8 Days, $10K in Profits for a Funded Futures Trader
If you've been following TopstepTrader on social media, you've probably seen the name Mykhailio C., one of our funded futures traders from Ukraine. That's because in his first month trading in a...
If you've been following TopstepTrader on social media, you've probably seen the name Mykhailio C., one of our funded futures traders from Ukraine. That's because in his first month trading in a...
Some people think traders need to grind it out all day, every day. Not Chi C. of Bellevue, Washington. He never wanted to be one of those people who trades all day, every day, so he developed a...
Like most forex traders, Lydia Finkley (@faithmight on Twitter) didn't get off to a successful start trading. She says that her main challenges stemmed from a problem that most traders experience:...
Slow is fast. And fast is slow.
One common theme among many professional futures traders is that it took them time to learn to become consistently profitable. In fact, many lost substantial amounts...
Ever since watching Trader, a PBS documentary on Paul Tudor Jones that he famously hates, I've been fascinated by the legendary trader. I've read and re-read his chapter in Market Wizards a dozen...
The best part about trading being 23 hours a day is that it can present opportunities at any point in the day. For many traders that trade futures part-time, that means that the market is there when...
Major trading losses are part of the game. Just ask any futures or forex trader. Every one of Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards has a story of a spectacular loss. And chances are that if you’ve been...
No matter where you are this weekend, you can become a better trader. That's because progress is about deliberate practice. And it's hard to carve out time while the markets are open for deliberate...
Sometimes it is easy for traders to forget the original purpose of futures contracts — and instead focus on them as a means to speculate and generate income. But the first standardized futures...
Most day traders focus their attention on intraday charts, and for good reason. They want to capture profit off of a product’s daily price movement, so it makes sense to study 15-minute, 5-minute, or...
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