. The base rate of self-directed retail traders who lose money in any given year is between 70% and 85%. That number is published by the brokers themselves, in the footer of their own homepage, because ESMA forced them to in 2018.

The bundle does not promise to beat the base rate. The bundle helps you design your behaviour around it. The spreadsheets track your losses so you can stop before they become catastrophic. The prompts force you to articulate your reasoning before, during, and after each trade, so that you can see where your reasoning was wrong.

The man in Turin started with €30,000. He is down to €11,400. He checks the Nasdaq futures from the office bathroom. He pays €49 a month for a Telegram channel whose owner’s entire verifiable biography is a photograph of a Lamborghini.

The pharmacist in Bologna started with €15,000. He traded disciplined. He journaled. He had a stop loss on every trade. By July he had €52,000. By October the broker had changed the leverage on him, slowed his withdrawals, and offered him professional client status. His wife, who is a lawyer, read the document first.

The accountant in Verona sold his mother’s flat for €80,000. He put it in a brokerage account. He has made zero trades. His friends think he is broken. He is the most dangerous person in this book.

The bundle is calibrated for all three.

What the bundle will not do

The bundle will not make you money. No tool does that. No spreadsheet, no AI prompt, no formula, no signals service, no indicator, no Telegram channel, no Discord server, no course, no mentorship, no inner circle.

The bundle will help you not lose money. That is what it does. That is all it does. That is all it needs to do.

If you are not yet the man in Turin, the pharmacist in Bologna, or the accountant in Verona, the bundle will help you stay that way. If you already are one of them, the bundle will help you stop.

Mark Fields

Mark Fields is the pen name of an author based in the United Kingdom. He writes direct, anti-BS nonfiction. Published by Last Page Press. The author does not sell courses, does not run a Telegram channel, and does not own a Lamborghini.

License

Free to use. Free to share. Free to modify. Attribution appreciated but not required.

Do not repackage and sell. The bundle is not a product. It is the operating system for the book. If you want to monetise the methodology, write your own book. Mark Fields did.