Limit Up! Podcast

This is the second part of a two-part interview with futures trader and 'Market Wizard' Linda Bradford Raschke. In this interview, Linda talks about her early trading, where she found the confidence to come back after blowing up a trading account, and why traders need to view trading as a profession. Like the first interview, this one is packed with insights from one of the great modern traders.

Linda Raschke is as passionate about trading as any trader out there. And she out-works them all. In this interview, Mick Ieronimo takes the captain chair for the first time to talk to his mentor, Linda Raschke, about how she got started trading, lost everything, found success, started managing money, and what he learned executing trades for her. This is part one of two parts. The next part will be released next week. Enjoy.

Linda Raschke is as passionate about trading as any trader out there. And she out-works them all. In this interview, Mick Ieronimo takes the captain chair for the first time to talk to his mentor, Linda Raschke, about how she got started trading, lost everything, found success, started managing money, and what he learned executing trades for her. This is part one of two parts. The next part will be released next week. Enjoy.

Tony Saliba started trading, quickly made 50% and then nearly lost everything. It was only when he was down to his last $15,000 that he found the discipline and strategies to profit in markets. From there, as he focused on risk, he was able to increase his trading size and, ultimately, put together a run of 70 months where he made at least $100,000 a month in profits. In this interview, he shares his journey and what other traders can learn to achieve consistent trading success.

Dr. Brett Steenbarger has helped thousands of traders take their performance to the next level. He's worked one-on-one with billionaire hedge fund managers and coached thousands of traders at various proprietary trading firms. In this interview with Topstep's Eddie Horn, Dr. Steenbarger shares important lessons that he's learned from those traders and through his own trading. If you have a passion for markets, you have to give this interview a listen.

Larry Benedict is someone that by all measures probably should not have made it as a successful trader. Yet after repeatedly failing, Larry stuck with his passion of trading and, critically, learned from each setback.

In this conversation, Larry talks about his journey trading, the lessons that every trader should take from it, and his new venture for traders, called The Opportunistic Trader.

At The Opportunistic Trader, Larry and other prominent traders share real-time trade ideas and insights. Learn more at www.topsteptrader.com/larry and use the discount code TOPSTEP for $100 off your first month.

Dale Pinkert has traded forex for more than 30 years, working with thousands of traders along the way as a coach. In this interview, Dale shares the three questions that you have to answer before you should enter any trade, and provides a warning to traders about using excessive leverage. He also shares why he's a big believer in taking partial profits and hates impulse trading — lessons he's learned the hard way.

In his past, Haim Bodek ran a trading firm that accounted for more than 0.5% of all U.S. options trading volume. But then his trading programs turned south - and he couldn't identify why. That led him down a rabbit hole that led to the largest exchange fine in Wall Street history at the time. Now, Haim continues his quest to hold exchanges to account for unfair or deceptive practices. His story exposes a dark underbelly of Wall Street that every trader should know.

Crude Oil fell 5% on Wednesday. Lucky for us, we had oil trader Tracy Shuchart in yesterday to talk about everything that's going on with the market - from production cuts and increases to political intervention and even why the market sells off on days where inventory numbers drop, a seemingly counter-intuitive move. If you are trading Crude Oil right now - or even interested in trading it - you have to give this episode a listen.

The best traders in the world are trying to get better - each and every day. Whether you are having the best start to a year ever or struggling in a choppy environment, you can improve. In this interview, trader and risk manager Mick Ieronimo goes over advice for how traders can perform better moving into the second half of the year. Mick's advice start with defining success and moves through the best ways to manage yourself through the ups and downs of trading.