PriceMap
Named structural price levels, computed in advance and the same way on every chart. They mark where the market's behavior becomes meaningful, and they're set before emotion enters.
Where Simulated InvestingMeets Real Market Structure
MKT.TRADE is an independent market-intelligence platform built on a forty-year analytical framework that started on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It doesn't predict prices or send buy and sell signals. It maps market structure, gives a defined read on current conditions, and runs an AI Navigator that holds traders to the plan they wrote.
MKT.TRADE is an independent third party and is not part of Rapunzl's classroom programs.
One Framework.
Every Layer of a Decision.
MarketColor
Twenty-six market states across nine regimes. Instead of just "trending or not," you get a high-definition read on the market's current condition.
Playbook
IF/THEN strategy themes matched to structure and state: participate, defend, or stand aside. The system is working when it tells you to stand aside.
Strategy Alerts
When structure and state align, an alert fires with the level, the strategy type, and the targets. It tells you about timing rather than offering an opinion.
Navigator AI
A decision-support agent calibrated to the trader's own profile and written plan. It interprets the data and the trader makes the call. Think of it as a compass rather than an order.
No Predictions. No Signals.
MKT.TRADE doesn't tell anyone what to buy or sell. It maps what's true so traders can decide for themselves.
600+ Markets. Five Timeframes.
Futures, stocks, ETFs, forex, and crypto all use one method, on timeframes from daily to yearly. Learn it once and it works everywhere.
You Remain the Operator
The framework does the reading and the trader makes the decisions. Judgment, risk, and responsibility stay with the person.
Discover How You Trade Before You Ever Risk a Dollar
MKT.TRADE's Five-Factor Performance Profile is a free, ten-minute assessment for graduates 18 and older.
Every trader has a natural style, and knowing yours is the first professional edge. The assessment names one of fifteen trader archetypes, from the Explorer to the Independent Operator. Each one comes with a defined strength, a risk to watch, and something to build on. It's the same self-awareness-first approach Rapunzl teaches: know yourself, then know the market.
Take the Free Assessment →Offered by MKT.TRADE. Creating an account is subject to MKT.TRADE's own terms. Intended for graduates 18+.
FOR TOP RAPUNZL GRADUATES · BY NOMINATION
The Pathway to Funding
Through our relationship with MKT.TRADE, top-performing Rapunzl graduates are eligible for a path to funding and receiving real capital to place behind their trading strategies.
Participants who trade within fixed risk parameters and exceed target benchmarks within the MKT.TRADE program can receive capital allocations to apply their strategies in the real world.
Who's Eligible
- Completed the entire Rapunzl curriculum
- Scored over 90% on all Rapunzl assessments
- Graduated and 18 or older
A Trading Philosophy
To Graduate Into
Know what's true. Then decide.
The market doesn't need predicting. It needs understanding.
A compass, not a command.
Structure first. Then conviction.
The trader is the edge.
Patience is not passivity.
Process, applied consistently, compounds.
From knowledge to consistency.
Know how you trade. Not just what.
Risk is defined before entry, never discovered in a drawdown.
Forty Years. One Framework.
From hand-delivered floor research at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to an AI-era intelligence platform.
1984The Trading Floor
John Slazas, a floor trader and equity member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, founds JS Services Research and Trading.
1986PriceMap Is Born
PriceMap launches as a daily research service, hand-delivered to professional floor traders and institutional desks at the CME, CBOT, and CBOE.
1990sThe Framework Expands
MarketColor defines twenty-six signature market states; the Playbook turns structure and state into IF/THEN strategy themes.
2013–2016New Markets, Same Method
MKT.TRADE applies the framework to Bitcoin, then Ethereum, carrying the same structural read into digital assets.
2024The Modern Platform
MKT.TRADE launches with Navigator, an AI decision-support agent, putting the full intelligence stack in one place.
TodayThree Principals, One Method
Founder John Slazas is joined by founding principals Spencer Riegle (Navigator AI) and Polina Khoroshko (platform architecture). Coverage spans 600+ instruments, daily to yearly.
An Academy That Starts With the Trader, Not the Market
Rapunzl teaches you to practice. MKT.TRADE's Academy teaches you to turn practice into professional discipline.
MKT.TRADE's Academy is built around a simple idea: most traders don't fail for lack of information. They fail because applying what you know under pressure is hard. The development path starts with self-awareness. From there it anchors intuition to structure and works toward an edge that holds up over time.
Get Started with MKT.TRADE →Foundation
Self-awareness first: tendencies, risk tolerance, time horizon.
Discipline
Intuition anchored to structure instead of impulse.
Pacing
Moving fast or slow by choice rather than by reflex.
Edge
Self-awareness, discipline, and clarity that persist across markets.