Trade kicked off this morning for Thanksgiving week - with markets in directionless move. It's likely that volume will continue to be low this week, which may impact how much markets move. All this...
TopstepTrader Founder and CVO Michael Patak's story is all too familiar to many traders out there - he started trading and quickly lost his entire account. Yet, unlike many who stop, Michael stayed...
This was the Performance Coaches' most challenging week yet in their Trading Combine®. They gave $857.84 back to the market - lowering their balance to $49,726.31. That puts them $273.69 under their...
After taking yesterday off, the Performance Coaches bought the Emini S&P 500 ($ESZ7) early in today's trading session and rode it for a $400 winner. That brings their balance to $50,204.71.
While we...
At TopstepTrader, we've funded more than 1,000 traders over five plus years. They tend to have the five traits in common:
The December Crude Oil ($CLZ7) contract has rolled to January ($CLF8), with the price falling $0.25 in the process. Equities are bid this morning, rising sharply from yesterday's early-morning...
Equity markets are falling out bed this morning, with the Emini S&P 500 ($ESZ7) dropping 0.8% at the open. The Nasdaq ($NQZ7) is down nearly 1% and the Russell 2000 ($RTYZ7) is down more than 1%. Has...
This was a rough day for the Performance Coaches. There's no sugar coating that. The Coaches' Trading Combine® is now at $49,808.39 - roughly $810 away from their Trailing Max Drawdown. After a great...
Jack Schwager did every aspiring trader a service when he wrote his Market Wizards series of books. For those unfamiliar, the series is one-on-one interviews of legendary traders like Paul Tudor Jones
Markets are moving in early U.S. trading, giving lots of opportunities to establish trades. In the first half hour of the session, Crude Oil ($CLZ7) has fallen to lows of $56.10, while the equity...
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