What do you see when you look at a price chart? Tim P. in the United Kingdom, TopstepFX’s latest funded trader, says that he sees human emotions. At first, he wondered at the ticker symbols as the...
You asked. We listened. Over the past eight years at TopstepTrader, so many traders have asked us to take the risk out of trading forex like we've done for futures.
And for good reason. Studies out...
If you have a passion for trading, Dr. Brett Steenbarger has some choice words for you: you're not going to make it. Instead, traders need to be passionate about markets. It may sound like a minor...
If you saw Larry Benedict's trading early in his career, you wouldn't expect him to be successful. He couldn't stop losing money. In Hedge Fund Market Wizards, Jack Schwager titled his chapter...
Whether it actually takes 10,000 hours to learn a skill is up for debate, but the old adage: “practice makes perfect” remains true, especially for new futures traders. But for some traders tempted by...
Imagine that you could have an 18-year winning streak. What would that look like? How would you do it? If you are like Victor Sperandeo, you would focus on avoiding losses rather than making huge...
“The EU is in an existential crisis. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.” - George Soros, May 29, 2018
Populism and anti-EU sentiment. Trade wars. Brexit looming. The global fundamentals...
We say it often — trading is all about your risk-to-reward ratio. In this trade, Brad M. from Chicago nailed going long Nasdaq ($NQ) futures and riding one contract for more than 100 points and...
What do futures traders Larry Benedict, Linda Bradford Raschke, and Marty Schwartz have in common? Each of them suffered losses that would have sent most traders packing, but ended up being some of...
After yesterday, Crude Oil futures are seeing red. The commodity fell 5% after inventory numbers.
But a move of that size could have been expected. There is just so much going on: supply concerns...
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