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Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Troy Noonan started trading after he got a brochure in the mail entitled “Head and Shoulders.” He gave the head and shoulders trading pattern a shot and shorted the British Pound against the Dollar. As luck would have it, he caught the same trade that became known as the “ Trade that broke the Bank of England .” He took some of the profit and started b...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It According to Agnieszka Wood, 80% of trading is having the right mindset . How you coach yourself in your head leads to making the right decisions and being profitable. A trading mindset coach helps you develop the right mindset. Agnieszka set out to help traders develop the right mindset when she launched Ahead Coach . Her mission is to help traders be...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Valerie Fox graduated from college and started climbing the corporate ladder. She was thriving, being promoted, and getting raises. She was doing well, but she hit a point where she didn’t feel fulfilled. As she looked to the future, she realized she didn’t want 50–60 hour weeks. She wanted more time freedom. So she explored different ways to make mone...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Mike Shorr got a job as a clerk and within six months became a junior trader. He was at the Board of Trades in the treasury 10-year pit. He went out on his own, and after two years with a partner, they were acquired by a start-up. He ran that group from 1999–2002 in Minnesota. When implied volatility was cut by ⅔, nothing was moving, so he switched fro...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Stephen Vettorel was thrown into managing a portfolio when his father passed away while he was in college. Throughout the learning process, he noticed that “buy and hold” and “be diversified” wasn’t how portfolio managers were running their personal accounts. Stephen thought he needed to learn technical analysis and individual trading. So he spent a lo...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It John Meli’s dad was a racecar driver. So John grew up believing that he had no limits. If someone else could do something—so could he. John worked in construction and things were going well until the recession hit in 2008. He went from making $16,000 a month to barely getting a neighbor to pay him $50 to paint a room. He asked some friends about the st...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Doc Severson has been trading since the mid-90s. According to him, that’s when it was relatively easy to make money. Stocks were discounted compared to today’s prices. When 2000 hit, he realized he didn’t know what he was doing. Everyone is a genius in a bull market. He understood the tech market well and knew what would be hot or speculative. But when...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Mercedes started in Commerce Banking in Germany because she’s always loved the financial markets. She moved into personal development because she has a keen interest in how reality is created. So she studied the wisdom traditions. She worked in seminars with entrepreneurs and military personnel. After her divorce, she decided to dive into intraday trad...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Al grew up on the East Coast. He didn’t know he was poor until he was 4 years old. He saw people with fancy cars and boats. He never got what he asked for for Christmas. He could never buy the toys he saw shopping. He decided he didn’t like being poor. So his goal from a very young age was to be rich. He decided the best way to get rich was to become a...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Amelia Bourdeau majored in economics and political science in college. After graduating, she was recruited to the Federal Reserve Board during the Asian financial crisis. She worked in the International Finance Division and was working on the Euro project in 1998 up until its launch in 1999. When a senior person at the Fed left and went to Wall Street,...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Norman Hallett attended the University of Cincinnati to become an engineer, but ended up graduating with a degree in Math. He took a job selling gold and silver options over the phone. One day he walked in and everything was gone. The entire place was shut down. That’s when he realized he was working for a boiler room . So he took a job with ITG and wi...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Brian Rehler is the founder and CEO of TraderShark. He started trading over 30 years ago with a capital management fund where he was making 5% a year. But he decided to go into the military and joined the Army ROTC. He operated as a Desert Storm Medevac pilot. After the army, he became a mortgage broker for 20+ years.  But when the Dodd-Frank Act came...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It How do you get an edge in today’s market? What market is the best bang for your buck? Lou Basenese believes you can find your edge in micro-caps. But what do you buy? How do you find opportunities? And when should you buy them? In this episode of How To Trade It, Lou lays out his strategy + shares an upcoming program launch you don’t want to miss. Chec...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It The failure rate of people who dive right into the market is fairly high. Why? Because new traders don’t have the discipline necessary to succeed. New traders need a safe place to hone their skills and craft their strategies. Michael Patak’s mission is to provide a safe experience so traders can professionalize their passion. In this episode of How To...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Michael Filighera started trading on the Pacific Exchange in 1979. He has been a professional trader for 40+ years. His journey started when he was taking classes at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. During breaks in classes, he would walk to the Chicago Board of Trade and watch them trade. He was fascinated .  After he graduated he moved back to San...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Richard (Rich) Friesen started his career with Merrill Lynch as a commodity futures broker before going to work at the Chicago Research and Trading Group in Chicago. When he got there, he was thrown into the S&P 500 pit—his first time on the trading floor. He had no idea what he was doing. So he was quickly pulled and switched to options, where his...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Kevin Davey, founder of KJ Trading Systems and World Champion Trader, said he did everything wrong at first. It all started after college when he received a direct mail piece detailing how great trading was. It filled him with the dream of making a lot of money with just a few thousand dollars to start. From that point on, he says he was hooked! Kevin...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Are you ready to set and break limits in your life? I took a 70-mile backpacking trip from Ohiopyle State Park to the Conemaugh Gorge near Johnstown by myself . I learned a lot about myself and gained some insight into life in general. In this episode of How To Trade It, I take a different route than our normal episodes. I’m going to share three of the...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It At the beginning of Kevin’s career, he worked at Investools. As an employee, he had access to the education he sold for free. So he took the courses and he started out paper trading with futures. Kevin learned the craft to be a better salesman—then found trading was exactly what he wanted to do. What did he trade in the beginning? How does he believe e...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Why is it SO important to have a trading strategy? What about risk management, why is that important? The bottom line is that you want to work from a strategy so that you have consistent results—not lucky ones. Today’s guest on the How To Trade It podcast— Akil Stokes —emphasizes that you need to place process over outcome as a Forex trader. Why? Liste...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Adam Mesh has been trading since 1997. He worked a job day trading with millions of dollars for 6 months—then went out on his own. He's now the CEO of Adam Mesh Trading Group. Adam has learned a lot of lessons along the way—and shares a few in this episode of How To Trade It.  If you’re new to trading and have been struggling, Adam shares some tip...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It There is a science to how price moves, which Richard Krugel refers to as market geometry. When you understand market geometry , you can learn how to trade price action within the natural flows of the market. In this episode of How To Trade It, Richard joins me to talk about his background in trading, how to understand market geometry, and what trading...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Most people only account for 3 of the 8 major forces that impact trading. This results in gaining money only to give it all right back… over and over again. To stop the bleeding—and move into actually keeping consistent monetary gains—you MUST account for all of the 8 major forces in your trading plan. So what are the 8 forces? Why are they important t...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Is a profitable trading system not working for you but IS working for someone else? Do you find yourself feeling like an utter failure? You may not realize this, but the most important skill that a trader can have is their mindset. A lot of traders do not agree with me on this . But I believe mindset is the missing ingredient that separates successful...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to How To Trade It Stacey Burke grew up in a business-oriented family. He was always interested in the market but didn’t know anything about trading. When he went to University, he started on a degree in economics but switched to political science with the intent of going to law school. He came from a sporting background and was always fascinated by human performance, sp...