The Trader's Journey

In this episode of The Trader's Journey, Anthony sits down with Jason Shapiro, a featured trader in Jack Schwager's Market Wizards book, to explore the art of contrarian trading. Jason shares how he built long-term success by safely betting against the overcrowded herd, analyzing positioning instead of price, and avoiding the common traps that cause most traders to fail. Jason provides key lessons...

In this episode of The Trader's Journey, Anthony sits down with legendary trader Phil Goedeker to discuss his 2024 trading year in review. From transitioning to long-biased trading to mastering options strategies, Phil shares insights from a year of adaptability, patience, and evolution as a trader. Phil reflects on his biggest trades of 2024, lessons learned, and the changes he's made to align hi...

In this episode of The Trader's Journey, Anthony speaks with Sampsa, better known as @Jeppez420, a trader who turned $12K into $1M in just 16 months. Jeppez shares his journey from chasing random setups to building a hybrid trading system that blends systematic precision with discretionary finesse. Jeppez opens up about his disciplined approach to risk management, the importance of having an edge...

In this episode of The Trader's Journey, Anthony sits down with Matthew Monaco, who went from college side hustles to becoming a consistently profitable trader. Matthew shares his journey from discovering trading in a high school stock market game to navigating through multi-year setbacks before finally unlocking his edge. In this episode, you'll hear how he overcame big losses, built a strategy r...

In this episode of The Trader's Journey, Anthony sits down with Austin Mitchum, a seasoned Australian equities trader whose disciplined approach, deep market insight, and relentless pursuit of growth have made him a prominent voice in the trading world. Austin opens up about his unique trading journey, sharing powerful insights into why 'trading isn't linear' and how he's navigated both the highs...

Yash is a part-time trader who grew his small account from $5K to over $2 Million since 2020. Learn how (and why!) Yash uses options trading and a small account to find success early in his career, how he implemented risk management, developed discipline for consistent success, and much more!

In this episode of The Trader's Journey, Anthony sits down with Dr. Tom Crawford, a world renowned high performance coach. Dr. Crawford has studied elite performance for over two decades, having worked with elite traders, Olympic athletes, and professional sports teams. Dr. Crawford dives deep into the psychology of success, sharing insights on how to build habits of excellence, handle pressure li...

In this episode of The Trader's Journey, Anthony sits down with Kyce, a young trader who turned $30,000 into over $900,000 in just over two years. Kyce shares how his competitive gaming background fueled his drive for success in the stock market. He walks us through his journey, from early trading days on Robinhood during the 2020 bubble to refining his process with data and mistake tracking. If y...

Matt Fortini is a part-time swing trader who leverages his full-time salary to find an edge in the market. In this episode, he shares his road from electrical engineer to EMT to the part-time trader. Learn how he discovered the world of trading, discovering Investors Underground, watch him review trades with us, and more.

Tim 'Taco Money' Le is a successful trader who is well-known within the Investors Underground community. In this episode, he shares the story of learning to trade while at a party, how he quickly turned $5K into $50K in a month, then proceeded to lose it. He also shares the journey of his trading education and the evolution of his trading style, and proceeds to share some of his big trades, includ...

Mike Bellafiore is a trader, co-founder of SMB Capital, and author of the classic trading books One Good Trader and The Playbook. In this episode, Mike shares the 10 steps to creating a great trader from start to finish.

Mounir (aka Goshawk Trades) is a systematic trader, software engineer, and entrepreneur who builds algorithms to help himself and other traders capitalize in the markets. Learn about his trading journey, how he utilized data, backtests strategies, deploys live capital and more.

The trading world currently knows him as Moist Mango. He has over ten years of experience trading forex, stocks, options and cryptocurrencies. In this episode, he shares details about his trading journey, from opening a forex account alongside his parents, to the early days of trading stocks and making money in the marijuana boom and a 10,000% profit in an hour trading crypto. He goes into detail...

Josh Cherniack is a trader who was born to trade. He was born into a trading family, studied finance in college and worked at a hedge fund before making the jump to full-time retail trading. In this episode, we discuss his unique perspectives on how to find trading ideas, how he combines technical and fundamental analysis, tapping into his trading network to help him capitalize in the markets, and...

Dominic Mastromatteo is a trader, mentor, and co-founder of Clover Trading. Learn about his trading style, the importance of risk management, positive benefits of networking, and much more.

Dawson Hanzlick is a trader and tradesman who built a solid foundation for success early in his career. Learn about his first trades, how he began trading alongside two seven-figure traders, finding an edge in part-time trading, and much more.

The Investors Underground Podcast is now known as The Trader's Journey! In our first episode under the new name, Anthony speaks with trader and author Jack Schwager about his journey into the the finance and trading business, writing his first book about the futures markets, the inspiration behind Jack's Market Wizards book series, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), euphoria markets such as Ga...

In this episode, Anthony speaks with Matt Marino. Matt is a founder and principal at CenterPoint Securities and active board member of Traders4ACause. We discuss the responsibilities of a broker, the relationship between traders and their broker, risk management from the broker's perspective, margin calls and forced liquidations, building an exceptional corporate culture, the Traders4ACause commun...

Joseph Gasperoni is a trader and mentor in San Marino who dreamed of trading after high school. Hear his trading journey to becoming a successful trader, evolving to find a new trading strategy, how he incorporates meditation alongside his focus on psychology, the importance of diet and exercise for traders, and more!

Larry D. has over 30 years of trading experience. He worked on the Pacific Stock Exchange as a market maker specialist before joining a proprietary trading firm in California. Today he is an independent retail trader.  In this episode, we will explore his trading journey. We will discuss how he got started in trading, the role of a market maker, trading style, risk management and more.

Andrew Aziz is a trader, entrepreneur, best-selling author, climber, and mentor who has reached astounding heights in several aspects of his life. In this episode, we discuss how his background in chemical engineering helped him succeed in trading and the role of psychology of trading. He also opens up about recovering from a $2 million loss in a single trade.

Jeremy Aguiar is a seasoned trader and 2023 Traders4ACause Poker Champion. Jeremy started trading at a prop firm before eventually going at it on his own as an options day trader. In this episode, we discuss his growth mindset approach to trading, similarities between trading and poker, and more.  

Michael 'Huddie' Hudson is one of the founding members of Clover Trading. He started trading with just $20 and has since found tremendous success. Learn the origin of 'Huddie', finding success through data tracking, and more.

Tanner Owings is a trader and competitive powerlifter who is on a mission to connect lifting and trading. Learn how he prepared to trade full-time, his VWAP bounce strategy, the crucial role of the trade review process, and lots more.

JC Parets is a professional trader and chartered market technician (CMT) who started All Star Charts in 2010. What began as a finance blog from one of Wall Street's brightest investors has now evolved into a full-scale technical platform used by hedge funds, institutions, and smaller investors and traders alike. In this episode, JC discusses his background and proximity to finance, how he uses ass...