Hi everyone ...

I'm Ken Standfield from CTKSmethod.org

My mission is to help you create new sources of income through trading. When done scientifically, trading is not gambling—it's a powerful skill. Life is about what we achieve and who we become along the way. Trading can help you grow into the strongest, most capable version of yourself while building intergenerational wealth and a lasting legacy, allowing you to be a financial and emotional blessing to yourself and those you love.

I've distilled over 270 years of traditional Technical Analysis (TA) into something revolutionary—the CTKS Method. This method visually pinpoints where smart money is most likely to buy and sell in the future. It's a rigorous, proven system to help you BUY and SELL like an expert.

Why am I sharing this with you? After nearly 40 years in the financial markets and surviving a life-changing health scare (where I was given just three months to live), I wanted to share my knowledge and tools with others. That's why I'm here now, inviting you to explore the CTKS Method (ctksmethod.org) and learn from my trading masterclass testimonials.

I'd love to connect with you on LinkedIn, hear your story, and support you on this journey. Let's start with a conversation—it could change everything.

A Deeper Dive on my Background

Ken Standfield (born 1968 in Melbourne, Australia) is a mathematician, philosopher, conceptual inventor, public speaker, and financial analyst. He is a descendant of Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (Dec 3rd, 1793 – May 18th, 1867)[1]. Clarkson was a friend of Charles Dickens (Feb 7th, 1812 – Jun 9th, 1870), an English writer and social critic.[2]

Ken has a long family history of innovation, invention, and a love for mathematics, psychology, and human interaction.

His ancestors were prolific inventors of the first garden rakes, mousetraps, artificial heart pumps, and many other valuable things. At the age of 7, Ken was diagnosed with severe internal bleeding of the esophagus and given 6 months to live. After successful surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital Royal Children's Hospital, a long recovery process took place. Confined indoors, he started studying mathematics, psychology, and film.

His greatest contribution to knowledge has been the development of the CTKS Method where he updated 270 years of Candlestick Analysis (Technical Analysis) into the world's first leading indicator of price showing where smart money has the highest probability of buying and selling in the future. This gives X-Ray vision into the market.
He is the developer of Positive Excellence, a set of psychological principles and methods of thinking that help people to find inner harmony whilst attaining material wealth.
His goal is to help everyone trade to release financial abundance and security and to become the best possible version of themselves.

From a young age Ken was always fascinated by the complexity and elegance of mathematics:

He found that the intersection of mathematics, films, and psychology was at the heart of his first "conceptual invention" he called "mathematical perception" at the age of 10. This discipline allowed him to model human emotions by mathematically converting interactions into mathematical formulae (applied to T.V. shows and movies to determine storyline improvements and the quality of character interactions).
At 11-years of age, he developed the "nine times formula," which showed the formula underpinned all nine times operations.
At 12, he created "information enhancement," a technique used to communicate conceptual content using 90% fewer words.
At 12-years of age, he analyzed and re-conceptualized the nature of multiplication, addition, and subtraction operations in mathematics. As a result, he developed a method of adding, multiplying, and subtracting completely different from how those operations were customarily conducted. Later that year, he found that his development had already been invented (albeit in another format) by John Napier - the 16th Century Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms and was called Napier's Bones.
In the same year, he re-conceptualized the foundation of probability - set theory - and replaced Venn diagrams with a new methodology that could analyze an infinite number of sets (Venn diagrams that analyze more than five sets require complex mathematical formulae). Venn diagrams are a foundation of probability and statistics.
At age 15, he started developing new mathematics branches to value the cost savings and productivity gains of learning 10x faster by applying his conceptual compression method.
At 17, he taught himself Pitman Shorthand from an information enhancement summary he created for the language. He analyzed the nature and structure of shorthand and represented all shorthand symbols and vowel placements on a single diagram no larger than a standard playing card size.
He became a lecturer in 1st-year and 2nd-year Statistics at 18 while pursuing his undergraduate degree at Deakin University in Finance (sub-major in Law). He was appointed an International Examiner in Statistics by the Market Confederation of Australia who oversaw the creation and grading of examinations in Commercial Colleges throughout the Asia Pacific region.
At the University, Ken worked full-time while studying full-time and running different clubs for the University (President of the Faculty of Business Club at the request of the Dean of Business, President/vice president of the Tennis, Badminton, and Basketball Clubs). He worked three part time jobs when he commenced University in addition to his studies, social life, and sports commitments.
In 1991, he was one of three selected from the top 100 mathematicians in the country and awarded an actuarial scholarship from National Mutua. He moved to the University of Melbourne to study Actuarial Science whilst working as an Actuarial Cadet at Australian Eagle Insurance and completing his Finance degree. In his university studies, he used his various conceptual ideas (such as knowledge compression) to attain more than 70 individual assessments of 100% and many more above 90%. When he became a lecturer, he taught this method to his students so that they could overcome their fear of mathematics by ensuring they had the correct foundations. He took students struggling in mathematics and turned them into A-grade students.
In 1993 (aged 24), he founded an Internet Service Provider (a year before the Netscape browser was released). This was one of the first wave of internet providers in Australia.
His passion was always the rapid uptake of knowledge, and he wrote extensively on knowledge management and intellectual capital management. He became a board member of the Governing Council of the US-based Knowledge Management Consortium, where he was one of the first people to introduce knowledge management to Australia. He also was the National President of the Knowledge Management Consortium in Australia (1999-2003). He was a contributor to the field of Intellectual Capital Management. He holds an honorary Doctorate from Concordia University. He was the Chairman of the International Intangible Management Standards Institute (2000-2019) where he coordinated and contributed to more than 30 international intangible standards. He has participated in ANSI / ISO standards process in the United States and contributed to the Standards Australia, Knowledge Management Framework.
He was a journalist for Corporate Risk Magazine, CEO IT Magazine (Singapore), and Corporate IT Magazine For 3 years he was the Chairman of the KM Valuation Taskforce (global). He also contributed chapters to the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and wrote two books for Academic Press (Elsevier Science).

Ken has found that wherever he applies his analytical skills, he changes the nature and the level of comprehension in that area. He is an expert in uncovering weaknesses and structural deficiencies in knowledge and thought. He was an early adopter of Intellectual Capital Management, Knowledge Management, Intangible Management, Intangible Finance, and Intangible Economics. He is well-versed in management and leadership techniques and theories. He has a broad range of interests and knowledge that covers everything from movies, psychology, technology, disruptive technology, and mathematics to self-development.

He developed a method of conceptual compression, which he detailed in his book Intangible Management: Tools for Solving the Accounting and Management Crisis, Academic Press, 2002 [11], which allowed the words used in the conceptual content of information to be compressed by up to 90% without loss of understanding (enabling people to learn 10x faster with greater comprehension). This book also detailed the field of Intangible Management, which sought to financially report the contribution/value of people, not just their cost. He is best known for developing Intangible Management, which paved advanced mathematics to value knowledge financially, collaboration, processes, staff disengagement, presenteeism, and other intangibles within a corporate perspective from both a value, risk, and risk and cost perspective.

He developed the advanced mathematics required to estimate the relationship between changes in people's knowledge, collaborative capabilities, organizational processes, and employee engagement and changes in share price and market value.

He developed the mathematics to prove that financial performance is always diluted due to the impact of intangible transactions. His book gained an honorable mention as a work of exemplary scholarship in the Association of American Publishers (AAP), R.R. HAWKINS AWARD [12] in the category of Business, Management, and Accounting. He is also the author of Intangible Finance Standards - Advances in Fundamental and Technical Analysis, Academic Press, 2005 [13], which highlighted the inherent problems of using metrics and indices as a proxy to intangible value and made applications of international intangible standards to the stock market.

Ken has delivered international keynote addresses, workshops, and standards certification and chaired conferences throughout the United States, Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Australia, London, Europe, Canada, and other countries. In addition, he has a long history of working as a Senior Management Consultant and Trusted Advisor for multibillion-dollar companies in the capacity of an expert financial analyst and problem solver. He also has a long history of running companies at the Chairman and CEO level.

In 2016, on his 48th birthday whilst in the United States, he was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioma) and given 3 months to live, but 1 month until perceptual failure. He flew back to Australia for neurosurgery at Melbourne University Private where a golf-ball size tumor was removed which proved to be atypical benign meningioma through a craniotomy on the 23rd of December 2016. Due to complications with surgery, he underwent a decompressive craniectomy on Feb 2nd, 2017 where a piece of the skull was removed. A reconstructive cranioplasty was performed on the 20th of July 2017.

His work has been cited in academic journals[21], papers, doctoral dissertations, books, and other publications [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] and he has presented his methodologies at hundreds of conferences worldwide[33]

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