Taking your trading from passion to profession is definitely not easy. It requires discipline, patience and a strategy - three things that TopstepTrader helps you hone in real-time markets. In this episode of Limit Up, host Eddie Horn talks with TopstepTrader founder Michael Patak about how 500+ traders have earned TopstepTrader's capital to trade this year. Eddie and Michael talk about how TopstepTrader was founded, some highlights from funded traders, and how you can take your trading from passion to profession. Provide feedback to [email protected].

Lydia Finkley has a unique - and all too common - story. She was introduced to trading by her mother, an unusual start to a professional forex trading career. But from there, Lydia went through all the normal growing pains of a professional trader. She blew up two accounts, in short order, before scaling back drastically in her third. That's when she started to learn a lot about herself and the market. Since then, she's put a number of controls in place to ensure that she never experiences a loss like that again. Here's her story. Enjoy!

Trading is oftentimes a story of survival and reinvention. Every trader runs into periods where their strategy is not performing as expected. It's what they do at those points that will either ensure they can continue their trading passion or bury their account. Patrick Rooney started trading in the Eurodollar pit on the floor of the CME. Then, he became an electronic trader, employing discretionary strategies. When those strategies went out of favor, Patrick became a fully automated trader.

No matter where you are in your trading, you can learn from Patrick's journey and continuous study and change. Find Patrick on Twitter at @patrickrooney.

Pauly Franco - known on Twitter as @spz_trader - actively trades forex, Gold and the German Bund. An educator as well as a trader, Pauly gives insights in this interview about how he set himself up for success, what goes into his daily routine and how he would approach analyzing current markets.

Jack Schwager is a renowned author that has studied futures markets and the world's best traders. In this episode of Limit Up!, he shares those secrets with host Eddie Horn, providing insight across his four books. Jack also talks about his new project, FundSeeder, which hopes to connect talented money managers with capital.

Mick Ieronimo is the risk manager at TopstepTrader, helping to manage firm assets across more than 175 traders worldwide. But Mick didn't start his trading career as a risk manager. He got his start trading his own account before tutoring as the trading assistant under Market Wizard Linda Bradford Raschke.

In this episode of Limit Up, Mick shares his insights and what has made him a risk-minded trader.

This is a special episode of Limit Up - where host Eddie Horn talks with Max Rofagha, the founder of Finimize, about personal finance and building a business - both key elements to successful trading. Finimize breaks down daily financial news into easily understandable bites with the hope of telling readers exactly what they need to know and why. Finimize came out of Max's frustration following his first successful startup - when he found himself with financial gain, but without clear direction from trusted news sources.

The U.S. Dollar is shaping up to be the most important trade to get right for the rest of 2018. We brought back 40-year trading veteran Yra Harris to talk about how he's looking at the market and what he's waiting on to move markets.

Since this conversation, the Dollar has begun to rally. Is this a temporary reprieve or the start of a longer-term trend? If you want to nail this trade, you have to give this episode a listen.

Anna Coulling utilizes the relationship between volume and price to analyze trends in forex markets. She's spent more than 20 years trading and studying markets and has authored seven books on trading. In this interview with host Eddie Horn, Anna discusses her approach to the market, as well as how her strategy has built on the work of Richard Wyckoff to analyze forex, futures and even cryptocurrency markets.

30-year trading veteran John Hoagland joins host Eddie Horn in the TopstepTrader broadcast booth once again to go over five rules that were ingrained in him on the floor. John talks about ways that traders can learn and profit from trading, how they can come to think for themselves and why they should be purposeful in their practice.

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