The Story
I started trading with €20,000. Over a few years, that grew into a €2.5 million portfolio. Then I broke my own rules — held losing trades too long, sized positions too big, traded on emotion instead of discipline — and the market charged me for every one of those mistakes. It was the most expensive lesson of my life, and the most valuable: I rebuilt around a strict, boring, repeatable system, and it's the system I trade to this day. This academy exists to hand you that system — without the tuition I paid for it.
Before the Markets
I didn't start in finance. I started, as a kid, in my family's restaurant business in Santorini — the kind of place where nobody explains why the details matter, you just learn that they do, fast.
At 26 I moved into the tech side: computerizing businesses, setting up tax systems and specialized software for companies here in Santorini — the unglamorous infrastructure work that nobody sees but everything else depends on. At 28 I was a Proposal & Wedding Planner in one of the most demanding luxury destinations on earth, which meant handling real crises in real time, in front of people who'd planned this day for years and had zero room for my mistakes. I was also guiding tour groups of fifty people at the same time — which teaches you fast how to hold a room and keep your head when something's already going wrong.
None of that is trading. But it's the same muscle: staying steady when the stakes are real and the pressure doesn't pause for you to think. That's what actually carried over when I started trading at 20 — not a system I read in a book, but the habit of not flinching.
Why I Teach
Every lesson in The Vessel comes from a mistake I made with real money. I'm not teaching theory — I'm teaching the exact things that cost me. When you open a Bybit account through our link, we earn a small commission. It costs you nothing extra, and it's how this stays free.
Family, Not a Fund
Yes, I founded Trade Vessel. But it's a family-run business based in Santorini — not a trading desk, not a fund. Real estate, software, and this education academy, all run together, from one place.