YOU ARE TRADING
AGAINST PEOPLE WHO
ALREADY KNOW
WHERE PRICE IS GOING.
Every trading day, before the New York open fires, Nathan Banks publishes the institutional read on every major instrument — the directional call, the level the entire bias hinges on, the invalidation, and the retail-versus-institutional positioning data the desk uses to decide which side of the trade to take. You sit down to your charts already on the right side of the room.
YOU ARE TRADING
THE CROWDED RETAIL TRADE.
There is a reason your stops keep getting hit two ticks before the move you saw coming. There is a reason the "obvious" setup keeps reversing the second you enter. There is a reason the trade looks textbook — and pays out for someone else.
The reason is not your strategy. The reason is not your psychology. The reason is that you do not know which side of the boat the institutional desk is sitting on — and they do. Every single day. Before you ever look at the chart.
Here is what nobody is telling you: the "obvious" trade is obvious because it is supposed to be obvious. That is how the desk gets you in. Once you can see the read the desk is making — every single morning, before the open — you stop being on the wrong side of obvious.
— Nathan BanksBY 9:00 AM ET, THE BIAS IS
PUBLISHED. THE LEVEL IS DRAWN.
THE INVALIDATION IS MARKED.
By 9 AM ET, London has already done its business, and the desk already knows what it did. The NY Open Look-Ahead reads all of it for you and publishes the bias — directional call, key level, invalidation, COT positioning, Nathan's take, and the full market narrative — before New York fires. Every major instrument. Every trading day.
That is what you see at 9 AM ET. One word call. Bullish. Bearish. Neutral. One Primary Watch. The exact thing to look for. One Key Level. The number the entire bias hinges on. One set of stats. Session high, session low, prior close. No noise. No hedging. No "we'll see how it plays out."
Then you scroll down — and you get the part that almost no retail trader has ever seen.
The live chart. Today's economic events tagged to the bias. The COT positioning bars showing where retail money is sitting versus where institutional money is sitting. Nathan's Take in plain English. The full Market Narrative. This is the read your competition does not have.
THE CFTC TELLS YOU WHO IS
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR TRADE.
FREE. EVERY FRIDAY.
Every Friday at 3:30 PM ET, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission publishes the Commitment of Traders report. It is the actual positioning data — every major instrument, every major institution, every long, every short. And almost no retail trader has ever opened the file.
Every NY Open Look-Ahead pulls the latest COT data for the instrument and puts it in front of you in one glance: where the crowd is sitting, where the desk is sitting. Most traders have never once seen the two side by side.
This is the actual positioning data published in last Friday's NY Open Look-Ahead for Gold. Retail was packed long at 73%. The institutional desk was sitting at 27%. Two groups, one market, and they were not on the same side. Why the desk sits where it sits is the part the research explains, every week.
Members watch the gap track week-to-week across every major instrument. The first thing that changes is not your strategy — it is that you finally know who is on the other side before you sit down. You stop guessing which side the room is on.
THE TAPE.
WRITTEN LIKE A BANK-DESK
END-OF-DAY NOTE.
After the New York close, the entire trading day gets debriefed across every major instrument — currencies, indices, gold, oil, bitcoin — in the same desk-style narrative format institutional traders read every morning. This is the read that connects today's move to tomorrow's setup.
Every pair. Every index.
Every commodity. One read.
EUR/USD. GBP/USD. USD/JPY. USD/CHF. Bitcoin. Gold. US30. NAS100. GBPJPY. US Oil. All read together in one note at the close — not as ten separate updates, but as one cohesive picture of what the day produced and what is teed up for the overnight handoff into Asia.
This is the format that runs every institutional trading floor. Now it runs your trading week. You walk into Friday's close already understanding what Monday's open is going to test.
SUNDAY NIGHT,
THE WHOLE WEEK
GETS RETRO'D.
The Weekly Market Recap publishes Sunday evening — long-form, table-driven, brutally honest. What the tape actually said. Where retail was wrong. Which positioning gaps did not close. The exact lines that matter for Monday's open.
You walk into Monday
with last week already understood.
Most traders walk into Monday cold. Scrolling. Hoping. Pulling up indicators. By 11 AM ET they are already chasing whatever moved.
Members walk into Monday with the entire prior week's tape already read — the compression days, the catalysts, the COT gaps that did not close, the lines the desk is positioned around. You are not catching up at 11 AM. You are already three hours ahead.
ONE SENTENCE.
ONE LEVEL.
ONE INVALIDATION.
Every NY Open Look-Ahead carries a single Primary Watch — the one specific thing to look for in the session, written so you can act on it the moment it happens. This is the actual Primary Watch published for Gold on Friday April 24, 2026, with the numbers removed (members had them at 9:00 AM):
Watching for a break below this session's low at [members only] to target the [members only] level that's been lurking as weekly support.
— Nathan Banks · Daily Market ResearchRead it again. One trigger. One target. One reason. The numbers were in the members' hands at 9:00 AM, before New York fired. That is what one sentence of professional desk-language gets you — every NY Open, every trading day, every major instrument.
THERE IS A 5-PHASE CYCLE
THAT RUNS THROUGH
EVERY TRADING WEEK.
Same sequence.
Same structure.
Every week.™
The institutional trading week does not move randomly. It moves in a 5-phase cycle the desk has been running for as long as there has been a desk. The cycle has a name — The Institutional Expansion Cycle™ — and it is the framework taught inside the TradeWithBanks Institute Core Framework.
I'm not going to teach you the phases on this page. That is what the Core Framework is for. What I will tell you is this: every Daily Market Research post is tagged to the phase. Every NY Open Look-Ahead. Every end-of-day Tape. Every Weekly Recap. Tagged.
By the end of your second week of reading the research, you will start to see it. One day will stop looking like the next. The sequence will start to repeat. By the end of your fourth week, you cannot un-see it. You will sit down on a Tuesday morning and just know what kind of session is coming — because you have watched the same cycle play out across every instrument for twenty straight sessions.
That is what "tracking the cycle daily" actually means. That is the difference between trading the week and being traded by it.
EVERY TRADING DAY,
FOR $2.60.
$78 / month works out to less than three dollars a trading day. Here is exactly what shows up in your inbox and on the member dashboard for that:
- The one-word directional call Nathan publishes for every major instrument before the New York open — Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral — so you walk into NY already knowing which way to lean without having to make the read yourself.
- The Primary Watch — the single specific level, trigger, and target written in one sentence of desk-language. You don't read this and then "interpret it." You read it and you act on it.
- The Key Level the entire bias hinges on, with the exact number that would invalidate it — so you stop guessing and stop being shaken out at the worst possible point.
- The CFTC COT positioning bars showing exactly which side of the trade institutions are sitting on (this data is public, but almost no retail trader has ever pulled it — the research puts it in front of you every week, already read for you).
- The end-of-day Tape — a desk-style note covering every major pair, index, gold, oil, and bitcoin in one read, written the way professional desk notes are written every morning at the open.
- The Sunday Weekly Market Recap with the Week-At-A-Glance table — the compression days, the catalysts, the positioning gaps that did not close, the lines that matter for Monday's open.
- The phase tag on every single post showing exactly where the week sits in the 5-phase Institutional Expansion Cycle™ — so by your fourth week you can spot the cycle without thinking about it.
- Nathan's Take on every post in plain English — the kind of opinion you would hear from a trader who has been learning this market since 2001, sitting next to you reading the chart out loud.
- The full Market Narrative tying it all together — what the levels, the positioning, and the catalysts mean for what comes next.
THIS IS NOT FOR EVERYONE.
READ CAREFULLY.
I would rather you close this page right now than subscribe and not use it. So before you click the button, read both columns. If the right column describes you — please do not subscribe.
- You are a serious day trader who is tired of taking the "obvious" trade and getting stopped on the reversal
- You have spent money on at least one ICT, SMC, or order flow course and it didn't quite click — you are ready to see the framework applied live, every day, to real markets
- You have never opened the CFTC Commitment of Traders report — and now that you know it exists, you want to see it every Friday for every instrument you trade
- You want to walk into every NY Open already knowing the bias, the level, the invalidation, and the COT positioning — instead of guessing
- You want to walk into every Monday with the prior week's full tape already understood, not scrambling to catch up at 11 AM
- You are credit-card-ready, decisive, and value direct desk-language analysis over signals, hype, and "this is going to the moon" rooms
- You want someone to tell you exactly what to buy and sell — this is not a signal service and never will be
- You want to copy trades without understanding the read behind them — the analysis IS the product
- You will not pull up your own charts and apply what each post says — passive reading does not move the needle
- You need to make rent this week and are not in a position to invest a few months in learning to read the market the way the desk reads it
- You are looking for hype, gambling, or a get-rich-quick room — you will be disappointed and you will hate the price
- You do not actually want to know that the trade you've been taking is the wrong side of where institutions are sitting — some traders prefer not to look
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
YOU SEE THE READ EVERY DAY.
Your methods are accurate. When I enter a trade based on your instructions, I am still shocked every time when I am right — even though I feel like I am on the wrong side of the trade. It just shocks me every time.
Verified Member · VirginiaI just want to say thank you. You are special.
Verified MemberThis has unlocked the mysteries behind how to predict price action for me. After back testing I can confidently say your ways of trading have been the best I have ever tested.
Verified Member · New YorkThe TradeWithBanks mentorship has been worth its weight in gold. The framework Nathan teaches completely changed how I see the market.
Verified Member · CanadaIN THE MARKET SINCE 2001.
TRAINED BY AN ELITE NEW YORK DEALER.
READING THE REPORTS THAT MATTER.
Since 2001 I have learned, over time, which reports matter and why. In 2012, I learned directly from an elite New York institutional dealer how the market actually works.
I am not a YouTuber who discovered a system last year. I am not a 24-year-old "prop firm funded trader" with a Lambo I rented for the photo shoot. I have been in these markets since 2001, and I learned the hard way which reports matter and which ones are noise.
I have watched clients stop handing their stops to the crowded retail trade. I have watched hesitation turn into conviction, because they finally knew what they were looking at. None of that is an anomaly. It is what happens when you stop trading like retail.
The Daily Market Research is the closest thing in existence to sitting next to me at the desk and watching how I read the market every single day.
— Nathan Banks · TradeWithBanks InstituteNY Open Look-Aheads, end-of-day Tape, Sunday Weekly Recap, COT positioning bars, Nathan's Take, full Market Narrative — every trading day, every major instrument.
Less than $2.60 per trading day · Cancel anytime · No commitmentsEVERY MORNING THE DESK
IS POSITIONED.
THE LEVEL IS DRAWN.
THE READ IS PUBLISHED.
Every trading day you spend on the wrong side of the crowded retail trade is another day of mistimed entries, premature exits, and stops triggered by moves the desk could see coming an hour earlier. The data is public. The research is published. The only variable is whether you are inside reading it before the New York open fires tomorrow morning.
P.S.The next NY Open Look-Ahead publishes at 9:00 AM ET tomorrow morning. If you subscribe before then, the first thing you'll see is the bias for tomorrow's open before any retail trader on Twitter, in Discord, or on YouTube has a clue what the desk is positioned for. You are either inside reading it — or you are on the other side of the trade. There is no third option.
P.P.S.$78/month is less than $2.60 per trading day. That is the price of knowing who is on the other side before you sit down. You know it. I know it. The button is right above this line.