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About MKT.TRADE

STRUCTURE.
DISCIPLINE.
CONTEXT.

MKT.TRADE is a structured decision intelligence engine built for serious market participants. Forty years of market structure research. One methodology expressed across analytics, advisory, education, and AI-driven decision support. Better decisions begin with objective structure.

Meet the Team ↓
01 — Our Mission

HELP YOU MAKE
BETTER DECISIONS.

Markets don’t reward the trader with the most information. They reward the one who makes the clearest decisions under pressure. MKT.TRADE exists to give you that clarity — a single, structured way to read any market, so you act on fact instead of hope.

Most platforms hand you more indicators, more signals, more noise — and leave the hardest part, the decision, entirely to you. We built the opposite. One methodology, developed over forty years and expressed across analytics, education, AI decision support, and managed capital, that shows you where price is, what state the market is in, and what that means for your next move.

It’s a framework, not a forecast. We don’t predict markets — we map them, so probability can work in your favor over time. And whether you trade crypto, futures, equities, forex, ETFs, or options, the vocabulary and the reads stay the same.

What You Get
  • A structured way to read any market — objective, repeatable, yours to learn
  • Decision support calibrated to how you actually trade
  • A behavioral discipline system that holds under live pressure
What It Isn’t
  • A signal vendor, prediction engine, or black box
  • A registered investment adviser or broker-dealer
  • An execution venue or broker counterparty
02 — Our Story

FORTY YEARS SO YOU
DON’T START FROM ZERO.

The work began in 1984 on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange — where founder John Slazas watched good traders undone not by bad information, but by bad decisions under pressure. Everything since has been about solving that. What you get today is four decades of that refinement, already done for you.

Through every regime — 1987, the dot-com collapse, 2008, the pandemic, the crypto cycles, the 2022 rate shock — the same framework was tested with real capital on the line. It didn’t predict those markets. It gave operators a way to stay oriented while everyone around them was guessing. That’s the edge you inherit: a method that has already survived the hard markets.

1984 — Where It Began
JS SERVICES
RESEARCH AND TRADING
Founded by John Slazas

A technical research firm trusted by professional floor traders since 1986. The original home of the methodology — fact-based analytics and trader development, built for people with real money at risk.

The Proving Ground
FUTURES TO
DIGITAL ASSETS
DARMA Capital · DARMA Capital Trading

The framework carried from listed futures into digital assets — first as Chief Investment Officer of DARMA Capital, an Ethereum fund, then through DARMA Capital Trading, the advisory business John founded that grew into today’s MKT.CAPITAL. Same method, applied to the most volatile instruments ever created.

Today — Open to You
MKT.TRADE +
MKT.CAPITAL
Intelligence Stack · Managed Capital

The same methodology, now software. PriceMap, MarketColor, Playbook, Strategy Alerts, and Navigator each express one framework — available to you as a subscription, or applied for you under written mandate through MKT.CAPITAL.

03 — The Team

THE PEOPLE BEHIND
THE FRAMEWORK.

Three principals, each owning a distinct part of what you’ll use — the research and methodology, the AI that reads it with you, and the platform that puts it in your hands.

John Slazas
JOHN SLAZAS
Founder & Principal

Founder and strategic architect of MKT.TRADE and MKT.CAPITAL, with more than thirty-five years in professional markets as a trader, technical strategist, trading-system designer, risk manager, and asset manager. A former equity member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he witnessed the emotional toll of trading from the exchange floor and built a fact-based methodology to master it. Founded JS Services Research and Trading in 1984, then spent decades in listed futures before trading Bitcoin in 2013 and carrying his market-structure approach into digital assets. Served as Chief Investment Officer of DARMA Capital — an Ethereum-focused fund founded by former early Consensys team members — then founded DARMA Capital Trading, the mandate-driven advisory now rebranded as MKT.CAPITAL. Sets the firm’s strategic direction and leads trading, risk management, and trader development.

Spencer Riegle
SPENCER RIEGLE
Founding Principal · Navigator Lead

A diverse background in equities, futures, and options — now focused on the cryptocurrency landscape. Forward-thinking strategies built around capital efficiency, asymmetrical opportunities, and the intricate nuances of market microstructure. Took an independent path into markets, immersed alongside seasoned veterans across equity markets, vanilla derivative products, and exotic decentralized volatility products. Michigan State University alumnus. Leads the AI architecture behind Navigator — the analytical knowledge base that translates the framework into real-time, profile-aware decision support. Builds proprietary tools and fosters supportive trading communities worldwide.

Polina Khoroshko
POLINA KHOROSHKO
Founding Principal · Web & Platform Architecture

The engineer behind every page you’re reading. Builds the public face of the intelligence stack — component systems, content architecture, and the ongoing translation of forty years of methodology into a clean digital product. Brings the kind of meticulous, no-shortcut craftsmanship that holds together when systems get complex. Independent web practice at polinet.website. Founding contributor to the MKT.TRADE intelligence stack.

04 — What Traders Say

IN THEIR
OWN WORDS.

A small selection from operators across two generations of the methodology — from the JS Services era to today’s MKT.TRADE intelligence stack. Names withheld; archetypes attributed.

I’m removing everything from my charts and just focusing on the analytics and order flow. Sometimes it’s difficult to unlearn things that have been embraced for many years — but after experimenting with a less cluttered approach, I find it to be a much more peaceful way to trade. The peace creates a clearer mind for better decision making.

Discretionary Trader

The Analytics remove the noise from the markets and let me focus on the facts. In my twenty years of trading experience, I have never felt more in control of my trading. I cannot thank you enough.

Discretionary Trader · 20 Years

The Analytics provide a way to manage risk such that winners versus losers are at least 2-to-1 risk-reward every time I make a trade. There are opportunities for 10-to-1 trades that happen quite often. The reason this is possible is the built-in risk framework from optimal strategy to hedge strategies.

Discretionary Trader

The analytics give me confidence and allow me to trade the facts in front of me real-time. There is no second-guessing when putting on positions. The analytics provide me the ability to trade with the flow of the market and catch turning points.

Discretionary Trader

The Analytics provides me with a framework each day to manage risk within my portfolio. There are two sides to that — managing offensive risk taking, and managing short gamma positions. The analytics made me a better options trader by using the clear and concise risk framework.

Options Trader

Don’t base your trading decisions on what you hope the market will do. Base them on the probability of what is more likely to occur.

MKT.CAPITAL

Testimonials appearing on this website may not be representative of other clients or customers and are not a guarantee of future performance or success. Full disclaimer →

05 — Get Started

READY WHEN
YOU ARE.

Engage with the methodology at whatever depth fits your operation — subscribe to the analytics, or start a trial and take the assessment that calibrates it to how you trade.

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