Chris Ashton
Mentor, Corellian Academy
Chris Ashton brings several decades of senior experience across global currency markets, having held trading and risk-management responsibilities at leading institutions through periods of significant market dislocation. His career has spanned tactical short-horizon trading, structural macro positioning and the design of execution frameworks for institutional capital.
Within the Academy, Chris leads on the integration of market structure, behavioural discipline and risk sizing, the elements that, in his view, separate competent traders from consistently profitable ones. His teaching emphasises judgement over rules, and the cultivation of conviction without arrogance.
He is a long-standing advocate for structured education in financial markets, and has mentored junior traders across both buy-side and sell-side environments. His sessions are characterised by directness, real examples drawn from his own desk experience, and a focus on the practical decisions traders actually make under pressure.
Chris’s contribution to the Academy is anchored in the belief that the gap between knowing and doing is closed only through deliberate practice, framed by rigorous review.