Welcome to Pros Don’t Panic
My work answers one of the hardest questions in trading:
Which direction is this market actually heading?
That question is where most traders struggle and it’s exactly what this publication is built to address.
I Call This “Step 2”
Think of the trading process as four simple steps:
Determine a market you want to trade (Bitcoin, SPY, Gold, etc)
Choose that market’s direction (up or down) over a certain amount of time.
Enter the trade to take advantage of the movement in your chosen direction.
Exit the trade for a profit.
Pros Don’t Panic exists to solve Step 2.
Most people take a hopeful guess at Step 2 and get it right every now and then. But get it right on an ongoing basis and your win rate goes up and your profits greatly improve.
Here’s a secret - people herd together and form patterns.
People don’t want to be the outlier. They want to do what everyone else is doing so they herd together in naturally-occurring patterns. The markets are a tick-by-tick record of that herding behavior and the patterns are evident. I track the markets like an air traffic controller and report every week where each market is in its pattern and my forecast of expected direction.
Above is the long range forecast of the US Crude Oil Market (USO) in a Neutral Triangle pattern.
What Pros Don’t Panic Does
Each week, Pros Don’t Panic publishes structured, multi-timeframe chart analysis using custom charts and rules-based Neowave logic designed to help you:
Make better decisions about where the market is headed
Where a market is within its larger pattern
Whether price is moving with or against the dominant trend
What stage of development the current pattern is in
When clarity and probability are increasing and when patience is required
We do not provide:
Trade entries or exits
Position sizing
Signals or alerts
“Buy” or “sell” recommendations
Instead, we focus on context and direction — so you can make better decisions inside your own strategy.
Subscribe for a weekly look at the markets’ patterns and form a reasoned, logical decision, not a wild guess.
How to Use This Publication
This publication is organized by market.
Each market has its own section that acts like its own newsletter containing:
Monthly Updates covering the long-term outlook.
Weekly Updates which cover the near term.
Each update reviews the current dominant trend and pattern structure along with explanations of pattern status and development.
Start with the markets you care about and if you want notifications of updates opt in, and ignore the rest.
Free vs Paid Access
Free readers will receive:
One full free update post for each market we track to show you the potential.
Occasional livestream market overviews.
Knowledge library to understand how this analysis works.
Paid subscribers receive:
Weekly and Monthly Update posts covering all markets we track.
Consistent, repeatable analysis you can rely on week after week to help you make better trading decisions.
Livestreams for the paid subscriber community
Members community thread
The difference between paid and free is frequency, not quality.
Free readers see what we do.
Paid subscribers get it often enough to make a difference in their trading decisions.
Who This Is For (and Who It’s Not)
Pros Don’t Panic is built for:
Crypto, stock market, Indian stock and macro market traders who need to know the pattern’s status.
Traders who don’t have time to become a master Neowave analyst but need the info.
401k holders who need increased clarity before taking decisive action.
Decision-makers using macro markets like the 10-Year Yield, Gold or Oil.
This is not:
A free-tips newsletter
Entertainment
A substitute for your own decision-making
If you treat trading like a business, this work is meant to support Step-2 of that business and help you increase your average win rate.
About the Analyst
My name is Rich Oldham. I’ve studied market patterns for over 25 years and was personally trained in Neowave advanced pattern analysis by Glenn Neely, one of the top S&P timers in the world. Unlike the random outcome of Elliott Wave, orthodox Neowave is rules-based, logical and self-confirming applying pattern analysis processes developed and tested for over 40 years.
I publish this analysis through Pros Don’t Panic so traders can benefit from structured insight without having to build, maintain and analyze these charts themselves.
Where to Start
Sign up for a paid subscription to receive the Weekly Updates
Visit the Markets page
Choose the markets you follow and opt in for any notifications you want.
Review the most recent updates
Start making better Step 2 decisions.
A Note on Risk
All content published here is for educational and informational purposes only.
Nothing on this site constitutes financial or investment advice.
You are solely responsible for any decisions you make.