About Nextpathbase
Technical analysis training from Kendal, Cumbria — built for traders who want to read directional markets with structure rather than impulse.
Registered training provider since 2019
Nextpathbase Training Ltd was established in 2019 by James Whitfield at our Kendal office on Newland Street. The business grew from evening workshops held at local community centres, where James taught chart reading to a small group of Cumbrian traders who wanted structured instruction beyond online forum tips.
By 2021, demand from traders across the UK led us to move cohort instruction online while keeping our physical base in Kendal for administrative work, printed course materials, and occasional in-person weekend intensives.
We specialise in one area of technical analysis: trend continuation in strong directional markets. We do not teach scalping systems, options strategies, or cryptocurrency speculation. Every programme, article, and chart review session returns to the same question — is this trend still in control, and does this pullback offer a defined continuation entry?
Our approach to instruction
Mark-up first
Every session begins with hand-annotated charts, not slides of theory. You see exactly where an instructor draws trend lines, marks invalidation, and identifies continuation structure on real price history.
Your charts, our feedback
Assignments use instruments and timeframes you actually trade. Feedback addresses your specific entries and stops, not generic examples disconnected from your market.
Honest scope
We teach a process for one market condition — trending. We tell you when that process does not apply, rather than forcing continuation logic onto every chart you open.
The team
James Whitfield
Founder and lead instructor. CISI Certificate in Technical Analysis. Fifteen years of private trading experience and a decade of teaching chart reading to retail traders across the UK.
Sarah Chen
Cohort facilitator and chart reviewer. Former equity research assistant with experience in FX swing trading. Handles weekly assignment feedback and graduate practice group sessions.
Values we hold in every session
- Clarity over complexity. A continuation setup should be explainable in three sentences: trend direction, pullback character, and invalidation level.
- Risk before reward. We teach stop placement and position sizing before discussing profit targets.
- No performance theatre. We share annotated charts from historical and current markets, not curated win-screenshots without context.
- Local roots, national reach. Based in Kendal, serving traders throughout England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland via live online instruction.