Martin set a limit order to short NVDA at $495—a full $10 above the current price. His hands trembled. This was the opposite of what every guru said.
Martin covered his short for a .
He placed a conditional order: short SPY at $478, stop at $484, target $462. Martin set a limit order to short NVDA
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 almost laughed. He’d read Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets . He knew what a head-and-shoulders pattern looked like. But knowing and doing were different planets. Martin covered his short for a
His wife asked, “Aren’t you nervous?”
“When the crowd is euphoric,” Vervoort wrote, “the smart money is distributing.” The stock was ripping
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.
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.
One night, desperate, he opened Vervoort’s book. It wasn’t about predicting the future. It was about trapping the present.