A business born from a text.  

 A few years ago a friend was very concerned that the S&P 500 might crash.

Without thinking I texted back three words:  "Pros don't panic."

About Rich Oldham, MBA

Rich Oldham is the founder of Pros Don’t Panic and has spent more than 25 years studying NEoWave forecasting methods being personally trained by Glenn Neely. Using this insight into rigid pattern development and the underlying powerful trends, Rich developed the Trend Surfing™ process to eliminate common trading errors.

Drawing from his extensive background as a senior business process consultant and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt to Fortune 500 companies, Rich leveraged decades of proven process design principles to develop the Trend Surfing™ framework — a simple, repeatable approach focused on identifying the right market conditions, catching strong trend moves, and staying in profitable trades with discipline instead of emotion. If you control the process you will control the outcome. Trading errors are eliminated and accounts grow. 

Why This Approach Works

Most traders approach the market without a structured process. They react emotionally, chase moves, hesitate at the wrong moments, and continually switch strategies when results become inconsistent.

Rich approaches trading differently.

The foundation of the Trend Surfing™ process is a simple principle used in high-performance environments for decades:

A well-designed process produces repeatable results when it is followed consistently.

Instead of relying on emotion or prediction, Trend Surfing™ teaches traders how to identify the right market conditions, catch strong trend moves, and execute with discipline — creating a repeatable framework for generating trading income.

A Professional Standard

By the age of 20, Rich held a Top Secret security clearance and served as a qualified crewmember aboard a nuclear submarine, where he was responsible for critical onboard systems and operations.

In that environment, there is no room for emotional decision-making or random execution. Systems are learned, practiced, and followed with discipline until performance becomes consistent and repeatable under pressure.

That same mindset became the foundation of the Trend Surfing™ process and the PDP Pro™ Coaching Programs.

The goal is simple:

• Replace emotional trading with a structured process.
• Replace inconsistency with disciplined execution.
• Replace guessing with repeatable results.

Rich teaches all courses and leads all live coaching sessions inside the PDP Pro™ Trader Community.