Built from real market execution.
Zero hype.
Drawdown was created to solve a widespread problem in trading education: flashy lifestyle marketing, secret \"guaranteed\" algorithms, and unrealistic expectations sold to retail traders.
Pete Currey
Founder · Chesterfield, UK
"The reality is that retail trading is a high-stakes business of statistical probabilities. Over 75% of retail accounts lose money — not due to a lack of indicators, but due to poor risk management, emotional overexposure, and chasing unvalidated promises."
— Pete Currey, FounderOur Focus
Drawdown provides structured education, quantitative indicator models, signal analysis, and risk-first journaling software. We focus entirely on process, discipline, and capital preservation.
The Founder Chronology
Fact-Checked Timeline
Commercial Foundations
Prior to trading live financial markets full-time, Pete's career focused on commercial business leadership, operational risk evaluation, cash flow management, contract negotiation, and running commercial enterprises. This commercial background provided crucial grounding in cash management, risk exposure, and decision-making under uncertainty, but it was not institutional financial market trading.
Transition to Live Markets
Pete began trading live financial markets in 2016. This marks the start of Pete's active live-market trading chronology. Moving from simulated analysis to executing real capital across spot FX, index CFDs, and commodities introduced the inescapable reality of real-money trading psychology and execution discipline.
Navigating Diverse Cycles
Over years of active execution, Pete traded major foreign exchange pairs (GBP/USD, EUR/USD, AUD/USD), gold and precious metals, equity index derivatives (FTSE 100, S&P 500, DAX 40), and digital assets. This execution provided first-hand experience with market liquidity cycles, news volatility, spread expansion, slippage, and broker execution mechanics.
The Reality of Market Risk
Drawdown was not built from a pristine, loss-free trading record. Like every genuine active trader, Pete experienced painful drawdowns, execution mistakes, overleveraged setup losses, and the psychological trap of revenge trading during high-volatility events.
Leverage Magnifies Error
High effective leverage can turn a routine statistical draw into an account emergency.
Free Margin Discipline
Maintaining sufficient free margin is essential for surviving unexpected market gaps.
Stop Losses Are Mandatory
Discipline is not optional — hard stop-loss limits protect against black-swan movements.
Survival Before Return
Staying in the game precedes long-term consistency. Capital preservation comes first.
Systems Over Promises
Drawdown was built to combine structured risk education, quantitative indicator models, transparent market analysis, trade journaling, and AI-assisted performance review. It distills real market experience into an objective, data-driven framework.
Current Risk Framework
Predefined Risk
Risk per trade is strictly defined before entry (typically 0.5%–1% of total equity). No trades are opened without calculated stop parameters.
Post-Trade Review
Every trade is recorded in the AI Trade Journal to audit plan adherence, emotional factors, and risk-discipline compliance against the original trade plan.
Objective Confluence
Decisions rely on multi-factor technical alignment, market data feeds, and quantitative indicators, rejecting single magic indicators or impulse entries.
Transparency Notice: What Is Not Being Claimed
"Drawdown is built from real experience, including mistakes and losses. It is not presented as a perfect trading record."
- No claim of 20 years or two decades of live market trading (live trading began in 2016).
- No claim of FCA authorisation or regulated financial adviser status.
- No claim of regulated broker, fund manager, or institutional mandate role.
- No claim of secret, guaranteed, or loss-proof trading strategies.
- No claim that past educational results guarantee future performance.
- No claim of audited institutional investment performance.
Black & Rowan Management Group Limited t/a Drawdown · Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Questions about our platform, regulatory perimeter or founder journey? Contact support@drawdown.trading.