About

A surgeon's checklist, applied to the market.

Dark Pools Trading was started by Anthony, a foot-and-ankle podiatric surgeon finishing his residency at a teaching hospital in Los Angeles, with a private practice on the way in Burbank. He is also, on the same days, the founder of a small daytrading LLC and has traded SPY options for the last three years.

He started trading the way most professionals do: late at night, with a tab open next to a residency program, hoping a chart could explain itself. It could not. The thing that finally worked was the thing he already knew how to do — work from a checklist, run a procedure the same way every time, and trust the steps over the feeling in the room.

The trader I want to be on Friday is the trader who scrubbed in on Monday.

Dark Pools Trading is built for the same kind of person — the physician, the attorney, the engineer, the founder. Busy professionals who don't need a louder feed. They need a process they can run before the open, a small set of rules they actually follow, and a community of people doing the same work on the same chart.

The free Discord is the front door. The premium Skool community is where members do the real work — the checklist, the journal, the weekly review. Both are run by Anthony, in plain language, with no urgency, no screenshots of yesterday's win, and no promises about tomorrow.

01
Process over hype.
A checklist before the bell.
02
Discipline over emotion.
The plan you wrote wins the argument.
03
Growth over ego.
A slightly better trader by Friday.