Capturing Profits With Technical Analysis By Sylvain Vervoort → ❲COMPLETE❳

He placed a conditional order: short SPY at $478, stop at $484, target $462.

Vervoort’s core idea was brutal in its simplicity: He called them “profit capture zones”—specific price levels where institutions were forced to cover or take profit. Most retail traders bought breakouts. Vervoort taught Martin to sell them.

Sylvain Vervoort’s approach isn’t about being right—it’s about building a repeatable, statistical cage around price action. Capture zones, end-of-trend signals, and rigid risk management turn technical analysis from art into engineering. And engineering, not emotion, captures profits.

Two weeks later, the market corrected 5%. His trade hit the target exactly. He placed a conditional order: short SPY at

One night, desperate, he opened Vervoort’s book. It wasn’t about predicting the future. It was about trapping the present.

He had learned, at last, to trap it.

He had stopped trying to predict the market. Vervoort taught Martin to sell them

“A Belgian systems guy,” his friend said. “No hot tips. Just math and patience.”

His wife asked, “Aren’t you nervous?”

He stared at the screen. He hadn’t predicted the drop. He had simply built a cage for it—a profit capture zone based on historical volatility and Fibonacci extensions of the prior swing low. And engineering, not emotion, captures profits

For three days, NVDA climbed. Martin’s paper loss grew. He felt sick. Then, on Thursday at 10:17 AM, NVDA ticked $495.02. His order filled.

For the first time, Martin wasn’t riding the emotional rollercoaster. He was standing on the platform, calmly pulling the lever.

The first test came with in late 2023. The stock was ripping. Everyone on Twitter was screaming “to the moon.” Martin’s gut screamed “buy.”

Martin had been trading for six years, but he still felt like he was gambling. He’d ride a stock up 15%, only to watch it give back 20% the next week. His screen was a Jackson Pollock of green and red candles. Fear was his co-pilot; greed, his navigator.