The Team
Built by
traders.
Structured for serious members. TSA exists because most trading education is noise — we built the alternative.
Origin
The Student Alpha was built because most trading education is noise. Communities full of signals without context. Courses built on hype, not process. Environments that reward prediction over discipline.
TSA was designed around a different standard — structure over hype, process over prediction. An environment that actually builds traders who can think and execute independently.
The result is a premium community anchored in four principles.
Discipline
Risk management over gambling. Process over emotion.
Edge
A statistical edge pursued through structured systems.
Clarity
High-probability setups. Not prediction.
Consistency
A repeatable process, applied every single session.
Timeline
Free War Room Era
The community reboots as The Student Alpha: free NY Open War Rooms on Zoom, trades called live in front of everyone, and every session recapped openly for the whole community — transparency before product.
TSA Brand + VIP Launched
After a waitlisted summer, The Student Alpha launches commercially. VIP membership goes live with the daily 9:20 AM EST NY Open War Room, live chart breakdowns, and the private member lounge.
Matrix System v1
The Matrix System — a proprietary TradingView indicator suite covering MTF bias, regime detection, and signal triggers — ships to early members.
Matrix Membership Opens
The Matrix System becomes its own membership — invite-only TradingView access with dedicated channels, guided alert setup, and live walkthroughs of every Read.
COO Appointed
Harsh “KandleKarma” officially appointed COO. Operations, partnerships, and member experience scale into a dedicated function.
Expansion Live
Alpha Beta Report's four experts join under one partner umbrella; the Asia War Room and Matrix War Room go live; War Room replays and weekly levels-to-watch ship to members.
V3.5 + 2,200 Strong
Matrix V3.5 ships per-timeframe momentum diamonds and a live ATR dashboard, the Discord community passes 2,200 traders, and the new thestudentalpha.com goes live.
Founders
Shawn “Student Alpha”
Co-Founder · CEO · Lead Analyst
Shawn is a CMT Level I & II certified market technician with 30+ years in the markets and 8+ years focused specifically on day trading. He leads the daily NY Open War Room, drives all pre-market analysis, runs the free IG Live premarket session at 9:00 AM EST, and sets brand and trading standards across TSA. His framework is built on the principle that process — not prediction — separates consistent traders from the rest.
Credential
CMT I+II
Experience
30+ Yrs
Daily
War Room
Harsh “KandleKarma”
Co-Founder · COO
Harsh runs operations, partnerships, and community infrastructure as COO. He built the Matrix System — TSA's proprietary TradingView indicator suite — and operates the Discord, Whop, and partnership backbone that lets the trading side focus on trading. His mandate is durable systems over one-off fixes: SOPs, metrics, partner accountability, and member experience.
Role
COO
Built
Matrix
Owns
Ops
Partnerships
One membership, multiple experts.
Active since June 2026
Alpha Beta Report (ABR)
Four experts under one partnership umbrella. ABR brings dedicated coverage for options, macro thesis, and multi-asset swing trades — areas adjacent to but distinct from the daily futures and FX War Room.
·John (Student Beta) — fintech, options, macro · senior at PayPal
·Ned Allen — macro thesis · former hedge fund manager
·Crypto Jon — swing trades stocks + crypto + options · certified research analyst
·Justin K (Spaceforce) — options, bonds & macro
Expansion · June 2026
Coverage across every session, every timezone.
The original VIP product was anchored on the NY Open War Room. Since June 2026, three live formats run alongside it — so the schedule covers members in every region, not just US morning.
Fridays · 8:00 AM EST
Premarket War Room
Dedicated 45-minute pre-market structuring session before the daily War Room — separate from Shawn's free 9:00 AM IG Live premarket.
Wednesdays · Evenings (8–9 PM EST)
Asia War Room
Weekly APAC-hours session so members in Asia and Europe get the same live mentorship our US members get at the NY Open.
Tue & Thu · Stage channel
Matrix Sessions
Two live sessions weekly led by Student Alpha — indicator walkthroughs, chart reviews, and live Q&A for Matrix System members.
Manifesto
“Discipline Creates Edge. We don't trade predictions — we trade process.”