Marco Accettone

About Marco Accettone

Marco Accettone is a forex and futures trader who specializes in liquidity concepts and counter-trend price action. With over seven years of experience in the markets, he’s built a trading approach centered on one idea: the majority of traders are usually wrong at the exact moment they feel most confident.

Rather than following momentum or chasing breakouts, Marco focuses on identifying where traders are likely trapped and where liquidity is building around key highs and lows. Once the market sweeps those levels and begins reversing, he looks for opportunity.

Over the years, Marco has documented more than $500,000 in verified strategy results through his liquidity-based trading approach. His edge comes from patience, discipline, and understanding how the market moves around liquidity.

Trading Background

Marco didn’t come from a finance background. Before becoming a full-time trader, he spent years working as a plumber in a small Canadian town, showing up early, solving problems with his hands, and learning that nothing gets fixed by guessing. 

“You either find the source of the problem or you don’t fix it at all.”

That mindset eventually carried over into trading.

Like many traders, Marco got into the markets through curiosity and countless late nights watching charts and studying trading videos online while still working full time. He would wake up early to watch the markets before heading to job sites and spend evenings reviewing price action after work.

There was no mentor, no shortcut, and no overnight breakthrough. His understanding of the markets came from years of screen time, repetition, trial and error, and slowly learning how price actually behaves around liquidity and key market levels.

Over time, Marco began noticing the same pattern repeated over and over again: the market would often move against the majority before revealing its real direction. That observation eventually became the foundation of the liquidity-based strategy he uses today.

After years of developing consistency and refining his approach, Marco eventually transitioned into trading full time and now focuses primarily on the forex and futures markets.

How Marco Trades

Marco’s charts are intentionally clean. No indicators, no overlays, just raw price action, market structure, and the specific highs and lows where liquidity hides. Everything else is noise.

His strategy is built around identifying where retail traders get trapped. He watches positions pile up around obvious levels, waits for the market to sweep those highs or lows to collect liquidity, and enters only when price begins reversing.

He doesn’t chase breakouts or force trades. The edge is patience, waiting for the trap to spring and letting the market come to him.

This counter-trend approach allows Marco to stay patient, selective, and emotionally detached rather than reacting impulsively to momentum or hype.

Beyond the Charts

Outside of trading, Marco is an endurance runner and fitness enthusiast. He approaches trading the same way he approaches training: disciplined, repeatable, and built for long-term consistency rather than shortcuts or hype.

That same mindset carries into the way he teaches. His style is straightforward, practical, and focused entirely on helping traders understand how the market actually behaves.

Learn From Marco on Chart Academy

Marco recorded an eight-lesson masterclass for Chart Academy called Mastering Liquidity, where he breaks down the complete liquidity-based framework he uses to trade futures, forex, indices, and gold — from why liquidity drives every market, to identifying traps and inducements, to real trade breakdowns showing how it all comes together.

The masterclass is launching soon on Chart Academy. Join the waitlist to get access as soon as it goes live.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Marco Accettone?

‍Marco Accettone is a verified forex and futures trader and instructor on Chart Academy. He specializes in liquidity-based trading strategies, focusing on counter-trend setups where retail traders get trapped. He has over seven years of trading experience and has documented more than $500,000 in strategy results.

What markets does Marco Accettone trade?

Marco Accettone primarily trades the forex and futures markets. His strategy is built around identifying liquidity zones and counter-trend opportunities across multiple currency pairs and futures contracts.

What can I learn from Marco Accettone on Chart Academy?

Marco Accettone teaches a free masterclass on liquidity concepts and counter-trend trading on Chart Academy. The masterclass covers how to identify liquidity traps, read clean price action charts, and time entries when the market reverses against the retail crowd.

What is Chart Academy?

Chart Academy is a free, all-in-one trading education platform designed to help traders learn real, practical skills from verified traders. It offers in-depth masterclasses taught by real traders across stocks, options, futures, forex, crypto, and trading psychology.

 In addition to educational content, Chart Academy includes personalized learning paths, downloadable resources, and access to exclusive tools and rewards, all in one place. There are no subscriptions, no paywalls, and no credit card required. The goal is to make high-quality trading education accessible, practical, and easy to follow for traders of all levels.

Is Marco Accettone's trading record verified?

Yes. All Chart Academy instructors provide verified performance records that are independently reviewed before they are featured on the platform. Marco Accettone has documented over $500,000 in strategy results as part of this verification process.