Teacher. Trader. Coach.

I combine my passion for teaching, trading, and guiding others to reach their financial goals with purpose and precision.

Teacher

As a high school math teacher, I’ve spent years helping students understand complex topics like statistics and probability—skills that translate directly into understanding trading. However, as the parameters of a high school teacher is to teach theory, with this program, I will be able to impart skills, directly to you. Knowledge without application is useless, but applied knowledge is powerful. 

Trader

My journey as a trader is rooted in data, discipline, and real-world experience. I’ve applied the same logic I taught in the classroom to the markets—and turned knowledge into consistent, profitable action.

Coach

As a trading coach for top firms like Investools (Thinkorswim & TD Ameritrade) and Optionetics (Charles Schwab), I’ve helped hundreds of students set clear goals, create actionable trading plans, and stay accountable to their rules.

Trade Like Nick Founder

Nick Pham

The Beginning: Hope

I’ve been trading since I was 12 years old—not stocks, but baseball cards. I’d buy players I thought were undervalued and flip them for profit when their value rose, tracking prices in Beckett Monthly like a kid watching a live ticker. It was my first taste of market speculation, and I was hooked. Movies like Wall Street, Boiler Room, and The Pursuit of Happyness lit a fire in me to figure out the stock market.

The Struggle: Reality

But college didn’t teach trading, so in 1998, I landed an internship at Dean Witter—one of the biggest brokerages on the West Coast. That’s where I realized most “brokers” weren’t traders at all—they were salespeople pitching stocks like poker hands, hoping something would stick. Desperate to really learn the game, I found a late-night infomercial for a trading academy. The tuition was $10,000, so I bet on myself—just like at the blackjack table—and went all in. Unfortunately, I was sold the dream, and not the reality, and continued to struggle.

A few years later, I worked as a trading coach, knowing what to do, but not able to do it. Then came my jackpot moment: the trading academy was acquired by Thinkorswim, and that’s where I met Tom Sosnoff and a crew of ex-floor traders from the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. They taught me the truth: stop playing the market like a gambler, and start operating like the casino.

The Turning Point: Trading Transformation

That’s when everything changed. Tom and his team showed me how professionals trade using math, probabilities, and risk-defined strategies—specifically by selling options, not buying them blindly. As a former high school math teacher, this approach made perfect sense. I was finally applying probability and statistics in real time—not in theory, but in the markets, where every trade was a calculated bet with the odds in my favor. I wasn’t chasing jackpots anymore—I was the house. That mindset became the foundation of what I teach today through TradeLikeNick.

I’ve condensed over 15 years of hard-won trading and teaching experience into a step-by-step program designed to cut through the noise, fast-track your learning curve, and help you trade like a Wall Street pro—without the Wall Street price tag. If you're ready to stop gambling and start trading with edge and discipline, I’ll help you stack the odds where they belong: on your side.

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