Small Money Concepts is a live trading mentorship built around one idea: precise entries mean nothing without the larger narrative. You get the complete framework, two live classes a week, daily levels, and direct access to ask questions until the read is yours instead of mine.
My own trading record — not a guarantee, and not what any student should expect. Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss.
Every paid path begins with the same complete curriculum. What changes is how long you keep live guidance while you apply it.
Daily chart drops, education posts, and the room where the community actually talks. No card, no commitment.
Every one of these is taught with the reasoning behind it, not as a pattern to memorize. Nasdaq is the main market; ES and YM are watched for correlation, divergence and confirmation, and the concepts carry across markets.
When a move is likely to begin, extend, or be finished — before the candle tells you.
Not the version taught everywhere else. Why a level matters and when it should actually react.
My own application of it, built from how price returns to unfinished business.
Reading intent inside the candle instead of naming the shape after the fact.
The reference points the session is priced against all day.
Where dealer positioning pins, accelerates, or releases price.
Where an entry is worth taking inside the range, and where it never was.
The objective the lower timeframe is executing into. Without it, entries are noise.
Confirmation and warning from correlated markets before Nasdaq shows its hand.
I came out of high school with two years of college already finished. I'm the same age as a lot of the people I teach, and on paper I'd technically have graduated by now — that's how set I was on the path I was originally taking.
Trading became the longer project. Three years of continuously tightening what I do: finding cleaner entries, holding for higher risk-to-reward, and getting better at anticipating the scenarios the market is most likely to choose. Not predicting every move — nobody does that. Understanding the likely paths well enough to be positioned when one of them plays out, and to be wrong cheaply when it doesn't.
I've been consistently profitable for about two and a half of those three years, and I take payouts every month. I say that plainly because you should know what you're buying from someone — and equally plainly: it's my record, not a promise about yours. Most people who try this lose money, and no framework changes that for someone who won't manage risk.
I'm not here to hype you up with fake signals or flex paper trades. I'll be wrong sometimes; the market isn't perfect either. What I can give you is a complete framework, real reasoning, and the discipline side that most people skip — because the hardest part of trading was never the charts.
The starter program is complete on its own — you keep the course videos permanently. But learning the concepts and executing them under live market conditions are two different things, and that's the part most traders underestimate.
The lower-commitment way in. Thirty days to work through the complete curriculum with live guidance: eight group classes, every recording, community access, and the full picture of how I analyze and trade the market. You keep the core course videos forever.
Walk away and apply it independently with the videos you keep — or continue month to month for live classes, daily levels, recordings, chart reviews and direct answers. Cancel the month it stops being useful.
Everything, permanently — plus two additional experienced traders running their own weekly sessions. Your $500 starter payment counts toward it. Ten founding spots are open at $1,000 before it moves to $1,500.
Most mentorships show you the winners and hide the distribution. This table is the whole distribution — including the people still working toward consistency — and it only gets published once each timeline is verified.
Screenshots shared by students, published with their permission.
Posted by students in the SMC Discord. Reproduced as written, with the date they were posted.
"I went back and forth for about six months before finally pulling the trigger after seeing Ryland's results and the strategy he was using. What stood out to me was how transparent everything was — he shows real executions and explains exactly what he's looking for. In less than two weeks, I've already made enough to take a $2,000 payout while working a job in the afternoons and balancing college. More importantly, I finally have a clear system and confidence in what I'm doing."
"I'm a college student and work a regular job in the afternoons, so I don't have a ton of extra time. Before joining Ryland's class I'd only been trading about a month and still struggled to read the market. The biggest thing for me was learning how to find high risk-to-reward setups instead of taking random trades. After two weeks of trading his strategy, I took a $1,350 payout from Alpha Futures. I wish I'd started sooner."
Starting at $500 lowers the initial commitment. Buying lifetime upfront gives the best total price.
| Path | Price | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Free Discord | $0 | Free education channel and community access |
| 30-Day Starter Program | $500 | Course videos forever + 30 days of live support |
| Monthly continuation | $450 / mo | Ongoing live access for as long as you need it |
| Lifetime Mentorship | $1,500 | Everything permanently — your $500 starter counts toward it |
| Founding lifetime 10 spots | $1,000 | Founding rate for the first ten, then it moves to $1,500 |
I can't stop someone from gambling or breaking their risk management. What I can do is give serious traders a complete framework, sharpen their execution, and teach them exactly how I understand the market.
No. It's a complete program. You get the full video course, eight live classes, every recording, 30 days of community access — and you keep the core course videos permanently whether you continue or not. It exists as a lower-commitment way in for people who aren't ready to buy lifetime access on day one, not as a stripped-down sample.
Because learning the system and executing it live are different problems. The first 30 days teach the framework. Continued access is where you apply it: live trading and analysis calls, daily levels and trade ideas, coaching when a trade goes wrong, new recordings and material, accountability, and help applying the concepts to real market conditions. Most students find the second part is where execution actually improves.
Nasdaq futures is the primary market. ES and YM are watched for correlation, divergence and confirmation. The concepts carry across markets, including gold — but the live analysis is Nasdaq-focused.
No. Plenty of students start on evaluation accounts. What matters more is that you're not trading money you can't afford to lose, and that you follow your own risk rules.
Two live classes (Wednesday and Sunday, 6:00 PM MT, usually 1–1.5 hours), a recorded morning analysis session at 7:00 AM MT walking through levels, reviews of recent market action, trade ideas when quality setups appear, and ongoing access to ask questions. Every class is recorded.
Trade ideas get posted when a quality opportunity appears, with the reasoning attached. They exist so you can compare your read against mine — not so you can follow blindly. The goal is that you eventually find the answer yourself.
Yes. The $500 you paid for the starter program counts toward the lifetime price. Ten founding spots are currently open at $1,000 before lifetime moves to $1,500.
No. Everything in the program is educational. Nothing taught, posted or discussed is personalized investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any specific instrument. You are responsible for your own trading decisions and risk.
I'll show you inside the program and the Discord, answer your questions, and help you pick the option that actually fits you. Takes less than 60 seconds to request.
Trading futures involves substantial risk. Profits and payouts are never guaranteed.