Laurens Bensdorp is the founder and CEO of Trading Mastery School and the author of the best-selling book, “The 30 Minute Stock Trader”.  He was also featured in Van Tharp’s famous treatise on elite traders, “Trading Beyond the Matrix”, in which he explains his transformation from losing trader to world-class investor.

Bensdorp’s most recent book is “Automated Trading Systems”, a detailed explanation of how a novice trader can implement automated trading strategies along with proven methodologies to create a market-beating trading system.

Bensdorp got his start in capital management and finance at a boutique venture capital firm in Amsterdam in 2000.  His passion for trading and zeal for studying the markets led him to invest thousands of hours studying the world’s greatest traders to develop a revolutionary approach to investing.

Unlike many traders, Laurens Bensdorp puts his own money on the line and his foray into investing was no different.  He invested the totality of his parents’ retirement funds into the market and promptly lost a significant portion.

In books and lectures, Bensdorp has explained that this experience of loss transformed both his approach to risk management as well as his emotional relationship with money in general and trading in particular.  The episode helped him to develop a personalized approach to trading that helps traders identify personality traits and psychological filters that may impede their effective implementation of trading strategies.

The model Laurens Bensdorp uses represents a radical departure from what Wall Street pitches to affluent investors; he relies on a series of non-correlated trading strategies that profit regardless of market direction.  These 50 trading strategies form the foundation of an investing philosophy that is further refined according to the individual investor’s personality, philosophy and risk tolerance.  Finally, those factors weigh heavily into the design of an automated trading system which the individual investor employs to trade the market in 30 minutes a day…or less.

These strategies have resulted in a risk-adjusted return of more than five times the S&P 500 average over the last decade, outperforming every stage of the bull and bear market strategy.  As recently as the pandemic crisis of 2020, some students at the Trading Mastery School were enjoying double digit profits while the indexes generated double-digit losses.

Two decades of beating the markets has made Laurens Bensdorp a wealthy man, but his love of trading keeps him active as both author and mentor to others.  Through the Trading Mastery School he facilitates the effective dissemination of his trading philosophy to another generation of investors.  Through video lessons, newsletters and occasional in-person seminars, Bensdorp exudes passion and market wisdom for the average trader.