Pat Mitchell
Trader, Coach, and Founder of Trick Trades
Pat "Trick" Mitchell is a professional day trader and coach with over a decade of experience, and the founder of Trick Trades. Before any of it — the students, the courses, the track record — he blew up two trading accounts and was down to his last $2,600 on the third. What he built from there is Trick Trades: a trading education company built around one rule — no trader left behind.
If you're ready to start building this from the ground up — the strategy and the mindset that goes with it — that's exactly what Day Trading Bootcamp is built to teach.
From Welder to Trader
Pat wasn't always a trader. He worked as a contract welder, constantly away from his family, working hard without ever really getting to enjoy what it earned. The decision to change that came at a cost — including blowing up two trading accounts before he got it right. On his third, sitting on a low of $2,600, he had the conversation with himself that changed everything: it was time to get serious, or walk away for good. He chose serious.
What He Teaches
Pat's approach centers on Natural Movement Theory — his own framework for reading price action based on a simple idea: a stock only has two directions, and price reacts predictably at support, resistance, and key levels because of the volume and human behavior behind them. He's a technical trader by identity — no news, no scanners, no fundamentals. Just charts, structure, and risk management, built on a risk-first philosophy: always know the downside before you're thinking about the reward.
Student, Professional, Master
Pat teaches trader development in three stages: the student, who has to submit and actually apply what he's taught, not just hear it. The professional, who's found real consistency — and is now most at risk from the ego that comes with it. The master, who does what discipline requires regardless of how he feels about it in the moment. He's explicit that skipping stages doesn't work, and neither does deciding you've graduated the moment things go well.
No Trader Left Behind
Most trading education services quietly drop the traders who are struggling — you'll never see them talk about the people in their program who haven't made it yet. Pat built Trick Trades to be the opposite. He won't screenshot a student's P&L for clout, and he won't leave anyone behind because they're not an easy highlight reel. The traders who are struggling are exactly who the "no trader left behind" guarantee exists for.
What Success Actually Looks Like
Pat doesn't post rented supercars or staged watch photos. Everything he owns — including the property in Costa Rica where he and his family live — was paid for in cash, not financed or borrowed to look the part. It's a deliberate choice: real freedom isn't about what you can show people, it's about what nobody can take away from you.
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He blew up two trading accounts before turning his third around from a low of $2,600. He's traded professionally for over 10 years.
Natural Movement Theory — his framework for reading price action through support, resistance, and volume — along with the risk-first mindset and discipline that goes with it.
A guarantee that struggling traders won't be left behind, no highlight-reel P&L screenshots, and an emphasis on the mental/emotional preparation most trading education skips entirely.