Peter Brandt has been trading since 1976 and is one of the great classical chartists of the modern era. In this special midday interview, Chris Vecchio, who first read Brandt's work at sixteen, digs into why the old chart patterns still work in a market dominated by algos, ETFs and zero-DTE options, and why that has almost nothing to do with prediction. Brandt's answer is bracingly honest: charts don't forecast prices, they just surface asymmetric, good risk-reward setups, and the edge comes from ruthless risk management. He shares the rules he's refined over decades, no trend lines, no triangles, no day trades, only patterns between eight and twenty-six weeks long, and the mindset he drills into his own staff: assume your next trade is a loser. He explains why a little over half his trades win, why sizing and timing matter as much as direction, and why he considers global futures a superior, naturally diversified asset class. These are Brandt's own views and this is not a recommendat...