How The ITM Strategy Works
The ITM Strategy is laid out in In The Money
The weekly ITM Blog shows how it plays out in real markets, with the Reader Hub supporting it with charts, podcasts, videos, quizzes and backtesting.
The ITM Approach
No prediction. No guesswork. No margin calls – ever.
Simple rules. Clear decisions. No screen-watching.
ITM is built to work with the market – not fight it.
Backtested
33 years
13 X market
return
Invested
in 1993
Market result
2025
ITM result
2025
The ITM Blog
Don’t start your week without the ITM Blog. Every Monday before the market opens.
Bear Markets: Shock vs Grind We’re not in a bear market. Not yet. That matters – because how a bear arrives tells you how it behaves. Not all bears are the same. Some hit like a car crash. Others just slowly drain the life out of the market. Let’s look
On The Bench. Well, we’re out of the market. SPY, SPYG, QQQ – all on the sidelines. Sitting twiddling our thumbs, so we have plenty of time to review our performance – and, of course, play the ‘if only we’d . . . ‘ game. Podcast: On The Bench (Trying
Brain Sabotage. Red candles. War headlines. Oil surging. The perfect environment – not for a market crash – but for your brain to sabotage you. Our logical brain – the one that understands the ITM strategy – often gets pushed aside by something much older and much louder. And that’s
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We follow the ITM trades for 33 years.
Every single trade is listed. No cherry-picking.
The good trades, the bad trades, the boring trades.
No smoke, no mirrors.
The result?
ITM beat the market and fund managers spectacularly.
Hi, I’m Heather, author of In The Money. I’ve been trading the stock market for over 25 years and know what works – and what doesn’t.
After years of making and losing money, I developed the ITM (In The Money) strategy – a simple way to beat the market, across both bull and bear conditions.
Learn the ITM strategy in my book, check out the charts and resources in the Reader Hub, then follow the weekly ITM blog where I show how to implement it and answer readers questions – all free, no membership required.
The complete ITM strategy – bull and bear markets.
Different approaches, same principles.
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