About Foundry Futures
Built from experience, not theory
Foundry Futures was built by James Ferreira. Before trading, James spent 25 years as a professional tattoo artist — a craft that demands precision, patience, and the kind of discipline that doesn't come from reading about it. It comes from doing the work, every day, for decades.
He brought that same approach to trading. Not chasing setups on Twitter. Not buying signals. He studied under Zach Hurwitz at TheVwap.com, spent five years running Zach's Discord community, and went deep on market structure from the ground up: auction theory, VWAP frameworks, and the mechanics of how dealers hedge their books. Years of that work became a methodology that makes sense of the noise.
The result is the Blueprint — a three-pillar framework for trading ES futures with structure instead of guesswork. It combines auction market theory, multi-timeframe VWAP analysis, and dealer positioning into a repeatable process that works because it's built on how markets actually function.
James doesn't teach theory he read in a book. He teaches what he trades. Every indicator, every study, every opening stream came from his own desk. When something didn't work, he fixed it or removed it. What remains is a clean, honest methodology that respects your time and your capital.
The methodology
Pillar 1 — Auction market theory
Markets are auctions. Price moves to find where buyers and sellers agree on value. TPO profiles, value areas, and the balance-imbalance cycle tell you where the market has been and where it's trying to go. This is the foundation everything else builds on.
Pillar 2 — VWAP frameworks
Volume-weighted average price across multiple timeframes creates a structural map of institutional interest. Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly VWAP with deviation bands show you where flow concentrates and where mean reversion is likely to kick in.
Pillar 3 — Dealer positioning
Options dealers don't have opinions. They have obligations. Understanding gamma regimes, charm dynamics, and vanna exposure tells you what dealers are forced to do as price moves. This is the cause. Price action is the effect.
Why Foundry exists
Most trading education sells you setups. Follow this line, buy here, sell there. It works until it doesn't, and then you have nothing to fall back on because you never understood why it worked in the first place.
Foundry exists to fill the gap between reading about market structure and actually using it to trade. The tools are built for the methodology. The community is built around process. And the education is built from live market experience, not textbook summaries.
The name says it: a foundry is where raw material gets forged into something useful. That's what we do here — take the raw concepts of auction theory, VWAP analysis, and options mechanics, and forge them into a trading process you can actually use.