treydog999 

Well there have been some serious managerial changes to the website and company LePrivateBanker. Ben is no longer part of the company and no longer producing educational materials. If you purchased the Volume at Price or other educational materials distributed through Vimeo or Scribd before they had their new all in one website. Then you are out of luck if you want to check out those materials again. I have been talking to Ryan who at first tried to convince me to buy the membership so i could access the materials and more. But since Ben was no longer involved I declined to do so. They said they would figure out a way for me and other previous customers to access the content we rightfully purchased. However after several emails and over a month of waiting I have nothing and am still waiting. Ryan is polite. straight forward, and has great customer service manners. That's a plus, but at the end of the day. I paid for something I no longer have access to, and I do not want to pay more for a service who's main reputation and content provider is no longer available.

Holy cow man, i thought Ben WAS LePrivateBanker....what the heck happened i wonder???

xiaosi 

Holy cow man, i thought Ben WAS LePrivateBanker....what the heck happened i wonder???

No idea. But there is this new "private banker" Ryan who has taken control of the site and its content. Its usually not a good sign for any business when the guy with the name on the sign leaves.

treydog999 

No idea. But there is this new "private banker" Ryan who has taken control of the site and its content. Its usually not a good sign for any business when the guy with the name on the sign leaves.

Ahhh, was he "mini banker" .... ?

Ben left to run his own fund and ryan is doing a great job taking over....however all life time members have now been locked out of any educational material which were previously accessible, to be frank this was the reason I joined in the first place. There is still value in the forums but too much has been shut off for existing members. I dont use it anywhere near as much as I use to....it was a daily source of ongoing development for me up there with Big Mike before.

traderadam 

Ben left to run his own fund and ryan is doing a great job taking over....however all life time members have now been locked out of any educational material which were previously accessible, to be frank this was the reason I joined in the first place. There is still value in the forums but too much has been shut off for existing members. I dont use it anywhere near as much as I use to....it was a daily source of ongoing development for me up there with Big Mike before.

I have been able to access the material until now, albeit that I have had to send an email twice in the past because my user name was lost due to a site transfer. I have actually logged in today. Send an email to [email protected] if you have any issues logging in and I'm convinced you will get a reply pretty soon.

You can login, but nothing works on the site

theprophe 

You can login, but nothing works on the site

Not sure what you mean with "nothing works".

I am logged in right now and I can access all information available, including the videos etc. "Something" is definitely working.

Well when I click on message board, etc nothing works, multiple browsers,computers, so I sent an email, let's see what's happens

Go direct to Ben "Private Banker" .
Market Structure and Flow

I thought it would be appropriate to share the story of The Private Banker here, particularly because it all started on this very forum back in the days of Big Mike’s Trading Forum (BMT) as kind of an anniversary.

The Private Banker has now been operating for roughly a decade, but the project originally began around 2012–2013 as a forum-based project.

The story starts with a user known as @Private Banker Banker, who began posting advanced trading analysis on BMT. You can still find many of those original posts by clicking on the username and looking through the archives. At the time, the posts stood out because they focused on institutional-level concepts rather than the usual collection of retail indicators and trading setups.

Private Banker quickly built a following, partly because of his professional background in wealth management at a high-value private bank. The name itself reflected both that background and a preference for the Swiss approach to wealth management. More importantly, that experience influenced the long-term investment perspective behind many of the methods presented.

As the years went by, users increasingly asked for more detailed material. The decision was therefore made to create a blog where more extensive research, educational material and video presentations could be published.

One of the first pieces was a free risk-management presentation on BMT, which can still be found here as something of an old-timer video. This was followed by material covering the Volume at Price / Footprint approach, including a handbook for members. I honestly don't remember whether the original presentation was hosted on Vimeo or another platform, but both the presentation and handbook have survived and are still available on the site today. Much of this material dates back to around 2013. I was involved primarily with the blog's design and technical side.

At one point, the three of us decided to create a dedicated forum focused specifically on Auction Market Theory, using a membership model similar to BMT. The idea was to provide members with closer access to the material, allow them to discuss and journal their trades, and build a community of traders who were genuinely interested in learning a serious methodology.

Looking back, I'm not entirely sure why we decided we needed a second forum rather than simply building a website. I suppose having everything in one place seemed like a good idea at the time. The forum did, however, provide one significant advantage: members could journal their trades and have them reviewed.

A complete curriculum gradually developed around the methodology, including presentations on Top-Down Analysis, Risk Management and MIDAS VWAP, along with an interview/presentation featuring a professional market maker. Various handbooks and extensive members-only material followed.

There were also the Sierra Chart templates, which many users subsequently modified and adapted. The original templates and the underlying educational material, however, came from us.

After 2014, the person behind The Private Banker decided to move on and pursue the ambition of establishing his own investment fund. That naturally meant leaving public trading analysis behind, as the fund's guidelines did not allow such public activity.

There was no dispute or falling-out involved. It was simply a matter of following the requirements associated with managing a fund. He did, however, respond to continued requests from users by maintaining a blog for some time and publishing additional analysis free of charge around 2015.

There were also presentations on Options on Futures, among other subjects. Unfortunately, much of that material eventually disappeared when the blog and Vimeo channel were deleted, presumably as part of the same transition into fund management.

The Private Banker project nevertheless continued. Over more than a decade, the focus evolved from primarily educational trading material toward a combination of institutional-level market research, financial news, training content and ready-to-use Sierra Chart frameworks.

Over the years, we've also been contacted by users who discovered remarkably similar material being offered elsewhere, sometimes at considerably higher prices. In a few cases, people who had learned from our material subsequently appeared to build businesses around very similar concepts. Some situations were resolved directly; others are still out there with surprisingly large followings.

Frankly, it is a little disappointing when the original source is never mentioned.

What remains important to us is continuing to bring serious trading and investment knowledge to people who actually want to understand how markets work, rather than simply selling another collection of indicators or weird trading methods.

We are also putting considerably more emphasis on the quantitative side of markets, particularly because all of us have spent significant time over the years working through more intensive investment-management and quantitative training.

The goal remains essentially the same as it was in the beginning: provide serious, institutional-quality knowledge that can actually be applied by traders and people on the way to be professionals.

If anyone has questions about the history, the original material, I'm happy to answer them.